Obama School Speech: Obama’s School Speech address to Students September 8, 2009
Obama School Speech: Obama’s School Speech address to Students September 8, 2009 I am not at all pleased that Obama is going to descend upon an impressionable and captive audience on September 8. While I don’t expect him to do much more than mouth “lame” platitudes about education and service (meaning, of course, service to liberal causes not, God forbid, military service), I’m offended on principle to a highly partisan president speaking directly to all children without their parents there to mediate. ( obama school speech, obama school address, obama september 8, obama speech to students, obama address to students, obama speech to schools ).
Making it worse, of course, is the “course material” all the schools are receiving. This material encourages the adminstration — the same people we instruct our children to respect — to have the children read bios about Obama (and perhaps some other dead white presidents), and to figure out what Obama wants them to do. In my school district, which is heavily liberal (the bumper stickers are the giveaway), this is a problematic window of opportunity for both express and implied bias.
The Orlando Weekly’s Bloggytown is reporting today that a rather generic letter, sent to school principals across the United States by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has caused one local GOP official to completely lose his mind. ( obama school address, obama september 8, obama speech to students, obama address to students, obama speech to schools ). Duncan’s letter previewed a national address that President Barack Obama planned to give on “the importance of education.” Somehow, Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer managed to take away that this meant “taxpayer dollars” would be used to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.” O-kay!
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