Obama's plan to preach his policies in the Classroom

Should Obama talk about his policies in the classroom?

September 8^th, 2009 is making headlines and history as we get closer to the traditional first day of school.  This year, President Obama has asked to be invited to class.  Which class?  Every class.  For the first time in the history of the United States of America, the President has asked to speak to all of the children on traditional first day of school.

Some parents are in an uproar about the bold move.  The problem isn’t that President Obama wants to speak to the children, because that's been done.  Presidents have even visited classrooms.  The problem lies with the master plan. 

If President Obama was just going to say hello and talk about how important education is to every child, and maybe give some motivational speaking about school, teachers, and learning, parents would not be screaming and pulling their hair about this groundbreaking move.

Then, we learned that the President may be speaking to our children about policy proposals that hold a lot of controversy with the “grown up’s” of our country.  These proposed policies are so big that they would completely change how our country is today.

What makes things worse is that his address to the children comes with two lesson plans, one for kiddos in Kindergarten through the 6^th grade, and the other for 7^th through 12^th.  Teachers are recommended to talk to their kids about how important it is to listen to President Obama and his entourage of elects.  The lessons also include that the children think about the “job” President Obama is asking for them to do. 

Why is it important for your kindergartner to think about the “job” the president has for them to do?  It's hard enough to keep them on the "job" they are supposed to be doing at home.  Why should your kindergartner be thinking about what the President is asking of anyone?  What does that have to do with Legos and Playdough?

Are we talking brainwashing?  Pod People from the planet Mars?  Isn’t there a reason politics aren’t really included in the school curriculum? 

Big things like global warming and the health care system would be really scary for our children to be faced with when they should be paying attention to addition and subtraction.  They need to feel like the world is safe, cement, and ruled by mommy and daddy.  

According to Fox News, the curriculum suggested that:

“Teachers can extend the learning by having students write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.  These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate date by the teacher to make students accountable for their goals.”

It has been changed due to the outcry of parents and teachers alike saying, “Woah, wait a minute.  How is this important to the school year?  Are we teaching children, or creating an army?”

Now it reads:

“Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.  These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable for their goals.”

It’s reminiscent of old WWII propaganda commercials.

According to Fox News, “Indoctrination is often distinguished from education by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned.  Indoctrination is common in the totalitarian societies, and completely alien to our system of government.”

What is President Obama doing?  It’s one thing for him to address the nation with this stuff.  At least then, we as parents can decide if we want our children watching it.  It’s another thing when he starts preaching his plans to small impressionable children and teenagers.  Isn’t’ there a reason we don’t vote until we’re 18?

President Obama needs to remember that he is President, which makes him the leader of only one nation.  He is not King of the World.  Remember, the last person who shouted that to the world died in the sinking Titanic, and yes, I am referring to the movie, not the real Titanic, as I we could not have been there to witness that.

First government took control of banks, then the auto industry, then the housing industry.  Now the schools?  Parents need to mobilize and take action, or schools will not longer be run by the Department of Education and decorated with finger paintings and tissue paper flowers.  The future President Obama envisions is new generations of faithful followers with no one there to debate the other sides of these policies-not that that’s appropriate to present to children either.

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