Hello Friends,
I found out this morning that Pres. Obama will be addressing ALL the students and faculty in America in a televised address on September 8th. This is pure propaganda, simple and straight-forward!
My question is a legal one...can the Obama administration force/require students and faculty members of public and private schools to attend this? What legal recourse does a teacher or student have not to attend?
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
Your thoughts would be appreciated!
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Short answer: Probably none. In reviewing the materials on the ED's website, I can see nothing upon which to base a conscientious objection (as there would be with, say, sex or religious education).
Teachers and savvy older students could use this as an opportunity to discuss weightier issues in the classroom. I would think it's pretty unusual for a highschool classroom to spend discussion time on something like "personal responsibility" or long term goals.
Younger students will have a harder time influencing the experience. I suppose a parent could simply keep their child out of school that day if it came down to it. But there is probably no "legal recourse" to avoid the presentation if the school district mandates it. Trying to opt out would be like trying to opt out of math or english class... no one is going to be very sympathetic since the President is only supposed to be talking about education and other fairly benign issues.
My problem with it is that the statute creating the Dept of Ed specifically states that it (the Dept) cannot provide any curricula to school districts. The discussion questions provided by the White House to the Dept to the school districts certainly look like curricula to me.
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