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Another song by school children praising Obama

Catz Part Deux said:
The Superintendent's job is to spin this to minimize damage to his district. What happened to the teacher involved?

I support black history month. It is entirely possible to educate children on the significance of Obama's election WITHOUT politicizing it.

For instance, I have ZERO PROBLEMS with this song:

YouTube - Rosa Sat - song for Barack Obama

It pays homage to the LONG history of civil rights in our country and actually TEACHES children something about black history month.
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It's a great song, I agree with you. Barack Obama is part of a long line of great black Americans serving our country with honor and distinction.

Teaching school children to respect the role of President is worthwhile. So is teaching them that challenging policies of sitting Presidents is an American value.
 
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windovervocalcords said:
It's a great song, I agree with you. Barack Obama is part of a long line of great black Americans serving our country with honor and distinction.
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I think there are many ways to recognize this fact without politicizing it. My issues with the song is that it doesn't focus on the fact that this is a historic event, but it goes into his political agenda. That doesn't belong in school.

Again, where is the teacher who wrote this?
 
Catz Part Deux said:
I think there are many ways to recognize this fact without politicizing it. My issues with the song is that it doesn't focus on the fact that this is a historic event, but it goes into his political agenda. That doesn't belong in school.

Again, where is the teacher who wrote this?
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I disagree with you that the teacher is to blame. The students and the teacher wrote the song together. It is conservatives who have politicized this civics lesson by widely distributing the video and flaming paranoia about 'agendas'.
 
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windovervocalcords said:
I disagree with you that the teacher is to blame. The students and the teacher wrote the song together. It is conservatives who have politicized this civics lesson by widely distributing the video and flaming paranoia about 'agendas'.
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These are elementary school kids. You are really going to claim that they came up with the phrase "equal pay for equal work?"

:rofl

:monkey:monkey:monkey

Keep dancing.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
These are elementary school kids. You are really going to claim that they came up with the phrase "equal pay for equal work?"

:rofl

:monkey:monkey:monkey

Keep dancing.
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They wrote it with the teacher. I work in an elementary school. There are every manner of singing jingles used for teaching purposes written with kids and by teachers to help kids learn.

We have a couple of isolated songs taken out of context and promoted as some grand conspiracy of nazism or communism by conservative media outlets. The dancing and politicizing are being done by conservative wackos.

You can't even find a conflicting view when googling the story.

Great dancing smilies BTW.
 
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its not like the government ordered the school to make the kids learn the song like this is freakin nazi germany
 
windovervocalcords said:
They wrote it with the teacher. I work in an elementary school. There are every manner of singing jingles used for teaching purposes written with kids and by teachers to help kids learn.

We have a couple of isolated songs taken out of context and promoted as some grand conspiracy of nazism or communism by conservative media outlets. The dancing and politicizing are being done by conservative wackos.

You can't even find a conflicting view when googling the story.

Great dancing smilies BTW.
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And this is a reason my son will be attending private schools....
 
sending your kid to a snobby little private school wont make a difference since no higher authority than the school itself told those kids to sing that song
 
windovervocalcords said:
I think the paranoia about this is stirred up by the right. Where was the fear when the churches were organized to support Bush?
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Um you mean like how the Churches lead by the black Nazi Reverend Wright, Reverend Sharpton, the black Nazi Lois Farahkan etc etc et al were organized to support Obama?

These are public schools, and the curricula is locally approved by the school board. Social studies, current events and civics are taught in elementary schools.
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If the locally approved curricula includes political indoctrination is being approved then the school boards need to be run out of town on a rail.

Songs work to help children remember details.
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Yes details like the POTUS is our god and we are his cult of personality.

There are math songs, and ABC songs and all manner of songs in elementary school.
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Math songs, ABC songs, etc don't include mother ****ing campaign messages, or saying that we honor the political agenda of a sitting POTUS. That time of thing would be reserved for totalitarian regimes in which the leader remains in power through a cult of personality.
 
windovervocalcords said:
That's ridiculous. This is not Nazism, Communism or anything else like it.
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It's a cult of personality the same as anyother, we don't deify sitting Presidents in the United States, this was compulsory political indoctrination anyway you slice it. Obama himself may not be responsible but the radicals doing the indoctrination are cultists any way you slice it.
 
windovervocalcords said:
And school boards determine local school policy and approve curricula.
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If they are approving political indoctrination into a cult of personality then the problem is far larger than just a couple of radical teachers and an even bigger issue IMHO, but I seriously doubt that any school board approved this bull****.
 
Badfish420 said:
plus it was during black history month
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And your point? This is a sitting POTUS we're talking about and this has gone way way beyond celebrating the election of the first black President, this went into forcing the kids to say they support the political agenda of Obama, clipping verses from Jesus Loves the Little Children and replacing Jesus with Obama, and forcing kids to chant (literally chant) verses taken directly from Obama's campaign slogans. WTF do you not get about this being political indoctrination anyway you slice it?
 
disneydude said:
I find is rather odd and disengenous with all these complaints about Obama from people who sat (not surprisingly) silent when GWB was doing either the same things or worse.
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Proof or it didn't happen. Provide evidence of kids being forced by teachers to sing songs in which GWB campaign slogans were chanted or they were made to say they agreed with his political agenda.

Leads me to believe that Carter was largely right in his assessment.
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There is more evidence that Jimmy Carter is a closet Jew hating neo-Nazi then that opposition to dear leader is based on his race.
 
formerroadie said:
There is nothing wrong with any of this. It happened with Bush, it happens with Obama. God forbid our children learn some civic pride. The :spin: smells like ****.
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Um this has never happened with any sitting POTUS in the history of our country, and if it has you have no evidence for it. And these songs were not about civic pride they were about political indoctrination into a cult of personality. Teaching civic pride =/= forcing kids to chant campaign slogans and/or forcing them to say they support the political agenda of the POTUS.
 
formerroadie said:
YouTube - fox news is evil and busted - abusing the images and video's of innocent children - MSNBC - video

Come on dude.

Plus, you show video of TWO classrooms. That is hardly proof of anything. If it was handed down from the white house and people were forced to do this, then fine. What people should be up in arms about is Fox showed those children on their news cast without permission from parents.
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FYI sport the teacher doing the indoctrination filmed the students and posted the video on youtube without the permission of the parents. And look we know that you and the good folks over at Olberdeushe are members of the cult of Obama, however, we should be up in arms over these children being politically indoctrinated without the permission of their parents. You people aren't even ****ing sorry you got caught. The idea that you're mad at Fox when teachers were forcing children to chant slogans pulled right from the Obama campaign and forcing them to say they agreed with the political agenda of a sitting POTUS has got to be either the most laughable or maybe sickest ****ing thing I've ever heard.

That is the outrage, not the songs, especially since the parents didn't mind.
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You sir are a liar, I have the Hannity interview of two of the parents and they are ****ing outraged.

Oh and your videos assertion that saying thankyou to FEMA, Bush, and Congress for helping in the wake of Katrina is the same thing as forcing children to chant a Bush campaign slogan or forcing them to say that they agree with his political agenda, is ****ing laughable.
 
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windovervocalcords said:
Could be this President inspires children. I remember hearing Kennedy's speech when I was a young child; "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." and being inspired by it.
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Really? Are you really going to come to the conclusion that elementary school children wrote these two songs? That they came up with the lyrics "equal work for equal pay" or that they came up with the idea to substitute Jesus for Obama in the following verse borrowed from "Jesus Loves the Little Children": "Yellow black or white, he said all are equal in his site," or that they thought of using the cadence for the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the 2nd song? Seriously?
 
windovervocalcords said:
This is a lesson in civics. Elementary schools frequently use songs in their lessons.

Christopher M. Manno, the superintendent of Burlington Township School District, issued a statement to parents saying the students were singing the song "to honor the contributions of African Americans to our country" in conjunction with February's Black History Month.
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lol I guess I have to bust out a Stephanopolous:

Civics - Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship;The study of government with particular attention given to the role of citizens― as opposed to external factors― in the operation and oversight of government

Indoctrination - to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.

Forcing kids to chant campaign slogans and forcing them to say they support a sitting POTUS's political agenda is not a civics lesson, it is political indoctrination.
 
agent ferris said:
and your point? This is a sitting potus we're talking about and this has gone way way beyond celebrating the election of the first black president, this went into forcing the kids to say they support the political agenda of obama, clipping verses from jesus loves the little children and replacing jesus with obama, and forcing kids to chant (literally chant) verses taken directly from obama's campaign slogans. Wtf do you not get about this being political indoctrination anyway you slice it?
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the government didn't force the school to teach that song to the school kids. What dont you get about that. If that did happen, it would be a whole different story but it didnt. Let me say it again

the government had nothing to do with this
 
Agent Ferris said:
And your point? This is a sitting POTUS we're talking about and this has gone way way beyond celebrating the election of the first black President, this went into forcing the kids to say they support the political agenda of Obama, clipping verses from Jesus Loves the Little Children and replacing Jesus with Obama, and forcing kids to chant (literally chant) verses taken directly from Obama's campaign slogans. WTF do you not get about this being political indoctrination anyway you slice it?
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how is this obama's fault?
 
Badfish420 said:
the government didn't force the school to teach that song to the school kids. What dont you get about that. If that did happen, it would be a whole different story but it didnt. Let me say it again

the government had nothing to do with this
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The government didn't, but a teacher (who works for the government) did force the song. The teacher had no business doing that.
 
Badfish420 said:
the government didn't force the school to teach that song to the school kids. What dont you get about that. If that did happen, it would be a whole different story but it didnt. Let me say it again

the government had nothing to do with this
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I never once claimed that Obama is personally responsible for this, however, the fact remains that there is currently an Obama cult of personality.
 
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