Posted on 09/03/2009 9:47:41 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of some parents who intend to keep their children home next week on Tuesday, September 8, rather than have them go to school for President Obama's speech to children across the nation.
According to one of the guests, the Department of Education sent word of this plan directly to schools without going through normal protocols, including local Boards of Education. It is also the first time a U.S. President has tried to do such a message directly to children.
I don't think the issue is what Obama is necessarily going to say. It could be. But even if the message is totally innocuous, the attempt is clearly to go past parents and guardians to impact the next generation to idolize President Obama. Imagine if George W. Bush had done such a thing? The outcry from the Mainstream Media would have been deafening. But with Obama, the controversy is not even being mentioned by the media in the bag for Obama. . . . (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
Bookmarked. Vid not working. Can someone zap me the YT URL, please?
My issue is not so much what President Zero is going to say; my issue is that there will then be collusion between the NEA and the White House, assigning and grading students on this material. Peer pressure has been used in the past, and will no doubt be used again to force the students to accept whatver precept is given, or is put forth by Liberal Teachers under the guise of 'education'.
I find that reprehensible, and it seems like a de facto admission that he was up to no good.
I just saw a video, on Fox news in my break room at work, with famous people who said they "promise to be a servant" of Obama. I don't know why, but that phraseology just don't sit right with me. But hey, Ashton Kutcher was in it, and he's super cool, so I say let's all follow along blindly.
Or instead head home like me to re-inventory our firearms. Remember kids, your gun can never be too clean!
It is sickening watching this communist dictator push his way around.
It’s not the first time. Bush did it in 1989.
This is vitally important. I will be expecting a reply from each addressee on this email. Regarding President Obama’s address to the nation’s students…
I trust you will continue with your PLANNED lessons and activities on Tuesday, September 8th. I have an expectation that each and every day’s lesson plans are part of the overall curriculum required to complete the school year. Otherwise the school year would be shortened. I also trust my children’s lunch period will not be disrupted by airing the speech in the cafeteria.
The planned address by President Obama would disrupt this schedule, interfering with the education of my children. I have examined the menu of activities published by the U.S. Department of education and find it totally inappropriate to compel students to listen to the speech and participate in these activities. The President does not have the academic credentials to teach any Elementary or High School lesson. In fact, his academic performance is a mystery since he has never released his grades from High School or College. He has never released his graded writings or thesis papers that led to the conference of his degrees. He is unqualified to speak to the subject of setting academic goals since he has never stated how he set academic goals and plans, and how he achieved them (and how his grades reflected those goals).
It is also no small thing that President Obama has admitted to using illegal drugs including marijuana in his youth. This well known fact can provide these impressionable teens the rationale that they too could engage in these destructive activities and still achieve their academic goals.
If you insist on using the taxpayer funded facility to require students to listen to a partisan political speech and directed activities (the “Menu of Classroom Activities” is political), then you have quite a dilemma on your hands. Parents like me, will not consent to our children participating in this activity because of the concerns stated above. You must set up a separate facility within the school for these children and provide appropriate academic activities to keep them engaged (I am also requesting you publically release the lesson plan for these activities). The other side of this coin is that these children will be separated from their peers and some division will naturally occur where there wasn’t any before. Some of the activities specify that the children create posters and such that will be posted in the classroom or hallways, since my children will not participate in that activity they will be unduly subject to political peer pressure.
If you insist that all students at school that day must participate in the President’s lecture and activities, it will be necessary to keep my children home. Therein lies another dilemma for you. My children will not be sick and therefore it could be a classified as an unexcused absence. Will such an absence be held against my child in ANY way? That is a question that must be answered.
I believe a fine alternative for parents who wish to participate in this event is for them to keep THEIR children at home and watch the speech and do the specified activities with their child. That way no parent will be denied the academic exercises that they choose for their child. I choose the academic exercises in each subject area that are part of the curricula defined for this academic year.
As I mentioned; I expect (as a tax paying parent entrusting the education and care of my children to this school district) that each addressee will respond to this email. I have seen the talking points that have been released by the National Education Association, and hope you will not resort to such “canned” statements.
I will release this as an open letter to the media, but I will not release the names of the addressees. I ask that you extend the same courtesy to my family by not releasing my name or the names of my children. I would consider such a release a violation of ethics and privacy.
Submitted with all due respect and appreciation for the fine work that the ________ County School system provides for our children and community…
Thanks for your attention and actions in resolution of the matter.
Sincerely,
Google is your friend. I don’t know the answers. Start here.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/13/us/bush-urges-youngsters-to-help-friends-on-drugs.html
Evidently, Reagan addressed the kids, too.
That makes it ok?
I am just telling you that other Presidents have done this.
Btw, if you go back to the one done by reagan..he talked about politics...I am sure there were liberal parents who were not happy about that.. he answered questions..and furthered the Republican agenda.
I would not have a problem with the president addressing the students if his remarks were limited to welcoming the students to the new school year, encouraging them to work hard and thanking the school administration and teachers for their hard work. Where the line gets crossed, is when the students are compelled to help show how best to help Pres Obama. With the acknowledgement that the generated papers would be drudged up later in the school year to see how the student had faired in meeting their goal of helping the Big Cheese, means that this would become at least a weekly reminder in class. By the end of the school year, everyone would be a veteran in helping Obama. Come election time. It would be a natural extension to volunteer to work for the Obama campaign, as the overall message of this initial talk is about helping Barack.
If the purpose of the talk was to inspire the students of America, that would have been fine, but as we now know, this was to be but the first step in enlisting the youth of America into Barack’s army.
One should not overlook the role of the NEA in allowing this whole thing to come off almost unnoticed. Educator’s by their nature should have the best interests of the student at heart. The NEA has sold the students down the river with this stunt.
I would not have a problem with the president addressing the students if his remarks were limited to welcoming the students to the new school year, encouraging them to work hard and thanking the school administration and teachers for their hard work. Where the line gets crossed, is when the students are compelled to help show how best to help Pres Obama. With the acknowledgement that the generated papers would be drudged up later in the school year to see how the student had faired in meeting their goal of helping the Big Cheese, means that this would become at least a weekly reminder in class. By the end of the school year, everyone would be a veteran in helping Obama. Come election time. It would be a natural extension to volunteer to work for the Obama campaign, as the overall message of this initial talk is about helping Barack.
If the purpose of the talk was to inspire the students of America, that would have been fine, but as we now know, this was to be but the first step in enlisting the youth of America into Barack’s army.
One should not overlook the role of the NEA in allowing this whole thing to come off almost unnoticed. Educator’s by their nature should have the best interests of the student at heart. The NEA has sold the students down the river with this stunt.
If 5% of the teachers and administrators fully support the video and lesson plan, and the indoctrination sticks with 5% of those kids, Obama will have all the seeds planted for his future *civilian defense force*.
you should shout this far and wide, so obama will be encouraged to spread his marxist propaganda. good work.
who cares if there is a huge difference between what reagan says and what MARX says.
please email this to democrat underground or msnbc.
I look at all sides and am not afraid to call it like I see it. Just like with the Republicans that keep shouting that Obama was/is a UK citizen. He VERY LIKELY WAS/IS NOT with the facts that we know at this time.
Reagan’s speech to those kids was political in nature. He spoke about Republican policies and his view on the laws.
This is fine with you because you liked Reagan??? But what about those that didn’t???
It is no different - with the exception of the lesson plan.
You don’t like Obama or his policies so you scream and shout but don’t think liberals were justified to do the same with Reagan??? Or flip it...Reagan can do it but Obama can’t???
If you take away the lesson plan to help Obama part of this...what Reagan did is worse because he was forwarding the Republican agenda on various subject areas.
That is just a fact.
If a President wants to address the school, the parent should know what is going to be in the speech and either decide it is okay or pull the kid out. It is their decision.
But this ignoring of the fact that Reagan did the same thing with a political agenda doesn’t hold with me. Facts are facts.
Yes, parents are afraid of a Hitler Youth Brigade. But maybe liberals were scared for their children too under Reagan with his political speech to the kids.
If you go down this path of one sideness views... you start to become like a liberal. “Okay for me to do..but not for you....”
Nice to see there are 1 or 2 out there with stones!
Part of the text of Reagan Event:
Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Area Junior High School Students
November 14, 1988
The President. You know, this is a real treat for me — having you here and to have, in a little while, the chance to answer some of your questions. Let me also offer a special hello to those of you who are watching on C-SPAN and — or the Instructional Television Network. Thank you for inviting us into your home or your school today.
This marks the beginning of American Education Week, and I’m particularly pleased to be talking to American students in this, the first in a series of speeches that I’ll be giving before I leave office. But before we begin here, I have a special message from my roommate. She says to please — for your families, for your friends, for your country, and most of all for yourselves — just say no to drugs.
Now, last week the United States did something so exceptional that people around the world marveled at it. Last week the American people freely elected our government. Some ballots were cast by people who were rich and famous, and others were cast by most ordinary people, but each person had the same, one vote. These ballots were cast in secret, and they were counted in the open, not the other way around. And when the votes were totaled, those holding or seeking the highest positions in the land all surrendered to the will of the people. Soon, power will be peacefully transferred from those leaving office to those taking office. And, yes, we do this every election year, and that’s what so much of the world marvels at. What we in America take for granted is something that’s rare in history and all too remarkable on this globe, the Earth.
The United States is the world’s oldest democratic government. And at my age, when I tell you something is the oldest in the world, you can take my word for it; I’m probably talking from personal experience. And it’s not just that our government is the oldest of its kind, but that it’s based on the world’s most revolutionary political idea. You can see that concept in the very first line of our Constitution, and it begins with three simple words: “We the People.” In other countries, in their constitutions — they all have constitutions, and I’ve read a great many of them, those other ones — and the difference is so small, but it’s found in those three words. Because their constitutions are documents by the Governments telling the people what they can do. And in our country, our Constitution is by the people, and it tells the Government what it can do. And only those things listed in the Constitution, and nothing else, can Government do. So, in America, it is the people who are in charge. And one day you’ll be those people out there voting and creating the Government.
That vision of self-government was the basis for the American Revolution, the first revolution of its kind and one of the most important historic events not just for our own nation but for all humanity. Because most revolutions have always just been a case of replacing one set of rulers for another set of rulers. Ours was that kind of a constitution where, for the first time, it was announced — what I’ve told you before already — that the people were in charge of the Government, not the other way around.
Now, the Revolution may seem like something they say happened a long time ago — to me 200 years seems just like yesterday — but I think it’ll prove to be America’s most important guidepost for the future. I believe that the chief moral task for America in your generation — a period destined for great change — will be not so much to chart a new course or launch a new revolution, but to keep faith with the original American Revolution and that remarkable vision of freedom that has brought us two centuries of liberty and is still today transforming the world.
Over these 200 years, country after country has followed our path, and I believe that ultimately all nations will do so. It’s no exaggeration to say that the political vision of our Founding Fathers has become the model for the world. This is true not just in the many countries that have turned from despotism to democracy these last years, it’s also true even where it’s least apparent. It’s remarkable
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