Eliminate the Department of Education.

Count me in opposed to President Obama attempting to spread  propaganda to school children during school hours.

Students in grades pre-K-6, for example, are encouraged to “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.” 

At a later date students will be held accountable to their goals of helping the President?  Excuse Me. 

Let me see if I have that right … yes, it says teachers will make students accountable to their goals of helping the president.

Can you imagine .. Can you just imagine the outcry if George Bush had scheduled an address to school children and through the Department of Education would make students accountable to goals of helping the president?

I would have objected to Bush  just as much as I object to Obama using the Department of Education to spread their personal agendas to elementary children. It’s wrong no matter who is doing it.

As a long time advocate of eliminating the Department of Education this just gives more fodder.

Give education decisions back to local school boards!

Eliminate the Department of Education!

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4 Responses to “Eliminate the Department of Education.”

Jeannette Says:

September 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm




W talked to students this way about drug education. If you look at the guidelines for the talk you’d realize that by “helping the President” he wants them to be good citizens, be respectful of others and getting good grades. The way you crazed conservatives are acting you think he was asking them to write their own single-payer health care plans!



Al Arnold Says:

September 5th, 2009 at 5:28 am




Jeanette:

I am not a crazed conservative. I am a crazed states right advocate and local control of schools advocate.

In the true spirt of cooperation I would remove my objection to any President addressing students if we can eliniminate the Department of Education.

Al



Jeannette Says:

September 9th, 2009 at 9:48 am




Did you listen or read the transcripts of the speech? If that was “propaganda” what isn’t?



Al Arnold Says:

September 9th, 2009 at 9:59 am




Yes, I did watch it. I found no propaganda. In fact, I will remove any objection to further Presidential speeches to students, if you agree they should not be accompanied by a “lesson plan” developed by the Department of Education. Doesn’t matter whose Department of Education it is.

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