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‘Indoctrination’: Did These Elementary School Students Just Sing ‘Boycott Big Business’ in Earth Day Rap?
- Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:14pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Aw, it’s enough to make the erstwhile Green Jobs czar Van Jones proud.
From Fox Nation comes this video of young students singing an earth day song at the Riverwood Elementary School in Tennessee. The song contains lyrics like “Recycle, bicycle, don’t drive by yourself / don’t buy those plastic products on the supermarket shelf“ and ”Boycott, petition, let the big business know / that if we mess it up here, there’s no else we can go.”
It’s unclear when this video is from, but many blogs have posted it today.
The Fox Nation headline asks if this is indoctrination. You be the judge:





















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miles from nowhere
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:45pmPeivate schools are beginning to look a lot better, because the public schools are a gigantic failure.
Report Post »pnh
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:22pmDon’t know, the catholic churches and schools are getting into the green agenda. That scares me.
Report Post »CWO-4
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:44pmPHN, I really don’t understand why you would post such about the RCC. Because the vatican has been quoted many times that it doesn’t believe in the Word of God. You say how? Without writing a paperback to prove why I’m stating that, I’ll just say they have been quoted saying they believe in evolution, not creation.
Report Post »Food4Thought
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:41pmEven the children’s show are teaching “green” gobbledygoock. My 6 year old son told me today I was wasting electricity by vacuuming our minivan after our trip to the beach. I told him next time he can pick out the grains of sand piece by piece and see if he changes his mind.
Report Post »pnh
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:21pmLol
Report Post »Alky
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:48pmDid you remind him that Xbox uses electricity too?
Report Post »Lladnarg
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:47pmPerfect response!!!
Report Post »pnh
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:41pmThe earth day on Easter week is also another way, the libs are bringing their crap to regular people. Why are churches and priests buying into the pagan rituals? I thought having faith in God, was what the churches and priests supposed to teach their followers.
Report Post »freedomweiner
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:21pmGo Peeps !!!!!
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:39pmOk! They can sing and dance. But can they read and do math?
Glad to see our schools hard at work indoctrinating the next generation of communists.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:42pm@ TexOkie
That wasn’t singing. Or dancing. That was guano.
I agree with you, though; what is being neglected to make time for this horse manure? Are these kids such geniuses that they can piddle away their school days reciting some teacher’s self-congratulating, over-simplified left-wing dung?
Report Post »Epic Fail
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:39pmThose kids don‘t and won’t have any money to spend on big business anyway. So just keep on singing. They’ll need to practice when they are singing on the corner with their hat out….
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:36pmAt least their not chanting for the Obama campaign. This could be an audition for the next union rally against their next target. oh, I meant to say appearance.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:35pmWithout business you wouldn’t have food on your plate, clothes on your back or a roof over your head. IDIOTS!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:34pmGet real…… from 3rd or 4th grade all the way through post grad school minds are indoctrinated with
Report Post »Social Justice themes. Colleges are little more then Seminaries for cranking out new progressives.
Mikee T
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:41pm@PaperpusherMJ….. Thank you for nailing that right on the head…..Yes, our educational institutions can now be unequivocally categorized as “PROGRESSIVE THINKTANKS” (pardon the euphemism….as liberals have much trouble thinking clearly and concisively)…. The trouble is….how do we undo this huge train that’s been rolling down a hill for decades ? Bad news….very bad….
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:30pmClose down Public Schools……they have become POISONOUS!
Report Post »Dannowood
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:30pmDefund the Departmrnt of Education.
Report Post »tom
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:30pmOur kids were first to be brainwashed. Isn’t that how all dictators start out?
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:29pmZombie children eat taxpayer-funded, low-fat soetoro-obama cookies.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:26pmBefore long it’ll be sung in spanish only If La Raza has any say so
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:26pmLet me guess….a NY city, NJ city or California city school ? How nice to “teach” our children to protest at an early age……BTW…..who, exactly, are these moron liberal instructor fascists / socialists most angry with ? They have a problem with everyone that isn’t either a government agency / non profit org. or part of big union…
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:25pmSave our children from ignorance. Otherwise they have nothing else to go on.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:24pmBarack Hussein Obama mmmmm mmmmmm mmmm!
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:51pmI can’t bring myself to watch some of that stuff. Are these people that stupid? Don”t they know history? And just think, some of them are teachers!
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:23pmSounds like political indoctrination to me.
At least they’re not chanting “ kill all ******* babies”….
Hmmm Hmmm hmm.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:22pmOk, students…..this is the part where we teach you to cut your own future prosperity throats……..1, 2, 3…sing it out loud now……
Report Post »booger71
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:22pmAfter I heard it, I went out and bought some Exxon gasoline, but I will boycott GE and GM though
Report Post »Properlytoastedbagel
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:21pmI certain these children wrote this all by themselves….
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:21pmGet rid of Union teachers and all biased liberal teachers, problem solved
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on April 25, 2011 at 10:26amAmen brother!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:21pmFor GODs sake leave the children alone you freaking socialist thugs!
Report Post »I will say this to warn you socialist’s , your inequity is just about full, and this are about to get hot in ways you only can read about in one book. To wit I say, Praise GOD!
TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:26pmSing it….Barack Hussein Obama, he led them down a dusty road by feeble brains just like a toad….MMM, MMM, MMMMM
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:32pmSorry, can’t do. No one with a fully developed brain will listen to them.
Report Post »pnh
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:43pmThey are in our churches sharing their pagan ritual of, “ Earth Day”.
Report Post »Loubro2
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:23pmThank you
I can’t believe the number of these nut jobs. Teachers are begging parents to participate with the education of their children. I bet not one of these DAM’s (Dumb azzed mtfkrs) belongs to the PTA. I see nothing wrong with the video.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:20pmBoycott everyone except GE, they are the “Good” big Corporation. They just need to hate the other corps, unless they donate to the ONE, then they will be “Good”
GE, bringing Evil to life.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:23pmGE, we bring good things to blight.
Report Post »Johnny 7 OMA
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:01pmGE, we will bury you.
Report Post »Ziplock
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:20pmStupidity on the side of the teachers!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:25pmStupidity .. are the teachers and their D*MN UNION! Must see movie WAITING FOR SUPERMAN.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:43pmHow about parents as well?
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:14amHomeschool for sure. This is part of the reason why our educational system is suffering, leftist indoctrination.
Report Post »ArmyMedic91A
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:20pmOkay, forgive me, but I’m as conservative as they come, but I just can’t take it anymore! I am sick to death of everyone badmouthing teachers. I am an out of work high school English teacher and my wife is an extremely hardworking, conservative elementary school teacher. We hate the liberal unions and big government as much as the next person. We don’t approve of this Marxist type of indoctrination, but we also don’t approve of the teacher-bashing going on here. Whatever happened to PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY? Is it entirely my job to ensure that your child does well in school? If I provide a classroom where your child can learn and your child fails, whose fault is it? Is it completely mine? Does your child bear no blame? Do you bear no blame? Must we always fall back to blaming the teachers?
At some point, parents must take personal responsibility for raising their own progeny. It is not my duty to go into your home and oversee your child’s homework performance, or is it? Do you expect me to give up my entire life for the sake of each and every child who attends my class? Why don’t I get a life outside of grading 210 student essays (that’s 30 students in seven classes per day), as well as grading daily work, writing lesson plans and developing lessons that will educate and hold the ever shrinking attention span of my students? I have heard about all I can stand of this teacher-bashing. Give me a break!
Get involved in your students’ lives; help them with their homework, or at least look at what they are being asked to do; volunteer to help in the classroom sometime, because it’s not only your right to do so but your responsibility as a responsible parent and taxpaying citizen; keep tabs on your kids, and help them stay out of gangs; don’t let your children spend all evening watching TV and playing video games – get them involved in a team sport; finally, LEARN TO LIVE SELFLESSLY! Do everything you can to help your child be successful – that is the responsibility of every parent!
Report Post »Zeus In A Speedo
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:23pm@ Armymedic
Your points are well made and to answer your questions…IT IS TOTALLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PARENTS FOR THE EDUCATION OF ONE’S CHILDREN!
As for myself, my two boys go to Catholic grade school. One of my boys has ADD and my wife or I tutor him for approx. 1 hr per night with homework, and he is in 2nd grade. Out other boy, in kindergarten, is intellectually gifted and already knows how to read and add well – he takes much less effort on our part. At any rate, my wife and I know that their education is OUR responsibility and the teachers are there to assist.
I believe much of the venom (some undeserved) is targeted against the Teacher’s Unions, and the teachers who are more concerned about pay and hours. I believe Blazers’ concerns stem from the question, “Where does all the county taxes, state aid, and federal aid go?????” Taxpayers pour more and more money into education and we get C-RAP like this!!! And with all of this money going into education, teachers protest for more money for their pocketbooks. Teachers are paid well considering they get 3 months off, all holidays paid, and additional days off; plus, their hours are generally 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. I know that there is some grading done at home, but geeez, they are paid well and are not burining the midnight oil too often.
I’m sure you and your wife, especially since you are conservative and have good values, are very fine teachers. Teaching is a true profession, but there are an awful lot who do not treat as it as a profession and should seek another career.
I believe much of us just want to know WHERE IS ALL OF THE TAX MONEY GOING, before we flush more money at teachers!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:19pmWhy does it always have to be rap ?
Report Post »Can’t somebody do a surf version sometime ?
CatB
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:24pmEveryone needs to see WAITING FOR SUPERMAN …. the movie … especially if you have children in school. … or grandchildren or know a child .. or pay TAXES to support a school … you will leave SAD AND MAD!
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:31pm@CatB – That movie is a real eye opener. It is a must see for all Americans. We have a major problem in our schools today. These teachers are indoctrinating our kids and it has to stop. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5CL4gmeOw shows the indoctrinating that is currently going on around the country.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:42pmAmen to that!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:43pmKids are scared of alot these days. They’re just kids.
Report Post »It‘s hard for us to make them grow up before we’re ready.
ClockKing
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:44pmRap requires 0 talent.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:46pmThese kids don’t surf, but I would like a surf version.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:46pmAll you, “The End is Nigh” nutjobs: shouldn‘t you be sealing yourself in the bomb shelter now instead of surfing the ’net?
nothingbuthetruth
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:50pmteaching them to be activists already.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 9:53pm@LOVENFL3
I actualy “lived” that movie .. I graduated in the early 1970′s when the teachers union was beginning to grab the power .. by the time my son was in the same school system in the 1990′s it was all the teachers and no learning . . I saw them try to put him on that downward path …. and I would NOT allow it .. luckily we have a great Catholic School and a summer ( and for his first year in school) he also attended a learning center (to catch up). It was the BEST money I ever spent .. .but I should NOT have had to do it .. all children should get a quality education … it is possible!
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:01pmthe parents in this school need to raise their voices and say “enough”, I danmed sure would, and..if they don’t..no one will.
I agree, don’t like plastic????..give em a roll of toilet paper for Christmas, that natural tear your bottom off kind.
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:15pmI would suspect that the majority of the parents in that district would be ok with that cute little Marxist chant. If not, then maybe you’ll see some heat come to the supervisors and to the school board. Time for us conservatives to get elected to local school boards. Hurry/.
Report Post »frodis
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:16pmDrive by yourself? I have an 11 mile drive. I ain’t biking that especially in South Florida. Those teachers should be ashamed. Those lyrics blow and don’t rhyme well at all. I’d pull my kid out of that school for sure.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:18pmIt’s nice to sit here and make comments all day long, but if you are a parent, if you child goes to school, you too can write a jingle and get a group of kids to sing it and post it up on YouTube.
Start fighting fire with fire. Fight back NOW! Before it’s too late.
And check with your kids every day when they come home from school. Find out if they are being indoctrinated and take control. Take back your children. They are their own future.
Report Post »Kemosabe-1
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:20pmBecause it makes us look, feel, and act lazy, angry, and stupid.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:35pmif you are spewing crap do it with rap
Report Post »YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:37pmLook up Rita White Principal at this school and you will find a link with a story that says a lot about why you might see such a display at this school.
Referring to Rita White – Her campaigning in Washington D.C., talking to congressional leaders about education reform, her advocacy for the children and her strategy to develop successful students, put her on the map.
“We are not just teaching reading and math,” says Principal White. “We’re not teaching science and social studies. We are teaching them how to be good citizens and interact with each other.”
White follows a philosophy called “responsive classroom”. It includes team building for teachers and social skills embedded in the curriculum for the students.
Report Post »Alky
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 10:44pm@lovenfl3
Report Post »That’s why the progressives are doing so well, they’ve been indoctrinating for a couple of decades. The indoctrinators are the previously indoctrinated. Those who love freedom better get involved in the education system before it’s too late. The progressives just keep funneling money into the teachers unions and the education department, it’s almost a runaway train :(
Dale
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:12pmRayblue;
“Kids are scared of alot these days. They’re just kids. It‘s hard for us to make them grow up before we’re ready.”
but it is unconscionable to exploit them.
Report Post »Cgeezy
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:15pmits not necessarily a rap. Its from the Captain Planet cartoon from the 90′s, same beat and tempo.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:40pm@cheez
Report Post »“recycled toilet paper rolls”
Noticed that the inside (empty) part has gotten bigger over the last month or so, outside diameter the same size? Hidden inflation.
seeker9
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:45pmSeriously, a good teacher is a godsend. A good teacher should not exploit the kids for the teachers personal agenda. There should be a separation of school and state… schools should not become a political weapon.
Report Post »jmmjr49er
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:48pmBarack Hussein Obama, MMM MMM MMM
Remember the cute song from the Atlanta school about voting…McCain on the right; Obama on the left; you can vote how you like…CNN favorite and the choir was invited to DC. Created a song about healthcare too.
Nazi’s did the something. Hitler Youth is alive.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:54pmUnion Teachers making Union KIDS!!!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:29amIf the parents allowed this then they should take the children away from them for being unfit parents.
Report Post »Brvnkaerv
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:52amHere is the surfer version kids will sing: “And we’ll have fun fun fun when Obama puts the T-party awayyyyy!”
Report Post »What Would Jesus Vote
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:41amJust because you people are too ignorant to listen to scientists who are smarter than you doesn’t mean that your kids have to be ignorant too.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:17amSorry to break it to you WHAT WOULD JESUS VOTE PERSON, looks to me like you are processed meat, never really taught the history of science to be able to put into perspective the character and nature of “Science.” And who fed you the balony sandwich that there are no scientists among Blaze commentators?
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:44amHomeschooling is one way to intellectual independence. Many programs use the same textbooks as regular schools. Most of these have liberal bias, but you (or someone you trust) are there to moderate. This can be very enriching because the child is exposed to bias, AND THEN shown that there are other points of view. This can inspire young people to look into things for themselves, and that gives them a sense of power. In a typical school, the textbook represents a corps of knowledge to be “learned.” In homeschooling, it can be just a point of departure.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:02amRecycle,recycle..Let’s get rid of the trash in the White House!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 6:03amI always say,”If you can’t hum it, It aint music!”
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:37amWell tell the kids they can start boycotting big business by throwing away thier cell phones,computers,name brand sneakers,video games systems and athletic equipment. They are all products of a capitalist system and big corperations.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:24amAnd the indoctrinization of our youth continues at a fever pitch…….What do you expect with communists deciding the curriculum!!! Progressivism’s long arm in action!
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:57amAnd once again the libs and progressives turn to perverting the minds of our children. For the sake of the children WE MUST STOP THEM.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:52amI have yet to see anyone post anywhere a SIMPLE solution to these problems..using the same words against them.. be it GLOBAL WARMING or EARTH DAY.. Kids have NO idea what they are being taught about..SHOW THEM.. an almost EMPTY Easter Basket with a note from the EASTER BUNNY stating that knowing how they feel about such things excluded all plastic (remember that that would include any candy that was packaged in plastic and even stuffed Easter Bunnies which have PLASTIC eyes/whiskers.. Listen.. most kids DO NOT connect a song with anything in their lives.. to them it’s a song to the PROGRESSIVES.. HOWEVER.. it’s BRAIN WASHING.. so it’s up to each of us to TEACH them what the words they are sing really MEAN.. and they are NEVER to young to learn.. So IF your kids were taught that song SHOW them what it means..The lesson YOU give them will DROWN OUT anything they try to teach them from that point on.. REMEMBER even BARBIE is made by BIG BUSINESS and OUT OF PLASTIC..
Report Post »Buzzsaw
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:56pmRapping = singing for no talent uneducated morons.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:30pmWhy not heavy metal?
Why do we allow these un American liberals to have jobs that put them in contact with children. Liberalism is a mental disorder and they should not be near children. If we don’t face the core problem, we can never fix it. The core problem = liberals.
Report Post »Mulder
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:31pmYes, I just loathe rap. These left wing teachers are indoctrinating their students into the pagan, Cult of Liberalism. If one of those kids were mine, I would be steaming mad at the teacher.
Report Post »WTFnorm
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:10pm@CATB
“Waiting for Superman” has some valuable information in it. However, I got the feeling that the makers’ of the movie are attempting to persuade the audience that the fifty different state systems in place need to be replaced by one centrally planned system. After all, they do talk extensively about how the standards in one state are not necessarily the same as in other states. It seemed to me that the remedy for disparate standards, according to the filmmakers, would be one standard.
Maybe I was missing something…or maybe not.
Report Post »illannoy
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:30pmIt’s rap because that requires no musical ability, no rhyming, no meter, and just a smattering of rhythmic beat.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 8:48pmStupid; is a disease. It can’t be fixed. And if it can be fixed; it takes effort. The ‘cure’ is something idiots can’t stomach. It causes a revulsion, a self cleansing that is ‘introspective’ and ‘intellectually critical’. We are talking about almost no chance for recovery.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 9:59pm“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
Adolf Hitler
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
Adolf Hitler
“The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”
Adolf Hitler
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
Adolf Hitler
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
Adolf Hitler
I see in Barrack Obama all the same great thinking that allowed Adolf Hitler to gain power over Germany. Obama will, if allowed to, bring destruction upon the United States of America as Adolf Hitler brought upon Germany.
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 5:11amHay Ya’all; It was a long way to the bottom of this page. A lot has been said. I lived in Tennessee for 40 years. Not much seems to have changed since I left. I think I saw one little white boy in the choir. The first thing I wondered was; How much time was spent writing and having these kids memorize the words, and I wonder how many of them could recite the pledge of allegiance. Just wondering.
Report Post »DaWATCHER
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 11:47amIt’s rap because none of the young listen to any good and decent music today, rap/crap will be the death of our children !!!!
Report Post »gon4beer
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 3:27pmSmurf city, here we come?
Report Post »Watchdog One
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:57amThis video has been censored by the evil folks @ YOUTUBE. Where else can the unedited video be seen?
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