ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A video that appeared on YouTube recently of Asheville students chanting "change has come" while talking about President Barack Obama has stirred up controversy.

The video features some students at Sand Hill-Veneable Elementary School during a performance about famous Americans. The entire program, which was performed in February, was 26 minutes long, but it's the last 55 seconds that are at the center of the debate.

Jan Blunt with the Buncombe County School district said that the program included skits and music about people like George Washington, Clara Barton and Amelia Earhart. The program also included a chant about then newly-elected President Barack Obama.

During that skit, the children talk about the importance of education and making America better. They also chant things like "change has come" and "yes we can."

The program was in accordance with North Carolina curriculum, which includes teaching children about leaders, good citizenship, cultures and diversity, Blunt said.

Blunt said that many of those parents, who she said gave a standing ovation at the end of the program, are now upset that their kids have been put on YouTube. She said that they feel their kids were not being indoctrinated.

"It's unfortunate, I think, when these children, who are very patriotic and love America, want to succeed and are trying to encourage themselves to do well, are being made to be political pawn for someone else's agenda," Blunt said. "They did not have an agenda. The teachers didn't have an agenda. They were celebrating an accomplishment, which is the first African-America president of our country."

However, Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower, compares the chants to the programming of children in Nazi Germany.

"That event was about chanting campaign slogans," Mumpower said. "There is a difference, a big difference. That is ritual behavior and that's how you plug things into kids' heads. I'll come right out and say it. That's exactly how the Hitler youth were programed prior to World War II."

Mumpower did not say if he or anyone else was taking issue with the message of change, hope and making America a better place, only that it was being drilled into the children's heads. He said that many people feel that politics should be left out of the classroom.

FOX Carolina tracked down the man who posted the video on YouTube, which was titled "Liberal Indoctrination Camp," and had received more than 13,000 hits before he pulled it off the site on Tuesday afternoon.

"I only saw (and remember having access to only) the part that I posted and had no (or lazily did not take time to look for) other video by which to compare and take in context, so for that I am sorry," the poster said in a statement to FOX Carolina. "I think it is good to dialogue about the issue and have a good debate."

Blunt said that some of the parents of the students seen in the video are fearing for the safety of their children. She said that some of the teachers and parents have received hundreds of threatening e-mails and phone calls from people who call the program indoctrination.