I can't stop reading the Obama brainwashing stories
I would like to tell you a story about an incident when I was in first grade.
It was fall 1984. We had just finished discussing our Weekly Reader, the cover of which featured a smiling President Reagan and a frowning Walter Mondale. My teacher, apparently wishing to teach us the virtues of anonymous voting, said, "OK class. Everyone who would vote for President Reagan, stand up."
Everyone stood up but me. I believe there was some clapping.
When all the little model Republicans sat down, my teacher said, "Now everyone who would vote for Walter Mondale, stand up." So I did. While I was standing my teacher asked, "Why would you vote for Walter Mondale?" and I replied, "Because the other guy looks like he's trying to trick you."
My point in telling this story is that even if a classroom teacher decided to use the nefarious original Department of Education materials asking, "What is President Obama inspiring YOU to do for your community?", the kid could always say, "Nothing" or "He's inspiring me to picket Planned Parenthood because I don't agree with his pro-choice standpoint."
And that should be every kid's right.
It was fall 1984. We had just finished discussing our Weekly Reader, the cover of which featured a smiling President Reagan and a frowning Walter Mondale. My teacher, apparently wishing to teach us the virtues of anonymous voting, said, "OK class. Everyone who would vote for President Reagan, stand up."
Everyone stood up but me. I believe there was some clapping.
When all the little model Republicans sat down, my teacher said, "Now everyone who would vote for Walter Mondale, stand up." So I did. While I was standing my teacher asked, "Why would you vote for Walter Mondale?" and I replied, "Because the other guy looks like he's trying to trick you."
My point in telling this story is that even if a classroom teacher decided to use the nefarious original Department of Education materials asking, "What is President Obama inspiring YOU to do for your community?", the kid could always say, "Nothing" or "He's inspiring me to picket Planned Parenthood because I don't agree with his pro-choice standpoint."
And that should be every kid's right.
posted by Christine Borne at 10:01 AM
4 Comments:
I don't understand why teacher's do things like that. In middle school they made everyone go around and say where they thought humans came from. The whole class said Adam and Eve. I said evolution. This did not go well for me. I have many examples like this of teacher's being asshats and forgetting the kind of conformity that is expected at that age. I just was not capable of lying to conform.
I think I was just too stupid and self-absorbed to know I was supposed to do what everyone else did.
I still go back to the argument that if it was okay for me to watch OJ make his great escape in the white bronco in my classroom, it should be okay for kids today to get a friggin' "stay in school" message from their president.
YES. I watched that too. And the OJ verdict. My whole high school got to watch THE OJ VERDICT.
Let's also not forget Channel One. It was OK for the advertisers to beam directly into our soft little minds, but not the President of the United States. Or were those just different times?
I also remember having multiple school visits from elected officials of varying political persuasions. We'd have an assembly and talk about, you know, what it's like being an elected official, what their favorite food was, and how we should study hard.
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