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School Defends “Occupy” Song For 8-year-olds
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Posted on 01/03/2012 11:15:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver

School Defends “Occupy” Song For 8-year-olds

By Todd Starnes/TWITTER

A Virginia school district is defending a song allegedly written and performed by a group of third graders about the Occupy Wall Street movement that conservative bloggers are calling a form of indoctrination.

The song, “Part of the 99,” was performed by children at Woodbrook Elementary School in Albemarle County, Virginia.

A spokesman for the school system said as far as they were concerned there isn’t a controversy and called criticism of the program unfortunate.

“We really don’t censor the topics that students come up with,” school spokesman Phil Giaramita told Fox News & Commentary. “This is the first time we’ve had the lyrics of one of these songs criticized.”

The controversy surrounding the song was first reported by the Weasel Zippers website.

“They’re actually claiming third-grade children wrote these lyrics and chose the topic as well,” Weasel Zippers wrote. “Because what eight-year-old child isn’t obsessed with class warfare?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: indoctrination; kids; occupy; school; schools; song; unions
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To: Sub-Driver
So far I have nothing to worry about with my 4th grader. Last week I caught him in his bedtime prayer asking God to help us nuke North Korea, and the Occupy Protesters. I doubled over with laughter.
21 posted on 01/03/2012 11:37:27 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: dead

This
“Original lyrics, before helpful editing by a unionized teacher:

Ur a poopy poopy
Spongebob and Patrick
I am ice cream flavor
Chocolate or Vanilla

You smeel! Bobby’s dumb.
I want a bicicle
My sistr is a smelly
I like fun.”

Deserves repeating and a bow to you ( think of 0dumbo kowtowing to you :)


22 posted on 01/03/2012 11:41:11 AM PST by RWGinger (Simpl)
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To: Sub-Driver
The Burning of the School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not that we thought it up, but this was known by most of my third grade class.

23 posted on 01/03/2012 11:42:06 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Army Air Corps

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZY8oBo5Yzs&feature=youtube_gdata_player


24 posted on 01/03/2012 11:43:14 AM PST by MCF
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To: Sub-Driver

What crap!


25 posted on 01/03/2012 11:45:46 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

“We really don’t censor the topics that students come up with,” school spokesman Phil Giaramita told Fox News & Commentar

Sure . . . how about having them sing “Dixie” ?


26 posted on 01/03/2012 11:46:48 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (MERRY CHRISTMAS to the ACLU)
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To: Sub-Driver; Travis McGee; All

“mmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm...Barack Hussien Obama...”

I guess history is worth repeating...

For some...

I prefer not to...But what do I know...

It is almot surreal the way (direction) this country is going...And some don’t even know, much less understand what is at stake...


27 posted on 01/03/2012 11:50:19 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: Army Air Corps

Here is another. Uniforms look familiar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E0AbZYntYc&feature=youtube_gdata_player


28 posted on 01/03/2012 11:51:32 AM PST by MCF
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To: Sub-Driver
Kim Jong's gone I'm sad to say

But we still have Hugo, Fidel and the memory of Che.

We're taught to be good little Marxist's

It's all the teachers do

And we'll work hard for Obama and OWS, too.

29 posted on 01/03/2012 11:55:03 AM PST by JPG (Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.)
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To: al baby
Would it be too much to ask that they just teach them to read to write and do math and real history

Ah the good old daze before all the socialist BS.

30 posted on 01/03/2012 11:56:23 AM PST by beachn4fun (I have a book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble)
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To: stevie_d_64

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
-Adolf Hitler


31 posted on 01/03/2012 11:57:35 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: fr_freak
Anyone out there still convinced that forceful resistance won’t be necessary to right this ship?

I gather you don't think putting Romney in the White House will do the trick?

32 posted on 01/03/2012 11:58:49 AM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: dead
It reads like Bruce Springsteen wrote it.

Nah. Too many syllables.

33 posted on 01/03/2012 11:58:58 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hope and Change was so 2008. We are the 99% is the new slogan for 2012. Death to the rich is sure to follow.


34 posted on 01/03/2012 12:00:18 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Army Air Corps

35 posted on 01/03/2012 12:01:30 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Cboldt

Reminds me of “Deck the halls with gasoline.”


36 posted on 01/03/2012 12:03:08 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Sub-Driver

“We really don’t censor the topics that students come up with”

Ok, let’s see if you will let them put on a play centered around the Crucifixion and Resurrection .


37 posted on 01/03/2012 12:04:14 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The country cannot survive if we allow leftists to indoctrinate our kids starting from grade school. Every year more useful idiots trained by the Dept of Education reach voting age while the number people with traditional American values decreases. It is no wonder that about half the electorate supports leftists like Gore, Kerry and Obama whereas in the 80’s, they wouldn’t have gotten 20% of the vote. The education system needs to be purged as soon as possible.


38 posted on 01/03/2012 12:08:34 PM PST by Hacklehead (Lets stop bashing Republican candidates and get back to bashing OBAMA.)
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To: MCF

The talent and dedication (which includes the endless hours devoted to practice) is why Asia is kicking our collective ass!

But we’ve got a PC Black President . . . Oh Great!


39 posted on 01/03/2012 12:08:48 PM PST by rhubarbk
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To: dead; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker
wow dead, whered ya find the original ???

it really did sound better before the remake...

40 posted on 01/03/2012 12:12:46 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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