Watch: Dad Walks Into Daughter’s Classroom, Immediately Sees Something Disturbing Hanging On The Wall

"There's propaganda and there's the First Amendment."

Gerry Urbanek
February 26, 2016 at 1:17pm

Outrage erupted at a Kentucky high school after several parents found anti-police artwork on display in their children’s classroom.

According to a report by WLKY, the artwork was the product of an honors English class assignment at North Oldham High School. Students were asked to read To Kill A Mockingbird, then draw pictures showing what they believed to be social injustice.

The artwork that sparked the outrage depicts a Klu Klux Klan member in 1930 about to shoot a black man alongside a picture of a police officer shooting a black child in 2015. It was drawn by a student in a previous year’s class.

But some parents and local residents haven’t accepted this response and are calling for the images to be taken down.

“I do think it’s a little dramatic, and right now it is a very touching time to have something like that come up,” said David Byrd. “They risk their lives for this job and our communities. Cops aren’t killers, they defend our safety. That’s my opinion about it.”

One of the parents upset about the artwork is David Hamblin, a local police offer. His daughter is a student in the class.

“My daughter is not unlike other children of first responders. Hamblin posted on Facebook. “She fears for my safety every day, and believes me to be a man of honesty and courage. What this propaganda creates, are future cop haters, which endanger me, and 800,000 other courageous protectors.”

“When I saw it, I could see immediately why [my daughter] didn’t feel comfortable with it, because I didn’t feel comfortable with it,” Hamblin told WDRB in an interview Wednesday. “It’s comparing a race-based ideology, or the KKK, to that of professional workers who serve their country day-in and day-out. There’s propaganda and there’s the First Amendment. They’re two different things, especially in a government-run classroom.”

North Oldham High School responded to the concerns with the following statement. “We believe that our role as educators is to prepare our kids for the world beyond the classroom, and sometimes things are going to be controversial,” said Tracy Green, the director of communications for Oldham County Schools.

“They’re pictures about social injustice, so I would assume they’re a little offensive to a lot of people, because we’re talking about a controversial issue,” Green continued.

While the school says it understands the anger, and that these images are in no way meant to diminish the service police perform, the images will not be coming down.

h/t: IJReview

http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-dad-walks-into-daughters-classroom-immediately-sees-something-disturbing-hanging-on-the-wall/
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as a student project on injustice, there is bound to be controversy

I hope they do discuss it instead of shutting it/taking it down

Well, at least there are less pictures depicting priests molesting kids, or teachers molesting kids.
I'm not really surprised that there wasn't a third depiction of a soldier or drone shooting a black or burnt umber crayon color kid.



I think parents are the biggest disseminators of propaganda.

It would be nice if the author of the article did something called journalism and tracked down the person that drew the picture in an attempt to find out what influenced the drawing. Parents? MSM? Their teacher(s)? Friends?

That's where the propaganda lies. Not with the school hanging up students drawings.

Politics/ political movements, & ANY religion should NEVER be in a PUBLIC school.

These are NOT things children should be concerned about.
If discussed at all, it should be with their parents.

This kind of thing is always going to be difficult to separate out.

If you block EVERYTHING controversial from being mentioned at schools, you effectively are propagandizing the kids with approved pablum. Propaganda is propaganda, no matter how well intentioned or bland it is.

Libtardization, must be important enough,
for educators to disrupt reading, writing, and arithmetic for it.

It's no wonder, so many young people are functionally illiterate at college age.

Speaking of illiteracy...

They grew up being indoctrinated with social issues. When they use to be taught how to think for themselves, NOT what to think.

Now, not only the basics are gone, but they can't survive in the real world.


* Y'all going to the protest tonight, I was offended by that bumper sticker. *

I'm older, so I grew up and was educated BEFORE the "social issues" took over. And I can testify absolutely, that there has only been a change in WHAT propaganda and fads people are indoctrinated with.

No one was ever "taught how to think for themselves," at least not in the sense you mean. I was taught, for example, that the United States was magically superior to every other nation, that we had conquered all evil in the world save Communism, and that we would always do so. And that obeying the FBI and the President and our military leaders, was always the best policy.

It was just as much crap then, as was taught later, when people started to pretend that defying authority was the way to go.

Kudos!

Ditto!