[laxcoach]

Some choice quotes:

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?

Teachers could encourage students to participate in the Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.

Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students

Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country....It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.

Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.

Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.

[NMEwithin]

This whole thing is just really strange....Obama is becoming more and more like [take your pick Dictator]

[laxcoach]

I want to know what “goals” this document is speaking of. What do you want to bet it is going to be some veiled way to organize “children” as his drone army that wants everything he asks them to support.

I’m going to keep my kid out of school during this exercise and instruct the teacher that my son is not allowed to write anything that is to be redistributed or displayed.

Has any President ever done anything this creepy with the public school system????

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Somewhere...and I wish I could find it.....I read where he will be on kid’s networks on that evening, as well.

[LibFreeUSA]

Here are some reader comments at docstoc.com :

OBAMA ONE VERY DANGEROUS MAN
- "I wonder if the teachers would have embraced George Bush doing this. Somehow I don't think so. I for one will be keeping my kids home on this day, maybe we will use the day to reinforce our founding principles and how they are slipping away from us. Obama is a dangerous individual, very dangerous!!!

KEEPING MY CHILDREN HOME
- "I will be keeping my children home this day. I will not have my children brain washed by the teachers or by Obama. We are on to his "community organizing tactics" and I don't think they help America. Children are in school to be taught and I've already heard they are wanting to teach them to go home and count people in their homes. What's happening to our country?"

POOR TIMING POOR JUDGEMENT
- "Aside from the issue of indoctrination how narcissistic is it for the Obama administration to think that entire school districts are simply going to stop all of their planned and/or mandatory school curriculum plans to do these activities much less listen to his speech? Does he really think that he can craft ... or his writers can craft ... a speech that will hold all of those kids' attention for that long? Honestly, the depth of arrogance of this administration is beyond the pale. The time they take out of the already planned school day will force them to make it up at some other point. And, not all schools have access to the technology necessary to put his little show on. If they do have access there isn't enough to of the technology to go around. Prez and his admin need to come back to the real world."

[eeevil conservative]

I am literally going to be sick....

[savage woman]

Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?

I would tell my child to say,”My Mom and Dad said it’s
more important that I listen to them. I cannot
answer any of these questions until I take home and
discuss these questions with my Mom and Dad.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.

UH OH.

[charmedone]

Tell 0 to put his ear just below my belt in the back and listen for the BUZZER.

[NorseWood]

Ask not what your president can do for you. Ask what you can do for your president. /s

[luckystarmom]

My suggested activity for the day is for my kids to help figure out ways in which they can help get a conservative elected president.

Of course, I think lessons on why we don’t depend on the government are always appropriate.

[Category Four]

“Are we able?” Perhaps. Willing? Hell no!