Your kid is an idiot because of people like Ulrica Corbett

Friday, 3 June 2005 | 408 readers so far

Chances are, if your child is being publically educated in the United States, they are good at filling out forms and not much else. It’s also likely they have very low expectations from authority figures, since most of the figures in authority are mentally incapacitated. A prime example - meet Ulrica Corbett, Prinicipal, Anita White Carson Middle School.

Here’s the long story in short form. A teacher at this middle school by the name of Matthew Lund is friends with a Sargeant of Marines serving in Iraq named Zach Richardson, who just returned from duty in Iraq. Mr. Lund setup a correspondence between Sgt. Richardson and school children at Anita White Carson Middle School. This is a healthy thing. School children should be exposed to those serving them in wars. Whether you think the war is right or wrong, it’s healthy to talk with those who are fighting it. How else will you get real opinions? Certainly not from top government officials or the news media.

When Sgt. Richardson returned to the United States he told Matthew Lund that he wanted to come to the Carson Middle School to personally thank the students for their support and letters. Lund filled out and submitted a “Resource Visitor or Guest Speaker Form” and submitted it to Principal Corbett. Lund says he never got the form back from Corbett. He says he asked the Principal about the form, and was told that she was not going to look at it.”

–Neal Boortz

Pretty much everyone who has been within 1,000 yards of any public school knows they run on forms, and that without the proper form filled out nothing can be accomplished (not that much of any significance is anyhow.) But why would a public school principal ignore a request for another public servant (a military serviceperson) to visit schoolchildren and thank them for writing him while he was serving in a combat zone?

Ulrica Corbett appears to have been paid $66,282 in 2003 to manage your rugrats. I have a nagging suspicion that paying Ms. Corbett to manage a school is not a wise use of taxpayer funds.

Ms. Corbett apparently harbors ill will towards Marines, or maybe the military in general. Ms. Corbett needs to publicly defend herself. Until she does so successfully, I will harbor a nagging suspicion that Ms. Corbett is one of those types of people you encounter in life that the Marine Corps labels a “shitbird.”

I’m only speculating, but I’d love to hear from the principal parties in this matter. I want the undiluted facts out of the mouths of the participants. Ulrica Corbett, what is your problem? Sgt. Richardson, what’s your take? Mr. Lund, anything to say about the state of affairs at Anita White Carson Middle School?

What is it these kids are learning over there in Greensboro, Georgia?