So do you know anybody who opted their child out of the President's Back to School address today?

[bluestateguy]

What a bunch of losers.

[Scurrilous]

1. Gawker: Where's the Fury Over Obama's School Speech This Year?

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"Last September, Barack Obama addressed the nation's schoolchildren to start the new academic year, and conservatives went insane. Many parents worried that Obama would "indoctrinate" their children with Marxism. So where's the angry chorus for this year's same speech?

The very thought, in 2009, of the Kenyan President Obama telling American schoolchildren to "work hard" in "classes" insulted a broad swath of GOP players — Rush Limbaugh to Glenn Beck to supposedly normal governors considering presidential runs in 2012. Parents nationwide threatened to take their kids out of class, and a few of them even did, to no one's dismay.

Then Obama delivered his speech to schoolchildren — including the controversial "work hard" language — and people forgot about the controversy because there was no basis for it, ever. (Maybe a couple of kids were even inspired by the speech, and in thirty years will invent an outer space bumper car rink or whatever that saves the already-dead economy.)

The same characters must've been too distracted by 9/11 Mosques this year to lose their minds over the same speech, which Obama will deliver today in Philadelphia. Which is a shame! Now we'll have another year of a newly indoctrinated Marxist schoolchildren, because Rush Limbaugh was trying to focus on more important things."

http://gawker.com/5637782/wheres-the-fury-over-obamas-school-speech-this-year

[TBF]

2. I'm sure there were plenty down here in TX -

we received a handout about it last week, with a sheet to send in if you didn't want your child to view it. So I assume they are showing it unless you opt out. I will ask my daughter at the end of the day and see if they really did it.

[blondeatlast]

3. I had to opt-IN for my son. It's downright insulting. nt

[Burma Jones]

4. My kids have the day off school today.......Maryland Primary Elections....

[sadbear]

5. They're probably not even airing it at my daughter's school

I'm in Texas and haven't heard anything about it this year. Last year, the natives went crazy and took their children out of school that day. This year, nothing.

[EC]

6. I figure most of those kids are

home-schooled anyway and repubs were just blowing more sh** outta their holes.

[JuniperLea]

7. It's the only way they can have complete control...

Control the information, control the child... and they have the nerve to talk about a nanny government. Idiots.