1984 being practiced as PC in California

A principle at a Cupertino school near San Francisco requires a fifth grade teacher to submit all his lesson plans for approval. Apparently, she has rejected all material that mentions God in them.

Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams (the teacher), are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."

"He hands out a lot of material and perhaps 5 to 10 percent refers to God and Christianity because that's what the founders wrote," said Thompson, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. "The principal seems to be systematically censoring material that refers to Christianity and it is pure discrimination."

You can find the whole report here: "Declaration of Independence Banned at California School" Reuters Report By Dan Whitcomb http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6911883

Again, it is appalling to me that people who are entrusted to teach children (like the principle cited above) will stoop to the Orwellian censorship of historical documents. From the news reports, you get the sense that if the tacher were to take out the reference to God in these offending documents, then they would be OK. Did this woman ever read "1984" by George Orwell? I would suggest to the teacher (who is suing) that in any settlement or demand that the principle be required to read 1984 and submit a 1500 word essay on how her actions were consistent with Big Brother's intent to rewrite history.

Here is an (correct) version of the first part of the Declaration.

Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—that whenever any Form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.