education

Father in heaven, forgive them:

-  I found this on the Huffington Post:    The God Crisis

Another video has surfaced showing kids being led in reciting the praises of Barack Obama.  This one comes from an elementary school in North Carolina.

It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.  Who ARE these people?  What kind of school leadership would think this is OK?

The chorus of this new greatest hit by the way is "Change has come...change has come".

You can check out the first video here.

A video has surfaced of a group of kids at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ being instructed in what to sing to Obama for a visit to the school.

It turns out, the video was removed from YouTube after it went up...but some enterprising conservative out there had already made a copy, so it's back up and part of the "permanent record", so to speak.

It is, shall we say, "creepy".  View it for yourself.

Just some of the lyrics the kids are singing?

Barack Hussein Obama

He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight

Mmm, mmm, mm!

And, in case you didn't notice or don't remember, the song essentially cribs lyrics from the song "Jesus loves the little children of the world".

Incredible. And why should kids be made to be thankful that they're "equal in his sight"?

Can you say "cult of personality"?  I knew you could.

Left-wing judicial activism is running amuck in Obamaland.  Nothing illustrates this more than the decision by a left-wing activist judge in New Hampshire who forced a girl home-schooled by her mother into the public school system.   

In the top story on the front page of "The Washington Times" on September 4th, it was reported that New Hampshire District Judge Lucinda V. Sadler dictated to the mother of a 10-year-old home-schooled girl that her daughter was to attend public schools because of the "rigidity" of the mother's religious views.   The New Hampshire judicial tyrant in her ruling said that the little girl needed to consider other worldviews as she matures.     read more »

As if the fear of big-brother needed to be underlined any further among conservative Christians, we have just that by way of  New Hampshire judge ruling ordering a home-schooled girl to spend some time attending a public school due to the "rigidity" of her mother's religious beliefs.  He suggested that the girl needed to broaden her horizons and consider other worldviews.

Excuse me, but it seems to me that the instruction of children when it comes to beliefs and a "worldview" is the sole prerogative of parents and has nothing whatsoever to do with government.  Or at least that's the way it used to be...and that Americans expect it to be.

But here you go...

The girl's mother, Brenda Voydatch, has engaged the Alliance
Defense Fund, a Christian legal group based in Scottsdale, Ariz., to
contest the ruling, in which the judge granted a request by the girl's
father, Martin Kurowski, that the girl go to a public school.
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Can you imagine what would have happened if President George W. Bush or President Ronald Reagan had announced that they would be addressing the nation's schoolchildren (kindergarten up to high school) in America to urge children to support their tax cut programs, or welfare reform programs, or to consider volunteering for the United States military services?  The left-wing mainstream news media in this country would have gone utterly mad and would have stopped the plan before it came to fruition.     read more »

Conservative teachers within the NEA will call for the union to drop its support of abortion.

The National Education Association will convene for their national meeting in San Diego July 1-6. Jeralee Smith, one of the co-founders of the NEA Conservative Educators Caucus, says one of the items her group has placed on the agenda is abortion.

"The union contributes to candidates who will maintain the current Roe v. Wade decision and make sure that the abortion industry is alive and well," she explains. "And this supposedly is done with the portion of union dues that...is optional. But a lot of times we found sneaky ways that the union supports things that we don't believe in"...

Since 1980 it has been legal to teach the Bible in public schools based on the Supreme Court decision Stone v. Graham. The best way would be to teach it in all grades, so kids would learn truth before they grow old enough to drop out or do major crimes. But schools have been dragging their feet. In Clatskanie Oregon, superintendant Ed Serra said it would have to come down from Washington before he'd have the Bible taught and school board chair Stuart Hass said he wouldn't go there because there has been too much controversy in the past.

What we need is a nation wide effort to go to school board meetings and demand they obey current law of the land instead of the obsolete decisions made from 1947 through the 1960's. Any and all effort might help -- individual requests to teams of legislators going from district meeting to district meeting to lawsuits. Jay Sekulow and others stand ready to defend Christians in school lawsuits.  read more »

A group of parents in a California school district say they are being bullied by school administrators into accepting a new curriculum that addresses bullying, respect and acceptance -- and that includes compulsory lessons about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community that will be taught to children as young as 5 years old.

The parents from the Unified School District in Alameda, a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland, say these issues are best learned at home and most definitely are not age-appropriate for elementary school children.

The parents are also angry that they will not be allowed to keep their children out of the classes...