Posted on 09/25/2009 10:27:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A school for kindergartners through second-graders in a comfortable Philadelphia suburb has become the latest target of accusations by conservatives that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama.
The controversy grows out of a school assembly during Black History Month in February, when gripes about the freshly inaugurated president were still mostly hushed.
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The notion that schoolchildren are being subjected to partisan politics rather than taught civics emerged earlier this month before an Obama speech to students was played in thousands of schools.
By then, unlike February, there was broader mistrust of Obama, particularly over his health insurance overhaul plans. Concerns that he would use his speech to students as a political tool grew partly because the White House initially released a lesson plan encouraging students to "help the president."
The plan was revised and the message to students was not overtly political.
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There wasn't much protest, though. One man, Chris Concannon, from nearby Magnolia, was outside hoping to speak with school officials about what happened.
"It's just like the Hitler Youth all over again," said Concannon, an unemployed 26-year-old former National Guardsman. "They should be learning history, but instead they're being taught to worship the president."
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Like in all these Muslim countries where it's not unusual for people to have their leaders' portraits hanging in their homes.
Hussein indeed.
This is just one rung on the ladder that has led to the likes of 0bama, Pelosi, and Reid. We can look to the elections in 2010 to put a slow sign on the change, but we need to also look and counter the 60 years of indoctrination of our culture.
> I remembered the Kennedy half dollar coming out long before that long of a time had passed. Or did they make an exception because he was a democrat?
Not only Kennedy, but FDR on dimes occurred before 1970, I’m quite sure. Hey, I remember as a kid learning the song:
John F. Kennedy,
what a remarkable man blah-blah was he
At age forty three
He was elected to the presidency.
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The Democrats have been indoctrinating a long time.
“I wonder if schools are “encouraged” to hang a picture of mmm, mmm, mmm Barack Hussein Obama in their classrooms now.”
Probably not... on the other hand, after Black History Month, they’ll make March half-and-half month, April “Don’t make fun of people with big ears” month, May “respect people’s right to keep their birth certificate private” month, and June “National Socialism Awareness Month” — and, of course, have assemblies, fun little school plays and compose songs honoring The One.
And then try and sue anyone who reports it.
"Equal work for equal pay."
Not in my world and not in anyone else's either.
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