Other Presidents have addressed school kids. They did so in a manner unlike what Team Obama proposes. Previous Presidents prodded students to study, to stay in school, to seek higher education after K12, to be good citizens.
Teaching kids about Our Presidents is fine. Having them learn the life of our current President is more of Mr. Obama's 'hey, look at me' stuff. He really has taken to being The One...
And once again, Team Obama, more and more resembling Pillars of Jell-O, backpedaled when considerable resistance erupted over some of the activities being proposed or actually, imposed.
Previous presidents didn't attach a student curriculum to their speeches.
Under the FAQ, the classroom activities for the K-6 grades begins with this.
Before the Speech • Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama.
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Other Presidents have addressed school kids. They did so in a manner unlike what Team Obama proposes. Previous Presidents prodded students to study, to stay in school, to seek higher education after K12, to be good citizens.
Teaching kids about Our Presidents is fine. Having them learn the life of our current President is more of Mr. Obama's 'hey, look at me' stuff. He really has taken to being The One...
And once again, Team Obama, more and more resembling Pillars of Jell-O, backpedaled when considerable resistance erupted over some of the activities being proposed or actually, imposed.
Under the FAQ, the classroom activities for the K-6 grades begins with this.
Before the Speech • Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama.
Whoa, kids can vote in MA? Seriously, the teachers were instructed to wear them?
Did you see the letter from the Sec of Ed to the nation's principals regarding the historic speech? Note the follow-up classroom activities listed under question 3. Despite the fact that few kids will be paying attention to the speech, all of them will be required to participate in projects to discuss and explain what they learned from the president's words. We can rest assured that it will amount to blatant partisan indoctrination.
What specific activity is full of the blatant partisan indoctrination? Are you sure there is a requirment for participation?
Whoa, kids can vote in MA? Seriously, the teachers were instructed to wear them?
Did you see the letter from the Sec of Ed to the nation's principals regarding the historic speech? Note the follow-up classroom activities listed under question 3. Despite the fact that few kids will be paying attention to the speech, all of them will be required to participate in projects to discuss and explain what they learned from the president's words. We can rest assured that it will amount to blatant partisan indoctrination.
Oh, what's wrong with a little "education" ?? Afterall, children need to be taught what to think, don't they?
I am not sure some of the students got "the message." Perhaps she should have worn the Obama button in class like all the teachers were instructed to do in Massachusetts during Deval Patrick's campaign for governor?
Whoa, kids can vote in MA? Seriously, the teachers were instructed to wear them?
Did you see the letter from the Sec of Ed to the nation's principals regarding the historic speech? Note the follow-up classroom activities listed under question 3. Despite the fact that few kids will be paying attention to the speech, all of them will be required to participate in projects to discuss and explain what they learned from the president's words. We can rest assured that it will amount to blatant partisan indoctrination.
I am not sure some of the students got "the message." Perhaps she should have worn the Obama button in class like all the teachers were instructed to do in Massachusetts during Deval Patrick's campaign for governor?
Maybe every kid in the country should be given a Top Cat button to wear if they so choose too & if their parents allow them to wear one, of course.
Seems to me that its all the adults that are in a big kerfuffle over presidents talking with school children that are making this in to a Kilkenny Cat fight as DMax mentioned. Just sounds like more paranoid goofeyness to me. Most little kids don't view people as Repubs or Dems; just as people like themselves.
"There once were two cats of Kilkenny Each thought there was one cat too many
Because the country's educators are above reproach. What could go wrong? It's just a little indoctrination.
Oh, what's wrong with a little "education" ?? Afterall, children need to be taught what to think, don't they?
I am not sure some of the students got "the message." Perhaps she should have worn the Obama button in class like all the teachers were instructed to do in Massachusetts during Deval Patrick's campaign for governor?
House Democrats criticized President Bush yesterday for using Education Department fundsto produce and broadcast a speech that he made Tuesday at a Northwest Washington junior high school.
The Democratic critics accused Bush of turning government money for education to his own political use, namely, an ongoing effort to inoculate himself against their charges of inattention to domestic issues. The speech at Alice Deal Junior High School, broadcast live on radio and television, urged students to study hard, avoid drugsand turn in troublemakers.
...didn't Communist Party Chairman Mao use that same tactic on the Chinese citizens during the bloodbath that was the Cultural Revolution.
That speech in 1991 was different; it was done by a real American with good intentions. (God Bless the Bush's)
It is said Obamas speech will be done in a futuristic hall with crowds of perfectly lined people dressed identical in societal garb; chanting with perfectly orchestrated cadence at the Supreme Leaders pauses!
Hmmm... Sounds like another article from The Onion.
(Or is it, perhaps, another ACORN rally?)
Or I coulda just been making a joke about this real news piece!
That speech in 1991 was different; it was done by a real American with good intentions. (God Bless the Bush's)
It is said Obamas speech will be done in a futuristic hall with crowds of perfectly lined people dressed identical in societal garb; chanting with perfectly orchestrated cadence at the Supreme Leaders pauses!
Hmmm... Sounds like another article from The Onion.
Its time for open revolt against these stupid motherfucking fundamentalist idiots.
Douglas Adams had that character (Wonko from "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish") with the inside-out house so he could be "outside the asylum" while comfortably at home.
I think I'm just going to find a place like that to hole up I'll come out when the shooting stops.
If America is The Asylum then the Vegas airport is definitely a good representation of The Day Room.
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Sounds like another article from 
