Obama Going to Talk to Kids: Yikes!

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I'm so glad my children aren't in elementary school anymore. Otherwise I'd be spending the whole Labor Day weekend fretting over next Tuesday instead of cleaning the ashes out of my ears. 

Tuesday, as you all know, unless you've been preoccupied with your house burning down or ominous mushroom clouds like we have here in LA, is when President Obama is set to give his "socialist" talk to the nation's schoolchildren.

Mind you, no one has actually seen a copy of the president's speech. But that hasn't stopped right-wing crazies and Republicans from insisting that Obama is going to brainwash our kids with his radical ideas about health care, banking, and taxes. All in the span of a few propaganda-packed minutes.

Some parents have demanded that their children be excused from hearing the president speak. I'm taking a wild guess, but I'm pretty sure that African-American parents won't be joining them. You'd think Obama was showing kids on live TV how to slip a condom on a banana.

Clearly, none of these people has ever never taught a group of squirming six-year-olds like I have, much less a class of smart-mouthy fifth graders or opinionated 16-year-olds in AP U.S. History or they wouldn't be so alarmed. I know this comes as a shock, but students don't hang on every adult word. They're also curiously able to think for themselves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-gable/obama-going-to-talk-to-ki_b_278215.html