Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”

Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”
By Guest Post | Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 | Central Virginia, Culture, Virginia

By Rob Schilling, host of “The Schilling Show” on WINA Charlottesville

Within weeks of a national scandal at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Massachusetts—where an overzealous government school official removed “God” from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”—a local teacher has performed her own secular exorcism on another popular song.

For an upcoming 4th and 5th grade performance at Albemarle County’s Broadus Wood Elementary School in central Virginia, music teacher, Jean Flaherty, has altered a key line from the 1985 Michael Jackson / Lionel Richie composition, “We Are The World.” In an effort to avoid offending non-believers, Flaherty overtly removed lyrical reference to “God.” Read More