A New Jersey elementary school is getting some heat from parents for a song some of their students sang, praising Barack Obama, during Black History Month in February of 2009. This WTF!? story has made some parents concerned, while others remain indifferent or simply laugh at the situation. One problem a parent has with the song is the chanting.

Personally, I can get see the concern in that. Name one good thing that comes from chanting. Cults, frats and hypnotists all make you do things you otherwise would not do thanks to chanting practices. But at the same time I don’t think little kids of the Garden State are going to be roaming the streets as Obama-drones, mindlessly singing “Barack Hussein Obama!” like some scene straight out of Lord of the Flies.

Another concern raised was interjecting politics with elementary education. This I can also get behind. The country is already as polarized as ever, so let’s try to keep our kids out of it. We don’t need to give Dale, the schoolyard bully, another reason to beat up Wendell. We need smaller government, you dweeb!

The main concern this raises with me, though, is extremists getting a hold of this story and using it as an example that Obama is trying to brainwash our children. Besides the obvious that none of these kids will be able to vote in four years, I don’t think kids are going to start trying to discuss politics with their parents after school instead of playing stickball and or trying to flush Wendell’s head down a toilet. Even if they did, I doubt they’d listen. Mine never gave me two seconds to explain that there really was a monster in my closet, so the chances that they would have listened to my thoughts on Clinton’s healthcare reform proposals in the early 90’s was very bleak.

I say slap whoever came up with this on the wrist, so we can all move on to more important things than Jersey kids singing about Obama. You know, because there’s still all that war, poverty and healthcare stuff going on.

[via CNN]