Keep Your Kids At Home Day

On September 8th, 2009, Obama is planning on giving a nationally televised address to schools nationwide. He is broadcasting from Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. He plans to address the nations schools about "education and the future." This broadcast has greatly upset parents nationwide. They are afraid that Obama will indoctrinate their children and that it will take away from important class time. Parents nationwide have dubbed September 8th as "National Keep Your Kid Home Day."

Schools are giving kids the chance to opt-out of the address with parental consent. In Utah, Salt Lake City School District is advising schools to have teachers notify parents if they will be showing the presentation, than give them the chance to opt-out. One Utah father told the Deseret News he will pull his four children out of school rather than allow them to watch the Obama broadcast. "We will go on a picnic and read the Constitution – learn something useful," he said.

Other quotes from angry and concerned parents include:

• He is treading on very dangerous ground.
• I would keep my kid out for the whole day instead of just a couple of hours – the school districts receive an amount per student based on their daily attendance, so the thing to do is to hit them in the pocketbook, where it hurts.
• I assume brownshirts will be taking the names of those who opt out.
• Obama's campaign promise was all about change. He wants to change everything good in America, and he is using the media to control and plant communist ideas in the minds of our children.

Also part of the media presentation is a pre and post lesson. For the K-6th graders there is a worksheet that poses questions such as:

• What is the president trying to tell me to do?
• What is the president asking me to do?
• What new actions and ideas is the president challenging me to think about?

For the 7th-12th graders they get questions such as:

• Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?
• How will he inspire us?
• How will he challenge us?
• What might he say?

Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party, said in a statement that he believes Obama's speech may be a platform "to spread" his "socialist ideology."

"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology. The idea that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power."

My Lovely Response

I absolutely agree with the parents opinions in this article. Obama has no right to go into our classrooms and try to brainwash us into his way of thinking. He does not have a teaching degree, so therefore he has no right to force himself into our classrooms and teach us his socialist propaganda. We do not need or want federal interference in our educational system.

Here is a link to the article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108795