Tomorrow is being promoted as 'keep your children home from school' day. Various names have been used to describe the day from 'National Truancy Day' to 'Hall Pass Tuesday.' They all refer to the same thing.
Parents all across the United States are keeping their children out of school tomorrow to protest Barack Obama's address to school children.
Never before has a President given an educational address to students that is so overtly political. This highly partisan address seeks to uplift and magnify the name of Obama, encouraging kids to 'think about ways they can serve the President.'
Update! The fact that Obama and the Department of Education have tweaked the speech and the lesson plans, obviously in direct response to the avalanche of criticism from the public AND school districts across the country that are refusing to show the speech, does not in any way minimize or negate the original intent to engage in indoctrination of school children, seeking to fill their minds with Leftwing propaganda. Parents should proceed with their original plans to keep their children home in order to send a strong message to Obama, the government-run schools, and the federal Department of Education!
The federal Department of Education--an agency that should have never been created--is of course heavily involved in the event, sending to teachers lesson plans that suggest discussion talking points and learning activities.
It is interesting that ever since the infamous department was created in the 1970s, the achievement level of American students has gotten worse. Long before there were national standards, a federal department to meddle in local schools, and mandatory social engineering and programs for poor kids, our grandparents were studying McGuffey's Readers that had students reading on what is now considered a 12th-grade reading level by the time they were in the 8th grade.
Kids don't need Barack Obama or the Department of Education. Even public school teachers do our children a great disservice by indoctrinating them with the latest babble that proceeds out of liberal garbage bins.
What kids need are parents that take an active role in their education, giving them reading material at home that is very different from that which they get at school. These parents believe that their children are not wards of the state but THEIR CHILDREN who need to know about U.S. History, the Constitution, the views of the Founding Fathers, and 'American exceptionalism.'.
Keep them home tomorrow to prevent them from more indoctrination from Washington.
The second thing to watch, however, is Congress. On Tuesday the House and Senate return from their summer break. 2 bills could be sent to the floor in short order without further debate, should the Democratic leadership decide to pull a fast one.
One, of course, is the bill that would mandate the government control of healthcare. Compromise legislation is rumored to be on the table, but that compromise does not address the issue of strict government control over doctor pay, hospitals, insurance companies, and who gets care. This is even without the 'public option.' Rationing of care is still central to any plan Obama wants passed. Pay no attention whatsoever to Obama's words and promises. They have been shown to be false more than once. Pay attention instead to what is actually in the bill itself.
The other legislation is the so-called 'cap & trade' bill that will result in an increase of $1300 to $3000 in yearly energy costs to the average American household.
Obama, the Democrats, and moderate Republicans are heavily invested in passing these 2 measures, despite the widespread public outcry against them.
Citizens would be wise to watch very very closely every single move of these sorry excuses for representatives.
For more commentary on other issues, visit my blog at The Liberty Sphere.
Comments
"Never before has a President given an educational address to students that is so overtly political"
BS
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That's the speech. Tell me, with quotes, exactly what parts of it are "overtly political."
Also, more political school talks HAVE been given, like when Reagan lectured schoolkids on the importance of tax cuts. OTOH, Obama mentions no policy issues in his talk.
"This highly partisan address [...] encourag[es] kids to 'think about ways they can serve the President.'"
Also BS, and with a fabricated quote, to boot. The actual (canceled) lesson plan suggested students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to HELP the president." (emphasis mine)
Hey Mr. Martin: those little curly lines called quotation marks are meant to go around actual quotes -- not altered, inflammatory stuff you make up.
Recall also that Bush, Sr. asked schoolkids nationwide to "write me a letter about ways you can help us achieve our goals." Was he wrong too?
Obama conveniently tweaked the address after everyone got into an uproar. But the uproar was more about the DOE's lesson plans than the speech itself. The assignment was overtly partisan. That, too, was changed. So what? It's the intent. This President and his government-run school system is bent on indoctrination. This we know for a fact. Parents should still keep their kids home to send a signal to the powers that be!
Oh, and by the way, your precious Department of Education had a notice up the other day, which they later took down, which referred to 'schoochildren.' The morons can't even spell, yet they supposedly represent the nation's public schools.
Sorry, but your argument has no validity. The fact that the morons in Washington tweaked everything in response to the outcry is no justification for their extremist views.
"Obama conveniently tweaked the address after everyone got into an uproar."
You have absolutely no evidence of this.
You make too many awfully big assumptions...
"You make too many awfully big assumptions..."
No, I make factual statements backed up by quotes and sources.
If anyone's making "awfully big assumptions," it's you. You are the one assuming that Obama originally planned a highly partisan speech. You are the one assuming that the just-released speech is a re-write.
And you're making all these assumptions with zero evidence, as usual.
"And you're making all these assumptions with zero evidence, as usual."
I ALWAYS provide ample evidence. No one is so blind as he/she who will not see, such as yourself. ALL of my articles are based upon factual material from which I draw conclusions.
"I ALWAYS provide ample evidence."
In the update to this article you stated:
"The fact that Obama and the Department of Education have tweaked the speech [...] does not in any way minimize or negate the original intent to engage in indoctrination of school children, seeking to fill their minds with Leftwing propaganda."
If you're so keen on evidence, then what evidence do you have that the speech transcript posted to whitehouse.gov has been "tweaked" to remove "Leftwing propaganda"?
All indications were that Obama's speech was totally apolitical and harmless, and conservatives went nuts about it anyway. But now that the transcript has been made public, those conservatives, rather than admit they made a big deal out of nothing, are insisting that the original speech was full of propaganda and that it has simply been edited out.
So again: what evidence do you have that the speech has been edited from its original form?
wait - are you the infamous Anthony Martin-Trigona of Second Circuit fame?
Your summary of consumer costs of cap and trade are incorrect - the Congressional Budget office has issued an official analysis of the climate and energy bill stated that it would only cost the Average American approximately a postage stamp a day - and furthermore, save many middle and low income Americans significantly - there are provisions in the bill to specifically help both industry and consumers ease into the program in a cost efficient and economically viable way.
The scare tactics that you use in this article just aren't real. The cap and trade bill will create thousands of jobs in New Mexico alone, and millions across the country. In fact, every dollar invested in clean energy job creation generates 6-8 times more jobs than in traditional fuels. Clean energy is our future - we're playing catch up to other countries in terms of technology and infrastructure and instead are increasing our national security issues by depending on other countries for our energy.
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