Teacher Makes Students Do Opposition Research for Obama

A Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support Pres. Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the GOP presidential candidates. The 8th grade students, who attend Liberty Middle School in Fairfax Co., were required to seek out the vulnerabilities of Republican candidates and forward them to the Obama campaign. “This assignment was just creepy beyond belief — like something out of East Germany during the Cold War,” one frustrated father, who asked for his family to remain anonymous, said. The assignment was for students to research the backgrounds and positions of each of the GOP candidates for president and find “weaknesses” in them, prepare a strategy paper to exploit those weaknesses and send their suggestions to the Obama campaign.

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