Here’s yet another futile attempt by the right to find a way to demonize President Obama in any way that they can. For those who don’t know yet, President Obama is set to give a speech next week on the state of the education system in this country, fulfilling a campaign promise to address the subject. Critics are attempting to undermine his speech as nothing short of indoctrination, so much so that parents are threatening to pull their children out of school if teachers require that their students watch it.
President Obama has always had a very reliable stance on education, and it was one of the most striking things I heard during a speech he made earlier this year that, heaven forbid, parents should take some responsibility and be the ones to turn off the TV or video games when a student should be doing homework, or that maybe the student should take ownership of their education and that maybe it isn’t entirely a state problem that schools are failing.
Yep, that smells like some dirty indoctrination to me. Heck, could we be headed down the road to socialism with regards to education too?