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A middle school teacher in Missouri was suspended Monday for putting a video on YouTube of his students chanting lines from Barack Obama speeches and wearing military fatigues.

The video, called “Obama Youth — Junior Fraternity Regiment,” was posted by a YouTube user named “keepitwildtv” on Oct. 2. The school learned the video was on the Internet and took action against the teacher Monday morning.

Joyce McGautha, superintendent of the Urban Community Leadership Academy, a charter school for students in fifth through ninth grades in Kansas City, Mo., said that the video was probably taken last May during the Junior Fraternity’s morning meeting at the school.

She would not disclose the teacher’s name. “At this time because of the legal action that we’ll probably have to take against the teacher, I’m not going to give his name,” McGautha said.

Students at the school have 30-minute group sessions four times a week during which they are supposed to work on reading and writing. Once a week they are allowed to have “activities,” McGautha said. There are 12 groups at the public charter school.

The Junior Fraternity students studied Obama’s economic plan with the teacher, and the superintendent did not know whether the teacher or the students scripted the routine. The group should have also studied John McCain’s economic plan, the superintendent said.

In the video, eighth- and ninth-graders wearing military camouflage pants and navy t-shirts chant and perform a routine in the style of a step show, a dance popular among African-American fraternities at universities.

The students enter the room chanting “Alpha. Omega. Alpha. Omega.” Then, one at a time, they state things they were “inspired” to do by Barack Obama, including becoming an architect and a sheriff. At the end of the video, the students make statements about Obama’s healthcare plan. “Obama’s healthcare plan will be able to provide participants the ability to move from job to job without taking their healthcare coverage,” one says.

“People are upset that possibly taxpayer money is being used to support one particular candidate,” McGautha said, “and now I can understand that. And I didn’t condone them. I try very, very hard to remain within the limits of the law. I think this is unfortunate.”

She said she was aware of the video, and that many of the school’s activities are recorded, but that the teacher had been warned in a letter not to put it on the Internet. If he did, she said, he should seek legal counsel.

The teacher’s fate will be taken up by the charter school’s board, she said.

“Certain things don’t happen in public schools anyway, but there area lot of other ramifications when you take it public,” McGautha said.

“As far as [the teacher is] concerned, I think he gets what was supposed to come to him. But I don’t think the children should be the victims of his stupidity.”


^^Original News story: http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/06/middle-school-teacher-suspended-obama-frat-spat^^

John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin today repeated claims that Barack Obama is friends with a terrorist and represents the wrong type of change for America.

The attacks came as the McCain campaign tried to change the subject of the presidential race from the troubled US economy which has been disastrous for the Republicans in recent weeks.

Mrs Palin continued her attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee after a weekend in which she has repeatedly said Mr Obama sees America as so imperfect “that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country”.

The accusations relate to the 47-year-old Illinois senator’s association with 1960s radical Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground whose members were blamed for several bombings when Mr Obama was a child.

Mr Obama has denounced Ayers’ radical views and activities and there is no evidence they “pal around”.

But speaking about Mr Obama at a rally in Clearwater in the battleground state of Florida today, Mrs Palin said: “I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.

“This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in: not my kids, not for your kids.

“What we believe in is what Ronald Reagan believed in, and that is that America is an exceptional nation.

“I’m just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America: as the greatest source for good in this world.”

Her comments were slightly toned down from her incendiary remarks at the weekend, when she strongly suggested the two men were friends and referred to an alleged association between Mr Obama and terrorists plural.


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