Feeling the Obama Love

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 6, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Feeling the Obama Love

Bethany Stotts, November 6, 2009

Is there an Obamania epidemic in America’s public schools? John Nolte, editor in chief at Big Hollywood, writes that 11 uncovered videos of students praising President Obama were recently “dropped in our email box;” he describes public school demonstrations of affection (psdas) for the President as an educational epidemic.

“What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern,” he writes.

The 11 videos, one of has since been removed from YouTube, mostly feature students from High School down through kindergarten performing rap, music videos and other performances in praise of Barack Obama. What is more disturbing is that, according some video descriptions, several assignments were designed by or required by the kids’ teachers.

For example, one video description states: “The 7th grade students followed the 2008 presidential election in several of their classes this term. Concluding the election the students were asked to make video segments based on the popular Obama music video, Yes We Can, by musician Will.i.am…” (emphasis added).

Students from Giffen Memorial Elementary (GME) wrote a pro-Obama rap performed in school on February 12, 2009; Nolte connects this video with a later performance by students who wrote a Barack Obama song “with their classmates,” but the second performance doesn’t appear to take place on school property. The blurb for the latter states: “This is a group of 5th and 6th grade students from Giffen Elementary School performing the Barack Obama song they wrote with their classmates. It is being performed at a function of the Association of Teaching Artists held at the Albany Institute of History and Art.”

It turns out that Nolte’s GME videos are just the tip of the iceberg for the Obama love shown by the City School District of Albany....

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So I guess we can surmise that when “educators” are paid for about 3 1/2 months a year off from work they are writing songs and music praising nobama? I am impressed that many of them work so hard to help “the children”. (sarc)