Posted on 09/04/2009 11:03:26 AM PDT by SlayerOfBunnies
Angry parents get schools to shun Obama speech to students
Dublin, Hilliard, Olentangy districts decide not to show president's TV address Tuesday
Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:22 PM
By Bill Bush
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
School districts across central Ohio learned today that the list of things parents want their children protected from -- drugs, predators, violence -- now includes the president of the United States delivering a "stay in school" message.
Faced with phone calls from angry parents who don't want their children to view the Tuesday address to the nation's students by President Barack Obama, several districts have decided to just say no.
The U.S. Department of Education has billed the 15- to 20-minute speech as one that will talk to students "about persisting and succeeding in school."
But critics, fueled by talk radio and conservative bloggers, have objected nationwide, fearing the address from a high school in Virginia will cross the line into politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...
Maybe you missed the first one.
Model Hatch Amendment Letter
Under the Hatch Amendment Parents have the right to be assured their children’s beliefs and moral values are not undermined by the schools.
(Address)
(City/State/Zip Code)
Dear______________: I am the parent of________________ who attends ______________ school. Under U.S. legislation and federal court decisions, parents have the primary responsibility for their children’s education, and pupils have certain rights, which the school may not deny.
Parents have the right to be assured their children’s beliefs and moral values are not undermined by the schools. Pupils have the right to have and to hold their values and moral standards without direct or indirect manipulations by the schools through the curricula, textbooks, audio-visual materials or supplementary assignments.
Under the Hatch Amendment, I hereby request that my child NOT be involved in any school activities or materials listed unless I have first reviewed all the relevant materials and have given my written consent for their use:
Psychological and psychiatric treatment that is designed to affect behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings of an individual or group;?
? Values clarifications, use of moral dilemmas, discussion of religious or moral standards, role-playing or open-ended discussions of situations involving moral issues, and survival games including life/death decision exercises;
? Contrived incidents for self-revelation; sensitivity training, group encounter sessions, talk-ins, magic-circle techniques, self-evaluation and auto-criticism; strategies designed for self-disclosure including the keeping of a diary or a journal or a log book;
? Sociograms, sociodrama; psychodrama; blindfold walks; isolation techniques;
? Death education, including abortion, euthanasia, suicide, use of violence, and discussions of death and dying;
? Curricula pertaining to drugs and alcohol;
? Nuclear war, nuclear policy and nuclear classroom games;
? Globalism, one-world government or anti-nationalistic curricula;
? Discussion and testing on interpersonal relationships; discussions of attitudes toward parents and parenting;
? Educating in human sexuality, including pre-marital sex, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, group sex and marriages, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation, divorce, population control, and roles of males and females; sex behavior and attitudes of student and family;
? Pornography and any materials containing profanity and/or sexual explicitness;
?Guided-fantasy techniques; hypnotic techniques; imagery and suggestology;
? Organic evolution, including Darwin’s theory;
? Discussions of witchcraft, occultism, the supernatural, and mysticism;
?Political and/or religious affiliations of students or family;
? Income of family;
? Non-academic personality tests; questionnaires or personal and family life attitudes.
The purpose of this letter is to preserve my child’s rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (The Hatch Amendment) to the General Education Provisions Act, and under its regulations as published in the Federal Register of September 6, 1984, which became effective November 12, 1984.
These regulations provide a procedure for filing complaints first at the local level and then with the U.S. Department of Education. If a voluntary remedy fails, federal funds can be withdrawn from those in violation of the law.
I respectfully ask you to send me a substantive response to this letter attaching a copy of your policy statement on procedures for parental permission requirements, to notify all my child’s teachers, and to keep a copy of this letter in my child’s permanent file.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
Ugh, the Columbus Disgrace. Something tells me I should arm myself with barf bags before reading this article.
I used to get threatened with that, didn't we all? I'd sure like to see my "permanent record". Wonder how to go about getting it?
I graduated from high school in '63, mine's probably dust by now.
Suggestions:
Go hunting.
Go shooting.
Go to Cabela's for lunch and look at the animals and fish.
Go to a Revolutionary of Civil War Battlefield.
Go see Veterans at the VA Hospital.
Buy a vet lunch and have them tell their stories.
Review your emergency meeting and escape routes - make it fun!
Teach Junior how to read maps and navigate.
Go Les Stroud and have fun.
Go to the Zoo.
Watch reruns of I love Lucy rather than the rantings of Dearleader.
They wouldn't even confirm he went there!
Waste of time trying to get a school record unless you're a czar, commisar or apparatchik.
I disagree with that a bit. I don’t have an issue with The President of the United States visiting school classrooms or giving a harmless pep talk about the value of a good education.
My issue is that is not what was going to happen. It was once again going to be about him and how those children could serve him. It’s not the speech that is the problem but the content.
Just a thought. What happens if Obama actually changes the speech to make it pretty innocuous.
Then he gets to paint his opponents as a bunch of loonies.
This could have been a setup from the very beginning.
These guys play dirty.
I do have a problem with it. It is not his place or role. If we give him the power to access our kids at school whenever he wants and talk to them in this manner, we are relinquishing our rights as parents and our role at the local level to determine our kids education. Opening up a pandora’s box. I do not trust politicians...they will slant the discussion. I oppose it on principle.
Another lib “journalist” passing off Hussein’s indoctrination attempt as a stay in school message.
The content is irrelevant. I don’t care if he wants to discuss how to make a nice batch of cookies. He has no right to use the Office of Presidency to force himself into the nation’s classrooms. What’s next-—our churches?
BOOMARK
Do you remember when it was objectionable to even have a picture of president Bush in the classroom?
Unless parents know when it is going to occur and what the message is going to be beforehand, and have the ability to opt out of their kids hearing it (as they would with a national broadcast) the President should not be going directly to children around the President...no matter what the political stripe.
It quite simply has nothing to do with their role as President.
Otherwise, we set a horrible precedent that someone like Obama takes advanbtage of.
My understanding is that Reagan and Bush went through the school boards in their requests for permission. This info went directly to principals.
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