Posted on 09/02/2009 8:46:25 AM PDT by Starman417
We have known for many many years that the left has infiltrated our schools, especially at the university level, and have made life difficult for kids...or for that matter teachers...who have a conservative bent. But this is just creepy. It's a letter from the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan letting our K6 and under kids know that Obama will be speaking to them on September 8th:
The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.
Millions of kids will be stopping their day to sit down and listen to this speech.
Now that, in itself, is not THAT creepy. This is:
Things get downright disconcerting when one eyeballs the federally approved lesson plans that the Department of Education has cooked up to support the president’s speech. The preK-6 lesson plans, which were developed with federal funds, devised on taxpayer time, and made available on the Department of Education’s website, exhort teachers to extend the impact of the president’s speech by having students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.” This clumsy bit of cheerleading shows no awareness that ”help[ing] the president” might be construed as an invitation to engage in advocacy rather than instruction or that it might worry those who are not Obama partisans. What’s truly remarkable, however, given recent concerns about intrusive federal government this past month, is the lesson plan’s directive that “these [letters] would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.”It all sounds a touch Orwellian, no? “Redistributed” to whom? “Accountable” to whom? Accountable for which “goals” exactly—the ones that involve “helping the president”?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
Tuesday is now National P.A.S.S. day.
P.arentally A.pproved S.kip S.chool-day.
So few Americans will make the connection to Germany's leader.
I called my kids school today to see what “events” they were planning around this. Turns out, I’m not the only one with concerns. The phone call prior to mine was another parent calling and wanting to know how to opt out.
Put the pressure on people - that is the only way the government bots know how you feel.
Taking my (home-schooled) 8-year old to the Hartford Tea Party on the 11th so she can hear the TRUTH about Obama.
My nephew and grandson will not be at school that day. This is sick. Kids don’t vote, adults do!
This will be at the high school level too.
I told my kids not to go to school. (’course one is 43 and the other is 34 ... so they may have bailed out of school some time ago?). Seriously, why anyone would allow their kids to go “hear/see” this man is beyond me. Its just wrong.
“these [letters] would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.”
Yeah, after they’re entered into some database somewhere.
I just called my son’s school - main office AND guidance office have no knowledge about this. They are to call me back about “opt out”. I thought it was pretty good that they were clueless. School starts tomorrow...
Obumbo will miss most of the little acorns - Buffalo schools start on Wednesday.
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