Homework at Virginia school: Do some opposition research on Republicans but not on Obama

Hotair ^ | 03/22/2012 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

The bad news: This is a brazen bit of political indoctrination. The good news: The class is now more or less qualified for work in America's mainstream media. If you';re going to push your politics on kids, at least teach them a trade.

He may or may not have also told them to send their research to Obama's campaign. Another useful journalistic skill --- learning to coordinate with Democrats for professional gain and the advancement of the cause. In a world of high Hopenchange unemployment, shouldn't we congratulate this guy for looking out for his students' bottom line?

“This assignment was just creepy beyond belief — like something out of East Germany during the Cold War,” one frustrated father, who asked for his family to remain anonymous, told The Daily Caller.

The assignment was for students to research the backgrounds and positions of each of the GOP candidates for president and find “weaknesses” in them, the parent explained. From there, students were to prepare a strategy paper to exploit those weaknesses and then to send their suggestions to the Obama campaign…

No similar assignment was given to research Obama’s history, identify his weaknesses or pass them along to the Republican candidates…

[Fairfax County Public School system spokesman John] Torre explained that Principal Dr. Catherine Cipperly, who refused to comment, discussed the matter with Denman, citing that students should have been given a choice to research candidates from either major party.

I’m guessing that Team O is already sufficiently well stocked with oppo people that it doesn’t need help from the JV, but any competitive organization knows that it’s always worth scouting promising young talent. And speaking of vetting The One, go read the 1995 interview that Team Breitbart dug up in which an ambitious young redistributionist muses about how the top five percent control all of America’s wealth while the rest of us get “bitter” and look for “scapegoats” among each other. Say this for the guy: If nothing else, at least he’s consistent. (Except when it’s politically inconvenient.) Exit question: Time for OWS to start demagoging “the five percent” instead?

[GeronL]

I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that school children are now unpaid slave laborers for the Obama campaign

[Truth29]

Why do I have the suspicion that the school system is just covering for the teacher and is perfectly fine with what he did? Clicking all the way through to the more detailed article revealed that the county went 60% for Obama vs. 39% for McCain.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[Clintonfatigued]

Rarely has school indoctrination been so blatant.

[sauropod]

read

[RedMonqey]

Mmmmmmmmm. Mmmmmmmmm. Mmmmmmmmm. Obama. Mmmmmmmmm.

[Viking2002]

Denman should have been fired. (In other jurisdictions, he'd have gotten far worse.) As it is, this is Fairfax County, Virginia - a money-sotted, center-left bedroom community for the D.C. power establishment. He'll probably get a raise before it's all over with.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

[magslinger]

Why do I have the suspicion that the school system is just covering for the teacher and is perfectly fine with what he did?

I doubt that they are fine with it. As a matter of fact they are probably livid that some right wing nut made a stink about it.

[Clintonfatigued]

Here’s more indoctrination disguised as education.

[metmom]

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