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Mmm, mmm, mmm.

Compare and contrast:
September 2008…
Senator Obama’s life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank — his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely [...]

Big Nanny knows best. Parental permission be damned:
“I was outraged,” Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her 6-year-old daughter, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.
Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the [...]

The good news: Zachary, the 6-year-old cub scout who faced 45 days in a reform school for disruptive students because he brought his pocket fork-spoon-knife tool to lunch, won a “reprieve” from his local school board last night.
The bad news: There is no reprieve from the zero tolerance stupidity and common sense deficit that [...]

The Zero Tolerance Tyrants claim another victim:
Zachary is six years old and was a first grader at Downes Elementary School in Newark, Delaware.
He is a smart, happy, outgoing child who plays Little League Baseball, is a Cub Scout, studies martial arts, is actively involved in his church youth group, and is actively involved [...]

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, Justice Louis Brandeis said.
Which is why labor organizers and left-wing education officials using public tax dollars in government-funded colleges and universities are raging against the scrutiny from Mark Levin’s Landmark Legal Foundation.
For years, Landmark has been filing public disclosure requests to shed light on how “labor centers” at institutions for [...]

“…sour, angry, even dangerous.”

Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are in Chicago today for a pow-wow with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley over the city’s teen violence epidemic:
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Chicago Wednesday to talk about what the Obama administration is doing to combat youth violence [...]

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

(Photo credit: Zombie)
Two items on the continuing (un)safe school czar scandal:
Zombie investigates Kevin Jennings’ inspiration, NAMBLA enthusiast Harry Hay and concludes:
I have been unable to find information about any NAMBLA conference which Harry Hay didn’t attend.
I don’t know what it takes to be considered “in NAMBLA” or a “NAMBLA member,” but someone who makes appearances [...]

Last March, I published a special report on the Left’s war against military recruiters in the U.S. It’s a topic I’ve covered extensively over the years. Unhinged devotes a sub-section of my chapter “They Don’t Support Our Troops” to the organized campaign of harassment against recruitment offices on college campuses nationwide. The anti-recruiter thugs have [...]

This is just a prelude to another left-wing attempt to criminalize conservatism:
Nutroots decry scrutiny of safe school czar Kevin Jennings’s atrocious failures to protect a child from a sex predator as “anti-gay.”
Next, they’ll accuse critics of creating a climate of hate and inciting violence — and endangering Jennings’ life.
It’s what they do.

I mentioned Safe School czar Kevin Jennings in my column last week on Obama’s three Rs – rappin’, revolution, and radicalism last week.
Dr. Warren Throckmorton has done yeomen’s work unearthing Jennings’ evolving tales regarding his failure as a young gay teacher to protect a 15-year old student from a homosexual child predator.
In response to pressure [...]

Parents are rallying for educational choice right now in Washington, D.C.
Read more about it here.
The Obamas were too busy playing Games to attend.

Learn and Serve.

Playing games.

The community organizer-in-chief is now pushing schools to cut back on summer vacation. Local control, schmocal control:
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
“Now, [...]

Right on cue…

The three R’s in the Age of Obama: Rappin’, revolution & radicalism
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
When the White House announced plans for the president’s nationwide address to schoolchildren two weeks ago, worried parents were dismissed as “kooks.” We pointed to the subtext of “social justice” activism rampant in American classrooms. It’s time for a big, [...]

“They understand that there is a little bit of Barack Obama in all of us.”

“I am Barack Obama.”

From my friends at Smart Girl Politics, you’ll love the propaganda quiz that one student brought home from class after watching President Obama’s joint address to Congress on health care.
Here’s an excerpt:

Check out SGP for the rest of the story.
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Earlier today: The Obama school rap and other Lessons for Revolutionary Change

Two items for you:
1) Tom Blumer reports on how public school officials in Illinois are following up on President Obama’s education speech with their own attempt to indoctrinate them on the “significant messages inherent in his speech” in order to “educate the whole child.”
Education, after all, is the motor force of revolution.
2) My daughter’s memorizing [...]

I am sure Eric Holder and his racial preference-mongers (not to mention the “social justice” purveyors at Obama’s Department of Education) approve:
Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline
by Doug MacEachern – Sept. 19, 2009 08:22 PM
The Arizona Republic
…The board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one [...]

This is absolutely horrifying for any parent to watch. STLToday.com reports that police say the black-on-white student beating was completely unprovoked and racially motivated. Watch as many students cheer the attack — and the bus driver is nowhere to be seen:
 
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft wonders where Al Sharpton is.
I wonder where President Obama will be. [...]

Huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought — at first — then I remembered who we’re dealing with.
This afternoon, the White House posted a piece on their blog called “Saving and Paying for College.” This is part IV of the Obama admin’s “back to school” series, featuring Nickelodeon’s “Gimme gimme gimme” initiative, yesterday’s pep talk [...]

Longtime readers are aware of the left-wing bent of children’s TV network Nickelodeon.
They p.c.-i-fied the Alamo in 2005.
They went moonbatty on the military and the war on terror in 2007.
And they pushed pro-illegal alien amnesty propaganda in 2008.
Well, they’re at it again, along with liberal philanthropists, bloggers, and the Viacom conglomerate — launching a [...]

This is what happens when you get too much Beltway on the brain.
Newt Gingrich — who sidled up on a couch with Nancy Pelosi for one of Al Gore’s global warming ad campaigns — championed President Obama’s education speech today.
Subtext be damned.
Gingrich, you should know, has been on a summer road trip with police-bashing, [...]

Why should D.C. schoolkids listen to Obama? He didn’t listen to them.
Would love to see this video played in schools as a follow-up to Obama’s speech.
He’s all for educational values…except when he isn’t. Not forgotten:

No, that wasn’t a quote from any Republican in response to President Obama’s education address today.
It was Dick Gephardt, spearheading the Democrat congressional investigation of Bush 41’s education speech in 1991.