UPDATED and BUMPED: Send your child to school for indoctrination?
January 30, 2009 5 Comments
UPDATE: I contacted the editor behind the story to check on the veracity of it in an effort to help Ed figure out what the truth of the matter is. These are the replies I received:
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:45:59 -0800
From: “NewsBlaze Editor” Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: jcrue_at_yahoo_dot_com
Subject: Re: BS or no BS?Hello Jay,
Thank you for reading,I hope you are on the right side of this bet!
It is a true story.
There is also an update at the end of it now.
The issue has been resolved.
As I expected, there was no malice, it was just an idea
that had a problem they didn’t foresee.I hope you’ll tell your friends about NewsBlaze
Best Wishes
Alan
Interesting, no?
A parent in the Clark County School District of Las Vegas, Henderson area reported today that his son, who is in 1st grade, came home yesterday saying that he didn’t want to go back to school anymore.
When asked why, the boy said that during the Pledge of Allegiance the teacher put up a large image of Obama next to the flag.
Thinking that the boy might be exaggerating, the man asked his son if he was sure, and suggested that by “large” he might mean an 8×10 photo of the president. The boy apparently said “No, it is a large picture of Obama and when we are done, the teacher turns off the image.”
Now, we’ll have to see if the story actually pans out.
Hoax! You’ve been suckered.
The story looks legit to my research.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of Obama, and to the leader for whom the flag stands, one nation under Obama, ….”
Meh, we’ll see if it gets any substantiation from the various sources who originally reported it.
I just got off the phone with Alan Gray, the editor of News Blaze, and he says he was contacted by the parents for the story, and it appears to him to be true, unless the parents are lying to him—which he has no reason to suspect as their only motivation was that they just want it (the Obama worship) to stop. In fact, Mr. Gray is awaiting another call from the parents tonight (they have jobs and will contact him when they get home from work) to update the story.
You can reach Alan Gray at (916) 608 4271 or email him at alan@newsblaze.com.
Excellent. Thanks for letting us know. I wrote to NewsBlaze yesterday asking something similar and got the same response from Alan. I have added to my post.