The video is made by Harpo Productions (aka Oprah). It consist of several Celebrities making various pledges. The I pledges consist of pledges to smile more, to love more, etc. Then there are other pledges like I pledge to makes sure every senior citizen has health care. Or I pledge to help in the advancement of stem cell research. One of the last pledges is: I pledge to be a servant to Obama. Many of these things are politically charged and don't, in my opinion, have a place in the classroom.
What classroom? What are you talking about? Well there is at least one report that I could find about a public school in Salt Lake. The school played this video as apart of a welcome back to school assembly. The principal of this school is reported saying:
Oops, I wish I would have seen this before. I don't think I would have shown itOops? I should have seen this video before I shown it to a whole school full of kids. Are you kidding me? If you saw it before hand you wouldn't have shown it. Why didn't the principal view this prior to showing it to the whole school? The principal has told parents in her district that she's sorry and knows that it was wrong to show this in the school.
I have to ask HOW MANY MORE schools have shown this video to the children WITHOUT the parent's prior knowledge?
Here is the video in question:
This is just another example of how parents NEED to be involved and NEED to know what's going on in the schools they send their children too!!! (If they are choosing to send their kids to school)
