"God bless the USA" at graduation....verbotten !

[ironglow]

  A school principal in NYC has decided to ban Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" song from the school graduation.  Her excuse was;
 1) The song would "offend" people from 'other cultures'..
 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/06/10/nyc-principal-bans-god-bless-usa-kindergarten-graduation-allows-biebe
 
     ...That excuse didn't hold water with the partents..so she changed her tune, saying;
 
 2) The lyrics were not appropriate for 5 year olds...
 
    So, what did this brainstorm do ?  She replaces it with a Justin Bieber song named "Baby".  Here are the lyrics to "Baby";
   http://www.elyrics.net/read/j/justin-bieber-lyrics/baby-lyrics.html
 
         .... Brilliant, huh !

[gypsyman]

A graduation cermony for Kindergarten??Really! REALLY!!! This is about the most stupidiest thing I've ever heard of. Clean out your desks and get the he** out. REALLY!!! As far as the singing Greenwood's song, a couple of the parents ought to get together and set up the kids to sing it anyway. What's the communist principal going to do, Fail them?? gypsyman

[BBF]

Only one "t" in verboten.

[ironglow]

Revealed in a later newscast;
   The principal is a Jehovah's Witness, so she may have her own "axe to grind", concerning the flag, patriotism etc.
 
   BBF;
   It's been many years since I lived in Germany and hurriedly typing the word got a double strike, however I am pleased you got the gist of the post in spite of the typo.

[BBF]

Yep,  Spell Check doesn't work with Deutsch.