Posted on 04/02/2010 5:17:17 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Parent Blows Whistle on Teacher Promotion of Obama Internship
The parent of a Perry High School student in Massillon, Ohio, set off a firestorm in his community and in the blogosphere when he gave Pamela Geller, of AtlasShrugs.com, a copy of an internship application provided to his 11th-grade daughter's government class the last week of January. The information packet, emblazoned with the Obama presidential campaign logo, was from DNC-funded Organizing for America (OFA), the successor organization of Obama for America. The student's father, identified as "Chuck," told Geller that the teacher offered no Republican Party internship equivalent to students.
The document, posted in its entirety on Geller's website, promotes a ten-week internship for "empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change," and for which students may receive course credit. Interns must commit to at least 12 hours a week, and will be taught how to be "leaders in OFA's organizing work this summer," i.e., campaign workers for the 2010 election season.
I think you're a troll!
uh huh! an honest mistake from a gov’t teachers union teacher. Scrape the bottom of the barrel and this is what you get
uh huh! an honest mistake from a gov’t teachers union teacher. Scrape the bottom of the barrel and this is what you get
"I think our agenda is clear. We are opposed to: government spending, Kennedy kids, seat-belt laws, busing our children anywhere other than Yale, trailer courts near our vacation homes, all tiny Third World countries that dont have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the UN, taxation without tax loopholes, and jewelry on men. We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives dont find out), a sound dollar, and a strong military with spiffy uniforms."
Wow. Is that what you really believe? Some of that stuff is really off the wall. I would suggest that it sounds more like rich, hypocritical, self-righteous Hollywood leftists.
You might fit in better with the slobbering misfits over at Dummocrat Underground.
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I looked up the "organization" sponsoring the presentation...it's a part of The Tides Foundation!
Of course socialist schools are going to promote socialism. The only mistake the classroom bureaucrat made was getting caught by giving the package to a kid whose father bothered to see what was in it.
Of course, if the father wasnt having his lifestyle subsidized by participating in the nations biggest entitlement program he might find a capitalist school is less likely to promote socialism than a government school is.
Good riddence. Good troll hunting.
I am a proud teacher, and an even prouder FReeper. Here’s my take on this situation. First of all, we get this sort of thing in the “junk” mail at school all the time. Not only do we get hard copy; we also get emails. They arrive looking very official in expensive envelopes, with lots of compliments to the school and the teacher. I’m imagining that the teacher saw the Obama seal and thought, “It’s the President; it’s fine.” The teacher unfortunately probably never even thought that it might be Democrat propaganda and that a Republican alternative could also have been offered.
I’m not ignorant; mine go straight into the recycle bin.
I’m too durn old to even know anyone who still has kids in school, but I’ll bet this is happening all over the country!
Isn’t Organizing for America federally funded?
Are we to believe a slick and professional packet was printed up .... just one, mind you ... and it was sent to one teechah to give to one stoont, and that now the matter is finished?
Oh America, America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?
Another varmint for the red-mist club.
Yeah Team!!! A quick and painless ZOT...well done Mod :)
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