I’ve been pretty quiet lately – work and home have been very busy, and I’ve been worn out. But, like always, something gets my attention and makes me think.
This whole Presidential address to the nation’s kids has been amazing to watch. It’s not unheard-of for a sitting US President to pick a school somewhere, visit it, give a general “rah-rah” speech, and make a big photo-op of the whole thing. The speeches are generic themes such as “stay-in-school”, “work hard and you’ll succeed”, etc… Not a whole lot of substance and no one really expects any real results. There’s no wave of kids busting their butts in school because President Bush told them it was a good idea.
So why the fervor over the Obama speech? Why were so many people immediately suspicious not only of the content of the speech, but of the intent of the “curriculum” being pushed out to the schools along with it? The public schools are one of the Democrat strongholds. They’ve been able to push their agendas in the public school system for years with little resistance. And yet somehow enough people got a bad feeling about this – enough people got involved and spoke up to force last-minute changes to Obama’s plan, and in some cases to convince schools to not participate in the speech at all.
We elected this President less than a year ago, and already enough people in this country distrust his motives enough to at a moments notice form a movement powerful enough to stop him in his tracks.
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