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You let the president of the United States speak to school children and the next thing you know they're singing about him.
The school in New Jersey says the kids were learning a song for Black History Month last winter.
It's become a YouTube sensation in the last few days, even though it was uploaded in June.
New Jersey's education commissioner today ordered a review of the teaching of the song, and wants to find ways to celebrate Black History Month without "inappropriate partisan politics in the classroom."
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