Will all schools broadcast Obama's address to Students?

[TeamJordan23]

Do we know if public schools will be required to show this or is it something that will be optional?

[FrenchieCat]

1. Only the socialist ones.

[Cha]

2. Yeah, only the

Cool onesB-)

[jenmito]

3. Just the fact that Obama is doing this has people like Glenn Beck accusing him of

indoctrinating children into his socialist agenda. :eyes:

[winyanstaz]

4. Sorry but you are wrong. I don't care for Glen Beck....

but I feel a government should be talking to the adults and let the parents decide what..if anything to tell their children.
What gives the government (ANY)the right to talk to the children? They have no right and they are over stepping their bounds.
The governments job is not to brainwash or use propaganda on us or our children...but to do the job we elected them to do and only those things within the limits of the United States Constitution.
Ask yourself if you will be happy if Sarah Palin won the election in 2012 and decided to talk directly to YOUR kids?
We need to stop and think about this.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Yes. Why should the POTUS talk to children?

Not like he represents them or anything...

[OneGrassRoot]

8. I couldn't disagree more. It's a public school system.....

private schools most certainly have that choice.

If they're not going to respect the office of POTUS (and, yes, I'd be saying the same thing if it were Bush, so long as it was simply a speech and not a prayer), they need to take the flags down.

I said it in another thread, but I am SERIOUSLY in the Twilight Zone about this and the reaction that it's perfectly acceptable.

No wonder people don't know anything nowadays. If a speech by POTUS isn't deemed worthy -- and educational -- by SCHOOLS, then that says it all.

They might as well just show "American's Top Model" during the non-existent civics classes. There is no respect for anything any more.

:(

[Drunken Irishman]

9. I seem to recall Bill Clinton speaking to my class in elementary school.

I don't remember what it was about (maybe drugs?) and there wasn't much uproar then.

[votenovember2008]

10. Total agreement

There are lots of things parents should decide. This is a slippery slope. :toast:

[jenmito]

11. You used Glenn Beck's exact words-Obama's goal is to "brainwash or use propaganda on us or our

children..." I think you DO care for Glenn Beck!

[Pirate Smile]

12. Pres H.W. Bush did this in 1991. This isn't an original idea by Obama.

[jenmito]

13. I think I heard Reagan did it, too.

[Pirate Smile]

16. Republicans throwing a fit about this just shows what ridiculous assholes they are being toward

this President. They are treating him different and worse. Their rhetoric is unhinged.

[jenmito]

18. I really think it's because he's Black-

he's "other" and therefore trying to "indoctrinate" their children with his "scary, radical agenda." :eyes:

[Frouge]

29. Who's black?

I thought we moved beyond quantifying every disagreement in to a racial issue. First off, Obama is not black. He is just as much Caucasian as he is Negroid. Technically he is African-American, as he is the bastard child (his father was previously married) between an African and an American. However, claiming he is "black" is a disservice to persons who are black and dismisses his mother's history. Secondly to dismiss concerns by pigeon holing his detractors as being racist, diminishes the discussion. His actions since being elected have been more radical than we have had in most anytime. That should be agreed upon. He ran on change, but if anyone does not agree with him, they are wrong. Change would have been trying to understand why people do not agree, and find what they do agree upon. Not just dismissing them (as your post does). Race is nothing, ideas beliefs and actions are everything.

[Blue Diadem]

30. One speech Reagan gave to school kids was really political.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm

This says it was televised on C-SPAN and -- or the Instructional Television Network. He then interacted with some students and answered their questions.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. H.W. used to have his signature on every arcade video machine throughout the early 90s.

Anyone remember those intros?

haha

[Pirate Smile]

27. How dare he want to give them a pep talk about the importance of their education & working hard.

:eyes:

[sea_dream]

5. My district will not

I teach in the 4th or 5th largest school district in the country. We received word today that the message would not be shown, but parents who wished for their children to see it would be able to go to a link at the district's website. Too "political" I guess.

[winyanstaz]

6. I think your district has picked a responsible way to deal with this.

[RayOfHope]

15. Our school is not participating either, but neither are we linking it.

The email from our admin was little bogus, though

"The central office has received several parent calls in regard to a letter for all school principals from Arne Duncan (Secretary of Education) which announces that on September 8th President Obama will provide a national address directly to all students across America. The letter encourages principals to allow the broadcast to be live in their buildings. This has not been confirmed through DESE and will not be something ****** Schools will be participating in. We have no background information or guidelines to follow within our curriculum to try to provide a setting for this format."

emphasis mine. How hard is it to turn on a TV? I'm in teabagger central though, so I'll bet the parents are calling and going nuts.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Pirate Smile]

26. "Too political". Republicans consider it political to just acknowledge that Obama is President.

We wouldn't want kids to get a pep talk about the importance of their education and working hard. :eyes:

It would also be bad for them to know that they are actual important to the President.

[goclark]

14. So GW could do it and not a word was spoken

They were able to listen to a 1st grader President but it would be "too political" for Obama to speak?

As far as I'm concerned it would reach a better audience if he spoke to PARENTS and CHILDREN and others about 7 PM.

As a former Principal, I would prefer it done at home with their parents there to guide and enhance their experience.

That would be so much better IMO.

[no_hypocrisy]

20. The callers on Lou Dobbs radio program are up in arms about this broadcast.

They sound as though their pristine and innocent children were to be left alone in a room without their parents to be indoctrinated by a "bad man". They almost make Obama sound like a pedophile.

[hileeopnyn8d]

22. That's the whole idea

behind all the names they through out to describe him. They've dehumanized him to the point that it's acceptable to disrespect him to the point of ridiculousness. Or worse, they've dehumanized him to the point where violence is inevitable.

These people make my heart hurt.

[jenmito]

23. They probably got those ideas from Glenn Beck who said Obama WILL be trying to

indoctrinate the children to go along with his Socialist agenda or whatever.

[grantcart]

21. Knowing Obama he will tell them to listen to their teachers, turn off the TV and do their homework.

[Myrina]

25. The Republicans cannot afford any smart American children.

They need the next few generations to be certified Faux-watching morans so they can "resurge" and finish off the rest of the country.

12th Century anyone?

[Myrina]

24. Can you imagine the squealing if "liberal parents" wanted to ...

... keep their kids home so they didn't have to listen to a Dimson speech?
We'd have been inundated with cries of:
'traitor'
'commie'
'why do you hate America'
'you have to respect the President'
'Send 'em to Gitmo' etc etc ...


But they can be as big of disrespectful assholes as the World has ever seen and its "their choice" ???


:wtf: Houston, we've officially lost touch with reality.

[onenote]

28. who could "require" it

Yes it will be optional.