While talking with one of Adorable Child’s friends yesterday afternoon, she mentioned that her 8th grade History class is talking right now about politics, and they’ve been looking at the current election campaign.
A fairly wide-ranging discussion ensued in my den, and when the name “Barack Obama” came into our conversation, this young teenager said (paraphrasing): “Isn’t he a spy for the terrorists?”
Talk about a show-stopper!
When I asked her where she’d heard that, she said that her teacher mentioned it. Under further questioning, she said she wasn’t sure, but she thinks her teacher said it wasn’t true, and that Obama was only one example. She could not, unfortunately, remember any of the other candidates discussed, nor what was said about them.
Isn’t it odd how she somehow came away with only the smallest part of the lesson? Was this nothing more than ordinary teenage inattention, do you think? I really want to believe it was…
*ahem*
.. but I think a phone call to the school might be in order.