Minor Update:  Pamela at Atlas Shrugs and Ron Paul have both linked to this.  Still waiting for more verification.  The Jawa Report is also running the story.

Not directly of course.  Instead a large picture of him is projected during the pledge every morning.

Note:  I was not able to get any secondary validation to this story which I learned about about on Ping Back, so I am monitoring this to ensure it is  not a hoax, but either way, here is the story.

Pledge of Allegiance Becomes Pledge to Obama

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.”

The same thing was not done for President Bush last year.

Well, duh…of course it wasn’t.

After investigating this morning, the other parent reported that what the boy said was true.

At least three of the five classrooms have an overhead projector and as the children stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the teacher turns on the classroom overhead and a full body image of Obama, with six U.S. flags behind him, comes up about 4 feet away from the flag that hangs on the wall. The screen is apparently around five feet by six feet.

In the image, President Obama appears to be staring straight out with no facial expression, just a serious look. All of the kids in each class faced the President, instead of the flag that hangs in the corner.

Local parents are up in arms over this situation. Teachers clearly do not realize the gravity of what they are doing.

Update: The parents spoke to the Vice-Principal this afternoon. He said he would take care of it. I will check with them tomorrow and update this story.

The reason I am suspicious is that this bears common factors I see in spoofs and urban legends.  Things like deliberately vague details about the school, the parents, the Vice Principle, the teachers’ names etc.  While the parents being undisclosed makes sense if they fear retaliation, they should have no issue saying which school and other pertinent details.

Also I find suspicious that, near as I can tell, the story has not spread to any local papers or news, at least none that I could discover, and surely if parents were in an uproar, it would have made some kind of ripple in the local media

Let me also say that I truly want this to be some grand urban legend or hoax.  Seriously.  If this is true, it is going to be ranking fairly high in my “I’ll take creepy for 800, Alex” file.

That he is inspirational, I get.  That he is admirable, I also get.  But let’s be real.

Perhaps what really bothers me is that when reading it, I don’t consider it implausible.

In other words, considering that the Obama mania that has given us children’s choruses, chants, songs, pledges of servitude by celebrities and the latest thing: new  commemorative coins (made using real US coins with his picture glued or printed on one side-20 bucks for 2 bucks worth of coins); so were I to get solid confirmation tomorrow that this was true, I would be disgusted, but not shocked.

All I know is that we are taking the historical and become hysterical and sooner or later, someone is really going to go off the deep end and carry Obama-mania way too far.

On an ironic note, the coins make me laugh as they illustrate the Stimulus Generational Theft  Act pretty well:  very high high cost for low value all sold as an incredible must have offer.

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