Posted on 09/05/2009 6:07:30 PM PDT by charmedone
Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 Superintendent Tate’s Directive Concerning President’s Broadcast
The United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has informed school districts that President Obama will deliver an address to the Nation’s school children on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Arizona time. This will be a live broadcast which can be accessed at the White House website: www.whitehouse.gov. The President’s message will also be broadcast on C-SPAN. The President will talk to the children about “persisting and succeeding in school.”
Parents who wish to view the President’s message can easily do so by using the White House website or C-SPAN. As indicated in the promotional literature, our President will use this unique occasion when talking to our students to “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning.”
I have directed principals to have students and teachers view the President’s message on Tuesday. In some cases, where technology will not permit access to the White House website, DVDs will be provided to classes on subsequent days.
I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event. Parents and interested individuals should access the White House website to learn more about the President’s address. Should you have questions or concerns, feel free to email me at: atate@tempeschools.org.
Dr. Arthur W. Tate, Jr.
Superintendent of Schools
“I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event.”
Earth to moonbat: there’s no such thing as a “purely educational” liberal speech. Everything is ideology.
Servile tool
A good home school day or a day of family bonding.
“I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event.”
They just don’t understand who works for whom.
What a pompous, arrogant SOB. I sent him an email pointing out that he works for the parents, not the other way around!
Permitting?, my arse.
KEEP YOUR KIDS HOME!!!
HOMESCHOOL if there is any way you can manage it.
My child would not be attending school. To not allow parents to opt out for their children in this district says it is time for one school Superintendent to bite the dust. What an arrogant position to take. I have never heard of anything extra like this that a parent could not opt their child out of watching.
I opted my children out of the Elders sex ed and then our school opted out of taking federal funds and all the crap that went with having the feds tell you what to do. Ours was truly an independent district!
Why not let your child watch the speech and then discuss it with them over dinner? Analyze it together. Could be a valuable teaching opportunity for most parents. The children will have to live in a country with people who espouse ideas that that they don’t accept.
You fogot the /sarc sign at the end of your post!
Arthur Tate is wearing the hat.
Is that what your doing with your Children?
The address is merely a lead in - it’s the classroom materials the kids will be required to participate in the coming days - weeks? years? - that are the real problem.
he is not asking them to think what they can do for their communities or country - but what they can do for HIM -
HE is not our country.
this is the same way Hitler started in - and soon, it was no longer a choice for the schools/teachers or parents.
then if you Keep your kids out = kids are taken.
drip drip drip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxOPvIohcM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BAfKCfu74&NR=1
This is stopped in the bud - or it will be too late 0
Because if Obama gets by with this, it will get worse and he will be talking to ‘the children’ all the time. You need to take a stand not waffle. There is no teaching moment as you are not in the classroom with your child especially the elementary students and you have no clue what is being said.
This has no precedent, does it?
There is absolutely nothing could say that I want to hear, and I certainly don’t wish for my kids to suffer commie indoctrination.
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