A North Carolina fourth-grader submitted a carefully crafted persuasive essay in favor of electric vehicles to his congresswoman as part of a school assignment — and received a scathing response where his work was degraded to “propaganda.”

Christian Mango, 10, penned the letter to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) on the benefits of e-vehicles, and suggested doling out a $5,000 tax rebate to electric vehicle owners.

Rep. Virginia Foxx claimed a fourth-grader’s teachers were “indoctrinating” him in a response to his school assignment. Bloomberg via Getty Images

Christian Mango, 10, submitted a persuasive essay on electric vehicles to Foxx’s office. FOX8 WGHP

“Christian and his class, they wrote a persuasive essay of their choosing.…