Democrat darling Talarico called out for making sixth-grade public students write ‘Obama memoirs’

Democrat darling and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is taking heat after it was discovered that, as a public school teacher in San Antonio, he made his sixth-grade students write "Obama memoirs" celebrating his election.

Corey DeAngelis, a school choice advocate and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, called the assignment "disqualifying" for a Senate hopeful in Texas.

In a Facebook post by Talarico dated Nov. 13, 2012, he announced, "Today, we finished writing our Obama memoirs," explaining that "students wrote a memoir of Election Night from the point of view of a member of the Obama family."

One of the memoirs shared by Talarico showed one of his students writing as if they were former President Barack Obama’s child, saying, "I was crying when my father was giving his speech" and praising "those lovely words that came out of his mouth" during his election night speech.

The Democratic Party has high hopes that Talarico, a progressive state representative, can flip a critical Senate seat blue and become the first Democratic senator from Texas in decades. Since winning the party’s nomination, however, many have called out his history of progressive statements, including saying "God is nonbinary" and using the Bible to justify abortion.

In another Facebook post, dated Nov. 16, 2012, Talarico shared an image of a poster board full of Obama memoirs with a banner reading "Mr. Talarico’s Wall of Fame." The display featured more than a dozen memoirs along with photos of Obama and his family, as well as presidential seals and Obama’s campaign emblem. Talarico commented, "Our Wall of Fame has been updated with our awesome Obama Family Memoirs!"

Guess there might be 2 ways to look at this...either that students should as a group refuse to do this, or write the memoirs in such a way that would disclose true feelings about “Bathhouse Barry”. He surely didn’t do anything for our
country that would elicit writing anything good about him.

Yup.

Reality is reality and my *only* beef would be if a teacher employed his or her own ideology in grading.

I’ve always been somewhat skeptical about “indoctrination” because I still remember how I was when I was a kid and especially, a teenager. The minute an adult tried to tell me how to think? I took the opposite view just out of habit ;-).

I mentioned my HS Government & Civics teacher — Mr. Colliers was actually a ‘64 Goldwater GOP convention delegate... and he was never shy about sharing his own opinions. But - he was also an excellent teacher and he never held it against any student up for ‘debating’.

My own *minimal* experience with “leftism” (and being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian) was mostly debating him in class. I still treasure - and still have - the college admissions letter of recommendation he wrote for me. Classmates used to *love* when I’d engage with him in debate because more often than not, the debates would take the whole hour. I used to joke with him “You know I don’t believe anything I said...” and he’d say “That’s why you’re getting an A for the class, even if your tests didn’t lead to an A anyway”.

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