Angry parents get schools to shun Obama speech to students

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^ | September 3, 2009 | Bill Bush

[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.

[Jeff Head]

We should all oppose this on principle. The President has no place in the classrooms of all America's youth. We did not elect him to be our kids teacher, a pricniple, a local administrator, or school board member. We do that at the local level for precisely this reason.

This effort by the Obama White House is an abject abuse of pwoer. He has no constitutional edict or mandate to talk to our children without our knowlege of what he will have to say, without our ability to opt out.

That the WH was preparing educational material for supplemental lessons in the calss is even more troubling. Clearly, he is trying to influence the kids towards his way of thinking and that is not the place of the schoolroom...ever.

As I said, it should be opposed on principle. It is a troubling and even dangerous precedent given the historical precedent.

I am able to reason with most liberals on this issue when I make the following statement:

I think having a Sarah Palin WH schedule a direct feed broadcast to your children 6 years from now, with educational materials prepared for follow ons with the kids also prepared by a Palin WH, and without your knowledge or consent, would evoke a different attitude...but that is porecisely what this precedent establishes.

Some sputter at this, others are in complete denial because the truth assaults them and they do not want to hear it...but the point is driven home because they are faced with the abject reality of their anger and hate for Sarah Palin (a patriotic and wholesome American woman) and their support for a policy which could give her the same perogative.

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe Barry will start to “get it.”

[RC2]

Nope.....he’ll just go crying to his wife saying......”They don’t like me any more! What am I to do?” His wife will just say “Keep on lying, some of it will stick.”

[NMEwithin]

It's not about an innocent message from the POTUS...it's about the fact that WE DON'T TRUST this guy!

One look at the "lesson" plan is enough to show you this thing was originally designed as propaganda...thank god the parents of America are on top of this stuff...

[TruthConquers]

What if this is shown later, after that you can’t opt out.

Or, it is included at some OTHER time, class, and ... there you are. You can’t take it back out of the kids head.

And what about the socialization that COULD be used against your kid for being ... different? Remember the sex ed classes? How you where to feel SORRY for the poor uneducated kid whose parents don’t want them to know about sex?

Glads, this is so fraught with so many different ways that the schools can use to get to your kids WITHOUT you knowing.

[George from New England]

I just faxed my son’s high school the letter that excludes him from the broadcast audience.

[dfwgator]

If they wanted to just make the point of the importance of an education, and make the message apolitical, they could have gotten Obama to appear along with say, Senator McCain.

At least then that would have eliminated the partisanship aspect and it would have raised a lot less stink.

Of course the fact that Obama didn’t consider that approach suggests that indeed he does have an agenda here.

[Jeff Head]

And they will. Some school shave already announced that they will record the message and then use it later in Social Studeis teaching plans.

[HIDEK6]

without our ability to opt out.

And then, all the children who opt out will find themselves on an "enemies" list.

It will probably be put into their permanent record, too.

[RummyChick]

Write a Hatch Amendment letter to your school.

[OSHA]

If Zero wants to encourage kids to stay in school and study hard there is an existing medium made for him to do so.

It is called a "Publc Service Announcement."

[Charlespg]

"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."

BULL S**** you dammed liar!!
its about asking kids to be of service to Obama's political agenda

[NMEwithin]

Yeah...I mean if this thing is so important to Obama and is as innocent as they make it seem why not start a nationwide PSA campaign ala Nancy Reagan?

This streaming directly in to schools with an associated "lesson" plan is just to weird in my opinion and I don't even have kids.

[dfwgator]

How many times did HW and Clinton appear together for reasons like raising money for Tsunami and Katrina victims?

[MrB]

The bastids are lying about the content.
This is evident by the “assignment” that 0bama
was going to have the students do.

It was all about pledging support for “dear leader”.

[griswold3]

This opposition is good! There are many despots that started out with ‘innocent’ remarks.
Better safe than sorry (or more sorry than now!)

[UB355]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/57119542.html

My Wisconsin School District is not showing either

[Concho]

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,

[MayflowerMadam]

“What if this is shown later, after that you can’t opt out.”

Give your kids a strong “heads-up” to promise to report to you if ANY Obama-related stuff comes up in an class — video, discussions, etc.