VA School District Defends Shocking Occupy-Themed Song Performed by Third-Graders: ‘I’m So Happy to Be Part of the 99%’
- Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:11pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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The ever-vigilant crew at WeaselZippers has uncovered a jaw-dropping incident at Woodbrook Elementary School in Virginia in which third-grade students performed (and school officials claim wrote) a song titled, “Part of the 99” as part of a “Kid Pan Alley” performance in October.
But despite the backlash, Albermale County school district is standing behind the song, claiming the children chose and wrote the lyrics themselves.
The lyrics, which mirror the very same sentiments and slogans espoused by the Occupy movement, have critics up in arms. The highly politicized song, which many believe is intended to indoctrinate children, follows below:
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percentI used to be one of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
It really, really hurt
I lost my money
Lost my pride
Lost my home
Now I’m part of the 99Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the 1 percentI used to be sad, now I’m satisfied
’Cause I really have enough
Though I lost my yacht and plane
Didn’t need that extra stuff
Could have been much worse
You don’t need to be first
’Cause I’ve got my friends
Here by my side
Don’t need it all
I’m so happy to be part of the 99
Local CBS 19 reports:
Conservative blogs are buzzing, discussing what they call “an indoctrinating sing-along” with an Occupy Message. In one blog, Weasel Zippers, writes “to have third graders sing about class warfare and rail against the one percent is evil and a violation of the trust parents put in them [schools].”
“Just as I wouldn’t promote a Tea Party song in a third grade class, I think the same is true for any song of political ideology.” says Jefferson Area Tea Party Chair, Carole Thorpe.
Kid Pan Alley is an organization that helps kids write and perform their own songs. Their mission is to inspire kids to be creators.
Students write the songs and school officials are standing by the lyrics.
“They don’t censor what the kids write. They don’t shape what the kids write. It all comes out of the kids own mouths and the kids own words,” claims Albemarle County School Board Chair, Steve Koleszar.
But many question whether third-graders have the faculties or political knowledge to write such lyrics and even if they do, assert that a song like “99” has no place in schools, period.
“Does this also include religious content of lyrics? Would it include profanity? Does the school at any point say this content is inappropriate for an eight-year-old?,” presses Thorpe.
Kid Pan Alley leaders have addressed the song, saying “we have taken swift action to clarify our guidelines for lyrical content.”
School officials are standing by the Kid Pan Alley program and also the lyrics.
“The kids choose the topic, this class chose the topic and those are their words” asserts Koleszar.
(h/t: WeaselZippers)
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Comments (298)
Miami
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:45pmLet me see if I got this straight,
We have failing schools, with kids that can’t do math, kids who aren’t learning history, kids that can scarcely read, science is another foreign language that they cannot understand, kids who can’t run 100 yds without taking a break and these “educators” have time to have them writing lyrics to Socialist ideology…?
Parents in your districts, take note to the value of your school board votes. Find out who it is you are voting fore
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:08amCut their funding . Period. Screw them.
Report Post »Let them get their money from the OWS
Miami
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:16amYes, but that is just one step, we need to get these Marxist Clowns out of office…!
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:56amHmmm….let’s see if we can fix this…
Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more (of somebody else’s) money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes — they’re the Occupiers.
…There, that’s better, don’t you think?
Report Post »MiloArk
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:00amI agree cut the $$$!
Report Post »ollie42
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:10amAlbemarle County home of the Peoples Republic of Charlottesville & the University of Virginia indoctrination center. Why would you expect anything less than this kind of school system? Good luck with trying to change the the school board in that place.
Report Post »okdavidson
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:34amunfortunately you pretty much summed it up rather well. isnt it wonderful!? ugh they make me so sick i could scream…i want my child learning something useful, being active, not sitting around listening to “adult” bs! mines in 3rd grade, its scary what these idiots are teaching them, i CLOSELY monitor everything my son does and learns, so far we love his teacher, but there are so few like her out there anymore!
Report Post »little big man
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:54amLet’s give the kids an education in income redistrabution only using their grades. on the next test all the smart kids who score high will have their grades cut in half, and the diff will be given to the kids with failed grades.
This will be a great lesson on income redistrabution and how everyone gets the same grades.
When the smart kids get pissed off because their “A” are now turned into “C” like everyone else then I think they will get the point.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:11amGeez..whatever happened to real studies like reading, math, geography and science. Guess these “Public Servants” are really “Union and Socialist Servants” to the “all Mighty‘s Emperor Barry’s class warfare cause”!
I guess that why I sent my two kids to private schools and one who is 23 is a manager at fortune 10 company (yep she was laid off from her first job and then landed this one all in 2011) and the other one is in law school. Both worked very hard to get where they are….instead of sleeping in tents and trying to steal hardworking taxpayers for their money!
Get rid of these overpaid uneducated fools who are “teaching” our third graders!
Report Post »mako887
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:31amI am SO glad that my kids are out of school and don’t have to be subjected to this nonsense.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:56amwonder how many weeks this pratice took? was it in music class?could this time have been used to maybe teach about the Founding Fathers?maybe 1+1=2. you work hard you put food in your mouth.
Report Post »couple of truths……“the harder i work the luckier i get”.“you eat by the sweat of your brow”. “the gov’t did not make me or my family,gov’t should not be responsible for me”.need i go on and on?
turkey13
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:36amNo big deal – Virginia was already on my no fly list. This was the year my wife and self were taking the 3 older grand kids up to see the fall colors. Along with D.C. – NYC – Conn. I saw where Virgina Tech had a nother gun battle – they can’t figure out like Texas to honor the gun carry permits and if all students are armed problem will dissapear.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:56amAbsolutely frightening. This is not isolated, you’ve got the notorious “mm mm mm Barack Hussein Obama” video of school children out there also. The morally bankrupt left has no qualms about exploiting children and indoctrinating them. Look at the digusting OWS woman that put her child on railway tracks to stop a train. The left is utterly replusive.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:06pmYes of course the kids chose the topic…and we all know that third graders follow political news very closely. I guess “disappearing polar bears” have dropped out of vogue with indoctrinated children?
Report Post »FREDD The WILSON
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:28pmJust like every other place in the US we in Virginia have those areas with Libs running the show. All the Communist cities and the United Socialist Union of Northern Virginia. Why don’t we let good old Woodbrook Smelementary and Goobermarle Conty Pubic Schools know how we feel.
http://www.k12albemarle.org. Use Contact Webmaster and send them your thoughts
Report Post »tree65
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:56pmGood point, Miami.
We’re paying our hard-earned tax dollars to indoctrinate the children against American ideals. Abolish the Dept. of Education and place control back in the hands of the communities. This is disgraceful!
Report Post »jaxum4
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 3:05pmAnother thing that they apparently no longer teach in English, especially grammer. The more and more prevalent grammitical ignorance sets my teeth on edge. IE: “Me and him went to the store”.
Report Post »LynnSutherland
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 3:09pmthere is no way third grade kids wrote that alone. they might of had a hand in it, but were not alone. you can see the amount of indoctrination that has been going on in the class room through the lines of the song. there probably isn’t much balance in teaching/indoctrination these kids are receiving.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:29pmYou think that’s bad? Here is a link for a song praising the W.H. Squatter back in 09, it’s a rip-off from The Battle Hymn Of The Republic:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=ZWvsZqIu6zw
And that’s just one of many.
Jezcruzen
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:23pmAlbermale County contains the city of Charlottesville. Charlottesville is on the same level as Boulder, Co., San Francisco, Ca. and similar bastions of socialism. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this ass clown administrator has a degree from UVA. He and all involved in this brain washing propaganda should be fired!
Report Post »TRUTHSENSE
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:04pmIF the students wrote it, it‘s just evidence that they’ve already been indoctrinated.
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:46pmNo way these 8 yr olds wrote these lyrics without adult assistance.
This school board is not working toward the best interests of your children.
Do not fire them, burn them at the stake.
Report Post »NYHuguenot
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:46pmWait until the kids come home from school with little neckerchiefs in the official Democrat Party colors and the special salute.
Report Post »CharmKwark
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:21am“The People’s Republic of Charlottesville” has been hard at work for decades.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:03amI live near Richmond. Albemarle county is home to Charlottesville and UVA, the most progressive university in the state. Thomas Jefferson founded UVA and I‘m sure he’s spinning like a top in his grave.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 6:27pmSooooooooo…
If schools don’t censor these kids… PLEASE, if you are a Christian parent of one of these kids, encourage your child to suggest the class write a Gospel sing-a-long for their next project so the world can see what Progressive Freedom of Speech REALLY means…
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:35pmThe terms “percent” and “percentage” are not introduced into math vocabulary until sixth grade in Virginia, according to the state’s standards of learning. For those who say that the lyrics are not political, please explain how even mentioning the one and ninet-nine percent is NOT political. I would have been fired from my teaching position in Virginia if I had presented anything that could be construed as religious or political. What an embarrassment for Virginia!
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 12:13pmi love how this is saying that people will be happier when they LOSE all their stuff… cause when your poor you are the 99%…. how F ed up that they have kids reciting this… people should be happy to be able to buy those things, and have the oppurtunity to in the future to buy these things if it makes you happy…. indoctrinating kids with such bs is more of the everybody gets a trophy culture…. that i shouldent have to work, and why should they have more than be becuase of that….
Report Post »toto
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pmStart screaming people, “they”, are the enemies of all this country once stood for, and are taking over our schools. If you have kids in school, be especially vigilant. Think of these people who orchestrate these things as vampires sucking the life blood from your children’s future,
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:33amthe program should be removed from the schools, it is a clear indoctrination program. And it has nothing to do with education it‘s more about telling kids they can’t make it.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:48amAhhhhhhh……the public school system….doing what it does best……encouraging your kids to STRIVE……for mediocraty. If there was ever any doubt……….HOMESCHOOL!!!!!!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:58amA school that is entirely run on tax dollars singing praise fopr those who contribute nothing and take the most……..INSANE MUCH?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:58amPublic Schools are Public Enemy #1. The government must be removed from schools, shut down the dept of education and parents must take control. The thinkers we are building today are pretty much commies.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:14amI’m screaming…..AhAAAAAAAH……………They did not do this on their own
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:18amthe kids wrote the song? Bullcrap. i hope the parents are happy with the indoctrination to SOCIALISM. Obama is smiling and our country is dying.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:50amThere is no difference in this and what Hitler did with the kids in his country. Nazi‘s are Nazi’s werever they are. The teacher unions are all Nazi’s, and we need to do to them what we did to Hitler, destroy them.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:55amDon’t worry – the ACLU will be at the Super’s office first thing this morning. You can only cram this down the throats of the willing – not all.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:21pmRemember during the “Arab Spring” people were saying that the protesters stateside were using terrorists tactics and the left said they we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. What is this if not straight out of the Iranian terrorist handbook for indoctrinating children. These people should not be fired, they should be shot as traitors
Report Post »Bruce_Almty
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pmAnother example of teaching kids to become unemployed state welfare recipients when they grown up.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 6:06amAnd they demand that those of us that work pay for their
Report Post »Big screen, iPod, iPad and the list goes on.
And now they do not want anything that there friends have, right!
yougottabekidding
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:53amTo me this shows their intent.
Report Post »We are going to get you to a point where you are satisfied with your station in life and we are going to tell you what that station is! You do not deserve to do better if we do not tell you it’s alrigth!
And we have to do it while you are a kid so you blindly follow us!
ares338
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pmVirginia is my birth state. I‘m glad I don’t live there now! Those little critters did not write that song.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:51ammmm mmm mmm barack hussein obama
Report Post »uncleeddie
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:38amI agree a public school stundent in the third grade can not write their own name let alone complex lyics.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:33amI completely agree they didnt write that. kids are not involved in politics. my 8 year old is involved in school work and sword fighting with sticks. seriously this is ridiculous and the teachers need to be fired.
Report Post »ChristinaP55
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:42pmI don’t believe 8 year-olds came up with those lyrics on their own. I suspect some were “coached” from home. This reminds me if those young school children singing the Obama songs several years ago.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:12amHey, here’s an idea, the left love hiding behind judges and using the judicial system. Why not use it against them? Get the parents together and file a class action lawsuit against the teacher/school/school board for child abuse/corruption of a minor. Naming each and everyone of the educators in the suit, threatening their present and future employment with a child abuse charge…
Lets see how fast the music changes…
Report Post »Maji
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:18amKim Jon Il would be proud!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 5:39amHey Miami, love your way of thinking.
OMG
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:19amGreat idea Miami…..WHERE’S THE ACLU..IN ALL THIS?
Report Post »MamaJa
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:50amIf these were “written” as a class the way things were written by my class when I was about that age, it wasn’t the parents that did the coaching…or the kids that did the writing, for that matter. This has the heavy hand of a biased teacher in it.
Report Post »Boggycreek5
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:22pmI have a 4th grader and there is no way these kids came up with this song. No way.
Report Post »Byrdi
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:42pmI can’t believe they are saying 8 year olds wrote that song. I have a 9 year old grand daughter and I can assure you that neither she nor anyone in her class would have written such a song and have no grasp of what their parents earn or how its spent. They had best keep politics that indoctrinate our children out of the tax payer funded schools. Regardless of their political leanings, all of the parents should have found this offensive and my guess is they were all well aware that their children did not write those lyrics.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:38pmBS! What third grade kid would say they were once the 1%, and lost it? Kill off aspiration in it’s infancy. What a fine mess they are creating.
Report Post »Mtremblay
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:42pmHitler Youth anyone? I do not believe for one bit third graders came up with these lyrics. If I was a parent I would demand a lot more explanation than what this school has said. What is said is I would venture to guess probably less than thirty percent of this kind of indoctrination ever makes it to the news. I would also guess 80 percent of the networks will not mention this. This is too much
Report Post »Miami
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:53pmOne guided by a Socialist parent.brainwashed in one of many Socialist “Universities”
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:33amWith all the debt that is being piled on them, the kids will need some kind of inspiration. The Army slogan “Be all you can be” might be appropriate. When the country goes bankrupt, which is what the socialists want, everyone will be in soup lines. Really don’t think people will be all that happy to be in the bottom percentile.
Report Post »gbrittain
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:37pmThird graders came up with those lyrics on their own?
Not only is the School Board Chair a liar, he insults our intelligence to think anyone would believe that.
The next time they do this event, I hope some parent suggest their kids propose “We love Jesus” as a lyric and how the school feels about censorship then.
This also shows how far the left has infiltrated almost every educational and cultural institution in America. There is a non shooting civil war underway, and we who believe in the values and principles that made America great, free and prosperous are losing. In fact, we are barely even fighting back.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:09amAmen. Well put sir.
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:36pmOne look at koleszar and you can tell thats an old “hippie”.
Report Post »Those kids didn’t write that song, they have no idea what the
ows crowd is all about, let alone understanding economics.
My guess is koleszar and his flunkies wrote the song and
sold to the dumbed down kids. I feel sorry for the kids in school
now, the teachers and administrations have sold them down the
river. reality will be a huge slap in the face.
Dumbwhiteguy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:35pmBefore you know it they will be stapping bombs on them and sending them home.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:34pmSorry, but you will have a hard time convincing me that 3rd graders wrote those lyrics all by there wittle selves.
Report Post »Robots can’t be people
but people can be robuts.
We can do that, but we can’t tell them about Christ, guess that’s why we do that!
Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:34pmCommunists always have to indoctrinate and recruit… Just like Gays …..
Report Post »EyebrowsLaMana
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:17amLOL! This is right out of Hilter’s or Kim Jong-il’s playbook. Either one would be very proud.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:31amIt was known long ago that communism could not defeat us directly, it needed to infiltrate our school and government. For over a 100 years a little nudge now and then. Now seeing the indoctrinating in high gear with the help of our own POTUS
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:33pmWOW I know the schools were full of BS but this is a new level of crapola. The line about the bubble bursting is one of the best… how old were these kids in 2008 when the bubble did burst? Like 5? Not old enough to remember. But I am sure they thought those lyrics up all on their own *eye roll* this is our last semester in public schools–only one of my kids is school aged but when we move this year we are homeschooling. You don‘t need this costant battle for children’s education. To get the most from school you have to teach your kids to respect their authority figures; but then they do this. How can you respect this? How do you explain this type of situation to a 3rd grader?
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:46pmTHEKULIGS, I agree these kids did not cmpose this “Song”. This is BS. I was surfing on TV tonight and caught a few minutes of the TV program Two Broke Girls, it had allot of OWS support remarks. It really ticked me off. I just shut down the tv. I am going on CBS site to complain. It comes on at 8:30. My guy friend watches Two and a half Men. (I refuse) I was in the other room but I could hear it. What a bunch of trash. Honestly what our kids are exposed to. I hope parents are paying attention.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:31pmWhy is anyone surprised ? They stopped Educating and started Indoctrinating about 35 years ago… Thats what communist, Democrat marxists do best… Indoctrinate !!!! They dont even remember how to Educate… And most of the young teachers never knew to begin with…
Report Post »joan k
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:30pmThe civilian army is now being trained for the years to come.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 12:00amI hate to tell you the army has been trained, they’re the teachers forcing this crap down the throats of the children. Parents need to stand up and take charge. Run for school board positions and get rid of the Socialist/Marxist educators…!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:28pmjust more evidence of the obamajugend at work. parents who object will be turned in by their indoctrinated kids to any one of the 3 or 4 obama Informant programs next.
Report Post »gr8photoman
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:27pmNorthern Virginia…it’s more a part of New England than South these days. There isn’t much that part of the state does that surprises me. They even have themselves a terrorist training camp up in Red House, VA. Google it and see for yourself.
Report Post »Ohello
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:35pmThat’s what you get for not having protected boarders, immigration control and visas between the states.
Report Post »All the left wing loons migrated south to get away from high taxes in NY and Ma, just like the Californians migrated north to Oregon and Washington. Every where this tax induced migration happens the nut cases move into uninfected populations and ruin the state.
SoupSandwich
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:20amYes, NOVA is basically lower MD now. Double entendre, maybe. The hot pocket of liberalism surrounding the area of Charlottesville and UVA is it’s own lil slice of NOVA… We have illegals drunk driving killing people, saudi schools teaching all kinds of wahabi fun stuff, and the libs never stop either. At some point we have to put the illegals and libs in the same geographic area-with the wahabis, and either rope it off or just wall it up. I would be kind enough to leave twister games and kanola oil for them, but little else. I would vote for Maryland since most of the thugs booted from DC are already there. When can we hire actual teachers for our schools and not these agenda driven slackers that cannot teach or think without dues involved? When is enough, quite actually enough?
Report Post »Munsonmanor
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:31amActually, this isn’t in Northern Virginia. It’s in Charlottesville, VA (within 50 miles of where I live). I will say, the way the people act, how the town is laid out, etc.. it reminds me very much of a miniture Washington DC. There’s a suburb just to the north of Charlottesville in the town of Keswick where several rich folks have homes along with horse farms in the county of Albemarle. Sissy Spacek, Howie Long, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, writer John Grisham, etc.. I don’t know the political leanings of these folks, but GENERALLY the rich and famous are Liberal left leaning or have to act that way to continue getting roles or jobs in their line of work. This is getting a little too close to home for me. I keep an eye on my kids homework assignments and so far I’ve only seen one assignment that was indoctination. It talked about social justice involving an immigrant farmer that unionized the fruit & vegetable pickers in California I believe in the 1920′s. The only way these kids came up with the lyrics was if their parents are coaching them from home. This is all just a big game for them. What‘s sad is that these folks are creating an environment that will cause their own demise and they’re too stupid to see it. If/when the Occupy crowds can create in small town America the chaos they did in big cities this past summer, the environment will be ripe for the Liberals to get the top down/bottom up situation they want.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:26pmwow, that one little white boy looked like a light bulb in that room of fully obama-indoctrinated 8 yr olds. you could sure tell that man defending it is a vile obamaite democrat, and probably one of schoolczar jenning’s NAMBLA buddies. .
Report Post »rukdnme13
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:58amIt looked like the retired hippie playing guitar may have come up with the lyrics! Looked like he belonged at Woodstock or does a Peter,Paul,and Mary tribute!! LOL
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:25pmSomebody’s gonna get the boot on this one. They better! If not, then the parents themselves are to blame. What a horrible school. Out with the DOE!
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:31pmProof we need vouchers!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:41pmI agree .. vouchers and let the parents “shop” for a school .. would put the public schools and their UNIONS right out of business!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:48pmCape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
That does no good if these clowns keep teaching their indoctrination to the masses. We need to take back the school boards and purge these socialist ideals out of the system.
Report Post »Ohello
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:25pmDemocratic version of the Islamist Madras where they teach little kids to hate the 99% and the 1%, in addition to the Infidels.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:24pmget rid of the DoE, get rid of the teacher’s union, there is too much socialist doctrine in the public schools. raise math and science and reading skills. there is no room for this nonsense.
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:22pmMore evidence that parents should home school or find a good charter school for their students.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:28pmI see the indoctrination and zombification of the kiddos by our Communist leaders is proceeding as scheduled. They have to make sure the next generation of lazy, selfish hippie radicals are ready to go once we are all officially members of the NWO. As the theory goes, lazy, ignorant sheeple are much easier for their masters to control. It’s time to wrest control of our kids futures from the Federal Government, and send the responsibility back to the local level where it belongs. I‘m sure most parents would agree that they would like to make the decisions regarding what is pumped into their child’s head, rather than some faceless Progressive traitor in Washington D.C..
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:28pmBetter if parents and supporters ban together and correct THEIR school system. School boards are elected very locally.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:31pmOur school district has shot them selves in the foot in the last 2 years. They will never get another bond passed due to mismanagement and waste. Yet they have never come close to this fiasco.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:20pmWell, most of these kids are more potty trained than the OWSers. In fact I would bet these kids can actually spell Miscreants. But the cool thing about this, these kids live with their parents too, and don’t have to live in the basement.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:19pmHOME SCHOOL! When I went to school we were told we could be anything we wanted … maybe it didn’t work out that way for all .. but at least we were pushed UP not down. I would pull my child out of that school so fast they would not know what hit them. SICK!
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:30pmWhy abandon a school system you’re paying for. Change YOUR School Board!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:39pmLOL … good luck with that .. I tried to get them to start educating and stop indoctrinating in the 80‘s to 90’s pulled my son out of public school before high school. If the parents pulled the kids out and they lose state aid .. that will get their attention. They actually called to ask why he wasn’t in school after I told them he was leaving and even took him out for tour of the new school .. they didn‘t care until he REALLY wasn’t there on “count day”.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pmOur district has cleaned house in the last 8 years, they still don’t get the message. Election are coming up again.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:15pmParents, your kids are being brainwashed b these progressive clowns. Take back your school boards.
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