Obama’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 1, 2009 01:06 PM

President Obama told a student reporter last month that he would be making an address to schoolchildren on September 8:

ServiceWire has the announcement and broadcast schedule for the speech.

The Daily Paul picked up the story last week and linked to teachers’ manuals pegged to Obama’s address, which have now been linked on Drudge.

The documents have a heavy activist bent:

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?

Schools have used students as little lobbyists on everything from illegal immigration to gay marriage to anti-war activism.

And most recently: Census collection.

Will Obama be able to resist issuing a call to youth arms to marshal help in passing his legislative agenda?

The thing is: He won’t need to make the call explicit.

Obama zealot teachers like this one across the country will do all the extra-curricular bullying and haranguing for him. Remember:

Partial transcript:

Harris:We want to talk about the presidential election. I want to ask you, who are you pulling for? Raise your hand.

Student: Obama.

Harris: You pullin for Obama. Who you pullin for?

Student: Obama.

Harris:Any of you pullin for John McCain? That’s fine, say him as well.

Student: Obama.

Student: Obama.

[Cathy, the daughter of an American soldier answers McCain.]

Harris:John, oh lord, John McCain.

Oh Jesus, John McCain.

Ok, now I wanna axe you somethin.

Why are you pullin for John McCain? It’s ok, but why are you pullin for John McCain?

Cathy: I thinks it’s because my parents are going for him too.

Harris: Ok, your parents are going for him. Why are you pullin for Ba-RACK. Barack.

Student: I just want a black president sometimes.

Ok, you want a black president.

Student: The reason why I want Barack Obama is because he’s making good changes in the good country and stuff like that.

Harris: So, he’s making good changes for our country. Now can you tell me just a little bit more, like what type of changes?

Like not having big fights between Iraq and having soldiers killed.

So in other words, Barack is going to end that war in Iraq. What do you all know about that war in Iraq?

[Harris addresses Kathy] Talk, cause yo daddy in the military. Talk. It’s a senseless war! And by the way, Cathy, the person that you’re picking for president said that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to!

[Camera pans to Cathy, in near tears.]

Harris: So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years!

Reason number 999,999,965 to take control of your own children’s education.

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  1. #101
    On September 1st, 2009 at 8:25 pm, Patronedheart said:

    I thank God every day that my kids go to a school where everyone from the Administration to the teachers have strong Christian values and don’t try to indoctrinate liberal views into my kids. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in a public school. I know they’ll have no problems ignoring this “speech”, and continue with the real education that I send my kids to school to receive.

  2. #102
    On September 1st, 2009 at 8:49 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    I work in Asheville, NC. Other than that, I spend as little time there as possible. It is Berkeley-lite; different from most of the rest of western NC, which tends to lean toward conservative values and self-reliance.

    I wonder if Mizz Harris has pulled her head of out her a$$ long emough to notice that, guess what, the US military is still in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    As of today, The Zero has been in office 224 days. That’s 224 opportunities he has missed to get the US out of this “senseless” war.

    Mizz Harris, have you communicated your displeasure to The Zero about the continuation of this “senseless” war.

    No? I understand. It’s hard to be heard when your head is so firmly wedged into that place where the sun doesn’t shine.

  3. #103
    On September 1st, 2009 at 9:04 pm, Salt said:

    On September 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm, xler8bmw said:

    Sheesh, xler8bmw, couldn’t you have just put the link? ;)

  4. #104
    On September 1st, 2009 at 9:07 pm, xler8bmw said:

    On September 1st, 2009 at 9:04 pm, Salt said:

    Come on I know you guys don’t click on links.:)

  5. #105
    On September 1st, 2009 at 11:10 pm, jangar said:

    What is the President trying to tell me?

    He (thinks he) is the lord our god. Don’t argue with him…he’s omnipotent.

  6. #106
    On September 1st, 2009 at 11:15 pm, SpeakEasy said:

    How about allowing parents to attend with their children and discuss the content at home before turning in any assignments?

    I understand their objective is not to actually educate, rather indoctrinate, but if enough parents demand it the response would be interesting.

  7. #107
    On September 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 am, DavidHughes said:

    I read about this earlier, and am seeing red. Just finished emailing my administrator to ask if our district or school is participating. If so, I will not be in the building if it is going to be broadcast over the PA system. Told him I’d either have to take a personal day or have someone cover my class while I leave the building for its duration— won’t be any good the rest of the day anyway, if my blood is boiling.

    I’m the only faculty member in my building (and only one of two in the whole district) who is not a member of the teacher’s union, and probably only one of about six or eight who is not an Obama supporter. Guess that means I won’t get a lot of sympathy or support. If I were a parent, I’d be pretty upset, too. At the very least, they should have the option of sending their kids to another room, where they won’t have to listen to this garbage; I’ll gladly supervise that room, regardless of how many students opt out of the indoctrination speech. What can I do for Obama?… turn my back to him if we ever happen to be in the same room at the same time. He won’t want to see what’s burning behind my eyes. But honestly, I’m more worried about what I can do for my students. They shouldn’t have to sit through this tripe. Dear Lord, please let my administrators have enough sense not to go through with this.

  8. #108
    On September 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 am, Fauxrepublican said:

    Having read the K-6 and the 7-12 teacher’s manuals, the only thing that I see is missing is a collection of quotations from the little red book that Der Leader carries. No sarc. intended.

  9. #109
    On September 2nd, 2009 at 4:10 am, ex-expat said:

    FWIW, a copy of an e-mail sent to my son’s school’s principle

    “Principle XXX,

    It is my understanding that on 09/08, there will be a nationwide address from the White House to school children. As a parent of a student at W.T. Woodson, I find this an extremely disturbing, unwelcome, unwarranted and an unprecedented intrusion by the Executive Office into what should be a fair, balanced, non partisan learning environment.

    As parents and their children have the right to opt out their children of some aspects of the educational curriculum, I would like to know how this speech will be handled at Woodson and what options a student will have should they wish to opt out from this speech?

    Regards”

  10. #110
    On September 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 am, jangar said:

    During the 2008 campaign (add to that several years prior if you feel so inclined), then Senator Obama did indeed say he wanted to fundamentally change America…and we need to “hope” for this change. Then he won. His mission is not to necessarily occupy the Oval Office as the administrator, but as he sees it, to change America. It’s just as he promised. His words, not mine. None of us need to be surprised that this is happening. After all, Germany fell for similar words from a candidate once upon a time. The dumbing down of America and lack of morals have lead to a repeat of history.

    So it only seems natural at this point that his words will be piped into classrooms, into the minds of children, who have had a 40 year headstart on socialist instruction and history revision.

    Elections have consequences.

  11. #111
    On September 2nd, 2009 at 7:04 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

    I don’t have kids, but this seems to be a good time to volunteer my time during the presentation and wear my McCain/Palin shirt.

    GSP

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