Massachusetts Public School Requires Students to Read “Dreams From My Father”, Some Parents Unhappy
Students in Hingham, MA were initially told that President Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father” was required summer reading. After some parents protested, the school administrators changed the rule but never made it public.
The Boston Herald reports:
“President Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” is creating a nightmare for 1,099 Hingham High students cramming to wrap up their “required” summer read – a book, it turns out, they didn’t have to read in the first place.”
“With school opening Tuesday, the Herald has learned teens whose offended parents complained were allowed by Principal Paula Girouard McCann and Helaine Silva, head of the Hingham Public Schools English Department, to pick any other memoir – an option they never publicized.”
“Lynne Powell-Pinto, chairwoman of the Hingham Republican Town Committee, has a son entering 11th grade.”
“Obama, she noted, “is a current political figure. He’s an important historical figure, no quibbles about that. But the goal of the community read is to bring people together. I just think they could have made a less divisive choice.”
Can you imagine the uproar that would have followed in San Francisco or New York if the public schools had required students to read George W. Bush’s book “A Charge to Keep?”
For more stunning news on political indoctrination in public schools, be sure to visit Michelle Malkin’s website and read her newest article – “No Junior Lobbyist Left Behind.”
