
Originally Posted by
bassiusmaximus
Okay, I have two kids in school in 7th and 8th grades. I send them to school to learn how to read, write, do math, learn unopinionated facts about history, science etc. What I don't send them to school for is for someone else, be it a teacher, president, congressman or whomever to mold my kids into activists for anyone or anything or to push them towards a political party. If he was going to say something about being patriotic or stay off drugs or apply yourself in school that would be one thing, but this is nothing more than trying to push his liberal activist crap onto kids.
How they can help the president and why they should listen to politicians? Oh I am sure that there is no chance of there being a far leftwing or rightwing nutjob teacher inflicting his or her own political twists into the discussion....If you believe that then you are most likely under the influence of some drug, or are suffering from a supreme case of denial. Even if I truly trusted Obama's agenda and judgement, which I don't and never will, I would not want this activity taking place in school. There is too much of a chance of inhibiting or cohersing a childs future political views. Say there is a classroom and the teacher is democrat and of thirty kids, 29 of the kids family is democrat and there is one kid whose family is Republican or vice versa. During the course of open discussions in class with the teacher and other kids do you think it's possible that the one child may try to conform to "fit in" so he or she is not ostracized by the majority. ie.. political peer pressure. Instead they should be allowed to growup and freely make a decison about the matter.
I don't have the data but I would almost bet most teachers are democrats.
This sounds like the beginnings of a liberal activists version of a Hitler Youth campaign.
And don't go flippin out about the Hitler reference. Obama and Hitler are two seperate nutjobs.