The Dear Leader is scheduled to make a “special address” directly to America’s children on September 8th. Drudge Report posted a document today that suggests “activities” for teachers before/during/after the Dear Leader’s address.
As noted by Michelle Malkin, the “activities” have a rather “activist” slant to them…
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?
Robert Stacy McCain weighs in with his usual humor:
“Why have my Mommy and Daddy started talking about home-schooling me this year?”
St. Louis Radio Talker Dana Loesch has suggested September 8th might be a good day to keep your kids home…
“Take a day of vacation. Go to the zoo. Anything that would save your offspring from what I will bluntly say is just the quasi-fellating the executive branch. That cackling over a bubbling cauldron you hear is the NEA rejoicing.”
“There is this mindset that those in Washington are the “elite,” that we should mind our Ps and Qs and blindly follow their directives. That’s not the manner of governance upon which this country was founded – it is quite the opposite; even the hobbyist Constitutional aficionado appreciates this.”
Of course, all of this reminds me of a really funny/creepy video put out last year by Iowahawk.
If you’ve never seen this, you’re missing out. Watch.
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
In Michele Bachman’s (er-r-r, I mean Malkin’s) most recent article, she criticizes the supposed left-wing ‘indoctrination’ of the children. But she forgets to mention of age-old, right-wing indoctrination efforts which have stolen young minds from their first cognitive moments: That is the indoctrination of Fundamentalist Christian Religion.
People have learned since childhood to rely on god and prayer as a substitute—in many cases—for action, and responsibility for those actions. They learn that they will receive their ultimate punishment and rewards in a far, far away place—heaven and hell. But, in the mean time, they may seek their rewards in this life (great rewards in this life often acting as a sign of being chosen by their creator), regardless of whom they tread on—after all, that’s what the unchosen people were set on the earth for.
And, when they make a wrong turn, and get tempted by that evil satan, all they need to do is ‘go and say they sin no more’. Everybody’s a sinner—born into sin as a matter of fact—so they can’t really help themselves sometimes. And as for the ‘down-trod’, they’ll receive their just deserts in another, better world. What a fantasy!
But it’s a fantasy that people have continued to believe since the beginning of time. They justify their actions according to it, and condemn others because of it. Zeus and Jesus are equally a product of imagination. But our children continue to be taught that the latter is more real than the former; and adults continue to believe it to their death. What greater indoctrination can there be?
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Your point is well taken Tad and I agree with you to a certain extent. However, children in PUBLIC Schools are not forced to listen to speeches about Jesus and Zeus. That’s the point you’re missing.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I’m not missing the point, I’m just pointing out an even broader point which has become more detrimental to our democracy than Obama ever will be.