Posted on 03/22/2012 3:34:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Va. middle-schoolers assigned opposition research on GOP candidates By Kalyn McMackin - The Daily Caller 1:16 AM 03/22/2012
A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.
The 8th grade students, who attend Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, were required to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican presidential hopefuls and forward them to the Obama campaign.
“This assignment was just creepy beyond belief — like something out of East Germany during the Cold War,” one frustrated father, who asked for his family to remain anonymous, told The Daily Caller.
The assignment was for students to research the backgrounds and positions of each of the GOP candidates for president and find “weaknesses” in them, the parent explained. From there, students were to prepare a strategy paper to exploit those weaknesses and then to send their suggestions to the Obama campaign.
Liberty teacher Mark Denman, who declined to comment, unveiled the assignment in mid-January when he broke the Civics Honor’s class into four groups, one for each Republican candidate. The students were then to collaborate as a group and research the backgrounds of their assigned candidate.
Denman assigned two kids to write a paper revealing the identified “weaknesses,” two to write the attack strategy paper and two others to locate an individual inside the Obama campaign to whom they could send the information.
“My classmates don’t actually know a lot, but a few of us tended to agree that the most recent instruction on this project just didn’t seem right,” one of the students told TheDC. “Mr. Denman didn’t tell us where to find the information, just to research on them.”
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The Obama youth
Keeping America safe from you.
In the interest of fairness, those students should now ALL be given a copy of Sheriff Joe’s Cold Case Posse’ Report on 0bama’s dubious credentials and qualifications to occupy the Oval Office.
Challenge them to find any weaknesses in THAT report, which ought to be a virgin field of research since the lamestream media whores of ABC/CBS/CNN/FAUX/NBC/NPR etc., are all sold out to the 0bamunist regime, so these students won’t have any competition in researching THAT topic at all!
People in VA have been flirting with the left for a long time; this is the consequence of such liberal “tolerance.” It’s not the same VA any more.
Fire his ass and blacklist him from ever teaching again anywhere in any school at any grade level. The bastards have moved from not-so-subtle indoctrination to outright indoctrination. I’m surprised he didn’t tell the students to complete the phrase “My Republican candidate is purely evil because...”
Liberty Middle School
6801 Union Mill Road
Clifton, VA 20124
Dr. Catherine Cipperly, Principal cmcipperly@fcps.edu
Andrew Coulter, Assistant Principal ajcoulter@fcps.edu
Natalie Lissy, Assistant Principal Natalie.Lissy@fcps.edu
Greg Hall, Assistant Principal greg.Hall@fcps.edu
No wonder the administration doesn’t know what the hell is happening in their school — they are clearly under staffed.
The Fairfax County School Board has a written policy on how to handle “Controversial Issues.” I’m glad to see they are adhering so carefully to their own policy:
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
Standard Instructional Program
Controversial Issues
This policy supersedes Policy 3280.1.
I. PURPOSE
To establish guidelines for the study of controversial issues.
II. SUMMARY OF CHANGES SINCE LAST PUBLICATION
This policy has been reviewed, and there are no changes at this time.
III. PHILOSOPHY
The preparation for effective citizenship includes the study of issues that are controversial. The study of controversial issues shall create an atmosphere in which
knowledge can be freely imparted and the critical thinking of students can be developed through research and classroom discussion, within the guidelines of the Program of Studies.
IV. PROCEDURES
Such studies shall be carried out in an atmosphere of freedom from bias, prejudice, or coercion.
I was just going to post the same thing! Why remain anonymous?
Easy to say if you are not a parent. If you ARE a parent, you know you don’t want to get your kid tagged as the son/daughter of “the kook” and have them in the crosshairs of the rest of the faculty and getting bad grades as a result of your activism.
This didn’t happen in Virginia...it happened in Fairfax County!
Teacher Mark Denman’s next assignment for students is to ‘turn in’ parents holding ‘right wing’ political positions... Mock trials and re-education camps will be studied as effective tools of social control ...
They should also study the linked video of two journalists talking - showcasing active hatred and bias against conservatives...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
Home school.
"So tell me, Little Johnny, where does your dad keep his guns?"
That's a croc of bull!
I’m on it. Will email the principal later today It’s time to let the left know that we are tired of their efforts to brainwash our kids.
I took the opposite tack. My kids were tagged as the children of that kook who worked on the GOP congressman’s campaign and whose wife had done some pro bono artwork for the school superintendant. We never had any problems with backlash.
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