Posted on 02/12/2014 2:37:25 PM PST by nurees
So, a local school district I am associated with decided to purchase Pete Seeger CD's for all of their Kindergarten teachers for use in the classroom. If I had a Hammer was the chosen title. Now these are not the cutsie folk tunes that little ones can sing along to. Why do they need to listen to Casey Jones (Union Scab), Solidarity Forever and Bourgeois Blues? They are FIVE. I was livid when I heard this. The man was a communist radical for crying out loud.
Gotta start the indoctrination early!
Indoctrination must start early, in order to be effective.
I’mm 55 years old, and I remember “This Land is Your Land...” “If I had a Hammer” and other pro-commie songs from 50 years ago in school.
Simple, catchy tunes, simple lyrics, etc. Perfect for indoctrination.
We need a counter point for kids to learn. Maybe America the Beautiful? The National Anthem? Any other suggestions?
Did he write that one about "houses made of ticky tacky" too? Most chinese people wish their house was made out of something as fine as ticky tacky, whatever the hell that is. Their houses are made of garbage held together with mud.
Never been a Seeger fan. Can’t forgive he and the Weavers for their horrendous butchering of “Goodnight Irene.” But,,,, Ry Cooder did do an excellent rendition of “Bourgeois Blues.”
I think that was Donovan.
When I was a kid in the early 70s, there would be playing on the record over the school intercom the “Draft Dodgers Lament” by Phil Ochs but sung by Pete Seeger. Stalin’s songbird got a lot of exposure.
It is why the Catholic Church developed Catholic elementary schools and didn’t establish the German idea of “Kindergarten”. (Todays “Catholic” schools are not any better than most public schools, since they are taught by laity and some not even Catholic, and they removed the true Classical Education, like public schools).
Education is the Duty of parents and the ideology of parents should never be undermined, even after the age of reason when is the earliest time children should be “taught” by anyone other than family, unless there is ultimate trust/love in the caretaker. The mind is as important (if not more so) than the body.
Worldview is determined by what the child experiences and is “taught” by their authority figures. Emotions are tied to ideas and are embedded. Reason should always be what education encourages-—never emotions—unless those emotions are always tied to the Christian concepts of Virtue.
Ideas of Marxism/slavery/vice should never be given respect, praise, or be glorified to anyone of any age in and “education” system.
He surely did!!
I remember singing them, too. Never understood the meaning behind them at the time. Years later, the elementary school my lovely daughter was attending considered inviting the old commie, he lived in the area over in Beacon, NY. That idea went over like a fart in church and quickly faded away.
He didn't write the song but he did sing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU
“I’ve got a hammer and I’ve got a bell, and I’ve got a song to sing all over this land, It’s the hammer of justice, It’s the bell of freedom, It’s the song about the love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.”
“This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island, From the redwood forests to the gulfstream waters, this land was made for you and me.”
I’ve been mentally reviewing the lyrics, and I can’t find anything offensive or commie about them. In fact, they are often included in patriotic sets for Independence Day. The others on the CD I am not familiar with, they may be propaganda tunes, not appropriate for kids. But five year olds will not understand the meanings yet; you have the opportunity to mold their thinking on that.
Draft Dodger Rag?
"Well, I'm only 18, I got a ruptured spleen and I always carry a purse, I got eyes like a bat and my feet are flat and my asthma's gettin' worse, consider my career, my sweetheart dear and my poor old invalid aunt, Besides I ain't no fool, I'm a'goin to school and I'm workin' in a de-fense plant!"
No, Malvina Reynolds wrote Little Boxes.
As I went walking, I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said “Private Property”
But on the other side, it didn’t say nothing
That side was made for you and me
Uh..... Commun(ist) Core Corriculum ?
Yup!
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