Posted on 09/05/2009 6:07:30 PM PDT by charmedone
Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 Superintendent Tate’s Directive Concerning President’s Broadcast
The United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has informed school districts that President Obama will deliver an address to the Nation’s school children on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Arizona time. This will be a live broadcast which can be accessed at the White House website: www.whitehouse.gov. The President’s message will also be broadcast on C-SPAN. The President will talk to the children about “persisting and succeeding in school.”
Parents who wish to view the President’s message can easily do so by using the White House website or C-SPAN. As indicated in the promotional literature, our President will use this unique occasion when talking to our students to “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning.”
I have directed principals to have students and teachers view the President’s message on Tuesday. In some cases, where technology will not permit access to the White House website, DVDs will be provided to classes on subsequent days.
I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event. Parents and interested individuals should access the White House website to learn more about the President’s address. Should you have questions or concerns, feel free to email me at: atate@tempeschools.org.
Dr. Arthur W. Tate, Jr.
Superintendent of Schools
“I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event.”
Earth to moonbat: there’s no such thing as a “purely educational” liberal speech. Everything is ideology.
Servile tool
A good home school day or a day of family bonding.
“I am not permitting parents to opt out students from viewing the President’s message, since this is a purely educational event.”
They just don’t understand who works for whom.
What a pompous, arrogant SOB. I sent him an email pointing out that he works for the parents, not the other way around!
Permitting?, my arse.
KEEP YOUR KIDS HOME!!!
HOMESCHOOL if there is any way you can manage it.
My child would not be attending school. To not allow parents to opt out for their children in this district says it is time for one school Superintendent to bite the dust. What an arrogant position to take. I have never heard of anything extra like this that a parent could not opt their child out of watching.
I opted my children out of the Elders sex ed and then our school opted out of taking federal funds and all the crap that went with having the feds tell you what to do. Ours was truly an independent district!
Why not let your child watch the speech and then discuss it with them over dinner? Analyze it together. Could be a valuable teaching opportunity for most parents. The children will have to live in a country with people who espouse ideas that that they don’t accept.
You fogot the /sarc sign at the end of your post!
Arthur Tate is wearing the hat.
Is that what your doing with your Children?
The address is merely a lead in - it’s the classroom materials the kids will be required to participate in the coming days - weeks? years? - that are the real problem.
he is not asking them to think what they can do for their communities or country - but what they can do for HIM -
HE is not our country.
this is the same way Hitler started in - and soon, it was no longer a choice for the schools/teachers or parents.
then if you Keep your kids out = kids are taken.
drip drip drip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMxOPvIohcM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BAfKCfu74&NR=1
This is stopped in the bud - or it will be too late 0
Because if Obama gets by with this, it will get worse and he will be talking to ‘the children’ all the time. You need to take a stand not waffle. There is no teaching moment as you are not in the classroom with your child especially the elementary students and you have no clue what is being said.
This has no precedent, does it?
There is absolutely nothing could say that I want to hear, and I certainly don’t wish for my kids to suffer commie indoctrination.
See this thread for contact info - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331676/posts
My children are pushing 30 and are quite able to analyze ideas they don’t accept. We taught them to do this by discussing what they encountered in high school at the dinner table. We home schooled through grade 8. If I had children of school age I would do just that. A peaceful society requires citizens to listen to one another’s ideas respectfully and judge the ideas on their merits.
I asked my kids’ schools if they would have comrade obama’s speech. They said they would but would send home a permission slip that had to be signed in order for my kids to watch it. No slip came home with them on Friday so I’ll have to do a followup with the schools on Tuesday morning.
I’d be willing to let my kids see it IF I could watch it with them. Then I could also give them lessons on the Hitler Youth and how it was started.
The parent article noted the speech was to be available on the net and CSPAN. An interested parent could have access.
I would like to remind everyone that a large part of Obama’s plan includes “mandatory” student participation Obama’s “community service” as a requirement for graduation.
Democrats have been sneaking this crap in for years around the US, forcing children to “participate” in their schemes or to be punished, by denying them graduation, and also demanding “service” before admission to college.
Would anyone be surprised if elementary school children soon had mandatory “ACORN days?” And how many? Once a year, once a month, or once a week?
You don’t know what is said in the classroom as a parent. I tutored reading for 16 years in the public schools to know well enough there are some liberal teachers who will take the opportunity to push their liberal agenda in certain schools to their students if given the opportunity.
There is absolutely nothing could say that I want to hear, and I certainly don’t wish for my kids to suffer commie indoctrination.
The White House stated that the thesis of the speech was "work hard and stay in school." That is not commie indoctrination, You have jumped to a conclusion without even listening to the speech.
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My children were pretty good at summarizing the ideas put forth in classroom discussion. They also became good at understanding and constructing a response to ideas they concluded were fallacious. They still do this as adults.
I suspect his in box is full.
See Post 25.
They can’t opt out? Who in the h*ll does he think he is? I would either not send my kids to school that day or go there and take them out of the classroom during that time.
Or what???
sw
"We'll send home a paper for you to sign IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR CHILD TO WATCH." This way, "your kid must have lost the paper," is their answer AFTER the fact.
I suspect more than one conservative student will be taping the follow up discussion between the teacher and students.
It’s illegal to tape a teacher unless he/she authorizes you to. Lectures are their “intellectual property.”
As with many, you are fighting the last war.
This is a very different time and a very different war.
You CAN, however, sit in the classroom with your child! (There’s the answer!)
That will do the trick too.
A heck of a lot of videos of teachers make it to youtube without the teachers knowledge.
Can you provide cites to authority?
I taped Profs in undergrad, and grad school.
You’re right...but it’s still not legal.
The conclusion is being reached through observing what BHO has said and done during the last 8 months.
What do you think of his Presidency so far? Answer that question and you will clear up a lot of questions about you for the rest of us.
I also spoke with a member of our BOE who was outraged that the proper channels were not followed in setting this whole thing up.
On Friday I again asked my principal if our school district was going to be watching the video because I would need to put it in my lesson plans.
She did not get back to me, so it is NOT in my plans.
At 12 noon my students will be illustrating and labeling the position of the earth and sun in relationship to the four seasons.
We'll see....
sw
I wish I had authorities to cite. My info has been acquired by word-of-mouth within the industry.
Obama sure opened a can of worms with this mess. I bet every public school in the country has had to deal with outraged parents. A great way to start out a school year.
Most states allow taping of telephone conversations so long as ONE of the parties is aware of the taping. I believe Arizona follows that and I would love to argue that it would apply here also.
:-)
Hopefully, all of our Nation’s conservative teachers will follow suit.
MAYBE, even the liberal teachers will see the wrong...but I doubt it.
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