OBAMA'S SEPTEMBER 8TH SPEECH TO SCHOOLCHILDREN
So evidently, dear leader Obama will be addressing the youths of our nation on Tuesday, September 8th while they are at school. They have even sent out "suggested" ideas on how to use this speech to the children. Here is an excerpt:
During the Speech:
• As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
• Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
• Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
• Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
• Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
Will they be handing out Obama youth knives after the speech as well? I will speaking to my daughters' school to see if they will be participating in this broadcast and EXACTLY what lesson-plans they intend to use. If I get an unsatisfactory answer, you can bet my daughters will not be in school on Tuesday. Thankfully, my son is in a private high school.
I have already been reading of countless parents who plan to give their children a Parentally Approved Skip Day. I urge parents not to take this too lightly. At the very least, make a call to your kid's school and just inquire about what will be taking place and what lesson plans will be used for the day.
UPDATE:
Don't they realize the web will catch all of this nonsense and report it to the citizens of this country? How many times will they try pull the wool over our eyes? They seem to get caught every time....no wonder Obama wants the power to shut down the internet!
The White House is already scrubbing the text from their so-called lesson plans.
UPDATE:
None of my kids were subjected to the speech today. And for the record, because I have had some libs attack me over this, I would be against any President doing anything similar to what was originally proposed. The school systems should be locally controlled and operated. There is no reason for a sitting President to make a speech to all school children. Education is not, or at least should not be, a federal issue.
