Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
You miss the POINT..........

The Department of Education is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SETTING CURRICULUM.......Period......

In fact......I believe they my have BROKE the law.......

"Liberty Counsel founder Matt Staver tells OneNewsNow that the Department of Education [DOE] is engaging in illegal activity in the dispersing of educational material that will accompany President Obama's address to school children. He says it does not matter what Obama talks about because according to U.S. Code 20, Section 3403, the Secretary of Education, or any officer, is forbidden to engage in "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system."

http://onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=670336



The group cited the Pupil Rights Amendment:

"It also violates 34 Code of Federal Regulations Section 98.4[c] [1] and [2] that defines psychological testing as:


(1) Psychiatric or psychological examination or test means a method of obtaining information, including a group activity, that is not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings; (emphasis added)

(2) Psychiatric or psychological treatment means an activity involving the planned, systematic use of methods or techniques that are not directly related to academic instruction and that is designed to affect behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or group. (emphasis added)


http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108915





By sending material to ahead of the speech and by promoting after the speech discussions, they are DIRECTLY establishing teaching material.....WHICH is WRONG, and ILLEGAL.

Later,

Geo
If that short, generic speech was in fact the President "setting curriculum" then I guess I did miss the point but I hardly think that's what it was.

(and the "point" seems to keep changing. I think the real point is some of you just don't like the guy - and I don't either - but I don't see why we'd cause such an uproar about him giving a little pep talk speech to students)