Posted on 09/05/2009 8:13:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a nationally televised educational address next Tuesday Barack Obama is scheduled to, according to the Department of Education, “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.”
Concerns by many Americans that Mr. Obama’s televised address to schoolchildren will simply represent a forum for socialist indoctrination are wildly “overwrought” according to a Wall Street Journal editorial today:
“America's children are not so vulnerable that we need to slap an NC-17 rating on Presidential speeches. Given how many minority children struggle in school, a pep talk from the first African-American President could even do some good.”
While the WSJ editors criticized some of the Education Department’s post speech lesson plans they also condemned those “columnists who spy a conspiracy theory behind every Democrat” for “spreading alarm.”
Could a pep talk from the first African-American President “do some good” for minority students as the WSJ editors argue? Back in September of last year Steve Gilbert of Sweetness and Light pondered over our first African-American president’s prior academic performance:
“By his own admission, Obama spent his final two years in high school skipping classes, playing basketball, doing cocaine and getting drunk.”
After high school, Gilbert notes the following about Obama:
“Similarly, his admission to Harvard Law School is highly questionable. Where are his LSAT scores? And how does one graduate from Columbia without honors and yet get accepted at Harvard Law? Lastly, his ascendency to the Presidency of the Harvard Law school would appear to have also been a case of blatant affirmative action, since the student Obama had only written one legal paper — and that was quite short and remarkably undistinguished. So where are his grade transcripts?”
If Confucius were to describe a democracy, he’d probably say that the people are the “parents” and the rulers are the “children.” Children are normally required by their parents to be open and transparent about their grades at school. Barack Obama has sealed off his transcripts from the people.
Is it possible for the first African-American president to inspire minority schoolchildren about education when he continues to hide the record of his academic performance?
Many of us had to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for our learning because our gender and skin color actively worked against us on college admissions panels. There were others however who could get drunk, do cocaine, skip class and still make it to the Ivy League.
Lao Tzu once said that “you gain by losing, lose by gaining.” Now I think I know what he means.
Better yet, release his B.C. and all other sealed records he doesn’t want us to see!!!
I think he’s going to give an entirely different speech from the original. It’s too bad we’ll never know how many changes were made to hide his original message.
Kids ARE at risk, little kids in particular.
Question with boldness.
And here I thought Obama was going to be the most transparent . blah blah blah. And the media swooned. And now, the state run media won’t even mention they can’t see the White House visitor logs.
The mob is silly and overwrought
Could a pep talk from the first African-American President “do some good” for minority students as the WSJ editors argue?
Once again, the words African-American do not apply to Obama, look it up in dictionary for proper definition!
It is Obamas practice not to release ANY documents.
From: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2008/10/post_2.html
“If you think that student life at an ultra-elite law school is a page ripped out of The Paper Chase-—one long, frighteningly competitive grade grub under the icy eye of a clone of the movie's fictional Prof. Charles W. Kingsford Jr.-—think again. At Yale Law School, grades have been strictly optional since the 1960s (students can opt to take classes for credit/no credit), and if you do choose to have your professor award you a symbol of your academic achievement or lack thereof, it's neither a letter grade (A, A-, B+, etc.) nor a number based on a scale of 1-1-100 that can be easily translated into a letter. Instead, thanks to a student rebellion during the Age of Aquarius, there are only four grades at Yale: H for honors (for the top 30 percent or so of the class), P for pass (for almost everyone else), LP for low pass (for those who spent more time sampling the beer selection at Rudy's than the readings in their casebook), and F for failure (for those who never made it out of Rudy's to class).”
“As the Yale Law School admissions office states on its website: “People do not get into Yale solely because of their GPA and LSAT combination. People get into Yale because of who they are and what they have done. The students bring such diverse backgrounds to the law school that one learns from them and benefits from their existence just as much as one does from the faculty.” Yale proudly declares that not only are grades optional, but it has eliminated class rankings.”
Is he going to show the medrassas he was educated in? A bit funny reading a speech on a telecrutch to tell the kids how to be the best they can be.
Pray for America
As a wacky-fringey 'transcripter', I am so happy to see this! I could care less about the birth certificate, just show us the transcripts, President Obama! Bush had to. Heck, even Kerry & Gore had to, so why be so strangely secretive about your past even after you won, Mr. President?
Everybody keeps telling us how historic Barrack Obama's presidency is. So why is he continuing to hide essential historical details about his bad historic self even from historians? What's the holdup? We're waiting....
Do it for the children, Mr. President!
This explains a lot. Didn’t half the Clinton administration go to Yale Law? Sure does tell us plenty about the smartest woman in the world who graduated Yale Law and couldn’t pass the D.C. Bar.
Yep. And it’s not just Yale. One of the dirty little secrets secrets about Harvard Law is that once you get in, it’s virtually impossible to flunk out too. So if your lawyer is Harvard trained, it’s a real crapshoot as to whether or not he or she has a clue about the law, as many of their employers have been shocked to discover. An ivy league law degree is the biggest scam going today. It may still have prestige with a clueless media & arbiters of popular culture, but in the real world & in the job market, it’s a joke.
“Hey kids! Forget all that crap your parents tell you about your ‘permanent record’! Do what you want! I’ll show you how to scrub your ‘permanent record’ clean! No one needs to know your past! Screw ‘em (at least that’s what Emanuel and Axelrod tell me).”
Are the lesson plans to be used in indoctrinating the children (after Pappa Obama’s inspriational speech to his little followers) available to the public?
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