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Posted on 09/26/2009 7:35:31 AM PDT by RummyChick
September 25, 2009
Dear Burlington Township Families:
By now, we're sure that you are aware of a video placed on the Internet that has been reported heavily by the media. The video is of a class of students singing a song about President Obama.
Over the past two days we have been able to learn more about this situation and would like to provide you with some additional information. The song was one of eight skits performed during a February 2009 program that included second grade classes. Parents attended the program which took place on February 27, 2009. The other skits in the program included Groundhog Day, Chinese New Year, Abraham Lincoln, Valentine's Day, George Washington, Mardi Gras, and Dental Health Month. The song about President Obama was in recognition of Black History Month. We have been informed that the lyrics of the song were sent home with the children in advance of the assembly, which was the teacher's normal procedure. There were no concerns or complaints prior to, during, or after the program.
On March 23, 2009, an author visited the Young School as part of the school's Women's History Month recognition. As is usual procedure, parents were notified prior to the visit and invited to attend. The author presented two assemblies during which she read from two of her books. She also met with the Teen Book Club at our high school and did an evening book signing for parents and children. The author was accompanied by two individuals. After the first assembly on March 23rd, the class that performed the song at the February assembly about President Obama provided a special performance for the author, since one of the books she wrote was about Barack Obama. We were informed by a representative of the author that one of the individuals who accompanied the author video recorded the performance. School staff had no knowledge of the recording.
We have learned that the video was posted on the author's website without district approval or knowledge. It appears that another party copied the video from the author's website and placed it on YouTube. We have been informed that the video has been removed from the author's website.
Our district takes measures to ensure that our children's privacy is protected. We are carefully evaluating what occurred and will implement any additional needed procedures to prevent children's images in school from being publicly posted without permission. We will also provide reasonable direction and guidelines so that classroom activities will not give the appearance of promoting a particular political perspective.
We have taken additional measures over the past two days to assure the safety and security of children and staff. We have worked very closely with our police department and school resource officers. We have had a police presence on our campuses and have increased administrative presence at the B. Bernice Young School. News crews have been kept off campuses. There were no incidents in our schools as a result of this matter. Our children, staff, and schools are safe and secure. We are working with our police department to have the video removed from YouTube.
We wish to assure our community that the administration and Board of Education will carefully study this matter. We appreciate and value input from you, the residents of Burlington Township, and will continue to listen to your opinions on this matter. If you have any questions, please contact me directly.
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I agree with you, TexasFreeper. This shows a very disturbing (not to mention blasphemous) pattern with this man. The fact that he makes jokes about such comparisons and even makes a few himself - and never disavows the comparisons speaks volumes about his own spiritual condition. I would not be in his shoes for the world.
I think it is majorly important that the communist manipulation got out into the public. I think there should be more of that exposure.
She should have blurred the faces of the kids; but most people don’t blame the kids rather feel sorry for them because of the abuse they are enduring in the name of leftist race education. Seeing the kids’ faces helped to see the pressure they were under to perform for their racist commie teacher.
LOL.
That’s gotta be a cardboard Obama.
Forget those women. How about Margaret Thatcher!
I showed my kids (13 & 15 years old) the song, and that’s what they picked up on right away.
I think one of them did say something about communism from the equal pay for equal work.
Might I just add my other rant. Can they please just get rid of Women’s History Month and Black History Month.
I am so glad my kids are out of public school and into private school because they do not have those months. I got so sick of them in public school.
They are not concerned about indoctrination. Only making sure the police protect their indoctrination process. (as if anyone would hurt the children, they are the victims)
Somehow they don’t consider their cultish indoctrination child abuse.
Well done video. Thanks for the link.
From now on ALL PERSONEL, CHILDREN AND PARENTS will be striped searched prior to attending anything related to the school and will be shot out back if anything that would offend what we want to do is found
They’re worried about the kids privacy and not the fact they they were being brain washed.
PS: now that we know this was known beforehand, the principal should be fired.
“This phrase was penned by Britain’s official Communist Party newspaper Daily Worker, and since the 1940’s spread through socialist and communist circles.”
http://apcheck.blogspot.com/2009/09/equal-work-for-equal-pay.html
there was an episode of seinfeld that involved this theme. . Elaine’s boyfriend read the Daily Worker. Gives Kramer the propaganda.
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheRace.html
School districts are so afraid of litigation, they rarely if ever use names, especially in an instance like this. I do wish he’s said how the song came to be written and by whom.
TYVM.
Wish I’d never had to make it.
Off topic but same tactic. We tried to video tape our Homeowners Association meeting and, long story short, they called the cops on us.
These people know exactly how to protect themselves from incriminating evidence.
Anytime we smell a rat with our kids’ education, especially if it reeks of indoctri-NATION, we must first look at BILL AYERS and then to GEORGE SOROS. Ayers went right to Childhood Education at the university education degree level in Chicago, and Soros, well he’s behind it all (Tides Foundation).
Supt Manno: “We have been informed that the lyrics of the song were sent home with the children in advance of the assembly, which was the teacher’s normal procedure. There were no concerns or complaints prior to, during, or after the program.”
I’d like to see what was sent home. I doubt very seriously they included to lyrics to the Obama song. If the info given to the parents DID include the lyrics, then the parents are all comatose, high on drugs, braindead or hardcore RATS.
Or maybe the parents, since they are most likely products themselves of the Imperial Federal Government Schools from the 80’s and early 90s, are so dumbed down themselves that they can’t recognize that this was blatantly political and has no place in public schools.
It appears the author is black so I suppose there are the CONSISTENT, different standards for different people!
Isn’t “diversity” grand?
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