The Indoctrination of our Children

I have so much to say on this issue. So very much to say. Alas, as you've no doubt noticed, I haven't been around this dusty old blog lately. It's been summer and now it's fall. Along with fall comes another whole season of 'busy'. I'll be back shortly. How can I not when Obama is providing me so much blog fodder?

Until then, I must express my disgust and disbelief at the September 8th 'Pledge Your Allegiance to Me' Obamamercial that will be directed at all impressionable young minds K - 6. There is a 'I pledge' video which is an attempt to indoctrinate us in Obama worship to a cultish degree. This video has already been played for school students in a few areas.


There are the 'study materials' distributed to all the schools asking school children write a letter (among other pro-Obama activities) saying what they will do to help the president. Help the president? How about help the nation. Help your family. Help your community. But, the president? My child's essay would be three words long: VOTE HIM OUT! I wonder what grade he would receive.

The Headmistress writes:

It may well be a generic 'study hard, work hard, and do well in school' message. In fact, the more people squawk, the more likely that's all it will be as his speech gets watered down and the study guide gets rewritten.

And much as I dislike the President's policies and his dishonesty about them, I do totally get the historical significance of having the first Black President address
school children on the first day of school (though it isn't the first day of school for everybody). There is a cool factor there that I can't dismiss and am even sympathetic to.

But here's the thing. It's common for Presidents to visit a classroom from time to time and read a book to schoolchildren. But this is something new- scheduling a nationwide address to all schoolchildren, and expecting schools to interrupt the school day to do so, so the President can have the unprecedented opportunity to address those minor children without their parents there with them- AND releasing a taxpayer funded 'study guide' in order to frame the way the children perceive and receive that message. It's also troublesome that the DOE bypassed the local school boards and the parents and timed their message to coincide with the first day of school so there would be less time for people to hear about it and object.

If this is okay with you- would it have been perfectly acceptable had Bush done the same thing? Would it be okay for a Nixon or a Reagan?

Good question, Headmistress.

Click here to read President Obama to Address the Nation's Children on First Day of School in its entirety.

Updated to add:

The Headmistress has now written her own study guide to the Obama indoctrination speech. I endorse it, promote it, and require you to use it. (Hey, if Obama can do it, why can't I?)