Posted on 09/25/2009 7:06:51 AM PDT by TinaJeannes
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP -- New Jersey's education commissioner ordered a review after a YouTube video shows school children learning a song celebrating President Barack Obama.
The video shows more than a dozen youngsters at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington Township. The district said the students were participating in Black History Month in February.
Education Department spokeswoman Kathryn Forsyth said the commissioner has directed the school superintendent to review what happened. Forsyth said the commissioner wants to ensure that students can celebrate Black History Month without "inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom."
Forsyth also said the teacher who directed the song and is not shown in the video retired at the end of the school year.
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HehHehHeh. The servers have burst into flames, no doubt.
Second graders are world famous
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1215931/He-said-clear-today-Equal-work-means-equal-pay—How-schoolchildren-taught-sing-Obamas-praises.html
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“commissioner wants to ensure that students can celebrate Black History Month without ‘inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom’.”
WTF are we doing still doing this “Black History Month” crap? It’s RACIST, and it needs to stop.
This is a change. Last night the comment from him was: this was unauthorized and part of black history month.
So... I really thought this would end at this statement because everyone would be afraid to dare say anything for fear of being called a racist...
I am glad common sense has been added to the statement
"without "inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom."
>>>Forsyth also said the teacher who directed the song and is not shown in the video retired at the end of the school year.<<<
Fire her, retroactively, for misconduct, and take away her pension!
Agreed. I think we need, People are discriminated against because of affirmative action... awareness month.
Or... our brave Great Grandfathers of WWII-history awareness month.
Not the first time controversy has gone to the school district.
http://www.aclj.org/media/pdf/HostageDrillWebLetter.pdf
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The Union WILL NOT allow that to happen.
Whoever authorized that brainswashing and cult-leader worship session, along with the woman leading the session, should be lined up and have their posteriors kicked mightily. And then unceremonioulsy fired. That is by far the creepiest, most chilling thing I’ve ever witnessed in my almost sixty years years on this planet. In America yet. Young children. I thought the Hollyweird celebrity Demi Moore-inspired nonsense was creepy. This is creepier.
Much more insidious brainwashing has been going on for the last 20 years in public schools where ever "diversity" and "multiculturalism" was established.
John Dewey, a Progressive, took over the school's curriculum and inserted cultural Marxism....the results: someone like zero elected. People like Dewey had to hide their schemes originally because it was a lot harder to implement his ideas with the 50's (in-tact family) generation, although not impossible since the media was controlled by Marxists (see 60's revolution).
Watch the whole video. they sing his truth goes marching on
The thing that makes me wonder about when the video was shot, is the fact that several (at least 3 - maybe more) kids are wearing short sleeve shirts. I have a second grader and I would not send him to school in a short sleeve shirt in February.
well the last song they were singing was originally a christian song, mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
This wasn’t praising the things Obama had done. By February about all he’d accomplished was overturning Bush’s positions on abortion.
This was about echoing DNC mantras and Socialist positions. Doesn’t MATTER if inequities do NOT exist (equal work for equal pay) NOR that Obama has done nothing to “change” them.
Lets be realistic for a second here. This probably happens 1000 times a year or more across the country. The only reason it was “inappropriate to teach partisan politics” in this case was that they were caught.
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Exactly - they were just doing the bidding of the NEA and their dim bulb party bosses...
It’s a huge entrenched issue. The state schools are partisan breeding grounds for entitlement and socialism...let’s not kid ourselves...
Some may be better than others...
But we spend something like twice+ the money per student there and get something like 70% of the results - plus, BONUS, they’re indoctrinated as Democrats and Socialists...
What a deal for the hard working conservative taxpayer that puts their kid through a modest Christian or other type of private school, huh?
SCHOOL VOUCHERS NOW!
PS: It sure pays to videotape stuff these days, hey? Make sure you’re following the laws of your state I suppose.
The "horse" expects a princely pension then.
ML/NJ
Communist Party USA opposed going to war against Nazi Germany. At least until Hitler betrayed their beloved Stalin, butcher of millions.
I agree with you black history month is racist. should be american history
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