Burlington County Embarassment - Education Indoctrination

By now everyone has seen and heard the Burlington County, New Jersey school children being indoctrinated to worship Barack Obama. My biggest issue is that I live in Burlington county and my tax dollars helped pay for this teacher to "teach" these children in this way. In addition, the school district allowed an outsider to film the students and then post the video on Youtube.

The controversy continues as more facts come to light but most disturbing is that the leaders of the school initially acted like nothing was wrong. In addition, the letter home from school district officials doesn't exactly suggest that they get it (from Foxnews):

The performance and the videotaping at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., have sparked a review by school officials, according to a letter to parents from Christopher Manno, Burlington Township's superintendent of schools.

"We are carefully evaluating what occurred and will implement any additional needed procedures to prevent children's images in school from being publicly posted without permission," Manno wrote on Friday. "We will also provide reasonable direction and guidelines so that classroom activities will not give the appearance of promoting a particular political perspective."

A lot of people are expressing the opinion "what's the big deal?" or "it's completely innocent!" and that may be true. But given that this song is originally an religious song about Jesus, what would those same people's reaction be if the teacher had the children sing these original lyrics in the assembly:

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Black and yellow, red and white
They're all precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world

Would THAT be indoctrination?

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