School textbook promotes Obama
The mother of an 8th-grader in Wisconsin is blasting school officials over their use of a textbook lauding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “change” theme and highlighting his 2004 Democratic National Convention as an example of good literature.
The mother, whose name was withheld because of concern over retaliation, said on the RealDebateWisconsin blog her son is taking an advanced English class in the Racine, Wis., Unified School District.
“I just found out that my son’s new (copyright 2008) Wisconsin – McDougal Littell Literature book has 15 pages covering Barack Obama,” she writes. “I was shocked – No John McCain, no Hillary Clinton, no George Bush – Just Barack Obama.”
The mother asks: “Is it ethical for an Obama supporter to publish an educational book which has a 15-page Barack Obama story in it? If the taxpayers are paying for these books, why is it okay for McDougal Littell to promote Obama? This really bothers me.”
The moderator on the RealDebate blog added, “This is not education folks, this is indoctrination.”
A contributor to the web forum Free Republic said, “One would think that focusing on the ideology of a politician currently running for president would be a bit over-the-top even for our extreme left leaning system of education in this country. But there it is anyway.”
The posting cited the book’s overt promotion of Obama.
“On one page, for instance, the kids are urged to discuss what makes them ‘proud’ before they read ‘Dreams from my Father.’ The message here is that an Obama candidacy is supposed to make everyone “proud” apparently. If you stand against Obama, I guess you stand against pride, huh?”
“Can you imagine the schools having John McCain’s campaign biography in them?” the forum contributor said.
Along with the recent revelations about homosexual indoctrination in our schools and the fact the NEA is a Propaganda Ministry for the DNC, this should not shock us; but like the mother said, “it “would be one thing, if it was just the tidbit about his boyhood days, but 15 pages, and they talk about his ‘Life of Service.’”
“Honestly,” she writes, “what has Obama really done to be included in this book? Not only that, but on page 847 there is a photo of Obama at the 2004 Democratic Convention with at least 8 Obama signs in the background!”
For the school district to deny knowledge of this strains credulity.
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