Posted on 09/02/2009 1:51:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
"ABC" stands for All Barack's Children. On Sept. 8, young students across the country will be watching television. Yes, they'll be parked in front of boob tubes and computer screens watching President Obama's address on education.
Instead of practicing cursive, reviewing multiplication tables, diagramming sentences or learning something concrete, America's kids will be lectured about the importance of learning. And then the schoolchildren, from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, will be exhorted to Do Something -- other than sit in their seats and receive academic instruction, that is.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan dispatched letters to principals nationwide, boasting, "This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's schoolchildren about persisting and succeeding in school." But the goal is not merely morale boosting. According to White House event-related guides developed by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching Fellows, grade-school students will be told to "listen to the speech" and "think about the following":
-- What is the president trying to tell me?
-- What is the president asking me to do?
-- What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me to think about?
Students can record important parts of the speech where the president is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
After the speech, teachers will ask students:
-- 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?
Obama's White House Teaching Fellows include Chicago high-school educator Xian Barrett, a fierce opponent of charter schools who founded a "Social Justice Club" and bussed students to protests, and Michelle Bissonette, a Los Altos, Calif., teacher who is "focused on developing my leadership as a more culturally and racially conscious educator."
The activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists cannot be ignored. Zealous teachers unions have enlisted captive schoolchildren as letter-writers in their campaigns for higher education spending. Out-of-control activists have enlisted their secondary-school charges in pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage ceremonies, environmental propaganda stunts and anti-war events.
And last year's presidential campaign saw disgraceful abuses of power by pro-Obama instructors. In New Rochelle, N.Y., elementary students were given an in-class assignment to color in drawings of Obama -- including a picture of a campaign button featuring his face and the slogan "Students for Obama 2008." In Cumberland County, N.C., a fifth-grade teacher turned a "civics" discussion into an unhinged harangue against a girl who said her family supported John McCain.
Nor can the Democrats' strategy of using kiddie human shields to advance their legislative agenda be overlooked in the context and timing of Obama's speech. Children have been front and center of the left's push for an ever-increasing government role in health care -- from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's use of Baltimore seventh-grader Graeme Frost to push for the massive S-CHIP entitlement expansion to Obama's none-too-coincidental choice of Massachusetts 11-year-old town hall questioner Julia Hall (the daughter of a prominent Obama activist and organizer who assailed Obamacare critics' "mean" signs) to the Kennedy family's decision to put grandson Max Allen on center stage to pray for health care reform at his uncle's funeral last week.
So when the Department of Education directs schools to gather children 'round the TV monitors for Obama's pep talk and then have them do this…
-- Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. 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.
…parents have every right to worry about their children being used as Political Guinea Pigs for Change.
Has this guy no sense of shame in his entire body? When you’ve lost your sense of shame, you’ve lost your soul.
It'll just take a minute - it's short. But boy-oh-boy does it get to the point - especially about "Dear Leader"!
"Aw, come on, Mrs. Smith! Please ... can I just stay
in study hall so I won't have to listen to that a$$hole?!"
I wonder if there are people who will keep their kids home from school that day?
Yes, creating a nation of Communists; cause the parents will not comply.
We will know them by the color of their skin...whites need not apply!
The scariest aspect of this story is that apparantly there is already in place the technical infrastructure to enable him to address most, if not all, of the young students in government schools.
Why would our local schools need the capablity to allow students in their classrooms to be propagandized from a central source like this?
Even more to the point, why would we want them to have this caability?
Will we soon see Obama propaganda posters and speeches in the school buses across America so the brainwashing can continue on the way to and from school?
Geez. Homeschooling looks better and better every day.
How embarrassing for this nation, to go down without a fight.
At least my kids will be spared, they go to Catholic school, where POTUS muzzee Hussein is up there with satan in terms of reputation.
I just made me a note to tell my son to keep my grandson home from school that day
People who put their kids in socialist schools then complain about what the bureaucrats teach are like people who move into government housing and complain about the neighborhood or the color of the carpet.
Government schools have no place in a free society.
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
We'll be listening VERY carefully to what you have to say in your unprecedented speech to public school students on Sept 8th. It will be okay if you keep your message to positive platitudes such as “do your best,” “stay in school,” “develop a love for learning,” etc.
However, if you try to influence or brainwash those students with your socialist ideology, plug your leftist programs or get them to snitch on their parents we'll demand equal time in the classroom from someone who actually loves America and who will communicate a strong, common-sense conservative message, such as Governor Palin or Senators Thompson or DeMint. We knew what you were like before last November and we warned everyone we could, to no avail. You fooled 52% of the voters with your “Hope and Change” mantra and soothing “post-racial” centrism. Now your “chickens are coming home to roost” and the polls are turning on you.
Those are our children, grandchildren and neighbors you'll be addressing on the 8th and we have a “hawk-eye” peeled for your shenanigans. Don't think we don't know what you are all about, because we do, and more and more people are waking up to your intentions.
Sincerely,
Us taxpayers, veterans and voters.
Wow. That’s creepy.
No, he doesn’t. It would make a good point to him from Americans if they do keep their children home that day.
We than talk about what the pledge of allegiance is really about.
To help explain it, I play a clip of Red Skeleton explaining what the Pledge means.
I consider it a patriotic act to deny him his audience, my kids are staying home.
What exactly is this speech about ? I still don’t get it.
Substitute the word God for the words 'the president' and it sounds like a scripture meditation. Scary!
I wonder how many school levies will pass after this CRAP.
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