It's not the Speech, it's the assignments
Hey folks,
By now you have heard that President Obama is going to give a 12 pm live speech to EVERY School House across the Nation. That's right, he is beaming himself into our Children's Schools. So what's the problem?
For the last few days, it's been a BIG Problem, debated by both sides and both sides calling the other names. So what is the big deal? The President of the United States telling our Children to stay in school and work hard? No problem. To tell you the truth, if that was all it was, I would applaud him for doing so. But that is NOT all it is. That is where the problem lies.
Among many out there covering this, the LA Examiner - The problem with President Obama speaking to elementary school children is? September 2, 11:10 AMLA Independent Examiner Dion Rabouin
President - that's President of the United States - Barack Obama is planning on speaking to children in elementary schools on Sept 8. According to the White House, the conversation will be about the importance of staying in school and getting an education.
So far, no problem. I even agree with this.
According to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, “This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation’s school children about persisting and succeeding in school.”
But then you have this.
According to White House event-related guides developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching Fellows, grade-school students will be told to “listen to the speech” and “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?
After the speech, teachers will ask students:
*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?
I have posted both Educational Planners for all grades. We'll talk about that in a second.
I've been reading comments about the story from everyday people who are threatening to keep their children out of school on the day of the speech and I just can't understand why anyone would want to deprive their children of a chance to have the President - that's President of the United States - speak directly to them. My father thought Ronald Reagan was the devil himself, but had he been addressing children about the importance of education, there is no way my dad would have even considered letting me miss school that day.
Yeah, never mind. I'll leave that one alone.
Yes, Obama obviously has an agenda, but do you seriously believe that he would resort to trying to indoctrinate kids to further it?
YES! The Lunatic Left have been doing it for years. It's simple. He who controls the youth, controls the future.
Even if he were that stupid, there's no way he would get away with it. It would all but destroy any credibility he has.
No doubt, we're in a very polarizingly political period in American history right now, but does everything have to be political?
Perhaps - without using ALL CAPS or resorting to insults - someone could explain to me, why our children should not be allowed to hear what the President of the United States has to say.
Because what he has to say, not in this speech, I do not think he is THAT stupid either, but in general, is ANTI-American. He wants to change the very foundation of what this country IS. He said so. So Yeah, I would not want my Son to hear the President say he hates this country.
But the problem is NOT from a Speech about staying in school. It is what the White House put together to have the TEACHERS do AFTER the "Harmless" motivational Speech. Here they are.
Menu of Classroom Activities
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
(PreK-6)
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
Teachers can ask students to imagine that they are delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States.
If you were the president, what would you tell students?
What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what students would say.
Why is it important that we listen to the president and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
This is called CONDITIONING. Why should we listen to the President and other Elected officials, ETC. This almighty man will be speaking directly to you. He CARES what you think. ETC.
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 could 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?
Things that may be against or different than what my Mommy and Daddy tell me. I need to think differently than I have been taught at home. You get the point.
Students could record important parts of the speech where the president is asking them to do something. Students might think about the following:
What specific job is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students could record 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 place notes on a butcher-paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty.
Read that again. "citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty." All tag-lines for Socialism. Look it up.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
These "following questions" are straight from the White House. These are MANDATED, I mean suggested, by Obama and Crew for Teachers to ask their students.
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?
What would you like to tell the president?
Then of course, GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS AND PLAN IT OUT. Set goals to achieve Obama's goals. I'm not kidding.
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
Create posters of their goals.
Posters could be formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the following labels: personal, academic, community, and country.
Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in that area. It might make sense to focus first on personal and academic goals so that community and country goals can be more readily created.
Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.
Teachers would collect and redistribute these letters at an appropriate later date to enable students to monitor their progress.
This will be ON GOING. Not just a little Pep Talk folks. An ON GOING ASSIGNMENT DIRECTED BY THE PRESIDENT, TO OUR CHILDREN. That is BRAINWASHING!
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
Interview one another and share goals with the class to create a supportive community.
Participate in school-wide incentive programs or contests for those students who achieve their goals.
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, such as poems, songs, and personal essays.
Songs? Like North Korean Children singing to the "Dear Leader". They already had kids singing songs about Obama during the elections. They want to keep it going. Just another form of BRAINWASHING folks.
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
Graph individual progress toward goals.
Like I said, ON GOING. Now for the older kids.
Menu of Classroom Activities
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
(Grades 7-12)
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
Conduct a “quick write” or “think/pair/share” activity with students. (In the latter activity, students spend a few minutes thinking and writing about the question. Next, each student is paired with another student to discuss. Finally, the students share their ideas with the class as a whole).
Teachers may choose to ask the following questions:
What ideas do we associate with the words “responsibility,” “persistence,” and “goals?”
How would we define each term?
Teachers then may choose to create a web diagram of student ideas for each of the words.
Have students participate in a “quick write” or brainstorming activity. Teachers may ask students:
What are your strengths?
What do you think makes you successful as a student and as a person?
Teachers may engage students in short readings.
Teachers may post in large print around the classroom notable quotes excerpted from President Obama’s speeches on education.
READ THAT AGAIN! "Teachers may post in large print around the classroom notable quotes excerpted from President Obama’s speeches on education." Why not hang pictures of him all over the place as well. Remember Iraq, all the picture of Saddam on the walls of schools. Saddam in textbooks. His "Notable quotes" ETC. EVERY Dictatorship has this sort of thing. It's BRAINWASHING. Something that the Kids see every day. So often it becomes the NORM.
Teachers might ask students to think alone, compare ideas with a partner, or share their thoughts with the class. Teachers could ask students to think about the following:
What are our interpretations of these excerpts?
Based on these excerpts, what can we infer that the president believes is important in order to be educationally successful?
Create a “concept web.”
Teachers may ask students to think of the following:
Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?
How will he inspire us?
How will he challenge us?
What might he say?
Do you remember any other historic moments when the president spoke to the nation?
What was the impact?
Other Historic Moments?
After brainstorming answers to these questions, students could create a “cause-and-effect” graphic organizer.
During the Speech
Teachers might conduct a “listening with purpose” exercise based on the following ideas: personal responsibility, goals, and persistence.
Teachers might ask pairs of students to create a word bank at the top of a notes page that has been divided into two columns.
On the right-hand side, students could take notes (trying to capture direct quotations or main ideas) while President Obama talks about personal responsibility, goals, or persistence.
At the end of the speech, students could write the corresponding terms from the word bank in the left-hand column, to increase retention and deepen their understanding of an important aspect of the speech.
Are you getting this folks? Seriously?
Teachers might conduct a “listening with purpose” exercise based on the themes of inspiration and challenges.
Using a similar double-column notes page as the one described above, teachers could focus students on quotations that either propose a specific challenge to them or that inspire them in some meaningful way. Students could do this activity individually, in pairs, or in groups.
Transition/Quick Review
Teachers could ask students to look over their notes and collaborate in pairs or small groups.
Teachers might circulate and ask students questions, such as:
What more could we add to our notes?
What are the most important words in the speech?
What title would you give the speech?
What is the thesis of the speech?
After the Speech
Guided Discussion:
What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech?
What lines or phrases do you remember?
Whom is President Obama addressing?
How do you know?
Describe his audience.
We heard President Obama mention the importance of personal responsibility.
In your life, who exemplifies this kind of responsibility?
How?
Give examples.
How are the individuals in this classroom similar? How is each student different?
Suppose President Obama were to give another speech about being educationally successful.
To whom would he speak?
Why?
What would the president say?
What are the three most important words in the speech?
Rank them.
Is President Obama inspiring you to do anything?
Is he challenging you to do anything?
What do you believe are the challenges of your generation?
How can you be a part of addressing these challenges?
Video Project:
Teachers could encourage students to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.
THERE IS THE POINT! I am what I learn. Like I said, He who controls the Youth, controls the future. If they LEARN to be good little Liberals and Citizens, then THAT is what they will be.
On September 8, the Department of Education will invite students age 13 and older to submit a video no longer than two minutes in length, explaining why education is important and how education will help them achieve their dreams.
Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into a classroom assignment.
More details will be released via www.ed.gov.
Transition/Quick Review
Teachers could introduce goal-setting activities in the following way to make the most of extension activities:
“When you set a goal, you envision a target that you are going to reach over time. Goals are best when they are “Challenging,” “Attainable,” and “Needed” (CAN).
For example, a good goal might be: ‘I want to boost my average grade by one letter grade this year so I can show colleges that I am prepared.’
But, every good goal also needs steps that guide the way. These steps keep you on track toward achieving your goal.
For example, my first step might be improving in all of my subjects by one letter grade. My second step might be completing 100-percent of my homework in all of my classes during the first week of school.
My third step might be taking an extra hour to study for all of my tests during each marking period. My fourth step might be attending a tutoring session or getting an adult to help me whenever I do not understand something.
My last step might be the most important: asking an adult in my life to check on me often to make sure that I am completing each of my steps.
Your steps should add up to your goal. If they don’t, that’s okay; we fix them until they do!
Let’s hear another example of an academic goal for the year and decide what steps would help to achieve that goal…
Now I want you to write your personal academic goal for this year and the steps that you will take to achieve it.
We can revise our steps each marking period to make sure we are on track.”
Laying a foundation folks.
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
Create decorated goals and steps on material that is the size of an index card.
The index cards could be formatted as an inviting graphic organizer with a space for the goal at the top and several steps in the remaining space.
Cards could be hung in the classroom to create a culture of goal setting, persistence, and success, and for the purpose of periodic review.
Create posters of their goals.
Posters could be formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked as steps. These also could be hung around the room, to be reviewed periodically and to create a classroom culture of goal setting and for the purpose of periodic review.
Interview and share their goals with one another and the class, establishing community support for their goals.
Create incentives or contests for achieving their personal goals.
Write about goals and the steps to achieve them in a variety of genres such as poems, songs, or personal essays.
Create artistic representations of goals and the steps to achieve them.
So you can CLEARLY see that this was NEVER intended to be a completely harmless Pep Talk by the President to kids about the importance of a good Education. If it were, it would not have all the rest of this garbage. That is where the problem comes in.
No one cares or thinks it bad that the President of the United States wants to share with Kids the importance of Education. But the rest of this is crossing a line that should NEVER be crossed. History shows us where this type of thing leads.
Peter
Hey folks,
By now you have heard that President Obama is going to give a 12 pm live speech to EVERY School House across the Nation. That's right, he is beaming himself into our Children's Schools. So what's the problem?For the last few days, it's been a BIG Problem, debated by both sides and both sides calling the other names. So what is the big deal? The President of the United States telling our Children to stay in school and work hard? No problem. To tell you the truth, if that was all it was, I would applaud him for doing so. But that is NOT all it is. That is where the problem lies.
Among many out there covering this, the LA Examiner - The problem with President Obama speaking to elementary school children is? September 2, 11:10 AMLA Independent Examiner Dion Rabouin
President - that's President of the United States - Barack Obama is planning on speaking to children in elementary schools on Sept 8. According to the White House, the conversation will be about the importance of staying in school and getting an education.
So far, no problem. I even agree with this.
According to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, “This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation’s school children about persisting and succeeding in school.”
But then you have this.
According to White House event-related guides developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching Fellows, grade-school students will be told to “listen to the speech” and “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?
After the speech, teachers will ask students:
*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?
I have posted both Educational Planners for all grades. We'll talk about that in a second.
I've been reading comments about the story from everyday people who are threatening to keep their children out of school on the day of the speech and I just can't understand why anyone would want to deprive their children of a chance to have the President - that's President of the United States - speak directly to them. My father thought Ronald Reagan was the devil himself, but had he been addressing children about the importance of education, there is no way my dad would have even considered letting me miss school that day.
Yeah, never mind. I'll leave that one alone.
Yes, Obama obviously has an agenda, but do you seriously believe that he would resort to trying to indoctrinate kids to further it?
YES! The Lunatic Left have been doing it for years. It's simple. He who controls the youth, controls the future.
Even if he were that stupid, there's no way he would get away with it. It would all but destroy any credibility he has.
No doubt, we're in a very polarizingly political period in American history right now, but does everything have to be political?
Perhaps - without using ALL CAPS or resorting to insults - someone could explain to me, why our children should not be allowed to hear what the President of the United States has to say.
Because what he has to say, not in this speech, I do not think he is THAT stupid either, but in general, is ANTI-American. He wants to change the very foundation of what this country IS. He said so. So Yeah, I would not want my Son to hear the President say he hates this country.
But the problem is NOT from a Speech about staying in school. It is what the White House put together to have the TEACHERS do AFTER the "Harmless" motivational Speech. Here they are.Menu of Classroom Activities
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
(PreK-6)
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
Teachers can ask students to imagine that they are delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States.
If you were the president, what would you tell students?
What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what students would say.
Why is it important that we listen to the president and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
This is called CONDITIONING. Why should we listen to the President and other Elected officials, ETC. This almighty man will be speaking directly to you. He CARES what you think. ETC.
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 could 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?
Things that may be against or different than what my Mommy and Daddy tell me. I need to think differently than I have been taught at home. You get the point.
Students could record important parts of the speech where the president is asking them to do something. Students might think about the following:
What specific job is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students could record 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 place notes on a butcher-paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty.
Read that again. "citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty." All tag-lines for Socialism. Look it up.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
These "following questions" are straight from the White House. These are MANDATED, I mean suggested, by Obama and Crew for Teachers to ask their students.
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?
What would you like to tell the president?
Then of course, GIVE THEM THE ANSWERS AND PLAN IT OUT. Set goals to achieve Obama's goals. I'm not kidding.
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
Create posters of their goals.
Posters could be formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the following labels: personal, academic, community, and country.
Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in that area. It might make sense to focus first on personal and academic goals so that community and country goals can be more readily created.
Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.
Teachers would collect and redistribute these letters at an appropriate later date to enable students to monitor their progress.
This will be ON GOING. Not just a little Pep Talk folks. An ON GOING ASSIGNMENT DIRECTED BY THE PRESIDENT, TO OUR CHILDREN. That is BRAINWASHING!
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
Interview one another and share goals with the class to create a supportive community.
Participate in school-wide incentive programs or contests for those students who achieve their goals.
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, such as poems, songs, and personal essays.
Songs? Like North Korean Children singing to the "Dear Leader". They already had kids singing songs about Obama during the elections. They want to keep it going. Just another form of BRAINWASHING folks.
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
Graph individual progress toward goals.
Like I said, ON GOING. Now for the older kids.
Menu of Classroom Activities
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
(Grades 7-12)
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
Conduct a “quick write” or “think/pair/share” activity with students. (In the latter activity, students spend a few minutes thinking and writing about the question. Next, each student is paired with another student to discuss. Finally, the students share their ideas with the class as a whole).
Teachers may choose to ask the following questions:
What ideas do we associate with the words “responsibility,” “persistence,” and “goals?”
How would we define each term?
Teachers then may choose to create a web diagram of student ideas for each of the words.
Have students participate in a “quick write” or brainstorming activity. Teachers may ask students:
What are your strengths?
What do you think makes you successful as a student and as a person?
Teachers may engage students in short readings.
Teachers may post in large print around the classroom notable quotes excerpted from President Obama’s speeches on education.
READ THAT AGAIN! "Teachers may post in large print around the classroom notable quotes excerpted from President Obama’s speeches on education." Why not hang pictures of him all over the place as well. Remember Iraq, all the picture of Saddam on the walls of schools. Saddam in textbooks. His "Notable quotes" ETC. EVERY Dictatorship has this sort of thing. It's BRAINWASHING. Something that the Kids see every day. So often it becomes the NORM.
Teachers might ask students to think alone, compare ideas with a partner, or share their thoughts with the class. Teachers could ask students to think about the following:
What are our interpretations of these excerpts?
Based on these excerpts, what can we infer that the president believes is important in order to be educationally successful?
Create a “concept web.”
Teachers may ask students to think of the following:
Why does President Obama want to speak with us today?
How will he inspire us?
How will he challenge us?
What might he say?
Do you remember any other historic moments when the president spoke to the nation?
What was the impact?
Other Historic Moments?
After brainstorming answers to these questions, students could create a “cause-and-effect” graphic organizer.
During the Speech
Teachers might conduct a “listening with purpose” exercise based on the following ideas: personal responsibility, goals, and persistence.
Teachers might ask pairs of students to create a word bank at the top of a notes page that has been divided into two columns.
On the right-hand side, students could take notes (trying to capture direct quotations or main ideas) while President Obama talks about personal responsibility, goals, or persistence.
At the end of the speech, students could write the corresponding terms from the word bank in the left-hand column, to increase retention and deepen their understanding of an important aspect of the speech.
Are you getting this folks? Seriously?
Teachers might conduct a “listening with purpose” exercise based on the themes of inspiration and challenges.
Using a similar double-column notes page as the one described above, teachers could focus students on quotations that either propose a specific challenge to them or that inspire them in some meaningful way. Students could do this activity individually, in pairs, or in groups.
Transition/Quick Review
Teachers could ask students to look over their notes and collaborate in pairs or small groups.
Teachers might circulate and ask students questions, such as:
What more could we add to our notes?
What are the most important words in the speech?
What title would you give the speech?
What is the thesis of the speech?
After the Speech
Guided Discussion:
What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech?
What lines or phrases do you remember?
Whom is President Obama addressing?
How do you know?
Describe his audience.
We heard President Obama mention the importance of personal responsibility.
In your life, who exemplifies this kind of responsibility?
How?
Give examples.
How are the individuals in this classroom similar? How is each student different?
Suppose President Obama were to give another speech about being educationally successful.
To whom would he speak?
Why?
What would the president say?
What are the three most important words in the speech?
Rank them.
Is President Obama inspiring you to do anything?
Is he challenging you to do anything?
What do you believe are the challenges of your generation?
How can you be a part of addressing these challenges?
Video Project:
Teachers could encourage students to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s “I Am What I Learn” video contest.
THERE IS THE POINT! I am what I learn. Like I said, He who controls the Youth, controls the future. If they LEARN to be good little Liberals and Citizens, then THAT is what they will be.
On September 8, the Department of Education will invite students age 13 and older to submit a video no longer than two minutes in length, explaining why education is important and how education will help them achieve their dreams.
Teachers are welcome to incorporate the same or a similar video project into a classroom assignment.
More details will be released via www.ed.gov.
Transition/Quick Review
Teachers could introduce goal-setting activities in the following way to make the most of extension activities:
“When you set a goal, you envision a target that you are going to reach over time. Goals are best when they are “Challenging,” “Attainable,” and “Needed” (CAN).
For example, a good goal might be: ‘I want to boost my average grade by one letter grade this year so I can show colleges that I am prepared.’
But, every good goal also needs steps that guide the way. These steps keep you on track toward achieving your goal.
For example, my first step might be improving in all of my subjects by one letter grade. My second step might be completing 100-percent of my homework in all of my classes during the first week of school.
My third step might be taking an extra hour to study for all of my tests during each marking period. My fourth step might be attending a tutoring session or getting an adult to help me whenever I do not understand something.
My last step might be the most important: asking an adult in my life to check on me often to make sure that I am completing each of my steps.
Your steps should add up to your goal. If they don’t, that’s okay; we fix them until they do!
Let’s hear another example of an academic goal for the year and decide what steps would help to achieve that goal…
Now I want you to write your personal academic goal for this year and the steps that you will take to achieve it.
We can revise our steps each marking period to make sure we are on track.”
Laying a foundation folks.
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
Create decorated goals and steps on material that is the size of an index card.
The index cards could be formatted as an inviting graphic organizer with a space for the goal at the top and several steps in the remaining space.
Cards could be hung in the classroom to create a culture of goal setting, persistence, and success, and for the purpose of periodic review.
Create posters of their goals.
Posters could be formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked as steps. These also could be hung around the room, to be reviewed periodically and to create a classroom culture of goal setting and for the purpose of periodic review.
Interview and share their goals with one another and the class, establishing community support for their goals.
Create incentives or contests for achieving their personal goals.
Write about goals and the steps to achieve them in a variety of genres such as poems, songs, or personal essays.
Create artistic representations of goals and the steps to achieve them.
So you can CLEARLY see that this was NEVER intended to be a completely harmless Pep Talk by the President to kids about the importance of a good Education. If it were, it would not have all the rest of this garbage. That is where the problem comes in.
No one cares or thinks it bad that the President of the United States wants to share with Kids the importance of Education. But the rest of this is crossing a line that should NEVER be crossed. History shows us where this type of thing leads.
Peter
4 comments:
It's just an attempt to geparents through the kids.
It's a tactic that been used by the Communists and Nazis successfully before.
This time the cat is out of the bag first so I hope it won't work.
Welcome to public education
Hey Irish Godfather
"It's just an attempt to geparents through the kids.
It's a tactic that been used by the Communists and Nazis successfully before.
This time the cat is out of the bag first so I hope it won't work."
You are right. I hope people DO say, "not my kid." when it comes to the CONTINUING agenda building assignments based on Obama's Speech. Along with the agenda planner put out by Obama and Crew to form "Good little Citizens."
Peter
Hey D.S.
"Welcome to public education"
I'm sorry, I do not usually do this, but I think you made a typo.
I know sometimes our brains move faster than our figures, happens to me all the time, but I think you misspelled something there. What I think you meant was:
Welcome to public indoctrination. {Smile}
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