Let’s email our friends and media contacts and get this idea to the forefront, at least enough to attact some attention. If Obama gets wind of it, how could he refuse?

Better yet … withdraw totally. Honestly, homeschooling is not as hard as you would think. Those who will tell you it is too hard are the ones who have a vested interest in maintaining the govt education monopoly.

Consider it an experiment in freedom! Bring your kids home and teach them what it means to be free. Teach them what you value (You WILL be teaching that you value T H E M enough to be home with them.)

Even if we don’t succeed in breaking the govt school stranglehold, at least you will have a few good years with your children before they are marched off to the mandatory obama-corps ‘volunteer’ camps.

As many of you may already know, President Barack Obama is broadcasting an address to students online next Tuesday, September 8, at noon. The district has attempted to take a neutral position regarding the broadcasting of the address in school by offering students the option of viewing or not.

However, since yesterday we have received significant feedback from our school community regarding the broadcast in our schools. We also have just learned that the address will be available on C-Span for recording, as well as posted on the White House Web site (www.whitehouse.gov) for viewing at any time.

Parents will now be able to access and share the broadcast with their children at their own discretion. The district will not broadcast the President?s address in the schools on Tuesday. We hope this decision will address the concerns of all our parents and prevent the disruption of our students? school day.

My 17-year-old will listen and interact with the other kids. He has a lot of political savvy, and will be there to refute their standard talking points.

My 16-year-old daughter will attend school that day, but had her mother write a note to excuse her from watching the speech.

My 14-year-old goes back and forth between wanting to refuse on his own or watching and engaging his classmates afterwards.

I can certainly understand parents of younger, more impressionable children wanting to keep them home for the day.

Supposedly Obama?s speech is about success and academics, but?..

The supporting study documentation originally sent out to teachers contains these words followed by the number of times used in the documentation:

Success, Succeeding, Succeed ? 0 (zero)
Persist, Persisting, Persistence ? 0 (zero)
Academic, Academics ? 0 (zero)
Education ? 2 times (plus once used in Dept of Education!)

But the following do appear, some numerous times:

President or Obama ? 18 times
Do (in the sense of ?doing? something – activism?) ? 8 times
Community ? 3 times
Duty ? 1 time
Civic ? 1 time

Score?

Community and ?duty? Propaganda/Obama personality worship ? 31
Education and Success ? 2

Get out of the public education system!

This year, however, there is a module which will be taught in the Spring to 3rd graders about…Global Warming. I haven’t been able to get info yet on what they plan on teaching–they’re very coy about that–but I am going to do my best to be the volunteer for at least one of my 3rd grade children. If this module turns out to be nothing but biased propaganda, I will do my best to counter it.

http://www.renzullilearning.com/default.aspx

…but those lesson plans are just…

They are “just”, as in no unusual thing here folks, move right along.

Keep your children home REFUSE to participate in this POLITICAL PROPAGANDA!

At our Catholic school, the principal is undecided but it is doubtful she will show it – too many angry emails. But we are “networking: to see how many kids we can keep home or pull out of class when they show it. It they do decide to show it, I’m showing up to pull my daughter and bringing pizza and ice cream with me. That ought to change the debate a bit – with the smell of pizza and vision of ice cream sundaes on the brain, how many kids will be listening to Obama?

I believe this message needs to go out loud and clear. These are our kids. We’re in this fight because of their future, aren’t we?

And take heart, even in Massachusetts the masses are getting uneasy. A public high school assigned “Dreams of My Father” and the public is outraged. Obama Flu will be rampant on Tuesday.

Loved your take on this, Caleb. One piece of advice – get your girls out of public school! Do whatever you have to do, just do it. Politics aside, go to their future high school and watch the girls and what they wear and how they behave towards the boys. Then go find a parochial school for them. They are surprisingly affordable – with financial aid and scholarships, too.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/02/wh-withdraws-call-students-help-obama/

Or: Michelle Malkin and this diary have succeeded so much in guessing the real motives of the WH since Obama’s so unsure (and afraid?) and is now backpedalling?

I bet for the latter.

I think a boycott will send a message loudly and clearly, to Obama and all the cheerleading parents and teachers.

If you’re not there it doesn’t send any message. You’re presence in the classroom will speak volumes, otherwise this garbage will continue to go on unchallenged. Anything you deem inappropriate should be taken your local school board.