Indoctrination: School class forced to write “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.”

Via IBT:

Aaron Harvey of Jacksonville found a note in his fourth-grade son’s backpack that he felt “was trying to pollute [his] child’s mind with biased opinions,” TheBlaze reports.

On a crumpled piece of paper in colored pencils, his son wrote: “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.”

Harvey’s son wrote the note in January. After a local attorney came to speak to his class at Cedar Hills Elementary, his teacher, Cheryl Sabb, asked her class to copy the sentence down.

Harvey told TheBlaze he spoke with the school's principal, guidance counselor and Sabb on Friday morning. They explained that the sentence came from the visiting attorney, and his son “wrote it on his own free will.”

But Harvey maintains the teacher was heavily involved. [...]

Here is what Benjamin Franklin said on the same topic.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Franklin's Contributions to the Conference on February 17 (III) Fri, Feb 17, 1775

In 1755 (Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, Tue, Nov 11, 1755), Franklin wrote: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

This phrasing was also the motto in Historical Review of Pennsylvania, attributed to Franklin

It's important to note that this sentiment, with many variations, was much used in the Revolutionary period by Franklin and others.