Posted on 11/22/2013 10:29:24 AM PST by moonshinner_09
DUPO, IL - Fourth graders in Dupo Illinois are reading a biography of Barack Obama that's raising eyebrows among St. Clair County parents. The book, which supplements the school's Common Core curriculum, blames television for the negative behaviors the first African-American president picked up as a teen:
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The book - brought to the attention this week of those on the "Moms Against Duncan - MAD" Facebook page, goes on to say white Americans were hesitant to vote for a black president, and that Obama pushed the race issue to bring the nation together.
"But some people said Americans weren't ready for that much change. Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never vote for a black president. Other angry voices were raised. Barack's former pastor called the country a failure. God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens, he said.The Bluffview Elementary students were told the book's content would be tested for grades. That brought outrage among parents just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, one of the "MAD" moms reported.
BooksThis biography of America's 44th president, entitled "Barack Obama," is written by Jane Sutcliffe and published by Lerner. The book is part of Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program acceptable to the controversial Common Core curriculum standards.
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Idiots, morons, cretins. Sterilize them so they can’t reproduce.
Good point.
Americans weren’t ready for that much change.
Our change which we never needed any and thier change which is a well dressed up and many times hidden from view, socialism is just what all of us Amercians want
The mothers are more concerned with being labeled racist than actuall ydoing something constructive like storming the school education center and demand this book be removed.
bfl
Common Core must be defeated and never taught in any schools. This is not education, its indrocination and must be stopped at all costs. Keep your children out of any school that is teaching this filth.
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