Video: Parents angry over Obama song at NJ elementary school

posted at 4:15 pm on September 25, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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In which the school and the district double down on stupid:

“There was no intention to indoctrinate children. There was no political agenda underlying the activity.”

Uh, sure, pal. Those kids wrote the lyrics about equal pay all by themselves? I know that’s a big issue among the playground set. They also just happened to replace God with “Barack Hussein Obama” in saying that people are “equal in his sight,” because that’s exactly the phraseology one would expect from a roomful of kids of the “London Bridge is falling down” age.

The administration in this community may need to go back to school themselves to learn a little common sense and strategy.  The teacher who led this group retired before the video hit the Internet.  How much difficulty could it cause to admit the obvious and apologize for stepping over a line with these children?  They’re certainly not learning a lesson about accountability, although they do seem to have adopted the ACORN strategy of blaming people for the video’s release to the Internet rather than the fact that one of their teachers was indoctrinating kids into Obama-worship, quite literally considering the song, its lyrics, and its origins.

Update: I wrote a warning in yesterday’s post not to put contact information into the comments.  Let the parents deal with the school; it’s their community, and so far they seem to be doing a pretty good job of it.

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