By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
    
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Does this sound like a sentence a typical fourth-grader would write in crayon, without being prompted by an adult?
    

“I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.”
    
Officials at Cedar Hills Elementary in Jacksonville, Florida say Aaron Harvey’s son, a fourth-grader, wrote that “of his own free will” on a piece of paper in January after listening to a local attorney make a classroom presentation about the Bill of Rights.
   
But according to Harvey, his son and other students say the sentence was dictated by their teacher, Cheryl Sabb, after the attorney left the classroom.
    
Is this yet another example of a public school teacher trying to force personal political views down the throats of students?
    
“Whenever I have someone coming in and trying to pollute my child’s mind – there’s no education in that,” Harvey told TheBlaze.com.
    
The boy’s mother found the piece of paper in his backpack last week and nearly threw it away, according to the news report. But she took it out and showed it to Harvey, who became disturbed and contacted TheBlaze.com.
    
The news service contacted the school, where a spokesman said the principal was “checking into” the situation.
    
Harvey received a conference call this morning from the school principal, a guidance counselor and the teacher. They told him the sentence originated with the attorney who visited the classroom, the teacher had nothing to do with it, and Harvey’s son wrote it down “of his own free will.”
    
But the students insist that’s not true, according to Harvey.
    
“All the children are pointing at the teacher,” Harvey said. “They told me that my son wrote that of his own free will – there’s no way he knew how to write that of his own free will. He likes to use some big words to flourish – (but) if he was going to put together a sentence that political I’m sure it would be more jumbled than a nice sentence like that.”
    
Jason Fischer, a member of the Jacksonville school board, said he made some calls when he heard about the incident and was told the school is planning an investigation.
    
“It’s on the radar and its being taken seriously,” Fischer told EAGnews. “If it’s true, it’s disturbing, and we’ll definitely do something about it.”