Obama’s speech to school kids is being touted by the administration as a national address directly to students on the importance of education. Is the President’s speech simply a good lesson in civics or is this just more indoctrination about the awesomeness of Obama? We have the text or transcript of Obama’s school speech below. You can watch the live feed of Obama’s school address speech here, see photos, and get the lessons plans provided to schools by the White House below as well.
Himself 56 times, Education 10 times, Responsibility 8 times!
In yet one more historic moment for this White House, Barack Obama will hold a nationwide speech for school children. Apparently, The One will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a “shared responsibility and commitment” on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens. However, it is unclear if the White House mantra of “Obama is God” will be on display during Obama School Address Speech Live Feed Video on September 8, 2009. You can read the text or transcript of Obama’s school speech below the fold. The time for this speech will be 12:00 noon eastern time and make your plans to watch it with us!
The White House has thoughtfully provided teachers across the country with a teaching guide which includes activities and a list of questions to use with their students before, during, and after Obama’s school speech. You can see the complete section of lesson plans specifically for “Obama’s Address to Students Across America” to Schools for grades pre-K to 6, and for grades 7 to 12 at the links.
Some of the odd questions in the lessons include:
• “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?• 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?
• Students might think about reporting their Parents, their Parent’s friends, Neighbors, Classmates, or even their Teachers to fishy@whitehouse.gov if they see any resistance to the Hope and Change that President Obama has in store for our Homeland.”
Ok. That last question I made up but this whole ‘Cult of Obama’ thing is really creepy!
I am quite sure there are some who think objecting to such a nice gesture by the President is quite silly. But the truth is Barack Obama has no business injecting himself into every classroom in the country or suggesting to teachers that they help students figure out how they can help the president through “shared responsibilities”. I assume many parents will be contacting their kids’ schools and making decisions to not have their kids watch the speech. For those parents who choose to do that, be prepared to be mocked by those on the left but what else is new in the age of Obama?
This post was originally published on September 2, 2009 and has been updated with new information.
Update: The backlash from angry parents to Barack Obama’s speech to school kids has been swift and sure. School Districts all across the country are scrambling for alternatives to showing the live feed of the speech. They reportedly have been swamped with calls from parents as to the districts’ intentions in showing the speech and doing the WH lesson plans, which because of the outrage have been revised. It is clear that this administration truely lives in the Crazy Tree.
You can read the text or transcript of the 18-minute Obama School Speech here before it’s scheduled broadcast if you’d like. But HotAir has a word frequency counter and as you can imagine, it’s all about The One!
The time for the Obama’s school speech is 12:00 noon eastern time. And remember, you can watch the Obama School Address Speech Live Feed Video on September 8, 2009 here at Right Pundits!
Obama School Address Speech Live Feed Video, September 8 2009
Kids for Obama Photos
Creepy Obama Children’s Choir Video
Photos: www.wenn.com, Carrie Devorah
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 am
Obama’s Slip In The Polls And September 8, 2009 Address To Students
It’s no different than a 30 year-old man dating a 14 year-old teenage girl. Adult women no longer find him appealing so he seeks those that he can manipulate to his perverted way of thinking for the purpose of control. Adults, with half a brain, no longer listen to Obama’s Marxist rhetoric and nonsense so now he is targeting a captive audience; skulls-full-of-mush that he can mold. Nice try, but we see right through this communist antichrist liar.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 am
My son doesn’t vote. Leave him alone!
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am
He’s just warming up to give a speech to the rest of us. He thinks we’re too stupid to understand what he’s saying so he’s using this as his practice run for the voters.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Ok. That last question I made up
Hah, really? The spelling error didn’t give it away or anything.
It’s no different than a 30 year-old man dating a 14 year-old teenage girl.
Uhhhh, what?
Also, Obama isn’t talking to the kids about “Marxist rhetoric”. It’s a speech to students about the importance of education. I’m having trouble seeing what’s so bad about that.
Now “No Child Left Behind” (better known as Every Child Kept Behind) is something that bugs me. But from what I can tell this is no more than a speech, and no specific policy is being pushed on the kids.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:26 am
rhayader
not all of us walk on water.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
Apparently many of us cannot accept a little good-natured ribbing either.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
rhayader no, apparently you can’t. :p
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 am
“I’m having trouble seeing what’s so bad about that.”
You don’t have kids do you? There is something just creepy and not right about Obama.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
thats right ghost.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
Its pretty scary when people regurgitate talking points given to them without any real relevance to the subject at hand… shame on you Bill, grow up and approach this like a rational person.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
There is something just creepy and not right about Obama.
That’s completely unspecific. What is the actual problem with the speech mentioned in the article?
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
“Its pretty scary when people regurgitate talking points”
John = pot
bill = kettle
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 am
have you looked at the lesson plans? there are links. i don’t want my kids to feel like they have “shared responsibility” on government policies which include education, volunteerism and/or healthcare for all americans.
when this president speaks of shared responsibility or hard work it’s always a double entendre and if i am not there to filter for my kids, i dont want them to hear it.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
What’s next. Obama’s picture at the back of class room wall to remind kids they should share the responsibility and learn from him, like where I grew up.
Or better, put red scarf on, march the kids on the street to make sure all adults share the responsibility.
Where is the limit? Keep kids out of adult politics. Their parents should tell them why learning is so important.
I came to U.S. and becoming a citizen for freedom. Now, I’m even scare of sending this email.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Yes, I did read the plans (which really aren’t lesson plans, just suggested discussion topics). For what it’s worth, the phrase “shared responsibility” does not make an appearance on either one. Nor do the words “volunteer”, “health” (let alone “healthcare”), or even “government”. The only mentions of education serve to encourage kids to get an education — and again, I have a really hard time finding fault with that.
Even if they had addressed anything close to policy or political philosophy (which, again, they did not), there’s no way this stuff is any more moralizing than all the “just say no” crap that was shoved down our throats back when I was in elementary school.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Cathryn Friar, what a sad, sick little woman you must be.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
you don’t want your children to feel like they have a shared responsibility to the government of the country they live in?? or volunteering to their fellow man? or providing care to those in need? we all have a responsibility to our own country, whether we fulfill it by simply voting, volunteering at a local hospital, etc.
having children listen to a speech encouraging the importance of education and the furthering their education is not a bad thing. you do realize that that is what their instructors try to teach them everyday. as for the questions, it simply gives the children the chance to think about what they have heard and decide for themselves rather than just accepting everything blindly.
i have direct involvemnet with the school systems and no child left behind is an absolute disgrace to education. i know first graders who have been passed along to the next grade who do not know their alphebet or how to add/subtract. you should be more worried about if/what they are teaching your children rather than one speech they will hear.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
“i have direct involvemnet with the school systems”
Gawd I hope that it isn’t as a teacher
And Annie, as parents we will decide what they learn outside of academics, which is the ONLY thing to be taught in the classroom.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
“Cathryn Friar, what a sad, sick little woman you must be.”
when moonbats have nothing to say they de-volve to name calling and personal attacks. who is sad and sick?
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Sound like September 8, 2009 should be considered a national skip day.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
“That’s completely unspecific. What is the actual problem with the speech mentioned in the article?”
It doesn’t matter. Hunches, intuition, gut feelings many times (and I would say more often than not) are more accurate than the intellect. He is and always has been a cypher, about which we know little. (I am not a birther BTW). There is just something
If you had kids you may or may not keep them away from people who say that drugs are bad and that would be your right as a parent. Kids need context, and BHO will not provide it.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I agree Kate, no reason for name-calling. I would, however, like to hear your answer to my previous comment (#15).
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
What my kids do not need is just more indoctrination about the awesomeness of Obama
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
rhayader
you are wrong. much of that language came from obama’s own handpicked education secretary when he introduced the speech to all school principals on his website:
http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html
please don’t be an apologist for obama especially when it comes to other peoples kids.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
rhayader i do not expect obama to say any policy stuff. in fact under any other circumstances i think its good for kids to have civic responsibility taught early. but given all that has transpired in this administration over the last 8 months, for me personally, the creep factor is huge.