The president is going to be addressing all school children on September 8th. Usually, I would think this opportunity for our children to learn a little about civics and open a discussion would be a good thing. Alas, this is the Obama administration we are talking about. Not satisfied with simply addressing the student population, they have issued an outline to the teachers on how to help the students think before, during, and after the speech.
Seems innocuous enough.
Now we look into the memo.
Before the speech:
Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the speech:
Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
After the speech:
What do you think the President wants us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
Extension of the speech:
Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
Maybe I’m just paranoid but given the agenda of this administration, I have good reason to be. I will be looking very closely at what he wants my nine year old daughter to do.
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This is corrupting the morals of our country
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 6:52PM EST (link)In the country, our children do not take marching orders from the President. The President is chief executive, head of one of three branches of government. Our allegiance is to the nation and Constitution, not to individuals.
Again, this sure sounds like asking children to pledge allegiance the President and to obey his dictates. This is what dictatorships do, not democracies.
What is insidious is the part about asking children to respond to his pleas, no balance, no dissent allowed, just join the
Hitler JugendObama Youth Movement,This is scary, especially as this is thrust upon educators with almost no notice – expecting educators to drop their curriculum to listen, just like Obama muscles the media to give him prime time for speeches.
Does this mean that children wil be ostracized if they don’t conform; will parents be reported to the government if they don’t want their children to be exposed to propagandizing.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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I want more details
Christine (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 7:10PM EST (link)I want to know WHEN this speech is and when parents will be allowed to see it. I expect to be able to see it or read it before my son does.
If need be, I will be IN the classroom when this speech is aired.
The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.
“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008
More details
Christine (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 7:14PM EST (link)http://servicewire.org/node/6620
1pm ET, topic is supposedly the importance of education.
I will have to decide whether to be in the classroom when this is aired…or just watch it online myself.
The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.
“I would be a poor Commander in Chief”
– Barack Obama, July 3 2008
Perhaps I'm hitting the panic button a bit too early
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 7:21PM EST (link)But it’s the ominous NEA study guides that set off my early warning system by the obsequious tone of the questions. This is still not how children should be viewing the office of the President – or political speeches.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
I was taught in my public school that in a constitutional
ColdWarrior (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 7:33PM EST (link)republic, citizen is the highest officeholder. That the rights of the individual citizen, not those of the public servants, were to be championed and held in the highest regard. That we had public servants, and representatives, of the people, not “leaders.”
This is completely backwards: “Why is it important that we listen to the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?”
A child in public school should be pondering this question, instead: “Why is it important that the President and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor, listen to the citizens? Why is what the citizens say say to the elected public servants important?”
Un-freaking-believable.
But not surprising.
Thank you.
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Exactly, it's that reversal of citizen and public official that's disturbing
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 7:40PM EST (link)As federal power grows, the leaders are thinking that we’re supposed to listen to them and follow them, not that they are our representatives. And the NEA commentary fits right in with the citizen as follower mentality that is antithetical to the foundations of our citizen republic.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
That will be the day I have technical difficulty,
dvdmsr (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 8:11PM EST (link)anyways, I make it a rule never to show my students anything without reviewing it first. My last exception was 9/11.
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Report your parents
SteveLA (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 8:16PM EST (link)The final part of Dear Leader Obama’s appeal to the youg’ns will be orders to report all behavior of your parents that does not support the “Dear Leaders” plans to Fishy@whitehouse.gov or is that newspeak@orwell.org
Be afraid…be very afraid.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
If I still had kids in school
pac_NY (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 8:16PM EST (link)on the day of this speech, I would keep my kids home and let the teacher they would not be participating in any such activities for reasons many have cited above.
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. -Psalm 104:32
Nice fire alarms you have here, Principal.
blooch Tuesday, September 1st at 8:31PM EST (link)It would be a shame if some kid was to pull one of ‘em.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Ice cream and cake?
Husker (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 8:57PM EST (link)The only thing to make this scene complete would be Organizing For America members bringing ice cream and cake for the students.