Public Schools and Indoctrination on September 8th

On September 8th, the President is holding a direct to public schools meeting with students across America.

The White House spins it as a “Value of Education” speech aimed at helping students set and achieve goals in their educational life. It will be aimed at all ages from Pre-Kindergarten to High School Seniors. That means that the generation being talked to in this meeting is easily the most media aware group on the planet.

They are also the most media influenced generation and are far more likely to believe the television version of events than any evidence to the contrary. Studies are done all the time showing that today’s school children are not critical thinking enough to differentiate truth from rhetoric. I just read a case study done a couple of years ago regarding the story of Ruben “Hurricane” Carter. The vast majority of students who saw the Denzel Washington movie sided with Carter’s version of the events. When read a partial transcript of the trial revealing facts not mentioned in the movie that did not line up with Carter’s or the movie’s version of events, 90% of the class continued to believe the movie’s premise that Carter was innocent regardless of the new evidence presented to them.

Couple this lack of critical thinking skill with the fact that these kids will be a captive audience, to an inarguably eloquent speaker with an agenda to push and this meeting should scare the crap out of you.

The White House sent out a packet to schools across the country giving “suggestions” for how to handle the students before, during and after the speech.

You can read these instructions HERE and HERE.

Look at the questions the teachers are supposed to ask 4 year olds (Pre-K) to 12 year olds (6th grade), “What is the President asking us to do? Does the speech make you want to do anything? Are we able to do what the President is asking us to do?”

Or the questions for 13-18 year olds (7th -12th grades), “What lines/phrases do you remember? How are we as individuals and as a class similar? What is President Obama inspiring you to do? What is he challenging you to do?”

These instructions sound like a “How To” manual for indoctrination.

And I have a few questions as well.

What is he asking them to do? I’ve looked and can find no transcript for what he’s going to talk about or what he’s going to say. (And a man that reliant on the teleprompter has this scripted somewhere.)

Will there be “equal time” given on this in any way? If not, why not?

Personally speaking, I don’t think I can let my kids participate in this. So is there an option for a student being excused if a parent doesn’t want their children to attend? If not, why not?

If schools don’t have enough participation, will they stop receiving federal funds?

And how come this has only come to light now, just 6 days from the event? I watch politics like a hawk, and this has been NOWHERE on my RADAR.

I plan on calling the BOE in my county and asking them these questions. I want to hear what they have to say. If need be, I may keep my kids from watching this on Tuesday. But whether you have kids in the schools or not you should be VERY worried about this. It is an unprecedented step and one that is so easily prone to manipulation it boggles the mind. For God’s sake, get out there, rattle the doors of sacred academia and tell them to stand up and say, the education and future of our children does NOT belong to Barack Obama.