Posted on 10/06/2008 11:41:46 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Some call it indoctrination and others say it encourages political involvement.
On a video posted on the internet, middle school students say Barack Obama has inspired them to succeed.
Conservative morning Chris Stigall saw the video on the Drudge Report.
"This is an indoctrination. It's not a debate. It's not discussing relevant issues. It's not tit-for-tat," Stigall, with 710 KCMO Radio, said.
Stigall said his disapproval isn't because of Obama, but rather because where it took place.
"No public school could or should get away with such a thing," Stigall said.
Stigall said on Monday morning that the school's director called his show and acknowledged that the video was made on school grounds after class at a teacher sanctioned event.
At the Broadway Cafe, a midtowner said he wouldn't mind the activity if it were organized by students.
"If it's a teacher pulling them along, I think it's not as sensible," voter Tony Haynes said. "The teacher's role is not to lead them in a particular direction, but give them a place to lead themselves."
A Republican who supports Obama said while he didn't see the video, he thinks it's interesting these kids want to be involved.
"I went through the public school and when I was there no one cared about either candidate," voter Christopher Slocum said.
But another voter said teachers should interest them in the issues on both sides.
"As a school based program, I don't think that's fair. I think all issues need to be presented," voter Fern Mesa said.
The school's director didn't return our calls. According to FOX News, the school suspended the teacher in charge of the after school activity for insubordination after he posted the video online.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxkc.com ...
Cool teacher. Great story! Thanks for sharing :-D.
I have heard the media and read in newspapers a lot lately how “Republicans” seem to be flocking to Obama. I don’t believe it. I think its propaganda. If a person is a Republican, it means they actually think. You just don’t turn off common sense that easy. I think these so called Republicans are moonbat dems who are trying to get people to think Republicans are moving to Obama.
I don’t know - I had a very demoralizing phone conversation last night with a Republican friend of mine who’s voting for Obama. Of all things, it was Sarah Palin that tipped him to the dark side. He’s more from the libertarian wing of things and dislikes Evangelicals, ergo his dislike of Palin. He’s drunk heavily of the MSM koolaid of her not being qualified too. I tried hard to convince him otherwise but his mind is made up. It’s scary out here!
Note that Nixon was courting the "youth vote" at the time. Now that I think about it, it was kind of strange that he was wooing high schoolers who couldn't vote.
Brovo to Chris Stigall. He is talking about it this morning on KCMO right now..
‘’ Mission of School is to Develop community Leaders’’
School is taxpayer funded by the state of Missouri. Ran by Central Missouri in Warrensberg, MO.
Great work Chris!
Now when do you tell the KC listeners about Phil Berg. I know you want to break a big story and this is a good one.
You were just a kid. Hopefully, you grew out of it. : )
Unfortunately, some Republicans never grow out of wanting Democrats to like them, or trying to please them to make it happen.
I had one in 1970 who would fit right in with today's flaming moonbats. The biggest lasting impression she left on me was getting me interested in urban legends. She taught most of them at that time as fact, being there was no easy way to debunk them and little resources to do such. The main ones were the kids who took acid and stared at the sun causing them to go blind, beehive hairdos becoming a nest for spiders, and the using ice as air conditioning desiccating people to their deaths. That last one should have made for some interesting NASCAR races as they used such a system for a while.
I wish I knew then what I knew now. I would have had her in tears.
It gets worse. She actually failed me for fourth grade because my dad was in the Air Force. She hated the military and the war that bad. We lived off base so we were the only military family with kids in that school. My parents couldn’t believe what I related to them until they had a meeting with her and the principal. My dad thought I was making stuff up but got an eyeful. After the meeting I was told just to try my best. They couldn’t move me to another class because all of the other students considered themselves lucky not to be in it. Too bad that there was no outside help for us like there is today.
She’s hopefully gone now. If failing a ten year old because of the Vietnam War gave her some pleasure in her empty life then maybe it was worth something.
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