Teacher Suspended For Releasing Obama Youth Video
Leslie Carto - (FOX 4 News)
They’re not old enough to vote, but a group of Kansas City middle school students pledging their political support is raising eyebrows.
A choreographed chant by a group of students at the Kansas City charter school Urban Community Leadership Academy has people talking ever since it showed up on the internet.
Some call it indoctrination and others say it encourages political involvement.
On a video posted on the internet, middle school students say Barack Obama has inspired them to succeed.
Conservative morning Chris Stigall saw the video on the Drudge Report.
“This is an indoctrination. It’s not a debate. It’s not discussing relevant issues. It’s not tit-for-tat,” Stigall, with 710 KCMO Radio, said.
Stigall said his disapproval isn’t because of Obama, but rather because where it took place.
“No public school could or should get away with such a thing,” Stigall said.
Stigall said on Monday morning that the school’s director called his show and acknowledged that the video was made on school grounds after class at a teacher sanctioned event.
At the Broadway Cafe, a midtowner said he wouldn’t mind the activity if it were organized by students.
“If it’s a teacher pulling them along, I think it’s not as sensible,” voter Tony Haynes said. “The teacher’s role is not to lead them in a particular direction, but give them a place to lead themselves.”
A Republican who supports Obama said while he didn’t see the video, he thinks it’s interesting these kids want to be involved.
“I went through the public school and when I was there no one cared about either candidate,” voter Christopher Slocum said.
But another voter said teachers should interest them in the issues on both sides.
“As a school based program, I don’t think that’s fair. I think all issues need to be presented,” voter Fern Mesa said.
The school’s director didn’t return our calls. According to FOX News, the school suspended the teacher in charge of the after school activity for insubordination after he posted the video online.
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Good, I doubt very much the students choreographed this or came up with the idea.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:34 pm“A Republican who supports Obama said while he didn’t see the video, he thinks it’s interesting these kids want to be involved”
>>> BULlSHIT
“I went through the public school and when I was there no one cared about either candidate,” voter Christopher Slocum said.
>>> BULLSHIT
Yea, right, like the people that start out saying they voted for Bush, but you know with the way the iraq…. blah blah blah I can smell them lying lefties through my computer.
Unless that slowcum is 80 years old he is lying. I am calling my daughters school tomorrow to find out why she knows who the music teacher is voting for. She is in fourth grade. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
October 6th, 2008 at 3:38 pmdisturbing………….
October 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pmH I T L E R
October 6th, 2008 at 3:41 pm“A Republican who supports Obama said while he didn’t see the video, he thinks it’s interesting these kids want to be involved.”
Is there such a fucking thing?
October 6th, 2008 at 3:41 pmI read this earlier today and after I got done with it I thought “So it’s not that they are pissed that the teacher did this so much as that the teacher posted it on youtube for everyone to see”, or am I just hypoglycemic and imagining things?
October 6th, 2008 at 3:45 pmLet me clear something up since this is in my neck of the woods. The KCMO school district lost their accreditation a few years back and unless I’m mistaken they still don’t have it. The superintendent position is a revolving door of failure after failure after failure.
Crappy schools, terrible education standards, democrat controlled district….hmmmm….Pro Obama? So yeah, it’s easy to see why this was encouraged and probably planned in this school.
Thankfully I live outside of the KCMO district so my kids are not nor will they ever be rammed through that public “education” system.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pmCan you just hear the dims and libtards screaming if these were all white boys doing the same chant?
October 6th, 2008 at 4:22 pmYears back the KC Star did an article on the KCMO School District. KCMO had 3 times the budget of another local school district, the Shawnee Mission School District and they had nearly identical students numbers…yet KCMO lost its acreditation and SMSD was (and is) a Top 25 district in the nation.
Also keep in mind that MO-Senator, former Mayor and Ollie Gates Cabin Boy Emanuel Cleaver is the cousin of Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver
It is a nice group over there over on the other side of the state line….they just keep on giving back to the community!
October 6th, 2008 at 4:37 pmHeil Hoffnung!
October 6th, 2008 at 4:38 pmA Republican who supports Obama …is a Democrat…or worse.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pmKansas City was a beautiful place, great friendly town, hard workin’ people. At thirteen I could go anywhere afoot or on a bus. By the time I went back there after my Army service (1968)the City was in steep decline. Fort Apache!
Urban renewal under Cleaver has destroyed the old neighborhoods, the police department is corrupted so that the State Police has controlled it for 20 years, My family still in the area never goes to the old ground and are armed to the teeth at all times.
So sad. The entire country will be in the same miserable shape if the Boy Black Panther has the chance to “change” it.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:36 pmI guess that Idi Amin was the second to the last king of Scotland..
October 6th, 2008 at 5:37 pmAh nice to see that someone’s taking a stand against black supremacism.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:49 pmThe message is benign enough. But I wonder how each of these “children” could afford the Tee-Shirt, the camo pants and the same footware? The obvious militancy is disconcerting. If Obama motivated them to be such determined individuals then why the need to be uniform? I guess Colin Powell wasnt a good enough role model, or the Tuskeegee Airman or any number of other successful Black men?
I think that the schools need to teach the mechanics of our political system from local through national. And the duty of the citizen to paricipate. But teachers cannot “teach” support of one candidate or another.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:44 pmKC is still a wonderful place to live despite it’s eye sores.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pmThe U.S. Maroons
@ 2:09 “Obama’s health care plan will provide subsidies for parents who can’t afford Medicaid.” ?? I missed that the first time and may be the only thing I agree with… Since our welfare plan Medicaid is already FREE.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:21 pm(half of these kids)
October 7th, 2008 at 2:48 pm“Because of Obama, I’m not going to die of a massive coronary at the age of thirty because I’m morbidly obese!”
BWAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
Much lower test scores in the district and not even close to those of the state.
This school is nothing but dumb.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm