Posted on 09/02/2009 3:47:16 PM PDT by RowdyFFC
If I had children still in school and objected to the invasion of public schools with propaganda, I would send a note to school with my children that they are to be exempted from participation in this exercise. And if the school gave me any flack, I'd just keep them home that day.
Where is the requirement that our children need to be 'inspired' by socialism and guilt trips that is vested in the ideology of Barack Obama?
Free Men do not have to ask Permission.
Keep them home.
I was going to suggest keeping them home, claiming they have the flu... but that would probably get them sent off to some quarantine facility somewhere.
Send the kids with an iPod filled with Rush, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity...
cough cough, I think my kids are getting the flu, so they will be staying home so as to not infect others. It’s a noble safety precaution.
I wonder what would happen if Bush had had a little heart to heart with the school kids about his policies?
Propaganda is unbecoming an American President.
I’ll bet many localities still have pretty draconian Truancy Ordinances left over from the 50’s...
Just because they haven’t been enforced rigorously lately, doesn’t mean they’re not still on the books...
Just sayin’.....
I would send my little critter to school with an iPhone3gs so he/she could video tape and record the message.
If you have a child at school... send your 3GS with them Tuesday and ask them to quietly record it (for YouTube).
Make sure they are discreet.
If I had kids they would be going on a civics field trip with me that day. That is the day the Tea Party Express is coming to town.
Yep, any way they can screw you, they will, it seems.
Can you say political education and ideological indoctrination? That's exactly what's going on here.
Will it be accessible by anyone over the internet.
I’m not sure.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
If that’s the case, we need to save it all for historical references.
They’ll change/delete it the second people disagree with any part of it as factual.
The left has a habit of shooting themselves in the foot.
This is really way past creepy. It is reminds one of the way theHitler Youth of the 1930s arose. I don’t know how we can stop this guy, but one way or another, we must. We are about to lose our country to a very dangerous fraud. sd
I’d be keeping mine home (if they were still school age.)
It’s not like they’re going to miss school work...the school’s are showing Obama on TV and then having discussion sessions...so the school obviously is not afraid to cancel the schoolwork.
Here is a great boilerplate letter circulating by email:
Dear <<<>>> School Board Members:
I am the parent of a child in a <<>> School District elementary school. In connection with President Obama’s scheduled speech to all of the nation’s public schoolchildren next week, I have a few questions:
1. Does the federal government exercise control over the local public elementary schools? That is, can the President of the United States dictate the timing and subject matter of presentations to elementary school students?
2. Does the School Board have a choice concerning whether to broadcast President Obama’s speech?
3. If the school board has a choice, when will the school board meet to decide its course of action? If there is no special or regular meeting to make the decision, when and how will that decision be made?
4. Do school principals have a choice concerning whether to broadcast President Obama’s speech to all of its students?
5. Do teachers have a choice concerning whether or when to broadcast the speech? Will all teachers be required to broadcast the speech and conduct the federal government’s recommended pre-speech activities and follow up discussions as an addition to the regular school day curriculum?
6. If the decision is made to broadcast the President’s speech in the classroom, will parents be offered a choice to exempt their children from this broadcast and its attendant activities without a marked absence or other penalty?
Thank you very much for your responses to these questions prior to the September 8th event.
Sincerely,
I dont have kids in school any more but as a taxpayer I object to this waste of my tax dollars and have written to the school board with my concerns
So he’s speaking to the school kids on the 8th, and he’s speaking to a joint session of Congress on the 9th (covered by all the major TV networks, no doubt.) Talk about overexposure.
Is this only for elementary children? If they were playing it at my kids high school in Dallas, BO would be laughed out of the building. Thank goodness for conservative Texas.
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