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President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president," the Washington Times reported. Presidential aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal, which immediately was met by fierce criticism from Republicans and conservative organizations who accused Obama of trying to politicize the education system. White House aides said the language was an honest misunderstanding in what was supposed to...

The Obama administration is setting a dangerous new precedent in American politics next week when the President carries out his plans to target the school aged children of this nation in a Presidential address. As parents, we have an obligation to first and foremost protect our children, and part of the protection is to prevent them from the challenges and issues that plague adults for as long as possible. I cannot deny that I am more than interested to see first-hand what the President's speech will encompass on September 8th, but at the same time I will make sure that...

A planned live address to school students by President Barack Obama next week is causing controversy for school districts as some parents object to what they see as partisan politics. The issue, which became a hot-button topic on some radio talk shows this week, left school administrators scrambling to decide whether to allow students to watch the live broadcast...(snip) Some administrators say they are reluctant to interrupt daily lesson plans and wonÂ’t show the address live...(snip) Others will allow campuses to access the speech during the broadcast but will also record it for teachers to show later. Those opposing the...

Some parents are concerned about a speech President Barack Obama plans to make to students across the country on Tuesday. The White House says the speech is mainly intended to be motivational, telling children about the benefits of education and inspiring them to be good students.

On September 8, Barack Obama will address every school kid in America, reason number 216 to home school. Obama has already sent out an agenda for the teachers to follow. Again, on the surface, not all that ominous, but this is Barack Obama we are talking about here, a committed communist who was mentored from the tender age of 10 years old by communist Frank Marshall Davis. This is Barack Obama who, in his books, says he sought our Marxist radicals in college as well as the Marxist professors. Those were his people.

A suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama is troubling some education experts, who say it establishes the president as a "superintendent in chief" and may indoctrinate children to support him politically. But the White House says the speech is merely "designed to encourage kids to stay in school." Obama will deliver a national address directly to students on Tuesday, which will be the first day of classes for many children across the country. The address, to be broadcast live on the White House's Web...

I can't do links on my phone, but apparently the White House news release on Dear Leader's speech to students contained the word "schoochildren" in the title.