Earlier this week, a Virginia-based organization came under fire for leading 3rd grade students at Woodbrook Elementary in Charlottesville to write a song titled “We Are Part of the 99.”
The song, with its reference to the 1 percent and 99 percent was obviously talking about the Occupy protests that occurred around the country.
According to the school district’s story, the students wrote:
I used to be part of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst…
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Wish I could laugh at this, but it only makes me angry. Really angry.
In junior high they’ll be getting brown uniforms and nightsticks.
Those moppets are way too well-dressed to be North Korean.
Right mind-set, though.
Or should I say, mind-wash, -set, and -perm.
I used to be one of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Yup, third graders sure wrote that. Yup.
If people are dumb enough to believe that 3rd graders wrote that propoganda, then the media will sell it as exactly that.
It is all part of the indoctrination process.
Sooo if it’s great to be poor and homeless why are they going to school? Orrrr— are the next semesters required We are Part of the 99 class credits going to be how to live on the streets? Once you pass that class you’re outa there– no diploma required —it will be just the ability to cut cardboard and make your own written with a magic marker sign — no correct spelling required. Sounds like a plan.
It’s what they do…
They got my sister in college. She’s completely indoctrinated.
I don’t think 1 percent means what they think it means.
Then again, it’s the public school system.
The more I look at the picture the more it makes me wonder of what it would be like to live in a country where everyone looks alike– I’d like to know more about the picture–
This article doesn’t surprise me I know all too well about students conforming in our schools system.
Doesn’t have to be this way, folks. Mine are public schooled and sure as hell don’t toe the lefty line.
It’s all about parents being around to offer a counterpoint. Assuming they aren’t indoctrinated themselves, of course.
My guess is the Nork chillrens are crying cause they were issued warm jackets for the pitcher, but told they couldn`t keep em…………
As to this post, using little kids for campaign purposes ain`t no misdemeanor, it is a high crime!
My kids are in the public schools, but I’m one of those weird parents who is actually engaged. I find out what my kids are learning, especially in history classes, and use that as a springboard to explain the hows and whys.
I’m so proud of my two oldest boys -in middle school and high school- because they actually understand governments, economics, why freedom works best all around, and real world examples of that.
It sounds so much nicer when sung in its’ original German…
After thinking “its’” didn’t look right, and looking it up, I have now added “it’s/its” to my list of Grammar peeves.
Dey all look same. Waddup wit dat, my ninja?
You’re getting close to discovering the end game, geezerette.
Why is everyone expected to get a college degree?
Does it make sense?
Hell no, it doesn’t. We need trade/skill education, also.
Ask yourself, why do so many of the OWS nutjobs have undergrad/advanced degrees in areas with few, if any, jobs? (not to mention decent paying jobs, except being a professor of the subject)
What’s the point?
What’s the benefit to society?
We know our society is horribly lagging behind our world competitors in science and math, yet we continue to churn out graduates in social sciences and hardened sexism/racism/victimism. Why?
It will all be clear when we have two successive generations of subjects that can’t take care of their own basic needs, dependent on government to provide….