Posted on 11/04/2008 12:50:37 PM PST by edzo4
So I just got a call from my sister who was voting in NC, She brought my 7 year old niece who has the day off from school as that is where they vote. When my sister got in the booth and voted for McCain and my niece threw a tantrum and started yelling NOOOOOO, Obama not Mccain nobody wants an old guy with white hair for president. She then threw down her sample ballot and wanted to leave, they sure start indoctrinating them early in the public schools I guess.
No doubt. This child is not properly trained, and the parents are not doing their duty in allowing others to do it for them.
My 3 YR OLD understands the concepts of collectivism and why it’s bad. We haven’t burdened her with “0bama kills babies” but we do tell her that he is against what God tells us is right.
>> When my sister got in the booth and voted for McCain and my niece threw a tantrum and started yelling NOOOOOO, Obama not Mccain nobody wants an old guy with white hair for president. She then threw down her sample ballot and wanted to leave, they sure start indoctrinating them early in the public schools I guess.
Perhaps the indoctrination was from the schools (though I wonder why no counter-indoctrination occured at home) — the behavioral problems are probably from the homefront.
I’d have read my daughter the riot act if she threw a tantrum in public, slammed something to the ground, and stormed off.
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Were that my kid they would be standing in a corner until they understood how to behave at a polling place....
I am surpised my sister voted Mccain to tell you the truth, her and My aunt are the moonbats in the family
My daughter’s school voted those percentages too! Except Chuck Norris wasn’t as high as 16, but was close to 10%. What is up with Chuck Norris and middle schoolers? They were writing his name in!
I think there was a viral set of videos a few months back where they put Chuck Norris against various household items and Chuck Norris always won (the little action figure of Chuck Norris anyway) and I think he became some weird cult hero, like Adam West.
A 7-year-old at least has the excuse of being incapable of rational thought. What about the millions of Obamabots who behave just the same way and who are supposedly adults?
Re: “They are in the first grade at a Christian school. Needless to say I was a little dumbfounded that 6 year olds would even be discussing such a thing.”
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Indoctrination is everywhere. My radical leftist neighbors here in L.A. have their brat in a Christian school and they’re all screeching about Obama as well. I don’t know how many kids at that school have parents like my neighbors, but one hopes they are in the minority.
If I had a child in a private elementary school and found out about political discussions/mock elections in the classrooms, the administrators would hear about it quickly!
Exactly. My mother refers to the this as “applying the board of education to the seat of learning.”
My son’s class was going to have an election discussion in class and I asked if he needed any information on putting out the conservative viewpoint. He said “No - I think what we’ve talked about at the dinner table is enough”!
My younger daughters are in the VAST minority as well in their classes, but can defend the Right views.
My wife’s brothers are unbelievable. One (NJ) flipped a coin at the voting booth and it came up Obama. The other (NV) says the country is so far down now (I think he only is looking at his 401k and is severe depression) that it doesn’t matter who wins, and anyway - “My one vote won’t make any difference”.
AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Amen to that! My kids got to “pull the lever” for us. They were so excited to vote McCain Palin. They also got to vote for our local sheriff who is a family friend. Liberals worry about homeschoolers indoctrinating the children. I say, since they are going to be indoctrinated it might as well be by me. Blessings!
I live in a liberal desert. My 2nd grader’s school ran the vote last week. Results - 60% Obama / 40% McCain. That is a surprise showing for McCain in this area.
My wife and I just started sending our three-year-old to a Montessori pre-school outside Boston. I knew they were a bit demofascist from the get-go, but I didn’t give it much thought beyond their celebration of U.N. Day on October 24th. So my daughter came home from school last Thursday and said that they were talking about the election. Then she blurted out, “I like Barack Obama!” This is a girl who just turned three, but she got his name perfect, as if she’d been practicing it. I asked her who told her that and she said, “Jen,” which is her teacher. The next day, I told the story to one of the other parents who was sporting a McCuda sticker on the back of her SUV. She told me her kid came home and said the same thing. Rather than give the teacher an earful about it, where she could take it out on our kid, my wife and I decided that we’ll just have to counterprogram for the next 20 years, including college. We’ll do that over the dinner table. Because nothing can beat the power of the dinner table. Not even The Pretender.
My kids wouldn’t dare throw a tantrum like that at me and if I had talked to my folks like that, I would have been eating throw a straw for a couple weeks.
By age seven a parent should already have a child versed in right and wrong and why they are Conservative. IMHO.
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My six-year-old son has been telling people for days (including once at the polling place this morning): “My dad says Obama is going to take your money”.
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No.
It’s up to PARENTS to teach their children these values and beliefs. If you leave it UP to PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, then THIS is what you will get.
SHAME on HER PARENTS.
My son is six, and is for McCain.
I homeschool him.
My daughter and son-in-law are conservative and there's no way they would teach him that. His other grandparents are for McCain. My daughter doesn't watch a lot of news or tv. So Barak Obama name and face recognition is extremely high. Most of television is all Obama, all the time.
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