Operation “Hall Pass on That”
From the National Tea Party Coalition, there’s a counter-program to President Obama’s Sept. 8 pretextual education speech.
The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition announces “Hall Pass on That,” the alternative to President Barack Obama’s September 8th address to school children across the nation. The group asks that schools who choose to participate in the president’s September 8th program offer an alternative to students and families who do not wish to view, or have their children view, a partisan address or participate in activities that did not follow proper educational protocol or obtain parental consent.
Dana Loesch, Nationwide spokesperson for the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, announced the launch of the Hall Pass on That website: http://www.hallpassonthat.com to provide parents who oppose the Department of Education’s proposed presidential program. “We are suggesting several action steps parents can take if they do not approve of their children participating in a partisan presentation conducted without their consent.” The four steps propose by the Coalition:
1. Contact the child’s school to find out whether or not your school is participating in the president’s September 8th program.
2. If your child’s school is participating, ask what alternatives there are for the children of families who wish their students learn about the establishment of the country respective to the Founding Father’s intentions. Discussion can focus on the Constitution, the definition and actions of a republic, and the responsibility of elected leaders to their constituents.
3. Ask if the school can excuse your child from the presentation and instead receive a DVD of the address and copy of the activity directives to be evaluated by parents at a later date.
4. Request meeting with the school board, superintendent, and principal to inquire as to why parents were excluded from the decision-making process of this event.
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Now we’re talking! Excellent!
comment number 798402????
Anyway, this is a good idea.
This procedure should ALWAYS be implemented with regard to indoctrination programs …
ESPECIALLY direct indoctrination such as this.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Number four is a winner! My BOE hates when parents show up for meetings and request to be on the agenda.
The “thread that won’t die” has nothing on us. 10,000 posts? Pfffttt!
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have a problem with the president addresing schoolkids. However, there isn’t a move this guy makes that isn’t toward furhtering himself or his agenda.
Why not make the speech at 8:00 p.m. and have kids watch it with their parents? You know, the people who raise kids and teach them values.
If possible, I would simply keep my kid out and take a “vacation trip” to the local bookstore to introduce him/her to MM’s latest book.
Otherwise, a “Hall Pass” is a brilliant idea.
Because the parents are already against him.
The kids’ pity is his only hope. He probably figures parents might change their minds if the kids come home crying for it.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
As I said in an earlier thread on this subject, the socialists fear the family. Since they own the schools, they feel safe in forcing their Marxist agenda down our throats, through our children.
Socialism by proxy. These people are the most disgusting scum on earth.
Let’s just hope there is as much opposition to the homosexual agenda curriculum that will be coming to a public school near you.
sonofdy, I suspect this is the total post count on MM’s blog. It’s being mistakenly used instead of the current thread post count. Maybe Michelle can turn it back on around 999,900 to see who gets post 1,000,000
TooMuchTime – So true. John Deaux – according to the buzzworthy, our old pal Dick had a strong opinion about the Prez speaking directly to school kids. Of course it was a totally different situation when a Bush was Prez:
Then-House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri) said, “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the President.”
Is Obama going to pull an Oprah and announce at the end of his speech that every child still in class will be getting a brand new bike?
That’s how we need to fight. Hit them head on with a positive.
How about children stay home and watch DVD’s of The Sands Of Iwo Jima, Memphis Belle, Glory, et. al. and learn what REAL Americans have done for this country.
Or children can skip school, and spend that day volunteering at the local Salvation Army, VFW, Senior Citizens Center, or just helping people in the neighborhood who need it.
Then they’ll learn how to REALLY serve their country.
I think a DVD of Bambi’s speech is nice–I’ll use the cover for a coaster under my coffee cup and use the disc as a Frisbee. As a point/counter point the school should show Ronald Reagan’s version of YES WE CAN. It still warms me.
Neanderthals Rock
I hate to think my grandson needs to miss his very first day of kindergarten because of this. He has been so excited about starting school! This is very sad. I plan to be there, and I will stay and watch. I wrote to the school, but have not received a reply. My daughter went to the open house last night and was going to ask about it, and I just am waiting to hear from her. She hasn’t gotten back to me yet. They live in a small town about 90 miles from here.
I don’t know if this crap will be happening at my sons’ schools, but if it does, I will be picking them up early. We have plenty of historically accurate movies at home about patriotic Americans I can have them watch.
Memphis Belle or The Blue and The Gray sound like a good alternative to Mr. Audacity.
And a signed 8 x 10 glossy of the Won, an iPod Nano with all his previous speeches and recipes by Michelle My Belle using foods from her Victory Garden.
Sure to be collector’s items. (All taxes state and federal may apply)
My son, a high schooler has permission to excuse himself should he not want to listen to Obama.
He was unaware of this and when I explained it to him, his comment was, ‘Didn’t the Japanese do the same thing in WWII? (i.e., Imperial broadcasts)’ From the mouths of babes…
Another alternative:
http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/09/todays_medal_of_107.html
Medal of Honor winners for September 1.
Scroll down to the Korean War
I believe they plan to show Obama first thing in the a.m.
No, an Obama bobblehead.
Or they could give out these
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/Obama_Playing_Cards.php
I totally agree. It’s a real shame that we can’t trust our President to talk to our kids. This isn’t intended to be a non partisan, work hard, stay in school, and obey your parents speech. BO doesn’t spend time on things that don’t help him politically. It was purely designed as a Democrat Party liberal values indoctrination speech with the help and support of liberal teachers and unions.
Now he is backpedaling but don’t think the end goal has really changed. He knows that targeting youth is part of his overall organizing strategy and felt so secure with his media coverage that he could be blatant about it. Now he is just doing coverup.
Isn’t that the typical knee-jerk reaction Democrats have to resistance to their ideas? Make it a crime to dissent?
Our local paper just reported that our school district enrollment dropped by over 700 students. They attribute that to increased enrollment to Charter Schools (somewhere above 6oo,) and a smaller amount to those who left the area (read: illegal alien children.)
Why do you suppose concerned parents are bailing on public education? Ideology, forced liberal indoctrination, lowered test scores, lack of funding for the actual student (rather than for teacher benefits,) better education from private schools, or all of the above?
The eight is the first day of school for 3 out of 4 of my boys (the youngest
starts kindergarten this year and does not start till the 10th). I really
feel that this is not the way to start the first day of school.
I have given it a long and hard thought on whether or not I should keep my
10, 9 and 8 year olds home that day and have decided that having them hide
from the reality in which this President is trying to create for our great
nation is the wrong approach, so I have come up with this plan of action.
I will talk to my children over this weekend (a four day weekend for
me)explaining all that I can about what this President is about and what
plans the liberals have in store for our nation. I will answer all
questions they have and will arm them with the knowledge necessary to
counter the Indoctrinator-In-Chief’s message on Tuesday. After they come home from school
Tuesday I will sit down and talk to them again and discuss what they heard
and what they think is going on (and counter any indoctrination that has
occurred).
I feel that it is far more dangerous to hide our children from what is going
on then to arm them with facts and let them start to confront the liberal
hordes now, preparing them to be able to think for themselves and see
through the propaganda.
We need to sit down and have serious discussions with our children and grandchildren. One very important issue to talk about is…Why did our forefathers fight the American Revolution? What were the reasons?? Then talk about those reasons and compare to what might be happening today. Gear the talk to the appropriate age level and then go for it. Taxation, in-your-face government telling us what to do and intruding into our lives, our freedoms, our liberty. Did our ancestors fight in vain? Do we have a responsibility to fight for liberty today, or should we just sit back and let it happen? The taking back of our kids is a TOP PRIORITY in my life and needs to be for everyone. If they brainwash another generation, we are doomed.
Yes,Graysonret, we know already Obama is a bobblehead.
But, we want to know if the students get anything.
I figure the ones who stay and watch, then say things like, “Obama is great. Obama is magnificent.” will receive an “A”.
And those who opt out will be reported to the “Fishy” hot line.
Agreed, Happy. Luke 20:24-25 NIV says:
Whose portrait and inscription are on our children? God’s
Very well stated!!
I don’t have to worry about BO indoctrinating my grandkids. Their parents do it for him. The kid was 3 and was saying Barack Obama is my President while GW Bush was still the President. When I tried to correct him, he became fixated on BO so I had to give it up. He’s 3! At least his parents don’t vote.
So glad my granddaughter is in a “faith-based” day care, and won’t have to watch this tripe.
Yes! Thank you for that reference. I am building my “talking points” for my new passion…taking back the children!
A personal story…Obama’s talk scheduled for September 8th was an answer to prayer for me. Just a few days before, I prayed for guidance. What did God want me to concentrate on? Where could I get involved where I could make a difference? Sadly, I have been drifting along since I retired two years ago…waiting to see what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, something I could get passionate about. Nothing appealed to me on a daily basis. I am not a big “mixer”. I tend to shy away from large crowds and in fact, they frighten me. Well, a couple days after my prayer, I find out that Obama is already trying to get his dirty marxist claws into my grandson, who starts kindergarten next Tuesday. LIGHT.BULB.MOMENT! Thank you oh fearless leader, Odumbo! You have awakened THIS sleeping giant and I am ready to do something that will make a difference. This is the first and only good thing this lying crapweasel has done in my life, and I am grateful for his impecible timing. And by the way, OCreepo…stay away from our kids!!!
Keep trying to save them, T-Bone!! Don’t give up!
Great, Happy! I’m glad you’ve found your passion! Please pray that I find mine.
you know, it seems so bizarre to me that the President of the United states would do this, and risk another huge conundrum. The guy is no GWB, he backs down on almost everything that the people rise up against so far. He is tossed in the wind like a kite, townhalls told him we do not want his kind of healthcare, but the real lefty libs made him retract his promise to tone it down, then he was back on again with the plan. Now the people have risen up again and he is backing down again on the public option. Is he really this wishy washy or is this all a game?
anyway, it struck me that this is such a Liberal way of thinking in general, “I can get to the parents by getting to the kids.” and you know what? For most libs, thats likely true. Their kids are undisciplined tree-huggers who think they can get mom and dad to jump every time they cry. They might be inclined to accept what junior says as gospel, anything to satisfy his little ego. But Conservatives don’t raise their children that way. We don’t cater, we don’t tolerate whining and threatening, we don’t think they poop rainbows all the time.
We know how to discipline our kids, and we know how to guide them in the ways of morality, faith, character. Libs think their kids wearing Che Guevera shirts are hip and cool, we think our kids should be kids.
It isn’t at all that I don’t give weight to my children’s wishes, and I hear them when it comes to what inspires them. I just know that with maturity will come wisdom, and I have seen that in action with my eldest. She thought Obama was cool, everyone loved him, she considered voting for him. And then she realized just how much hype there was. She saw his posters for sale at the grocery store and asked me if I had ever seen a President’s poster at the grocery store before. Magically, the years I have spent sharing my views while hearing hers respectfully came to fruition. She gets it.
Coddling her along the way and never challenging “cool” would have created a know-it-all mini Liberal. Respecting her, while also maintaining our parental role and her role as child as she grew gave her the ability to grow into a mature, intelligent voter. How she votes is up to her, but teaching her to understand that this country requires far more than a cool personality is up to us. I have a feeling most Libs today were raised by parents who treated every political question or revelation their child made as the second coming, and never challenged them to think for themselves, or better yet, for their country.
A couple of years ago I was the 100 millionth ‘visit’ to MM.com.
Now it’s at 250+ million
I asked for a trip to Hawaii, any car, then finally just an autographed book…..even when I was with her in Denver…
‘No comment’ is what I received…hehe
Just kiddin.
But I was the 100 millionth visitor to the site, have a screencap for proof.
I will pray that all of us find our calling and then act on it! And if you ask, God will answer. I have experienced that all my life.
Other:) Odopey’s a dillweed and I don’t want to hear his B.S.
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Anybody can SPEND money, and that is ALL Odopey has done..
Very good post, Mainah…I am putting it into my “points to ponder” file!! That file is getting bigger and is full of incredible wisdom.
It’s not just the speech folks- what we have here is the opening salvo of a full fledged alliance of the liberal propaganda machine to set their barbs into our kids minds!
From SurgeUSA.org-The Dept of Education has hastily edited their website and changed some of the teacher instructions already. They’re on the defensive!
We need to keep the pressure on! It is now clear that this was timed to coincide with a “Get Schooled -You Have The Right” initiative which is being launched on TV that evening by Viacom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the support of the Department of Education. There’s a new website (since April) which was set up for this initiative. One of Obama’s speechwriters is featured in that presentation. Gee, they must have forgotten to mention that while they were so busy pushing cap and trade, health care, and demonizing the Tea Party protests.
Pass the word… the speech is just the tip of the iceberg as usual!
Organized Indoctrination at it’s finest! Now we know why Ayers is laying low!
Scrapper,
I haven’t given up the entire fight. Just don’t want to argue with the 3 year old. He repeats what I say at home and then his parents spend more time indoctrinating him. I don’t want to get caught up in that game with a 3 year old in the middle. He will hear plenty over the years. His parents have already closed their ears as they think they know more than their parents.
I’ll be calling my son’s school tomorrow (if I don’t get any info before then– his school is pretty parent-friendly and on top of things in general) to find out whether they’re showing the speech. I wish there was some way to get to view the speech beforehand, but I haven’t seen anything yet. Either way, I think I’ll let him watch the speech. (If they show it.) He’s only in 1st grade, and last year was telling all of his classmates why they SHOULDN’T vote for Obama, and he generally groans when Obama shows up on the tv, so I don’t think I have to worry too much about one speech indoctrinating him for life. Still, I’d like to know what Obama plans on saying so we can discuss it when he gets home.
I wouldn’t be worried about the speech at all if I thought it was going to be little more than a “Be cool, stay in school” type thing, but I just don’t trust Obama enough to expect that he’s not going to use this opportunity to indoctrinate as much as possible.
Probably a significant part of that drop is due to more home schooling, driven in large degree by parents who want to avoid things like Obama campaign speeches broadcast into classrooms without parental (or school board) notification or consent.
In California at least, the best thing to do is to keep your kids out of government schools. Why? Since funding is based on average daily attendance, you are punishing the propagandists where it hurts.
absolutely corona. but you have to keep them home from the beginning of the day, as that is when they make the MONEY COUNT. this is why the half day has become such a prevalent feature of schools these days. they get the money, and the parents and kids get the boot.
You’ve been making way too many comments, SonOfDY!
Yup, I agree.
Great idea. I already homeschool so thankfully we don’t need it.
Is there any reason the White House just couldn’t put the speech on it’s YouTube page instead where students (or anyone) could watch at their convenience, if they so choose? (And dump all of the Obama centered Q & A class sessions, kids writing letters about it, etc.)
Problem solved, eh what?
In Canada, it’s a hate crime – punishable by law – for parents to keep their kids home on days when lessons on homosexuality are being taught in Canadian public schools.
So don’t give them any ideas, because pretty soon they might just try to outlaw things like homeschooling and taking your kids away from liberal brainwashing…
We get a few, a few too many really, Canadians down here every winter- and over the years and generation they have changed and for the worse.
They talk endlessly about what “rights the government gives us”. We have cataract surgery centers that mostly cater to Canadians who are on years long waiting lines to get surgery at home. And these people put up with it. The government took their handguns with very few protests. Long gun registration was a different matter-it seems the rural folk are a little more independent.
So when their government decides to teach their children the joys of a little recreational homosexuality (Brave New World) the wimps roll over.
But this is the Canada that charged Mark Steyn for Hate Speech because truth is NOT a defense if the aggrieved feel hurt by that hateful truth (that would be mohammedan aggrieved in this case) Free Speech Eh?
Oh Canada is it something in the water?
tomg51: People, please don’t EVER say someone ‘won’ a medal for valor.
Michael Jordan ‘won’ numerous NBA trophies, Mark Spitz ‘won’ numerous gold medals, Mike Tyson ‘won’ a heavyweight title. Winning implies a competition with rules and a referee plus a level playing field onto which competitors enter knowing they might lose, but they have a chance to return and win later.
A medal AWARDED for valor is done so in recognition of acts that are not called for and were undertaken at great personal risk and possibly loss of life. Most everyone who has been awarded a medal says, “I was just doing what anyone else would have done in the same circumstances.” But, most everyone else didn’t and so the individual is recognized for their valor.
So, please make a point of saying someone was awarded a medal for valor, never they ‘won’ a medal.
Nail 49, DFC