[DAILYCALLER] Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President Barack ObamaI think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
is required reading for fourth-graders. They say the book contains a host of controversial elements, not least of which is that it casts white Americans who disagree with Obama's politics as racist.
Fourth-grade students at Bluffview Elementary School were instructed that they would be tested and graded on the book's contents, reports EAGnews.org.
The book, called simply "Barack Obama," is published by Lerner Publications. The author, Jane Sutcliffe, appears to specialize in these kinds of biographies. She has written similar titles about Jesse Owens, Ronald Reagan, Sacagawea and Milton Hershey.
I'll just bet that her bio on Reagan reads a tad differently...
The kerfuffle about the book originally bubbled up through a Facebook page called Moms Against Duncan (MAD). The group actively opposes implementation of the Common Core curriculum.
EAGNews notes that the Obama book is part of Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program and an acceptable title under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which attempts to standardize various K-12 curricula around the country.
You can view a sample of the bio on Google
...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
Books.
The book continually identifies Obama on a first-name basis. It bizarrely blames the evils of television for learning ways "to be black" that are hilariously caricatured, stereotypical and negative.
