Florida High School Forces Students to Partake in Pro-Obama Rally and DNC Video Without Telling Parents

Out of Marin County, Florida, comes a very distressing story about abuse of high school students by school administrators at Martin County High School. On March 16, more than 2000 students gathered on the football field of Martin County High School during school hours when they were mandated to be there. They were made to chant the Barack Obama campaign slogan "Yes, we can!" and also hold up posters with that very Obama slogan. All this was for a video which was then given to the Martin County Democrat Party for the purposes of handing it over to the Obama White House. There was no information given to parents either by notice or on the website of Martin County High School, and making matters even worse than they already were, at least 100 students who refused to partake had to anyway.

Originally the brainchild of a student organization at Martin County High School (perhaps the Young SEIU Hopefuls; I don't know), the pro-Obama rally and companion video were intended to bring Obama to Martin County to speak at a Recovery Rally event for the purpose of uniting the community, local business owners, and even the local government (natch) to support one another (awww, how "touching!") in the magical-yet-irrational hopes of magically "ending the recession." The Recovery Rally is a pet project dreamed up by a Martin County High School student organization (can you say future government employees?) to have Obama show up in their community and spread the propaganda of his Middle Class Task Force. Poor kids: Clearly, they've been indoctrinated into believing that Obama is the "Savior" and that government is the answer to everything. That makes me ask, Where the heck are their parents??!!

While the event was innocuously disguised as supporting an ostensibly good cause-as, however, so many things are that ultimately end badly-that under no circumstances can ever justify how this was an attempt by Martin County High School to do a mass-indoctrination session on the very defenseless captive audience of high school kids. The excuse the school gave-pathetically, if you ask me- for forcibly herding the student body like impressionable sheep onto the football field was that they could not do this at any other time, had they chosen to attempt this after school, for instance, when attendance wouldn't be mandatory. Nonsense!

As one parent, clearly the voice of reason and all-around good gal in this otherwise sordid tale, said, "It's almost like they were trying to circumvent the parents." Exactly! Amen to that! I mean, if Martin County High School wasn't trying to circumvent the parents' all-important authority, how can one validly explain the conspicuous absence of any information-whether in notices in the school or sent home with the little kiddies, or on the school's website-about this event?! Unless...of course...it was very well an intentional attempt to circumvent the parents, steal the kids for a period of time for mass-indoctrination while using pro-Obama slogans, and then hope no one would notice...or care! Ha! Clearly, to the school's inevitable consternation, one parent, the noble Diana Blackard, did notice and even went on Fox News to air the dirty laundry of the school administrators down there. Good for her.

Blackard's concerns should be received sympathetically by any parent-supposing, of course, that you care about your child enough to want them not to be used in a political commercial to request Obama to show up at your doorstep-and she had several good points to make. In example, Blackard mentioned that when her daughter-who's now only a tender 15 years old-grows up and wants to hold, say, political office, or get a high-profile job, then there's this old video of hers being used in an Obama mass-indoctrination rally! Yeah, that surely could pose problems for future employment, to be sure.

The indisputable problem here-as intellectually honest readers will concur-is that Martin County High School is public. That means it's funded by taxpayers, some of whom very well may object to having their kids used as political commercial material!! In public schools, you can't and shouldn't do this sort of abuse because once you cross this line, as the high school did, there's the issue of indoctrination of school kids and also the glaring support of a president of a particular political party...especially when...you know...all the kids were forced to chant the Obama-zombie chant of "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!" The district did convincingly vote for Obama in 08, which probably explains a lot of this pro-Obama bias.

As a final note, questions as to who's wrong in this sordid tale don't exist because Martin County High School has already acknowledged that they didn't conduct themselves properly in this matter, but Diana Blackard is still principled and resolute in her demand that the school district needs to apologize. I agree and hope she gets her overdue apology. As for the school kids, I fear for them...I really do because all their misguided actions of idealistically petitioning the president to come to their school, when they had concerns over employment opportunities in their area, tell me that they've been brainwashed to think that government solves all financial problems! Ironically, if they wanted to get the president to solve the economic woes in their area, they should've shot a video petitioning him to stop giving money to the federal government to "create" jobs and instead cut tax rates on small businesses, the traditional engine of economic recoveries. Glenn Beck's right: Indoctrination is really happening to your kids at some public schools!

To send Marc questions, praise or criticism, send him an e-mail at marc_schenker@telus.net

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Sources:

Kelly Beard, Martin County High School students invite Obama to Stuart, rally to end recession, New Growth Media
Jim Turner, Martin County parents complain about students' video inviting Obama to area event, Palm Beach Post

Martin County, Florida, City-Data.com