Posted on 09/08/2009 5:22:00 AM PDT by shortstop
“When you’ve got a classroom being run by an NEA member and you’re piping in Barack Hussein Orwell, all of a sudden the home-school people don’t seem so kooky.”
That line right there made me chuckle out loud- as I know many teachers and know what they think of the home-school crowd.
Hee hee!
I’m going to use a version of that on them in the future, it’ll go something like this...”wow! your communist president is even crazier than those home-schoolers you like to make fun of!”
So you dont mind if the program becomes a continuing recrutment and activist program?
I do not see how getting kids to focus upon goals and how to attain them is a bad thing. In fact it should be done more than it is. I also do not see how that particular activity can be construed as a "recruitment" program.
To be honest I'm actually surprised by the list you posted because it is encouraging kids to excel and meet their goals. So often everyone hears of how schools do not do that because it would hurt the self esteem of the underachievers.
I am all for encouraging children to do their best, but there is only one child I am responsible for and that is my own child.
I don’t know how I feel about it, but I don’t think that I would like it if I were forced to sit through a speech I didn’t want to hear.
If the message was simply to study hard, stay in school etc., Obama could have easily had a Republican join him to give that message to remove any fears of partisanship, or trying to push an agenda.
How many times have we seen former Presidents Clinton and George HW Bush, together for various causes?
This speech will be squeaky clean - and they'll try to paint us as nuts. Obama was going to use this as the start of a youth cult - but it won't be that way now. If you have doubts, there's a thread of Hollywood lame-o's "pledging allegiance to Obama".
And that's the key.
Americans pledge allegiance to the flag and what it stands for - one nation - under God. NOT to a man. We as a free people have NEVER pledged our allegiance to a King, or dear leader - or dictator - or President.
And hopefully, never will...
We must not overplay our hand - the dems will come back for our children - and we don't want this "squeaky clean" speech to lull everyone...
ROFLMAO! Excellent. Thanks for posting. :-)
“It is about a 25 minute speech and the use of the word “I” is nothing but phenomenol in it.”
Tammy Bruce was saying that the word “I” is in the speech more times than all other keywords COMBINED!
“some schools may be watching the address, but no activities would take place.”
You can bet there will be subtle Hussein-worship activities throughout the school year. NEA can’t help themselves.
Our school told the teachers to allow the talk if it pertained to a subject they had going on in class. Most said they were opting out.
And no questions along the lines the administration first suggested.
Having read the speech and my 6 and 9 year olds already being thoroughly politicized by us, we have ours ready for it
Since we are taking them out for 3 days due to trips in October to the mountains and beach and that doesn’t even count DEER SEASON!!! or DUCK SEASON!!, we decided to have them attend and give a note to the teacher to excuse them or if they couldn’t to call and we would pick them up.
No calls.
Our principal is very conservative and Christian..like us..but she can’t walk on water, she has to live under a school board which is pretty politicized like most are here and they fear being a target of the Godless like in Wilson County TN.
We shall see.
I think that keeping kids home today will be powerful for the kids. If you keep them home and tell them exactly why (THIS president does not love America, THIS president thinks the Constitution is bad, THIS president has bad friends, etc.), it’ll be an event they’ll never, ever forget. It could focus their thinking about politics throughout their lifetimes.
Obama’s address to schoolchildren,hey kids you know what time it is? it’s kool-Aid time.
It’s used 50 or 60 times - but it’ll be scrubbed out. The dems are going to use this speech to try to make us look bad. Expect the speech to be perfect and wonderful in every sense of the word. Dems won’t be able to play their games with our kids until people have quit looking. Then their paid professional trolls will sing a different tune.
I don't either.
But first I would want to know exactly whose goals they are
and specifically what they are.
“Create posters of their goals. Posters could be
formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked
with the following labels: personal, academic, community,
and country.”
Listed are personal , academic, community, and country.
What are the community, and country
goals?
That's what I want to know.
Yes, it will be ingrained in their psyches and they will remember Mom and Dad’s convictions on this just as I remember my parents’ and grandparents’ utter disregard for FDR’s policies. At first, I thought that parents should call their kids in sick, but the more I think about it, they should be honest and take whatever punitive licks the schools hand out for unexcused absences. Might not be a bad idea for some parents to do some research about home or private schools.
Sounds like wisdom is prevailing in your school. I still say that the root of this whole charade is to push groupthink on the little mushminds. Kids don’t like to be the outcast or the only one not on board. B.O. is counting on the implied pressure that his speech will bring. Since B.O. came on the scene, schoolkids who dare speak up against him are bullied and taunted—even by teachers! I think he is capitalizing on that. Otherwise, why not just PRINT up the speech and pass it out to kids?
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