ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott writes periodic [non-satirical] pieces at PajamasMedia.com. Below is an excerpt of his latest and a link to read more.
On September 8, President Barack Obama, whose education experience includes working with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers to reform teaching, will address the most pliable citizens of his public school empire with a live cable-cast speech on values and education. This unusual effort of a president to bypass parental discretion and go directly to our children has set off alarm bells among parents.
If the president really wanted to make an impression on America’s children, why not go on TV in prime time or on the internet? So parents and children could voluntarily watch together and then discuss the president’s ideas at home?
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Reagan noted the skyrocketing cost of public education and the measurable decline in student learning during the preceding two decades. He attributed both to the expanded federal government role in local schools. He blamed “educationists” in Washington, who had tried to “create a brave new world” by tossing out “tried and true fundamentals” in order “to mold the ‘now’ generation into world citizens free of prejudice, hostility, or even a competitive instinct (from Reagan’s Sept. 21, 1976, radio address).”
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Hawkeye_R // Sep 8, 2009 at 11:27 am
Excellent as always good sir. Love the line… "Obama, whose education experience includes working with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers to reform teaching…" Need we say any more? Best regards…
2 Upnorthlurkin // Sep 8, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Spot-on, Scott! Regan had the luxury of maturing from Democrat to Republican so he was well aware of the dangers facing our country with lazy Marxist liberalism. We've tried this social experiment on our Indian reservations. If you visit the ones up here that don't have a Casino, you'll witness the squallor and the devastation liberal socialism reaps. (Not to mention the debacle known as the Indian Health Service…government run healthcare anyone?)
3 onlineanalyst // Sep 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm
The Department of Education did an end run around school administrators and school boards by alerting teachers through NEA auspices about the lesson plans associated with the president's historic speech to students. When the public became enraged over the emphasis on the cult of personality aspect of the lessons, the WH had to backpedal and do a rewrite.
The Radical Left is determined to play the "it takes a village" game and replace the State over parents as the arbiter of a child's education.
One only has to look over the bylaws of the NEA to see that academic achievement is far down the list of its priorities. More ink and effort is dedicated toward social engineering and the formation of homogenized zombies.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s "Harrison Bergeron" is the prototype of the ideal NEA-Federal Model student.
4 gafisher // Sep 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm
What a shame that we let Ronald Reagan's warnings become prophecies.
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