Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009

Taken from Pink Floyd with some changes – Another Prick In the Wall Barck Obama…Pink Floyd timeless another brick in the wall spoof takes the new administration head on. from the person that did the video at YouTube.

Here is Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall. ~ Wild Thing

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PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
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 and 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 being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what they 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?
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 can 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?
After the Speech:
Guided Discussion:
• What resonated with you from President Obama’s speech? What lines/phrases do you remember?

But that is not all, the DICTATOR Obama also has plans for the evening of September 8th as well. OH yes he does not want to stay away from his camera time. ~ Wild Thing
Obama to Appear on Back-to-School Program
School Library Journal
Obama will appear on the back-to-school TV special “Get Schooled: You Have the Right” with singer Kelly Clarkson and basketball LeBron James.
The 30-minute documentary, which airs at 8 p.m. on September 8 , highlights the education challenges, life choices, and breakthroughs experienced by Obama’s speechwriter, Sarah Hurwitz; Clarkson’s music director, Jason Halbert; and James’s marketing executive Latesha Williams.
Obama, Clarkson, and James are featured in the show alongside their trusted professional colleagues who work behind-the-scenes but have compelling life stories. Hurwitz chronicles her experience growing up in Wayland, MA, to her days as an undergraduate and law student and her current job at the White House. Halbert, who has been music director for Clarkson since 2003, is a Beaumont, TX, native who has cultivated a life-long love of music to become a Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter. Williams, a native of Brooklyn, NY, combined education, perseverance, and her dream of working in the music and sports industries to land several internships for high-profile business and entertainment figures, which ultimately led to her working with James

Obama says in the documentary. “So as this new school year begins, I urge you to set goals for your own education: to study hard and get involved in your school; to try new things and find something you’re passionate about,” he says on the show. “Don’t be afraid to ask questions and ask for help when you need it. That’s how you learn. That’s how you get ahead. And that’s how our nation will get ahead—by ensuring that every American gets a world class education, from preschool to college to a career. So get schooled. Your future—and our nation’s future–depend on it.”

“Get Schooled: You Have the Right” will air commercial-free, and kicks off a five-year national initiative co-developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom that allows the corporate world and communities to address the challenges facing America’s public schools.

Parents rebelling against Obama speech to schools
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Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation’s public schools without their presence, participation and approval.
The plans announced by Obama also have been cited as raising the specter of the Civilian National Security Force, to which he’s referred several times since his election campaign began, but never fully explained.
“I am not going to compare President Obama to Hitler. We’ll leave that to others and you can form your own opinions about them and their analogies. … However, we can learn a lot from the spread of propaganda in Europe that led to Hitler’s power.
A key ingredient in that spread of propaganda was through the youth,” wrote a blogger at the AmericanElephant.com blog, where the subject of the day was a national “Keep-Your-Child-at-Home-Day.”

“Totalitarian regimes around the world have sought to spread their propaganda and entrench their power by brainwashing the children. I guess it’s easier to indoctrinate a six-year-old instead of fighting a 26-year-old or being challenged by a 46-year-old in the voting booth,” the blogger wrote.

At issue was an announcement that Obama plans to deliver a message directly to students via the Internet into public school classrooms across the nation on Sept. 8.
According to announcement posted on ServiceWire.org, Obama will address students “about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school” at 1 p.m. Eastern at the WhiteHouse.gov website.
The announcement said the federal Department of Education “is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong.”
The government also is publicizing a list of suggestions for students and teachers to do in preparation for the speech, including studying Barack Obama’s writings and presidency.

Now the former community organizer and current president of the United States is making an unprecedented speech to the school children of our nation. I’d like to believe his motives were pure and politics didn’t play into this. But viewing this administration’s track record doesn’t afford such benefit of the doubt.

“When the president browbeats property owners who want to protect their legal rights… when the president admits he doesn’t know the facts but impugns the integrity of a police force… when the president calls me a liar for reporting what is actually in the health care bills and encourages my neighbors to report me to some enemies list… when the president apologizes to nations around the world and bows to a Saudi king… he loses the benefit of the doubt,” the blogger wrote.

“Without benefit of the doubt, the president doesn’t get to speak to my children unchallenged,” the writer said.

The education department’s suggestions include building background knowledge for students about Obama, and then asking, “What do you think he’ll say to you?”

During the speech, students should be instructed to “think about the following: What is the president trying to tell me? What is the president asking me to do?”

Another exercise would be to have students write letters to themselves about “what they can do to help the president.”

“These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals,” the recommendations suggest.

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Wild Thing’s comment…….
Communists aim for the children because that’s the next generation. This dictator must be removed from office. He and his ilk are working on all fronts.
Just imagine how many parents leave it up to the schools or have no idea what’s going on in there.

“At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmic chant of ‘B-B! …. B-B! …. B-B!’—over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first ‘B’ and the second—a heavy murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamps of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.”

—Orwell, George (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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….Thank you Richard for sending this to me.