December 8, 2009 5:15 PM
Missouri school surprise: Obama logo school supplies
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports:
Supplies with Obama logo surprise school
By Jonathon Braden Thursday, December 3, 2009A notebook sold to a student out of a supply machine at Mill Creek Elementary School bears a logo and slogan similar to those used in the Obama campaign last year. The supplier also distributed pencils with a similar theme.
A notebook sold to a student out of a supply machine at Mill Creek Elementary School bears a logo and slogan similar to those used in the Obama campaign last year. The supplier also distributed pencils with a similar theme.
Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign ads have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the state yanking the supplies out of machines.
"Don't be mad at us," said Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil Wholesale. "It was a total accident."
Pencil Wholesale distributes supplies to six Columbia schools: Parkade Elementary, Cedar Ridge Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, Smithton Middle School and Hickman High School, said Linda Quinley, the district's chief financial officer.
At Mill Creek, at least one pencil and a notebook with designs similar to Obama campaign advertisements have been sold out of a supply machine. Two families have complained about the politically tinged materials.
Three Missouri schools have contacted Jones since the beginning of the school year asking that the materials be removed, and Mill Creek Principal Mary Sue Gibson this week said she also planned to call Pencil Wholesale.
"I just don't want to get into that political arena at all," she said.
The bound three-ring notebook bears a photo of literal change -- pennies, quarters, dimes and nickels stacked into piles. Above the photo, white text reads "CHANGE" over a navy background.
Read more at the Columbia Daily Tribune.
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Comments
Marketing the "Obamessiah" directly to impressionable school children? Sure, that's an "accident".
Posted by: Rachel | December 9, 2009 1:44 AM
When will this nonsense stop? As parents we entrust our children to the school system, and I wonder what is our protection that this school system does serve them well.
My children are grown but I worry about my Grandchildren when they start school. This truly frightens me.
God Help Us!!
Posted by: Diana M. Brown | December 9, 2009 6:29 PM
