Is that all they hope to get out of the speech?

President Obama, whose push for socialized medicine in America is not going as well as he has hoped, is now asking school children to help him. He'll be giving a speech on Tuesday that school age children are being asked to take time away from their normal school activities to watch.

Accompanying this speech is a "Menu of Classroom Activies" that the Department of Education is sending to all schools. One of the activities is for children to write about "how they could help the president."

I thought schools were for education, not indoctrination, but I guess I was wrong. Call it the Obama Jugend.

On a related note, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated

"At the end of the day, if the president motivates on C student to become a B
student, or one thinking of dropping out to stay in school to take their
education seriously, it's all worth it."

If that were true, the activity should have been for them to write about being a better student, not about advancing the President's partisan agenda. Even if that were the agenda, shouldn't we have higher expectations? As much as I dislike most of Obama's policies, many people find him very persuasive. I would expect school children, who haven't developed good critical thinking skills, to be even more persuaded by his words. There are millions and millions of school age children. If just one goes from a C to a B, then it's successful?

Do you know what I think would be "worth it?" The statistics for blacks on graduation rates and out of wedlock births are dismal. President Obama has been remarkably successful in educational achievement and appears to be a good father. I think he can speak to and inspire the black community in America like no other person on earth can. If he is successful in having an impact there (in the community, not on one person!), he will have done something I think all Americans will be proud of him for.