Oh yes, 8 and 9 year olds came up with this all on their own.

You know... I'm a liberal and I live in VA. But even I seriously doubt those kids wrote that song. I mean come on. 3rd graders?? What the heck are they teaching these kids?

A bunch of parents should be attending the next school board meetings and continue to attend them until they can be assured this or any political positions are not taught to their children. Time to start making teachers and administrators accountable for how they teach reading writing and arithmetic to our students....and yes I am one of the 99%.

in kindergarten, our teacher taught us the Marine Corps Battle Hymn..."from the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli," 3rd grade: "God Bless America," "America the Beautiful...from Sea to Shining Sea" (Expansionist indoctrination?) and in 3rd grade summer school: "Blowin in the Wind" anti - war song...still remember learning 16 tons...and why.
And how about the good ol' Battle Hymn of the Republic? Glory Hallelujah? mixing religion AND politics! Whatever was this country coming to when I was in early elementary school?
Thanks to No Child Left Behind, our children don't have "time" in school for folk music that teaches so much history and helps them figure out their own take on patriotism, honor, and compassion, I miss music education in elementary school!

The kids wrote that without help? And I wrote Romoe and Juliet.
It's really sad when people manipulate children for their political purposes. It's reprehensibl when it is done using someone elses children.
It's not surprising to see this drivel from school teachers, the nea is one of the strongest socialist organizations in the country.
Sad, but not surprising.

My youngest is in 3rd grade, and I can not imagine his class coming up with a song like that on their own.

AMERICA: Who is kidding whom? These third grade children did NOT compile these lyrics without indoctrination from an adult. Furthermore, if Koleszar lied about the production of these lyrics, it begs the question, what else are these vulnerable children being exposed to under the supervision of the American education system? PARENTS - the proverbial ball is now in your court. In the interim.... END MEDICAL ABUSE AND FOSTER CARE CORRUPTION NOW.

Why are conservative blogger's concerned? Rise Against's "Swing Life Away" is way more popular... nothing wrong with a living wage and friends...

It used to be that Americans were proud to consider themselves part of the silent majority, proud of coming from humble origins and convinced that most Americans were just like them. The rich were a minority that few had anything in common with and that didn't matter. Now we have to defend the wealthiest most powerful portion of our society from even the songs of 3rd graders? We've become a pathetic lot if that's the case.

I will agree that most 3rd graders are probably incapable of writing this song. That does not mean, however, that NO 3rd grader could have. My son is extremely intelligent, and one of my first clues was when he began arguing politics with me IN THE FIRST GRADE. He had very clear views on who should be the next governor of Alabama and he had valid reasons. I was far less informed and knowledgeable on the issues than he was. Someone overheard the conversation and called my attention to the fact that this was highly unusual. I agree... it was unusual, but not impossible. It happened. My point is this... it is entirely possible that a student in that class was bright enough to start that song, and to pull his classmates along with him/her. Let's give our kids some credit. We complain when they aren't talking about anything but video games, so let's celebrate the ones who DO think about the more important stuff.

People, you want to see how well Socialism works? Try reading Solzhenitsyn...or any other contemporary Russian writer. Are you all really such sheep? Socialism, Marxism, Communism creates the ruling class and the peasants. Period. Please wake up and learn from history before you completely destroy America...if you like those types of government...MOVE!

Smart well-educated kids I see a lot of people writing. In 3rd grade my son was singing about sledding behind the school and going to Grandma's house, not about how hard he has worked and how much he has lost to the government. These lyrics show just how early the liberal education system is brainwashing children these days. How much more proof does the world need that socialism is being forced on our children from outside of the home? THIS IS NOT THEIR CHOICE! These children may have chosen the path of their song, but from what biased source? Well duhhhhh... this is the TEACHERS' song!

BEWARE parents they're brainwashing your children.

It seems it's never to young to start brainwashing the children in the public school system.

I wonder how many parents would have refused to allow their children to participate in this event if they had been given the lyrics to this song prior to being blindsided by it at the recital.

Third graders wrote that? At the beginning it said the principal wrote it. Whatever 8 or 9 year old wrote that must be a prodigy or something. To know what is going on politically and to know how someone feels when they work so hard. How can a little kid know what it's like to work really hard? To give up family and friends for a career? No one that young could comprehend that. If the kids are singing that I hope their teaching them about how in the USSR millions of people starved to death because the gov. wouldn't feed them and in China how the communist gov. killed their own people to have less mouths to feed and how they only allow families to have so many children and afterwards they sterilize the parents and after the Berlin Wall fell a bunch of college students in China tried to protest the gov. and the gov. killed them all.

Yes, all third graders I know are into the political scenes and have life experiences in losing their yacht, working hard and their bubble's bursting. My own third grader is studying about the new sanctions signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve that would cut off any financial institutions that work with Iran's central bank from the U.S. financial system, blocking the main path for payments for Iranian oil. He even wrote a song about it. Whatever.

What ever happened to "I pledge allegiance to the UNITED states of America". Our country has no central theme any longer. It has been divided by Rupert Murdoch and corporate elite. They eliminate public education and replace it with home schooling. Or worse - they allow slavery math/social study questions like "how many slaves does it take to pick cotton?".

Our cultural values have been divided. Intentionally - to create small pockets in which a greater divide is accomplished.

We the people have not benefitted - it is the corporate lobbyists, large multinational corporations, and the oil&gas industries - who wish to have carte blanche approval to pollute the American waterways, air and to steal it's wealth.

Those kids in Virginia are pretty smart. They chose WE THE PEOPLE. Must be the Thomas Jefferson influence.

Bravo to the 99% - we are America. The rest are international slave owners.

most American adults are actually children. They don´t care about facts, just if their side wins

Wow ! Think of all the jobs the president could create if he hired these kids as his speech writers ! They might help him finally sell the country on his health care plan.