New 4th Period Teacher: President Obama
It’s not the first time that a President has addressed public school kids. When President George W. Bush was in office he addressed public school children from a high school setting, encouraging them to study hard and get good grades.
The message isn’t all bad. We have sports stars, actors, and other people on the television and in print ads encouraging children to do their best.
So what has everyone so riled up about President Obama addressing children this time?
I believe that it’s the current political climate, the idea that the schools are supposed to be under state/local jurisdiction, and the fact that it is a closed environment.
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Why Abstinence Based Education is Important
For the longest time the left has used the education system to attempt to hijack the next generation’s beliefs on numerous social issues. Using the pulpit of the school teacher’s classroom, the public school system espouses the values of the Secular Humanist, knowing that if they are patient, the seed that they are planting every day will bring forth fruit.
And in most cases it has paid off well for them.
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How Does $1 a Day Sound?
A program in Greensboro, NC has added a financial incentive to keeping pure– $1 a day for ever day that they keep from getting pregnant.
Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings.
The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state.
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Is There a Benefit to Equality in Education?
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core to the premise that the school is a proper place to teach right and wrong is the concept that the children belong to the state, not to the parents.
What’s strange is the parallels between this concept of “it takes a village” to raise children and Plato’s Republic. Two portions of Plato’s Republic I find scary (especially when you consider that Plato is thought to have lived between 427 and 347 BC).
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