Posted on 09/26/2009 7:35:31 AM PDT by RummyChick
September 25, 2009
Dear Burlington Township Families:
By now, we're sure that you are aware of a video placed on the Internet that has been reported heavily by the media. The video is of a class of students singing a song about President Obama.
Over the past two days we have been able to learn more about this situation and would like to provide you with some additional information. The song was one of eight skits performed during a February 2009 program that included second grade classes. Parents attended the program which took place on February 27, 2009. The other skits in the program included Groundhog Day, Chinese New Year, Abraham Lincoln, Valentine's Day, George Washington, Mardi Gras, and Dental Health Month. The song about President Obama was in recognition of Black History Month. We have been informed that the lyrics of the song were sent home with the children in advance of the assembly, which was the teacher's normal procedure. There were no concerns or complaints prior to, during, or after the program.
On March 23, 2009, an author visited the Young School as part of the school's Women's History Month recognition. As is usual procedure, parents were notified prior to the visit and invited to attend. The author presented two assemblies during which she read from two of her books. She also met with the Teen Book Club at our high school and did an evening book signing for parents and children. The author was accompanied by two individuals. After the first assembly on March 23rd, the class that performed the song at the February assembly about President Obama provided a special performance for the author, since one of the books she wrote was about Barack Obama. We were informed by a representative of the author that one of the individuals who accompanied the author video recorded the performance. School staff had no knowledge of the recording.
We have learned that the video was posted on the author's website without district approval or knowledge. It appears that another party copied the video from the author's website and placed it on YouTube. We have been informed that the video has been removed from the author's website.
Our district takes measures to ensure that our children's privacy is protected. 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. We will also provide reasonable direction and guidelines so that classroom activities will not give the appearance of promoting a particular political perspective.
We have taken additional measures over the past two days to assure the safety and security of children and staff. We have worked very closely with our police department and school resource officers. We have had a police presence on our campuses and have increased administrative presence at the B. Bernice Young School. News crews have been kept off campuses. There were no incidents in our schools as a result of this matter. Our children, staff, and schools are safe and secure. We are working with our police department to have the video removed from YouTube.
We wish to assure our community that the administration and Board of Education will carefully study this matter. We appreciate and value input from you, the residents of Burlington Township, and will continue to listen to your opinions on this matter. If you have any questions, please contact me directly.
Parents, please consider getting your children OUT of the government schools as quickly as possible.
Then why is it, they recognize Black History month?
Song two for kids was written by the former President of the Harvard Black Law student Association..of which Obama was member.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charisse-Carney-Nunes/117777864196
“lay down with Massah nappy
bare his children nappy”
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=202406590
“In times like this I always refer to the ‘Bush Standard’.”
exactly - I call it “what if W had.....”
A similar skit would have caused a riot.
Exactly - everytime the super makes a “response” - all he does is reveal he’s stuck on stupid.
“Then why is it, they recognize Black History month? “
Because it is far preferable than reading “dead white males” ?
The rat machine has no morals, is it any wonder that this teacher and principal is just part of the machine that has infested the school system including the universities.
This video of Obama smiles is just as creepy to me as the kids video. there is something truly wrong with this man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NxOt6gR60
Them durn videographers are worse than the paparazzi when it cones to exposing political fallout and unethical, illegal behavior.
We must suppress people who shoot videos because they make people feel uncomfortable about themselves.
Left wing censors are trying to uproot the 1st Amendment.
Never mind the use of children to attain their left wing goals.
His title was DR. (another academic taught by liberal schools ?)
In 2004, while researching the Open Society Institute, The Tides Foundation and Codepink, I stumbled on an arm of the Code Pink/George Soros nexus that promoted ‘teaching materials’ to lazy socialist teachers. It was all anti-american, anti- capitalism, enviro-nazi propaganda. They gave away ‘free materials’ and course planning to teachers and did lots of networking on education websites. These people have been at this for a long, long time and we had better dig them out, branch and root, before it is too late.
Home schooling is the answer for some, but unless we stop them from indoctrinating the millions of students that do not home-school, we are not going to stop the coming commie cataclysm. My son is grown now, but I plan on becoming very active at our local school board meetings in the very near future. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! These people are nothing but anti-american communists and it’s time to take our schools back!
This creepy video link is posted in another thread this morning called Obama Watches Over Us. See anything similar?
http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-watches-over-us.html
Liberals hide all kinds of sins behind “student privacy rights.” They tell kids to hide stuff from their parents, too, like “this is a private conversation and it does not leave this classroom.” It is disgusting.
That was in the version the kids memorized last year.
If I was a parent I would be pretty PO’ed that my kid was now all over the net because of Charisse Carney Nunes..subject to scorn and ridicule, etc. all over the world..and being compared to Hitler’s Youth Brigade.
I would look at suing her and her company that put up the video which was brandnuwords or something like that.
She is a lawyer and should have known better.
Watch to see who is thrown under the bus on this one.
Btw, if you watch that video it is clear that some kids dont know much of the words. Kind of funny given that this was something that had been rehearsed many times.
Methinks the author needs to doth off her English grammar. "Doth" is 3rd person singular.
Oh, and what do these two songs have to do with Women’s History Month????????????????????????????????
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