Maybe you have heard that the President is going to broadcast a speech to or school kids next week. A lot of people are up in arms about it. Some are saying that he’s trying to indoctrinate our kids. I say they should have been worried about that a long time ago … the schools have been indoctrinating them for years. Others say that the president should be reaching out to kids and that he has right to do so. I believe that elections have consequences. The Democrats have taken control of Washington and think that they have been given a mandate to fundamentally change the country. I know this because that is what President Obama himself said about the last election.
Now many Americans are learning that Obama and the Democrats meant what they said and they don’t like it. Where is the best place to fundamentally change the country? With our children. Where do most of them spend their day? At school, where Mom and Dad trust them to be taken care of, educated, and nurtured. I don’t think it is outrageous for the President to speak to school kids - it may even be commendable - that is if it were just to encourage kids to study and grow (not to ask kids to ask themselves how they can help the President and pledge him their support). It sounds like what has happened in recent history when radicals take control of government - they groom the children in their image and over time turn them against the hand that has fed them. In America we only have to look back to the 1960’s to understand the change that is taking place.
As I said, elections have consequences and we are paying them. Today there are 40% of us that will follow this new government to a cliff and jump off, another 40% that will never accept the changes that are coming, 10% are wondering what they have done, and the rest just don’t care.
There you have it
Pass it on if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue
Eddie
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Obama was not the first president to address the students of the United States, but he was the first to include a curiculum. My wife is a teacher in the public school system, when she sat and listened to her collegues sing the praises of Obama, she corrected them by providing dates and names of the other presidents who had addressed students. She then told her administrator that she was "opting out". Her collegues and principle were in shock after all they had assumed that because she is a minority and a teacher she was an Obama supporter. Even as we were entering the McCain ralley in Durango, teachers who were protesting, were patting her on the back and thanking her for her support. She just nodded and donned her McCain/ Palin tee shirt much to their chagrin.
ReplyDeleteBack to the point though, public school does not have to be about indoctrination. I do not feel that I was indoctrinated into anything other than pride in self and country in OG. I never heard teachers speak either for or against any candidate while in school. If there is any indoctrination happening it is because WE have allowed it to happen. The only way to put an end to it is by speaking to our school boards, confronting our administrators, and telling them that we demand teachers "opt out" of political programming, just as they have opted out of allowing our kids to pray. The school is a place for learning and will be if we get the courage to take it back.
Just my humble opinion.