President Obama and I disagree on a lot of things, but his idea of my children spending more time in school puts me over the edge of disgust.
With props to Mommy Life http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/09/obama_kids_need.html I stumbled into an AP article saying, “Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
Besides the fact that I have never seen any documentation of President Obama’s primary or secondary education, he is wrong. Students around the globe come to America for the best education in the world, dear Sir. There is no run for the border to Italy, Algeria, Egypt or elsewhere for higher learning. Frig being a Rhodes scholar.
The public and parochial school systems may often be nothing more than over inflated propaganda machines at times. It is hard to teach true grit and the idea of hard work and the desire to be the best. I see the handouts of xerox copies from antiquated books and hear of the President of the United States saying study hard and if a poor black kid can make it so can you.
The NEA and standardized testing teaches nothing as to what it takes to get ahead in this world. One plus one used to equal two until President Obama’s socialistic programs came along to teach that you should spread the wealth so far that you will end up into negative territory. Way to teach algebra.
Told my kids that even though they studied hard and got an A on the test everyone was getting a C. That was only fair so that everyone would pass right? Redistributing things so that they alone were not rewarded. They got attention pdq.
One commentator at Mommy Life wrote- “Children need more love, more hugs, more kisses, more nature walks, more reading, more church camps, more gardening, more beach days, more pumpkin picking with Grandma, more museum visits, more visits to the elderly, more science center trips with Dad, more stories on Mommy’s lap, more LIFE!!” I couldn’t agree more.
I am a working adult and I too need more time for love, hugs, and kisses to be bestowed upon my children. I kiss and hug up my spouse all the time in front of the children. It is called displays of affection and love. They need to see it and what is acceptable in a healthy relationship as they mature. No government and no school is going to teach that – no matter how many hours they are forced to attend.
Our school offers something called ARC- a faith based youth group that goes out to do service deeds. My eight year old absolutely refused to join saying that she does enough to help her grandmother with Alzheimer’s and that this group only pretends for a few hours to do the right thing. That they don’t live community service, they play and join when it is convenient. That is grit- taught at home. She is the only one out of the entire class that lives community service everyday, not just on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour.
The convenience of a school day to accomplish tasks is nice as a parent I must admit, but to think that more time in a structured environment will encourage more productivity is bull $hit.
It is the families job to have control of its children’s minds and hearts- not the governments. Our youngest child is up at 6:30 am, gets home at 3, does homework for an hour, has dinner, grabs a shower, watches a few minutes of TV and sleeps. Throw in a soccer practice, track meet or some other extra curricular activity and the time spent as a family is reduced. Play time—lol.
No wonder people buy their kids cell phones at the age of 5- the push to do more, be more, burn yourself out and forget about being a kid when all they have to do to say “I love you” to a parent is to text them.
Imagination comes from play. Sadly those days are few and far between during the school year. Imagine if the apple had not hit Einstein, if no one dreamt of going to the moon, if all work and no play made Johnny so dull he never invented golf, tennis, football, basketball, etc.
Mr. President Sir- even you made time for trips to Hawaii and Cape Cod with your family. Two whole weeks with your kids. I for one, want every weekend and everyday of summer to enjoy our children. To know them, for them to know me. To know their favorite color, to buy a balloon and them tell me where it might go and who might find it when it is let go at the end of the day. To go skiing on a snowy day, to head to the beach for spring break without the punishment of homework.
Letting go of our children to be productive citizens means we have done our jobs as parents and in no uncertain terms, it is not the job of the government.
The idea that schoolchildren are being indoctrinated to idolize President Barack Obama is ludacris and makes me wonder why now he has chosen to express his thought that kids need to spend more time in school. Respect for the office yes but that is not what is coming across. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20090926obama_song_prompts_school_probe/
President Obama you can not even control the spiraling debt, stay the fu(k out of my family time.
From School Kids Forced to Sing Praises to Obama! Indoctrination?
These elementary school kids are forced to sing songs of praise and worship to President Obama. Right or wrong?
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80761048/
Is it all just an indoctrination to the Obama youth civilian corps and the youth volunteer act?