Obama Plays Piper

An elementary school on Long Island was rededicated today as the "Barack Obama School". The news reader on CBS who reported the story gives great pleasure, no doubt, to the man who runs the network and also hosts an entertainment show which could be why she can bellow nonsense uncritically. She reported that the "students initiated the name change" because of Obama's historic accomplishments. I could quibble with what exactly the President has actually accomplished other than winning stacked deck elections, but that isn't my point. Since when do communities, taxpayers, administrators, educators, or for that matter, any adult listen to and follow the directions of preteens. Will other area schools be renamed after Mickey Mouse because Disney is popular with the nine year old demographic? Will we soon see the Barbie Academy because the students initiated it? How about the Polly Pocket Library? Will the students initiate a change in the cafeteria and have gummies and Pop-tarts for lunch everyday? Will chocolate fountains replace the water fountains in the school if the students demand it? Will the instruction day be changed to water-slides in warm weather and Nintendo inside when its cold? Children can not dictate to adults, and it would be no surprise if teachers and their union orchestrated the name switch, manipulating their wards and then giving the tots the credit(blame). We are turning out a generation which is barely literate, if that, in schools that have had former Presidents' names removed because they owned slaves or fought Indians. Were Washington, Jefferson, or Jackson alive today, they wouldn't want to be associated with those teachers' union institutions of mass indoctrination anyway.