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Quote:A video posted on YouTube appears to show a New Jersey elementary school class being taught to sing praises of the "great accomplishments" of President Obama.

The video shows nearly 20 young children taught a song overflowing with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," repeatedly chanting the president's name and celebrating his accomplishments, including his "great plans" to "make this country's economy No. 1 again."

The video identifies the kids as students at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., with taping taking place last June.

The song quotes directly from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."

Among other lyrics, touting a fair-pay bill Obama signed in January: "He said we must be clear today/Equal work means equal pay."

Click here to see the video.

The author of the full lyrics is unknown, but a woman -- possibly a teacher -- can be heard in the beginning of the video correcting and helping a student who has forgotten the words.

Click here to see the full lyrics to both songs.

The office of the superintendent of Burlington Township School District did not provide comment or confirmation to FOXNews.com that the songs were recorded at B. Bernice Young Elementary when contacted by phone Thursday.

The video was originally posted Sept. 6, two days before Obama made an address to the nation's schoolchildren in which he praised the American education system as the best in the world and urged students to stay in school.

"At the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world," Obama said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/...ent-obama/

I dont remember singing songs about Reagan, Lincoln, et al.

This is disgusting no matter who your president is. People are insanely ignorant.

Quote:I dont remember singing songs about Reagan, Lincoln, et al.

Not sure i'd put lincoln and reagan in the same breath. Though I do recall singing washington songs.

Not that I condone it but geez people, these are kids. Did you give a rats a$$ about politics when you were in grade school? To them it's just a song. Doubt they are being tortured behind the scenes and forced to smile and sing on camera.

Little Red Books, anyone?

Very good, children. None of you will be beaten today. Unfortunately, the temporary ban on teacher/student sexual relationships will remain in place while we await advice from the ACLU advising us on how best to proceed. But for doing such a good job on that song, you all can get back your confiscated guns and drugs on your way out today at each of our condom distribution spots.

Now I have an important announcement. Our great leader Obama also blessed us with stimulus dollars so we will all be taking a field trip to see Michael Moore's new "documentary" exposing Capitalism as the evil that it is. After that, we'll head off to see a new NEA art exhibit that features sadomasochism interlaced with pieces supporting the Great One and the policies of his administration. The exhibit is highlighted by a piece showing the impact climate change will have on your puppies and kittens if your parents continue to kill the environment.

Now for homework, please read Chapter 1 of the American classic: The Audacity of Hope written possibly in part by our Great Leader.

Lastly, before you go, let's sing it one more time: "Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama, He said that..."

(09-24-2009 12:34 PM)Bearhawkeye Wrote: [ -> ]Very good, children. None of you will be beaten today. Unfortunately, the temporary ban on teacher/student sexual relationships will remain in place while we await advice from the ACLU advising us on how best to proceed. But for doing such a good job on that song, you all will be getting back your guns and drugs on your way out today.

Now I have an important announcement. Our great leader Obama also blessed us with stimulus dollars so we will all be taking a field trip to see Michael Moore's new "documentary" exposing Capitalism as the evil that it is. After that, we'll head off to see a new NEA art exhibit that features sadomasochism interlaced with pieces supporting the Great One and the policies of his administration. The exhibit is highlighted by a piece showing the impact climate change will have on your puppies and kittens if your parents continue to kill the environment.

Now for homework, please read Chapter 1 of the American classic: The Audacity of Hope written possibly in part by our Great Leader.

Lastly, before you go, let's sing it one more time: "Mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama, He said that..."

Can't see any harm in a little subtle brainwashing. :) Future voters you know!

(09-24-2009 03:39 PM)DDaddy Wrote: [ -> ]Can't see any harm in a little subtle brainwashing. :) Future voters you know!

Yeah but he won't be in office when they are old enough to vote.


Unless....

This is all a part of his plan to get kids to follow him with his speeches to them and planting minions disguised as teachers teaching them the new national anthem ( you should play it backwards to get the real message). Then he lowers the voting age to 6.

Ahh yes, cast us back to October 2008, when the very same public schools probably didn't allow the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag because either 1) they didn't want to offend the non-citizens in the class, 2) the whole "one nation under God" was waaay too too religious, or 3) they weren't proud of this country under the evil reign of W. Fast forward 8 months later and its suddenly okay to have second graders (who have no idea in hell what they are even reciting "equal work for equal pay") sing a song about a President who has been in office for barely 8 months. This isn't a song about Lincoln or Washington or America. This is a song to the dear leader. Ahh but its just harmless right? No. Its entirely inappropriate. Are they learning songs about America? You think they can recite the star spangled banner? America the Beautiful? No. Its all about the man. Cult of personality. He's healing the earth, stopping global warming, etc. And by the words of this song he also invented the Equal Pay Act apparently!! This would be funny if it weren't so disturbing. But protest not!! If you do you're either an angry racist or you're just blowing a little innocent fun out of proportion. (By the way I wonder what the parents would be saying if a white teacher had taught them a song praising Bush or Reagan even). Here's an idea, instead of wasting time teaching them some lame "mmm mmm mmm" rap crap song about Obama, teach them some damn math, reading and science so maybe they can add and read. How about some old fashioned unbiased teaching...what a novel idea.

Fox news does this to get a rise out of people they know they can get a rise out of. As a kid growing up we had political figures come to our school and we made signs and performed. Not concerned about their party affiliation. And parents did not throw hissy fits.

If Obama went to school to read my pet goat there would be an outrage today. parents keeping their kids at home or using them as pawns. It's really sad. Some of you are no better or smarter then the jacka$$es that claimed bush was behind the attacks at the world trade center and katrina

If what this teacher did is brainwashing, are you OK with parents who take their kids to rallies with shirts, hats and signs that they have know clue about?

Should kids even know that we have a president? They can't watch him tell you to stay in school and work hard, you can't use his name to promote thing must of us all agree with... I hope. Equal work means equal pay. red, yellow, black or white All are equal in his sight. Hell they even left out brown for those who are against the influx of mexicans.

why don't some of you get your kids together and write a song about obama and how bad he is. Have them sing he's an alien muslim, who followed the teachings of a christian jerimiah wright? Throw something in there about how he hates white people and that he will destroy this nation before they are able drive a car. The national language will be Arabic. and they won't be able to vote for who they want on american idol.

That might not make them sleep well but at least you "adults will be happy.

(09-25-2009 09:53 AM)b Wrote: [ -> ]Fox news does this to get a rise out of people they know they can get a rise out of. As a kid growing up we had political figures come to our school and we made signs and performed. Not concerned about their party affiliation. And parents did not throw hissy fits.

If Obama went to school to read my pet goat there would be an outrage today. parents keeping their kids at home or using them as pawns. It's really sad. Some of you are no better or smarter then the jacka$$es that claimed bush was behind the attacks at the world trade center and katrina

If what this teacher did is brainwashing, are you OK with parents who take their kids to rallies with shirts, hats and signs that they have know clue about?

Should kids even know that we have a president? They can't watch him tell you to stay in school and work hard, you can't use his name to promote thing must of us all agree with... I hope. Equal work means equal pay. red, yellow, black or white All are equal in his sight. Hell they even left out brown for those who are against the influx of mexicans.

why don't some of you get your kids together and write a song about obama and how bad he is. Have them sing he's an alien muslim, who followed the teachings of a christian jerimiah wright? Throw something in there about how he hates white people and that he will destroy this nation before they are able drive a car. The national language will be Arabic. and they won't be able to vote for who they want on american idol.

That might not make them sleep well but at least you "adults will be happy.

I'm not sure why I'm even wasting the time to respond to you, your arguments are so all over the place. For one, I didn't see this on Foxnews. Its irrelevant what the source of it was. The tape speaks for itself. Second, I don't believe in political indoctrination of children whether its left wing, right wing or whatever wing. Its not the job of the school system. The school has no right to instruct my child to sing the praises of one party over another or one candidate over another. Furthermore, I know its hard for you to conceive of this but people can be against this kind of thing without preaching hatred for Obama. I have taught my children that our President is Obama and that he is the leader of the country, whether I voted for him or not. I have no problem with a President visiting a school or giving a message to a class. And I would have no problems with kids holding signs welcoming a president to a class. That's not what we are talking about here. But good attempt to change the factual circumstances to fit your argument. This is a song crafted by some slobbering teacher and sung by students not to welcome a president for a visit but to mindlessly praise an individual president, who again, has barely been in office 8 months. It has no place in public school classes. The only place you see this kind of celebration of an individual is NKorea, Cuba and China. You can try to come up with all the false and misplaced analogies you want, but the reality is US public schools don't make up songs for newly elected leaders and sing them in class. Dictatorships and countries with personality cults do this. I would want my kid learning math, science, reading and history, not being indoctrinated by some teacher because she thinks Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I would feel just as creepy if she were in there singing to the kids that George Bush was a superhero who single-handedly save the USA and saved disabled peoples' jobs by expanding the ADA. But I digress, I guess I'm an extremist whacko to think educators should educate and not indoctrinate.

Quote:I'm not sure why I'm even wasting the time to respond to you

Well we do agree your post are a waste of time.

Quote:I didn't see this on Foxnews. Its irrelevant what the source of it

was.

The initial post cited fox website and another shows reports on fox news.

Where did you hear about it?

Quote:The tape speaks for itself.

I see kids singing a song about the president and perhaps even having fun.

Newsflash though. Those kids are not hearing that eery internment camp music.

That was added digitally for your entertainment.

The lyrics could be better but I guess stevie wonder was busy so she had to

write the song herself.

There are other vids of kids singing about the president. They are better

written and produced. and a little harder add music to. No one seems bent out

of shape on those. I guess fox did not give the go ahead yet.

What do you see in that vid?

Quote:Second, I don't believe in political indoctrination of children

whether its left wing, right wing or whatever wing. Its not the job of the

school system. The school has no right to instruct my child to sing the

praises of one party over another or one candidate over another.

Never mind my above question. To you it's some sinister plot to brainwash.

To those kids he's probably just the president. Not a party or wing. Don't

you get that?

Quote:Furthermore, I know its hard for you to conceive of this but people

can be against this kind of thing without preaching hatred for Obama.

I hope so. Lets say this teacher is a loyal obama worshiper. You think the

next step is these kids are gonna go out and kill in the name of Mmm mmm mmm

Barack Hussein Obama? Please.

Quote:I have taught my children that our President is Obama and that he is

the leader of the country, whether I voted for him or not. I have no problem

with a President visiting a school or giving a message to a class. And I

would have no problems with kids holding signs welcoming a president to a

class. That's not what we are talking about here. But good attempt to change

the factual circumstances to fit your argument.

You are responding to me so it's my argument. Why do I need to change it?

What in our discussion is fact? I see a lot of opinions and hypotheticals.

Where am I twisting your facts?

Quote:his is a song crafted by some slobbering teacher and sung by students

not to welcome a president for a visit but to mindlessly praise an individual

president, who again, has barely been in office 8 months. It has no place in

public school classes

They say this is from june so actually it's only five months. I just don't

see the crime. If she wrote this song about bush back in june with lyrics

such as "he united this nation and made the economy strong" maybe I could

see. She's rewriting history. If she wrote those a few months after he was in

office she's just singing the stuff he said in his campaign.

Quote:It has no place in public school classes. The only place you see this

kind of celebration of an individual is NKorea, Cuba and China.

Is this a celebration or just a song? Your fox is showing.

Quote:You can try to come up with all the false and misplaced analogies you

want, but the reality is US public schools don't make up songs for newly

elected leaders and sing them in class.

I doubt the US public schools system is behind this. Maybe we ought to

review your attempts to change factual circumstances.

It was just a teacher and I hope to god she don't do it again.

Quote:I would want my kid learning math, science, reading and history, not

being indoctrinated by some teacher because she thinks Obama is the greatest

thing since sliced bread.

And you know all this to be fact?

Quote:I would feel just as creepy if she were in there singing to the kids

that George Bush was a superhero who single-handedly save the USA and saved

disabled peoples' jobs by expanding the ADA.

Number one she did not call him a hero. Of the lyrics I seen only one verse I

thought was inappropriate. I love for you to tell me what lyrics in that

song really burns your arse.

Quote:(By the way I wonder what the parents would be saying if a white

teacher had taught them a song praising Bush or Reagan even)

You do know that obama could not be president without some whites voting for

him. And I'm sure some blacks voted for bush and reagan. You write this and

you criticize my analogies?

Quote:But I digress, I guess I'm an extremist whacko to think educators

should educate and not indoctrinate.

I think an extremist whacko in this case is someone who don't know the

difference between indoctrination and classroom participation.

For the record I don't think your are an extremist whacko. I think people are

too passionate about their politics sometimes. You're still alright in my

book even though we don't see eye to eye on this.

We don't know the real motive behind the song. My guess would be she voted for him. I think in the grand scheme of things, it was just a ditty written by a teacher. Is it toeing the line? sure. Crossing? IMO no.
if you are getting your

info and rage from fox, then I think you are being duped on this one. Did you

see the video? Did you see the unedited version? I'll dig it up and post them

if you care.

We have seen our automobile manufacturers nationalized as well as some of our largest banks.

We are getting railroaded into medical socialism.

We are getting closer to a foolish cap and tax system that will explode federal $$ and power over our everyday choices

Our president is broadcasting into every classroom with a pre-delivered set of his quotes to tack up in the classroom for discussion. And this is the WATERED down version of what they had initially planned.

Lots of people are pissed and getting more and more hostile to what ares seen as invasive actions, abuse of power and violations of our civil liberties.

In the basic sense I agree with you. When we were kids this would have been a non-issue and this sort of song would be shrugged off in exactly the way you say.

But not now. And lets face it the outrage and intolerance is 100% earned.

(09-26-2009 05:09 PM)Eastside_J Wrote: [ -> ]We have seen our automobile manufacturers nationalized as well as some of our largest banks.

We are getting railroaded into medical socialism.

We are getting closer to a foolish cap and tax system that will explode federal $$ and power over our everyday choices

Our president is broadcasting into every classroom with a pre-delivered set of his quotes to tack up in the classroom for discussion. And this is the WATERED down version of what they had initially planned.

Lots of people are pissed and getting more and more hostile to what ares seen as invasive actions, abuse of power and violations of our civil liberties.

In the basic sense I agree with you. When we were kids this would have been a non-issue and this sort of song would be shrugged off in exactly the way you say.

But not now. And lets face it the outrage and intolerance is 100% earned.

A lot of your points are not fact or at the very least cannot yet be proved.
If the presidents message to children is to stay in school and work hard, I'll take it. What message should a person in a respected position give our kids?

It just seems a little odd that all the obama haters for a lack of a better word , are the only ones who got their hands on the original brainwashing speech.

I'm just amazed at how people are influenced. when bush was president there was an outcry from the left that he was becoming a dictator. tapping phones and whatnot. The right seemed fine with it. And just as you feel obama is overstepping, the left seems fine.

I can honestly say I am not an obama guy. Given the chance, I would vote for mccain. But I draw the line at thinking this is some plot to control the minds of the youth. It was stupid when they said bush was behind the WTC attacks and it's stupid now.

Maybe i'm naive but I say let the kids look up to the president. They'll have ample time to choose their path.

(09-26-2009 06:03 PM)b Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-26-2009 05:09 PM)Eastside_J Wrote: [ -> ]We have seen our automobile manufacturers nationalized as well as some of our largest banks.

We are getting railroaded into medical socialism.

We are getting closer to a foolish cap and tax system that will explode federal $$ and power over our everyday choices

Our president is broadcasting into every classroom with a pre-delivered set of his quotes to tack up in the classroom for discussion. And this is the WATERED down version of what they had initially planned.

Lots of people are pissed and getting more and more hostile to what ares seen as invasive actions, abuse of power and violations of our civil liberties.

In the basic sense I agree with you. When we were kids this would have been a non-issue and this sort of song would be shrugged off in exactly the way you say.

But not now. And lets face it the outrage and intolerance is 100% earned.

A lot of your points are not fact or at the very least cannot yet be proved.
If the presidents message to children is to stay in school and work hard, I'll take it. What message should a person in a respected position give our kids?

It just seems a little odd that all the obama haters for a lack of a better word , are the only ones who got their hands on the original brainwashing speech.

I'm just amazed at how people are influenced. when bush was president there was an outcry from the left that he was becoming a dictator. tapping phones and whatnot. The right seemed fine with it. And just as you feel obama is overstepping, the left seems fine.

I can honestly say I am not an obama guy. Given the chance, I would vote for mccain. But I draw the line at thinking this is some plot to control the minds of the youth. It was stupid when they said bush was behind the WTC attacks and it's stupid now.

Maybe i'm naive but I say let the kids look up to the president. They'll have ample time to choose their path.

I understand what you are saying. And I am definitely in the camp that was very uncomfortable with some parts of the Patriot Act. If it involves a loss of privacy or civil liberty, you can predict my position on the issue pretty easily.

But the situation with kids and intentional indoctrination is a very real fear, in my opinion. How many groups are more clearly politically aligned and partisan than the teachers union?

(09-25-2009 06:23 PM)b Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:I'm not sure why I'm even wasting the time to respond to you

Well we do agree your post are a waste of time.

Quote:I didn't see this on Foxnews. Its irrelevant what the source of it

was.

The initial post cited fox website and another shows reports on fox news.

Where did you hear about it?

Quote:The tape speaks for itself.

I see kids singing a song about the president and perhaps even having fun.

Newsflash though. Those kids are not hearing that eery internment camp music.

That was added digitally for your entertainment.

The lyrics could be better but I guess stevie wonder was busy so she had to

write the song herself.

There are other vids of kids singing about the president. They are better

written and produced. and a little harder add music to. No one seems bent out

of shape on those. I guess fox did not give the go ahead yet.

What do you see in that vid?

Quote:Second, I don't believe in political indoctrination of children

whether its left wing, right wing or whatever wing. Its not the job of the

school system. The school has no right to instruct my child to sing the

praises of one party over another or one candidate over another.

Never mind my above question. To you it's some sinister plot to brainwash.

To those kids he's probably just the president. Not a party or wing. Don't

you get that?

Quote:Furthermore, I know its hard for you to conceive of this but people

can be against this kind of thing without preaching hatred for Obama.

I hope so. Lets say this teacher is a loyal obama worshiper. You think the

next step is these kids are gonna go out and kill in the name of Mmm mmm mmm

Barack Hussein Obama? Please.

Quote:I have taught my children that our President is Obama and that he is

the leader of the country, whether I voted for him or not. I have no problem

with a President visiting a school or giving a message to a class. And I

would have no problems with kids holding signs welcoming a president to a

class. That's not what we are talking about here. But good attempt to change

the factual circumstances to fit your argument.

You are responding to me so it's my argument. Why do I need to change it?

What in our discussion is fact? I see a lot of opinions and hypotheticals.

Where am I twisting your facts?

Quote:his is a song crafted by some slobbering teacher and sung by students

not to welcome a president for a visit but to mindlessly praise an individual

president, who again, has barely been in office 8 months. It has no place in

public school classes

They say this is from june so actually it's only five months. I just don't

see the crime. If she wrote this song about bush back in june with lyrics

such as "he united this nation and made the economy strong" maybe I could

see. She's rewriting history. If she wrote those a few months after he was in

office she's just singing the stuff he said in his campaign.

Quote:It has no place in public school classes. The only place you see this

kind of celebration of an individual is NKorea, Cuba and China.

Is this a celebration or just a song? Your fox is showing.

Quote:You can try to come up with all the false and misplaced analogies you

want, but the reality is US public schools don't make up songs for newly

elected leaders and sing them in class.

I doubt the US public schools system is behind this. Maybe we ought to

review your attempts to change factual circumstances.

It was just a teacher and I hope to god she don't do it again.

Quote:I would want my kid learning math, science, reading and history, not

being indoctrinated by some teacher because she thinks Obama is the greatest

thing since sliced bread.

And you know all this to be fact?

Quote:I would feel just as creepy if she were in there singing to the kids

that George Bush was a superhero who single-handedly save the USA and saved

disabled peoples' jobs by expanding the ADA.

Number one she did not call him a hero. Of the lyrics I seen only one verse I

thought was inappropriate. I love for you to tell me what lyrics in that

song really burns your arse.

Quote:(By the way I wonder what the parents would be saying if a white

teacher had taught them a song praising Bush or Reagan even)

You do know that obama could not be president without some whites voting for

him. And I'm sure some blacks voted for bush and reagan. You write this and

you criticize my analogies?

Quote:But I digress, I guess I'm an extremist whacko to think educators

should educate and not indoctrinate.

I think an extremist whacko in this case is someone who don't know the

difference between indoctrination and classroom participation.

For the record I don't think your are an extremist whacko. I think people are

too passionate about their politics sometimes. You're still alright in my

book even though we don't see eye to eye on this.

We don't know the real motive behind the song. My guess would be she voted for him. I think in the grand scheme of things, it was just a ditty written by a teacher. Is it toeing the line? sure. Crossing? IMO no.
if you are getting your

info and rage from fox, then I think you are being duped on this one. Did you

see the video? Did you see the unedited version? I'll dig it up and post them

if you care.

Wow! Another B quotathon. I'm a little disappointed you didn't include the typical Mr. T beatdown video or one of your other little videos with it, that really lends strength to your arugments. I'll try to be briefer. Apparently that ability is lost on you. I never saw this on Fox. How would you know where I saw it? Are you omnipotent like your Dear Leader? Fox did not originate the story. I saw it on Drudge with a link to the youtube video not foxnews ( it was unedited, no music - but nice try to again twist facts and make false assumptions). I did listen to a panel of pundits yesterday including two dems (one is dem pollster Pat Cadell) who like any rational thinking non-Obama praising loon compared it to North Korea and China personality cults and said it was disturbing. And nice try with overstating others' objections to it. Do I think its inspiring kids to kill? Don't be ridiculous. Do I think its going to make kids drop christianity and worship Obama? No. Its simply wholly inappropriate in a school setting. Again, no matter what politician (Bush, Reagan, Clinton or Obama) they would be praising/singing an ode to, it has no place in a school. Wipe the Obamabugers from your eyes and see it for what it is: a song of praise to the dear leader, pure personality cult stuff. If that's what you want out of public education, I'm sure you'd love China, North Korea or Cuba.

Did you know that one of the most effective techniques for rounding up dissidents in South Vietnam and Cambodia during and after the war was to enlist the children to report on their families and other adults in their circle if they heard or saw something that was out of line with state policy?

Kinda cool, isn't it?

(09-27-2009 07:52 AM)converrl Wrote: [ -> ]Did you know that one of the most effective techniques for rounding up dissidents in South Vietnam and Cambodia during and after the war was to enlist the children to report on their families and other adults in their circle if they heard or saw something that was out of line with state policy?

Kinda cool, isn't it?

Yeah well. Not sure that's a remote concern here. Again, its just the audacity of a supposed educator forcing her personal idol worship (listen the words that's what it is) on young students. It has no place in school. Kids are graduating without proper reading, science and math skills, and they're sitting around wasting time rehearsing songs to the president. Real simple message to the teachers: Don't indoctrinate children one direction or the other. Period. End of story.

Quote:I understand what you are saying. And I am definitely in the camp that was very uncomfortable with some parts of the Patriot Act. If it involves a loss of privacy or civil liberty, you can predict my position on the issue pretty easily.

But the situation with kids and intentional indoctrination is a very real fear, in my opinion. How many groups are more clearly politically aligned and partisan than the teachers union?

I just feel the word indoctrination is a little strong. In this day and age of political division, everything is blown out of proportion.

I will post 3 links to videos of kids singing about obama.

The first is the infamous video in question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zrsl8o4Z...annel_page

The next one is the version shown on fox news and discussed by it's various host. Notice the creepy music that was dubbed into it. It really ratchet up the creep factor. Tmac posted this originally in this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNz-46tNWLM

The last is another class and I presume another school singing about obama. A little better production and no scary music added.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettl3zfLW...re=related

If you look at those videos and read the comments you'll notice that the one shown on fox has everyone upset. The one not shown on fox--not so much.

So I would be more concerned about adults being indoctrinated then the kids. Fox say be outraged and look what you get.

And i'm not trying pick on fox. msnbc is just as bad if not worse.

How many of you were taught the Civil war was fought the free slaves or columbus discovered america? How bad did that screw you up? Not much I bet. I think those kids will turn out fine singing about lending a hand, and being fair.