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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 [...]

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 [...]

“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. *** 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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Scroll down for update… Photoshop: Leo Alberti Tunku Varadarajan is a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School, fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and executive editor for opinions at Forbes. He thinks I am a “kook” and “crazy” for criticizing President Obama’s education event tomorrow. Tellingly, he does not address the actual substance of my arguments. [...]

Reader Ernest emails a link to the notice on the Broward County FL school district site, which informs parents that they cannot opt their kids out of the president’s speech on Tuesday because the administrators are committed to “encouraging civics education in the broadest sense.” Who controls your kids? On Tuesday, September 8, 2009, Broward [...]

My column takes another swing at all the president’s radical education men. For more background on Commie Michael Klonsky, see Andrew McCarthy’s report from last October here. I mentioned some of the activists in the White House Teaching Fellowship program here. Don’t forget your Hall Pass on That. The guys at The Nose on Your [...]

From the National Tea Party Coalition, there’s a counter-program to President Obama’s Sept. 8 pretextual education speech. “Hall Pass on That:” 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 [...]

Well, well, well. The White House has re-written its activist talking points for teachers/administrators disseminated by the US Department of Education and removed the language about “helping the president.” Whitewashing: It’s the Obama way. What they can’t whitewash is the radicalism of many of the White House Teaching Fellows responsible for drafting the material — [...]

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Reader Katie e-mails about how the US Department of Education circumvented elected school officials to send notice of President Obama’s junior lobbyist recruitment speech on September 8: Michelle, I am a conservative school board member in the Atlanta area… It is very important to note that the DOE sent letters directly to the Principals of [...]

I thought this would be a useful refresher as President Obama’s September 8 junior lobbyist recruitment speech approaches. It’s his Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ 2006 speech at the World Economic Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. You can separate Obama from radical Ayers’ neighborhood. But you can’t separate Ayers’ radicalism from Obama. President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente [...]

Photoshop: Leo Alberti My syndicated column today digs a little deeper into President Obama’s September 8 speech to schoolchildren. The school guides now featured front and center on the www.ed.gov website were developed by the White House Teaching Fellows — a group which includes several activist educators as you’ll see below. Downplaying academic achievement in [...]

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. [...]

If Team Obama could send their ACORN foot soldiers into taxpayer-funded schools to collect Census data, they would. Instead, they’re turning your own children into proxy Census collectors. Specifically targeted: Bilingual children whom the government is relying on to reach non-English-speaking parents. (See my April 3, 2009 column: Obama Census – No Illegal Alien Left [...]

Two items to raise the blood pressure of law-abiding, hard-working Americans: 1) From the L.A. Times: “San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold.” As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out [...]

I noted over the weekend that charity-stingy First Lady told the grads at UC Merced to “give back.” Via Vanessa Richardson at WalletPop , the Merced Sun-Star reported on the price tag for Michelle O’s lecture: The Merced Sun-Star reports the school’s commencement budget has ballooned from $100,000 to $700,000 to accommodate Obama on campus. [...]

An estimated 20,000 protesters are expected this weekend to oppose Catholic Notre Dame’s embrace of abortion militant Barack Obama. Eighteen were arrested today at the gates of the university. More than 360,000 have signed a protest petition. The White House is pooh-poohing the controversy: The White House has responded to opposition to President Obama’s appearance [...]