The National Education Association has developed its recommended reading list for the upcoming year. A pdf of it can be found here.
If you get the chance to review it, notice that many of the listed books involve President Obama. It is no secret that K-12 teachers on aggregate are almost as liberal as university professors, but do they really need to be this overt about their biases?
There is nothing wrong with teaching school children respect for the current president and the office in general. Maybe 1 or 2 books about the person would be appropriate. But do they really have to recommend seven books about a single sitting president for one year? Let the guy form a legacy without doing it for him! Also, do you think they could spare to suggest some readings about other great presidents outside of Abraham Lincoln (I suppose they already see Obama as a great president)? They could easily substitute some of the books about POTUS with something about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, or even Franklin Roosevelt! But I guess all those guys were either bigoted slave owners, or simply not progressive enough (read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to get this point). The reading list is almost as blatant an act by public education as this:
Barack Hussein Obama Mmm Mmm Mmm
I never thought I would live to see what I now see in America.
And the days are still young with this regime and this revolution.
Scary……..very scary.