The Snoqualmie school
district, despite its agreement with parent groups like CODE and its own stated
policy of political neutrality and focus on the academics still has a few
demigods bent on using the captive impressionable minds of our children to
preach their private religious and political hobby horses.
For example, despite
the formal policy of non sponsorship of the "Gay Day" a Mount Si
teacher violated the policy and forced the entire class to read gay poetry and
then demanded that the class discuss how they felt about the reading. When
several students objected to having homosexual acts virtually forced down their
throats, the teacher lambasted the brave dissenters telling them they were just
going to have to get over it.
I am here to impress
the importance of clear guidelines and repercussions to teachers and
administrators to wit that all district personnel should reserve their
demagoguery for their private coffee clutches not the classrooms.
The ether is filling
with the scariest reports of what amounts to publicly sponsored personality
worship previously only seen in communist and fascist dictatorships.
In New
Jersey, second-graders were taught to sing the spiritual "Jesus Loves the
Little Children" in which Jesus' name was replaced with Obama's. They
sang, "He said red, yellow, black, or white/All are equal in his
sight/Barack Hussein Obama."
Proving
that this rewritten Jesus-song wasn't an aberration, New Jersey second-graders
were taught to sing a second Obama-personality-cult song to the tune of the
Battle Hymn of the Republic.
"Mr. President we honor you today!/For
all your great accomplishments, we all doth say 'hooray.'/Hooray, Mr.
President! You're number one!/Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of
you!/So continue, Mr. President, we know you'll do the trick/So here's a hearty
hip hooray, Hip, hip hooray!"
These songs
were not spontaneous kiddie exuberance or extracurricular playground activity.
Video makes clear that the teacher was methodically instructing the children
and her actions were backed by the administration who only seemed annoyed about
the video tape.
The teacher
also led the children in giving a sort of Heil Obama salute. On cue, they
outstretched their right hands, accentuating their community of action in
praising Obama.
This has
got to stop and the best way to stop it is to never start it. I want you to
assure me that you have effective policies in place to stop this before it gets
started.
I would
also like to suggest developing a method for students to confidentially report
on such district policy violations. I can assure you that even strong minded
students that brought this to my attention are very much afraid of personal
recriminations that disclosure would bring.
Perhaps you
don’t have an answer off the cuff, but in the near term I'd like to know how
you plan on reemphasizing to your staff the policy of political neutrality on
the one hand and on the other, how you will provide a non-intimidating forum
and protection for those students who wish to bring their concerns forward.
Steve Marquis
Fall City
425-698-7084
Steve.marquis@comcast.net
Singing Heil Obama:
http://worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-5456/Brannon-Howse/Phyllis-Schlafly#
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and link of public school abuse nationwide: