Sign of the Times: School in NJ named for Obama to close
As reported on March 18, 2011by Rachel Rose Hartman of Yahoo! News: "The Barack H. Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, N.J. will be shuttered this summer, largely due to low enrollment."
Formerly known as the Bangs Avenue School, the Asbury Park district decided in 2010 to change its name to Barack H. Obama Elementary.
"At the time that the school acquired its new name, administrators took a lot of flak for ostensibly focusing on the name change instead of the plight of its students. But the city resident behind the movement, Myra Campbell, believed it would ‘send a subliminal message' to the students," notes Hartman.
"Every time they walk through the school doors, there's going to be a certain amount of pride in where they [the students] go to school," Ms. Campbell informed a local paper before enrollment plummeted. "We now move forward," Campbell continues, "in trying what we can to improve the academic skills of the students and also the social skills."
What appropriate imagery the soon-to-be abandoned school provides for the empty emotionalism behind the entire Obama phenomenon. Electing Obama somehow "sent a subliminal message" to Americans and the world that everyone should have a "certain amount of pride" in the new politically correct president. Even though the media-created image was completely disconnected from the substance of the real Obama, the image alone was to magically make the world a better place. It was all about happy feelings, rainbows and fluffy bunnies.
We were supposed to ignore the fact that Obama's redistributive justice ideology was unworkable and would be abandoned and shuttered once fully exposed.
Ad Free / Commenting Login
FOLLOW US ON
Recent Articles
- The Upside Of A Terminal Illness
- Can You Trust that Airplane?
- Closing the DoE
- The Arbery Shooting: The Facts
- Unleashing American Competitiveness: Trump and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- EU and Ukraine: Stop Blaming Trump, Look in the Mirror
- The Democrats Descend into Madness
- The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a $2 Billion USAID Power Grab
- The Enduring Battle Over ‘Merit’
- Who Is Andrew Tate and Why Is The President Trying to Protect Him?
Blog Posts
- There’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s taking no prisoners.
- So-called ‘Gender affirming’ surgery is bad for people’s happiness
- Stacey Abrams takes a page from Hugo Chavez on the matter of home appliances
- After Trump's speech, they can’t get there from here
- In San Francisco, a bathhouse gets grief for trying to have a ‘phallus free’ environment
- Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?' Some leftists think so
- ‘People used to care about each other’
- At Twitter, a single point of failure for freedom
- Active-duty soldiers indicted for disclosing sensitive government info to China
- Zelensky's arrogance
- Americans have already chosen their fighter
- Breaking the chains of financial enslavement
- Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
- Michelle Wu sets a new criminal-enabling standard
- California tries to tear down the Castle Doctrine