For reasons I cannot fathom, there is a raging debate about whether or not our prsident should be allowed to speak to our kids in school. In my humble opinion, Barack Obama is the President of the United States, not just President of the Grown-Ups. What is wrong with allowing a few minutes out of a 180 day school year to give the president an opportunity to challenge young people to do better in school?
Some people claim that Obama is a socialist who is using this speech as a chance to indoctrinate the youth. They call it Marxist propaganda and make comparisons to Hitler. I for one find this disgusting and decidedly un-American. It seems that some conspiracy theorists are afraid that Obama will brainwash their suseptible children in this short, live broadcast. His powers of hypnosis and persuasion would have to be pretty amazing to overcome all the brainwashing being done by these kids' parents at home.
Here is a link to the exact text of the speech, which I copied from the White House web site. Decide for yourself. If you can still find something wrong with ANYTHING written in this speech, then by all means don't allow your kids to watch it at school. But for goodness sake, stop with the Hitler comparisons, stop the fear-mongering, and admit that this speech is simply an effort by our president to motivate our youth do do better in order to make our country better.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
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As an American and a former educator, I am appalled at the controversy over the President talking to our schoolchildren. Some schools having parental permission to show the President's speech? Give me a break! Whatever your political leanings, he is the President and deserves more respect than what many in our country are giving him. I am so tired of conspiracy theories, and claims that he is the antichrist, and hearing a Republican senator yell our that he is a liar during his speech. What is happening to our country? Freedom of speech is a wonderful right, but it needs to be tempered with intelligent thought and courtesy to our fellow human beings. I am almost ashamed to say that I am a Republican! Republicans need to grow up, accept that the Democrats won the election(fair and square), and get on with the business of working together as a country.
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