Anchorage Daily News

The letter arrived at the Daily News with no return address. The "Letters to the Editor" address was neatly typed. It had an Anchorage postmark. Inside was a cut-and-pasted, photocopied missive. The top half featured a caricature of President Barack Obama, along with a jab, criticizing the president's economic stimulus, that used the N-word.

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The bottom half said, "Thank you Mat-Su Correspondence Study School for paying for our private Christian School's extra activities." It then listed the things parents could buy for their children with state money when they enroll in public correspondence schools. According to the writer, the items include sports activities, tutoring, computers and cameras, along with "appliances, televisions, appliances, vcr, clothes, shoes, and yes, schoolbooks and paper."

Correspondence school funding is apparently one government program an Obama-hating Alaskan really liked. I wasn't completely clear about the connection between the president's economic plans and Mat-Su home-school programs, but apparently the author thought the stimulus should have included direct education payments to home-schooling parents.

Unsurprisingly, the "letter" wasn't signed. That would have required the author to stand behind his own odious opinion.

I shudder to think about the lessons being taught to the children in that particular parent's home school.

-- Matt Zencey

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