| #16 Responsibility, Persistence, Goals, all very benign on the surface. I for one will have my kids at home on the 8th. I will not tolerate any attempt from our government, left or right, to step away from education with this type of propaganda and “reeducation” reminiscing of Cambodia and North Korean relearning camps. I beg every parent to go to the gov site that has the outline on his speech and decide for yourself. Check the link at the outline. It directs the teachers to focus on these three terms of responsibility, persistence, and goals. Simple at first glance, but in reality this is a complicated idea and philosophy. Then it directs the teachers to get the students to look for the terms in the speech. Finally, after the speech it tells the teachers to ask the students the THREE most important words and the thesis. This is simple and pain predispositioning the students. What is most frightening is what he wraps around these terms in his definition and examples, which of course we won’t know until the speech, IE parents, church, tolerence, government service, family, hints of Plato here. This is where the agenda and danger lies. He has the potential to drive an ideological wedge between parents and kids here. Every flag in our soul should be going off here! He is trying to reach and influence a generation of kids that are vulnerable to influence from positions of power. He is not working from an approved curriculum, his speech and lesson plan has not met with the basic requirements of all other lessons in our public schools. He has an agenda that we don't know and he is trying to influence our children around our ability to stop him. |
President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president." 
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