Shock Video: School Kids Taught to Praise Obama, page 4

reply to post by piddles

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I think you are actually missing the point of teaching children about politics.

You teach children about how politics works, what the Constitution is, the Bill of Rights, etc. so that they can become responsible, socially acceptable, CONTRIBUTORS to society...... able to form their own OPINIONS.... CHANGE the world in the way THEY see fit...

What you don't do is teach them to worship the President, that any political view is the RIGHT view, nor do you do ANYTHING that pushes a teacher's (or school's) agenda, current political agenda, or anything else for that matter.

Oh....in case you were wondering, that goes for Republicans, Democrats, Independents, etc.

reply to post by Choronzon

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Are you serious? That video was children Praying for Bush, not idolizing him. It is also the children telling him One Nation Under God. Again not making him out to be a wonderful savior.

reply to post by mopusvindictus

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Wow, your statement gave me chills...**shiver**

I agree with most. This isn't right. But then, I don't think it's right for even parents to teach their kids if they should like/dislike a president. Kids don't understand the gravity of these things and it amounts to nothing more than indoctrination.

I'm glad my parents never really bothered me with these matters when I was too young to understand.. My mom told me it was specifically so that I could make up my own mind about how I view things.

I remember when I would ask things like, "What is God", my mom would answer most questions like this, "Well, some people think this and some people think that. I think this". I think that's the best way to go about it.

That's just my opinion though.

reply to post by mikerussellus

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That;s a bit of an over-reaction isn't it? Glad to see that Godwin's Law is still in effect.

Originally posted by Asktheanimals
"we are equal in his sight"? "his great accomplishments" "first black
president" ? I feel violated. it reminds me of those creepy jesus
songs they taught us in sunday school like Jesus loves the little
children etc, which had the line about being"precious in his sight, black
and yellow red and white". I'm going to shower and stick an enema
in my ear, maybe it will help sick sad bad

I thought the same thing...

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[edit on 24-9-2009 by DontTreadOnMe]

Just some context...

www.youtube.com...

But can you point out the difference? I think both are quite disturbing, but one is more than the other.

One is a private church doing really weird singing songs about President Bush. The other is a public school doing the weird singing about President Obama.

This falls in line with the Pledge of Allegiance in my opinion. We are a country ruled by laws, not men. We follow the Constitution, not the flag. We respect the flag, salute the flag and honor it, but our allegiance is not to it. When sworn into the military I seem to vaguely remember I was swearing an oath to protect the Constitution and not the flag, which is a symbolic representation of our country.

Now back to the singing songs in high praise of the President. I can see if this song was about great presidents of the past. George Washington, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, etc. It is not so much they are signing a song about President Obama, its the words that are being said.

As I provided the link to the utterly weirdness happening in a church about singing to oh holy Bush, I am not disturbed because those people have freely chosen to send their children into such a situation. Although we have freely chosen to send our kids to whatever type of school, there is a point where something cross the line. The goal of Public Education is not to provide a good education, its to provide people good enough for government work.

Originally posted by dbates
reply to post by mikerussellus

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That;s a bit of an over-reaction isn't it? Glad to see that Godwin's Law is still in effect.

I was thinking the same thing. Haha. Maybe you should type the meaning here so everyone sees it, cause most will just ignore you since the word 'over-reaction' is in your sentence. Haha.

reply to post by HunkaHunka

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I believe its a public school.

www.localschooldirectory.com...

Under that listing it is listed as public.

Like my post, I just can't quite put my finger on it exactly, its nothing to do with President Obama, it has to do with how its sung and what is sung. And im with you on the private/public thing.

reply to post by dbates

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Overkill? I hope so. But when does anyone press the panic button? When it's too late? Why bother.

I hope this becomes nothing. I hope that our country becomes better. I hope Obama doesn't screw things up.

But when you see this, and REMEMBER history; don't you feel that it's better to speak up, speak out, before it's too late?

Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by HunkaHunka

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I believe its a public school.

www.localschooldirectory.com...

Under that listing it is listed as public.

Like my post, I just can't quite put my finger on it exactly, its nothing to do with President Obama, it has to do with how its sung and what is sung. And im with you on the private/public thing.

I checked out their site... they seem to be a rather overtly liberal school district.

reply to post by johnny2127

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