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I’ve posted several times over the past week on the Democrats’ campaign to kill a federal voucher program for poor children in Washington, D.C. (see here, here, and here).
Well, lookee here. President Obama’s education secretary is feeling the heat — and now says the program should be preserved (some of the beneficiaries, as noted previously, [...]

…when asked why the president opposes the D.C. school choice program that allows a black family to send their two kids to the same private school to which the Obamas send their daughters.
Squirm, Bobby, squirm.

First, watch this powerful video open letter to President Obama from students who have benefited from D.C. public school choice through the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Kids who support government monopolies get all the MSM attention. These kids get…ignored:

Rob Bluey blasts the Dems’ efforts to block the D.C. schoolhouse door led by Rep. David [...]

As I noted last night, the House omni-pork bill includes a provision to strangle D.C. public school choice.
President Obama, you chose the D.C. school you thought best for your daughters. Why won’t you let other D.C. parents do the same?
Andrew Coulson blasts the Democrats behind the measure:
SINCE 2004, a federally funded private-school voucher program has [...]

We need all the glimmers of hope we can get. Take ‘em where you can find ‘em. From an East Valley Tribune story on students at Mesa, AZ’s Dobson High School, where the president/savior spoke earlier today:
Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing [...]

Caution: Tax dollars at work, creating 7-year-old Obama-bots in the New Rochelle, NY school system.
Students at an elementary school in New Rochelle, NY, a largely Democratic suburb of New York City with a City Council and School Board dominated by Democrats, were recently assigned an in-class assignment to color in drawings of Barack Obama [...]

“Legal fictions.”

Who’s still standing in the schoolhouse door?

Well, this is rich.
I told you last month that Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers was invited to speak at Florida State University. The FSU president defended the idea by asserting: “Danger lies not in some speaker’s ideas. Danger lies in teaching students that ideas they don’t agree with are not important.”
Sadly, but predictably, conservative ideas [...]

Watch this excellent video from Andrew Marcus covering one of the most outrageous examples of P.C. on campus of the year.

Jason Mattera at Young America’s Foundation keeps a list of who’s been naughty on America’s college campuses.

Me, myself, and I.

Arne + Obama + Annenberg + Everyday Math = Same old, same old.

A school fight breaks out over dressing students as Pilgrims and Indians.
Crikey.
Just dress all the kids up as yams and cranberries instead and be done with it.

You heard about that school that has already renamed itself after The One, right?
Doug Powers has mocked up campus billboard signs for the brainwash factory. Won’t be long before these crop up in your neighborhood (head over to his site for more)…

Heh. You can have your own fun with the chalkboard sign generator. Here’s mine:

Water cooler.

Bigot.

Of human bondage.
Mike Adams reports that a College Republican group’s sign criticizing “Obama and Socialism” was banned on campus at Pepperdine University.
Reprogramming of the young American mind begins now.

“She is usually messing around.”

“Disconcerting.”

For the past two years, I’ve covered the war on JROTC in San Francisco (background here).
On Election Day, San Francisco did something right: City voters passed an initiative backed by JROTC cadets to save the program from anti-war zealots on the SF school board.
Unfortunately, it’s not a binding measure. But a majority of voters have [...]

This is ghastly. If you are a parent with elementary schoolchildren, you will hit the roof. A teacher in Cumberland County, N.C. near Fort Bragg (NOTE: she is no longer in Asheville) was caught on tape by Finnish documentarians making a film about Barack Obama’s supporters. The teacher, Diantha Harris, uses the classroom as a [...]

Last week, I noted the public school propaganda war on traditional marriage — in the form of a first-grader field trip to a wedding of two lesbian teachers opposed to Proposition 8. That’s the ballot measure to protect marriage.
CTA, the far Left teachers’ union in California, has now donated $1 million to defeat the proposition. [...]

“Mentoring.”

15 pages devoted to The One in a kids’ textbook used in the Racine, WI schools.
Will they be required to learn the goose steps and children’s anthem, too?
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Commenter BrianNY on the Obama Alphabet:
A is for ACORN
B is for Barack
C is for Community Activist…

“Teachable moment.”

Attention, parents with young women contemplating college picks:
Read this excellent piece in the WSJ by Ashley Samelson on healthy alternatives to campus jungles.
God bless Hillsdale!

Red, white, and blue.

Obamanation 101.

“Bush-bashing is one of my favorite things to do.”