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2009-09-03 Home Front: Culture Wars
The One Wants School Children to Help Him
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Posted by Bobby 2009-09-03 06:10|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Why do we still have a Department of edcation? I mean if they shut down for say six months, who anyone notice? How about a year? Ten? Next week should be fun.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-09-03 07:22||   2009-09-03 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Private or parochial school is looking better and better for the Tsarevich. (Or were they gonna be subjected to this agitprop, too? Can't find any info on that anywhere.)
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-03 07:29||   2009-09-03 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 ...other than shuffling their paper work duties to validate various pork and prestige programs to another office, it can be one of the departments of the federal government that should be axed as a means of balancing the budget. If it didn't exist before 1965, its a prime target.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-03 07:32||   2009-09-03 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 No surprises here. He's just revisiting his National Education Association (NEA) comrades and base, asking them once again for their support.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-03 08:25||   2009-09-03 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 From Post above:

#1 "I wonder if they have the syllabus printed up yet? Can we get it on-line?"

YUP!: http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html

Page down to the PDF's for (pre K-6) and (7-12) indocrination materials. They have, however, apparently been scrubbed to delete the "How can I help President Obama." exercise.

1930 Germany anyone?

In his defense, however, The Statist Mighty O has done something I thought would be impossible. He has made Joe Biden appear almost executive-like!


Posted by Uncle Phester 2009-09-03 08:51||   2009-09-03 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Best endorsement yet for home schooling.
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-03 09:45||   2009-09-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Those who fail to learn from history...


...ah, the glorious future of social-ism.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-03 10:02||   2009-09-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I have advised my grandkids to be kept home that day. This is the cult of personality at work.
Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-09-03 11:32||   2009-09-03 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 I thought the left wanted to keep G_d out of the classroom...
Posted by Beavis 2009-09-03 11:50||   2009-09-03 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Stay AWAY from my kids!
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-03 15:15||   2009-09-03 15:15|| Front Page Top

#11 It's a good thing these guys are too stupid to run a kool-aid lemonade stand. Schools are closed in Boston, NYC, LA, and probably many other places on 8 Sept, the chosen day.
Posted by KBK 2009-09-03 15:24||   2009-09-03 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile in the double sandards department
Posted by tipper 2009-09-03 18:15||   2009-09-03 18:15|| Front Page Top

#13 "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."
- Adolph Hitler
Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-03 18:47||   2009-09-03 18:47|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by 3dc 2009-09-03 19:39||   2009-09-03 19:39|| Front Page Top

#15  or this?
Posted by 3dc 2009-09-03 19:56||   2009-09-03 19:56|| Front Page Top

#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.
Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-03 21:58||   2009-09-03 21:58|| Front Page Top

#17 AND YES I'M REALLY PISSED OFF AT THIS!!!!!!
Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-03 21:59||   2009-09-03 21:59|| Front Page Top

#18 The White House is suprised at the backlash to this. How I don't know, though the incompetence is so great that it's just commonplace now.

Reagan/Bush(41) did this too supposedly. Anybody Confirm
Posted by Charles 2009-09-03 22:25||   2009-09-03 22:25|| Front Page Top

#19 I did a little research on it. Bush gave a speech on staying in school and drugs. The Senate investagated him for the cost of it. But it was a speech with no read ahead, study guide, or book list.
Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-03 22:30||   2009-09-03 22:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Ima thinkrn Teh Won needs to reassess his Cult of Personality Czar's work.
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-09-03 23:01||   2009-09-03 23:01|| Front Page Top

#21 vid
Posted by 3dc 2009-09-03 23:59||   2009-09-03 23:59|| Front Page Top

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