Posted on 09/03/2009 7:51:53 AM PDT by steve0
The purpose of this thread is to secure a commitment from each local Principal to provide an opt-out so that no one is forced to endure Obama's subtle, presumptuous speech. Below, I will provide a sample of reasonable letters we want the Principal to sign. If refused, we know where they stand and will take the appropriate action against them. Here is an article of how they roll in Colorado. http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/09/douglas_county_school_allows_p.php It would be useful if the only comments on this thread are how to do this, report your results and contact information for the press to report and follow-up on.
America has OFFICIALLY landed at the intersection of...
ARE you a RACIST?
ARE you a COMRADE?
Meaning if you hold your child back on Tuesday and skip school, or you do not allow the child to enter the auditorium to be brainwashed...
The media will say...
The child is in a RACIST family.
If that child’s teacher is black, you do think your child will have a chance at having a happy and productive school year?
WE ARE “OFFICIALLY AT THE CROSSROADS of “picking a side while using the children”
It’s amazing how quickly Americans rose up to this latest ploy by OBOZO - speaks highly that our American spirit is alive and well!!!
My Sons are in Adams county.
I’ll either be in the classroom with them.
Or, we’ll take advantage of the great fishing weather here.
I emailed Limbaugh asking for him to do a counter-programming address to the youth of the nation. I hope his assistants catch my email.
Don’t the proles know they’re not supposed to opt out of one the Chairman’s speeches!!
Ping for later
If so, a breach of privacy law suit needs to be launched against the school itself.
Hey Charles Johnson,
Explain this Obama Youth video produced by Democrats.
Children should not be politicized, let them be children Charles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmkxY05eI0k
“If a child chooses not to watch the speech, the child will be sent to our media center to engage in an individual literacy activity directed by the teacher”
what does this mean? Do they actually have to do work versus a free ride of just sitting and watching obama?
Kids already face great peer pressure for a whole host of(TM Obama) things..this is just one more way to divide students.
I’m in Massachusetts and a caller to a radio show here said that her kid was forced to watch a video from Michelle Obama yesterday in class. There was no notice to the parents prior to running it but apparently it was about community service.
I pledge that I will only flush after a dukie, never after a single.
That would be cool. It’s the day we start our school year and something like that would be something to hear.
The teachers unions are also their allies and they'll go along with the Marxists unless you stop them.
Boycott everything union!!
This was a well reasoned civil approach, compared to the bull dozer obama approach.
I think that Principal chose the right way to satisfy everyone and everyone has a chance to allow their child learning moments ( well as much learning as a hitler type speech from barry can be). It sounds like there will be a really good alternative to watching the Dear Leader spout.
THAT was my concern, that kids who didn’t want to be brainwashed would be singled out.
Good job
Probably about how much you owe Black people and how worthless you and your culture are.
Here is the synopsis of basically how we are winning. Susan Meek, spokeswoman for the Douglas County School District received many calls of complaints. The office considered the issue and issued a communique to schools on the issue. Next, Staci McCormack, a local Principal took action and agreed to an opt-out policy. Amazingly, the Principal went so far as to alert each and every parent about the choice that they could make for their child under the opt-out policy. She also acknowledged that she’d heard from some parents unhappy at the prospect of their children seeing the Obama speech.
So basically, going that extra mile and making an actual phone call to the Principal can have results and a direct impact.
I had to do that for sex ed in elementary school when my kids were students. AZ had that option, but if we had still been in Cali, they would have been forced to go. Just amazing the power the government thinks they have over good ole Mom and Dad!
This is the PARENTS decision, not Obama's or the teachers!
I also heard of a school in Michigan where the kids were told they needed to have “0bama time.”
People...! It isn’t the speech by Dear Leader that’s the problem. It’s the follow-up “lesson plans”, push-poll questions, etc., the teachers have been provided with that will do a mind f**k on your kids.
How is this video going to be piped into schools/classrooms? Presumably, it will be via the internet, so the White House will be able to tell which schools participate and how many classrooms/computers receive the feed. The amount of info gleaned from this experiment is scary. Also, attendance data is already required from each public school by the federal government. I’m not sure if they require data down to the individual student.
It’d be rather amusing for the computer system to crash during the speech. LOL
Enjoy the fishing!
Does anyone know if this will be going on in high schools? I have a 10th grader. Maybe I’ll keep him home that day just as a statement. I’m sure he will be cooperative. ;)
and yet he has no problem doing the same to ours?
“It’d be rather amusing for the computer system to crash during the speech. LOL”
Funny. It’s possible, too, considering how tech UN-savvy these jerks are.
Where I went to school the funds that the schools received were based on attendance. Back in the late 80’s the rate was something crazy like $120 per student per day that the schools got funded and they lost that $120 per day each day the kid wasn’t in school.
This is why we could only miss 3 unexcused absences for half a year and a total of 5 unexcused absences for the year.
If it is still the same way they get funded I think the rate would be over $200 per day and if you had a school that had a few hundred students not showing up for a day it would impact the bottom line on the order of $xx,xxx or more.
[snicker]
“...the child will be sent to our media center to engage in an individual literacy activity directed by the teacher”
Is that what we used to call “study hall” or Library?
Why don’t they just say so!
Well consider taking action, just fishing will help your kids but won't help Johnny's classmates.
I object to the wording of that sentence. There's nothing subtle about Obama's speeches or agenda.
I vote for fishing! Nothing else brings you closer to God and self!
Texas leads the fight! Go,Texas!
Bravo!!! Quick response.
Probably reading a book about the Dear Leader.
Nope, not buying it...that “the alternative room” should be equal time....a Ronald Reagan inaugural speech for instance.
Go fishing with your kid that day.
It’ll starve the schools of funding.
DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL.
Do you really think a clip of Obama the boring speaking to school kids will advance Obamas cause with the kids parents? I don’t.
This is brilliant! “My kid’s school [Central Texas] have already announced they won’t televise the speech due to the ‘technical difficulties’ of a live telecast ... “
Suppose Dear Leader is wise enough go give only a "welcome back" "do your best" talk. Very benign.
Next talk, probably before summer, more parents will allow their children, and in fact there may be no outcry at all, and that is when he will be free to do a WHAMMY.
This is the time to ELIMINATE ALL this garbage. Just because YOUR CHILD is not a member of Obama's Youth, does not mean that YOU are free from being "reported". Suppose your child's friend is!
This Marxist propaganda ploy must be shut down now.
PASS Day - Parentally Approved Skip School Day - Sept. 8, 2009
I disagree. If this is not shut down now, Dear Leader will have monthly talks to the children.
My school district in North Texas is going to record it and put it on the district website so the parents can decide if they want to watch it with their children.
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