Sociable

Saturday, September 26, 2009

...More Ado About Nothing



School kids taught to praise President Obama.

Was this shot in New Jersey or North Korea?

Coming soon? "You family go to re-education jail if you no sing praises to dear leader."

14 comments:

Granny Annie said...

This is just wrong.

Kay said...

wow...although meaning well, pretty scary

Riot Kitty said...

Ado about nothing is right!

Pouty Lips said...

I think we have a very long way to go before we're communist.

♥ Braja said...

Slightly....odd.

pheromone girl said...

Excuse me, I need to go teach my kids how to sing something oppressive about someone important. How about ro the tune of the itsy bitsy spider...They're homeschooled, after all...

Pouty Lips said...

Braja: It sounds a little hypnotic and creepy and that one kid who is off to the side looks like he wants to crawl in a hole and hide.

PG: Do kids even learn the real words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic anymore, or have those words been deemed inappropriate?

Mental P Mama said...

Good grief.

Carolina said...

I expect he was visiting this school and they were practicing a welcome song?

Pouty Lips said...

Mental P Mama: It looks like partisan politics to me, but I am betting this teacher had good intentions.

Carolina: You are close! It was back in February during Black History Month. If I were a teacher and I had to think of an African American who has accomplished a lot to hold up as an example, I would probably choose Pres Obama too. The mistake she made was incorporating inappropriate partisan politics into it - "Hooray Obama" for example.

jams o donnell said...

Well it's hardly the sort of mega parade that Kim Jong il gets or Ceausescu got before he died suddenly of lead posining...

Even with teh best of intentions I'm sure the right were on to it like flies on a fresh new cowpat!

Gaston Studio said...

wrong, wrong, wrong

LL Cool Joe said...

Now that is scary. Geez I'm just wondering what the hell would happen here in the UK if a school teacher was teaching the kids to sing about Gordon Brown! :D

Suldog said...

Not right at all.

And I'd go with George Washington Carver, myself, but I've always been partial to peanut butter, so I'm prejudiced.