September 3, 2009

I’m Sorry, But If I Were A Parent…

…There’s no way I would want my children to be subjected to anything like this, not an organized address aimed at school children by a socialist, anti-Israel, anti-U.S. Constitution president like Barack Hussein Obama. I mean, one that’s actually providing advance instructions for how teachers should prep students for the event?

Look, we all know how the Democrats, under liberal control, have adapted the same indoctrination procedures as so many totalitarian governments, working through the classroom to program future adults.

When I was a kid and teachers/schools were more conservative and dedicated to teaching rather than forcing political indoctrination on their pupils, we were taught how to think, encouraged to analyse the facts of a matter and draw our own conclusions. Today, they teach students what to think.

Here we have a president who managed to get himself elected by millions of idiots by speaking for months without saying a damn thing of substance, a president who even now is trying to push a healthcare bill down our throats without saying what he means when he “explains” himself, and seeing as he’s running more and more into right thinking people who are asking questions he doesn’t want to answer (if he told the truth, something B. Hussein Obama finds repulsive, always has, always will, Americans would laugh his healthcare bill out of existence as they realized what an anti-America, anti-freedom entity we’ve (well, not me, not anyone with all their facilities intact) ushered into the White House, insulting our intelligence as he does.

But, he figures, if I work through the children, like we liberals have been doing with our gay rights and global warming agendas, at least I may be able to help program future generations.

On September 8, in what the Department of Education is touting as a “historic” speech, President Obama will be talking directly to students across the U.S., live on the White House website. But some parents and conservatives are blasting the president, calling the speech an excuse to brainwash American children.

Last month, in an interview with 11-year-old student reporter Damon Weaver, the president announced his big back-to-school plan:

“I’m going to be making a big speech to young people all across the country about the importance of education; about the importance of staying in school; how we want to improve our education system and why it’s so important for the country. So I hope everybody tunes in.”

Yeah, everybody tune in. Where liberals are concerned, communist indoctrination education needn’t concern itself with accurate history, the three Rs or anything else that might cloud the mindsof potential future Democrat voters.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter to the nation’s principals, inviting schools to watch the speech and included suggested classroom activities. But Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, came out swinging against the planned speech. An excerpt from his statement:

“The address scheduled for September 8, 2009, does not allow for healthy debate on the President’s agenda, but rather obligates the youngest children in our public school system to agree with our President’s initiatives or be ostracized by their teachers and classmates.”

NBC spoke with Katie Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Florida Republican Party, who said the party’s “beef” is with the accompanying lesson plans. The guide for pre-K through grade 6 suggests questions students think about during the speech, such as “What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?”

The plan for grades 7-12 includes a “guided discussion,” with suggested topics: “What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech? What is President Obama inspiring you to do?”

“Guided discussion”, indeed.

The Cato Institute, a public-policy research foundation, issued a press release entitled “Hey Obama, Leave Those Kids Alone,” criticizing the “troubling buzzwords” in the lesson plans:

“It’s one thing for a president to encourage all kids to work hard and stay in school – that’s a reasonable use of the bully pulpit. It’s another thing entirely, however, to have the U.S. Department of Education send detailed instructions to public schools nationwide on how to glorify the president and the presidency, and push them to drive social change.”

That sounds about Obama’s speed, him bein’ a left winger an’ all.

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5 Responses to “I’m Sorry, But If I Were A Parent…”

  1. BB-Idaho Says:

    Tsk, tsk..old time stuff. In 4th Grade, we had class votes during the election. ..I had an ‘I Like Ike’ button. Didn’t distract me a bit from our study of
    Congo pygmy societies….

  2. Seth Says:

    BB –

    Back in those days, schools were still teaching their charges how to think, as well as all those items that today are considered secondary to liberal political indoctrination, like Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Social Studies, etc.

    In more recent years, the Democrats, who are under the firm control of socialist liberal interests, tend to use our schools to implant their portside doctrines into those fertile minds so as to “shape” the political thought/opinions of the next generation of young adults.

    Giving a shameless leftist politician like Obama access to those young minds would be like entering them, albeit briefly, in Komsomol or some other socialist (or national socialist, take your pick) children’s indoctrination program.

    Congo pygmy societies????

  3. BB-Idaho Says:

    “Congo pygmy societies????” yep..it was a short subject…

  4. Frankly Opinionated Says:

    Having nearly completed 69 laps around the sun, I can remember “Civics” class. Where we learned just who in government had power, who didn’t, what the meanings of the constitution are, and such. Todays kids are taught how to study for and pass the SAT’s, so that their teacher won’t get her knuckles rapped. It is not about what they learn, how smart they are, or whether they’ll do well after school age. It is important to note that they are being taught only what they need to get by, and kept from other knowledge so that they won’t get all uppity and think they can tell others what is wrong with government. With the liberals, it is not about education, but rather indoctrination.
    nuf sed

  5. Seth Says:

    BB –

    yep..it was a short subject…

    LOL!!!!

    Frankly Opinionated –

    This is true.

    I have spoken with a number of today’s young adults who know absolutely nothing about how government works, and who produce nothing short of a blank stare when you mention the Constitution. You almost hear their minds asking, “Isn’t the Constitution, like, one of those, like, old documents, like the Magna Carta or something?”

    Similar to what you wrote about the SATs, I knew a guy in New Orleans several years ago who was a merchant seaman, who was going to school to earn his navigator’s license. I asked him if he was learning to navigate by the stars, etc, and he told me that no, he was learning GPS, which he contended was all he needed to know.

    “Sure, to get your navigator’s license, but what happens if the GPS goes down, how will you navigate the ship?

    “The GPS won’t go down.” He assured me.

    Right.

    Sound a lot like the abbreviated, rudiment free learning today’s students recieve, which leaves more room in the curriculum for said indoctrination.