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i dont think well have much to worry about, anybody out there with kids think about how good your kids listen. Unless they got hannah montana, or the jonas bros, or some hip hop star giving the address its goin in one ear out the other.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree. Kids want to act grown up before their time, so they're going to do the 'grown up' thing when it comes to this. Matt's daughter for instance would come home bragging about how she did the 'grown up' thing and pledged her life to Obama. No thanks!!!
Bush was way worse, so don't get all in a tizzy. Under the "No Child Left Behind Act", that Bush put into affect, the government had direct access to your childs files at school. And they were using those files to profile your children to see who were very good candidates for going into military, but I didn't hear all of you pregnant doging about that!! It's ok for our government to profile your kids for military action, but it's not ok for Obama to tell your kids to do their best in school. (If you feel that I'm wrong about the "No Child Left Behind Act" go talk to your childs teacher, I've yet to find a teacher that agrees with it. It has good merits, but gives the fed government too much access to your childs background. And no funding. Also, why do you think that the US Military sponsors all the violent video games based on military action.) So, tell me what is so wrong with Pres. Obama telling your kids that they can be the best that they can be, by challenging them to learn? To leave their environment a little better than they found it. Rise to the challenge! Be responsible for our actions! And that no dream or hope is out of reach!! Maybe you ought to go to your childs school and watch the video with them. Don't worry about your kids pledging anything, cause they don't do the pledge of allegiance anymore, due to religious aspects. And kids will forget about this a week later. Ok, I'm done ranting.
ya right right obama will be yacking about bs and the kids will be thinking about
Do you have kids in school?? Just wondering. I'm quite sure I can guess how my daughter would react.
NO IM JUST TALKIN OUT MY , CMON
i mean iv never met anybody under 25 years old that gave rats about what any politician has to say unless its during MTV's ROCK THE VOTE campaign. If your daughter is not that way well then more power to you, you must have some mad parenting skillz
The ostensible message that students should work hard to educate themselves may seem relatively benign, but the insidious subtext is that you should work hard not for yourself and your own individual happiness, but for the country, society, the state-- to make America more competitive in the world, to raise standards of living (through redistribution, presumably) for all Americans, etc... I personally don't want my children to grow up believing that they exist to serve the state, that it is somehow normal to think this way.
This immediately reminded me of JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you.... ask what you can do for your country". I survived that, as did many of my generation, without too many deep scars, and most of us never saw the speech as indoctrination of our nation's youth. It was not beamed directly into the schools, but I'm pretty sure it made national TV at the time (can't say for sure, we never had TV when I was a kid). Children will always be on the receiving end of messages that parents disagree with, and it seems to get worse as time goes on. It is not possible to shield them from the world. Discuss controversial issues with them, tell them how you feel and why. If your point of view makes sense to them, it will sink in. Communicate with them often and encourage them to think and reason for themselves. This will equip them with the mental & emotional tools to deal with speeches, indoctrination attempts, and peer pressure that they will encounter throughout their lives, whether you are there to protect them or not.
Hey man I am 23 and this pisses me off too. In fact, I've been into politics since global warming first got huge around the time of Al Gore's propagandafest to came about, in like 05 or 06, so when I was about 20. There are a lot of us younger generation out here that do give a rats ass. The more I learn about everything the angrier I get. In my Intro to Biology class over the summer I wrote my term paper on Carbon Credits. Don't even get me started on Global warming and carbon credits.
The difference is that JFK said "Ask not what your country can do for you... ask what you can do for your country"This is "Ask not what Obama can do for you... ask what you can do for Obama"Big difference in my opinion.
The ostensible message that students should work hard to educate themselves may seem relatively benign, but the insidious subtext is that you should work hard not for yourself and your own individual happiness, but for the country, society, the state-- to make America more competitive in the world, to raise standards of living for all Americans, etc.
And I stand by my statement that parental guidance & open communication is more effective than shielding your kids from messages you don't agree with. They will hear them eventually anyway. Teach your kids to think.
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