A video has come out about an elementary school in New Jersey where kids were singing an original song about Barack Obama during Black History Month last year. The school has sparked controversy about indoctrinating kids with politics. More disturbing is the song sucks. I mean there's the typical garbage tht plagues elementary school music performances, and then there's this!
In the spirit of keeping other leftists honest, let it be known I'm the first to say schools teaching songs about specific political candidates is best avoided. I mean I don't know if this is quite on par with obstructing health care reform to score political capital against a President. Nor is it on par with, say, using fear about who is American and who is un-American to manipulate the country into going to war. But I'll grant kids should be given a pass from songs about anyone who is engaged in running for the Presidency.
Having been a teacher myself, I understanding how difficult it is to always be alert to things that may offend certain parents. So I'll steady my trigger finger and at least consider the possibility that the music teacher might have just made a poor decision and the agenda wasn't to brainwash kids so they'd talk their parents into voting for Obama. But I still have to say, 'C'mon. What were you thinking? Even if it was Black History Month?!'
Now that we've called out our own, let's hope the favor is returned with such issues as religious groups keeping their faith limited to Sunday service and before-school Bible meetings, and out of the actual public school day.
Or alternatively, perhaps some righties at a tea party will check their own when they see someone at a rally with a sign reading "youth in asia." Maybe they'll remember the spirit of cleaning up your own and tell the sign bearer, "Dude, if you don't know how to spell euthanasia, then you clearly don't know what the f@*# you're talking about. Stop embarrassing our movement."
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