It took me a moment (several) to recall the film/scene.
Ah..a neurotic glow of contentment on Sally’s face – Redemption at your local mall.

Is this the equivalent of Obama going to the mall?

Problems Money Won’t Solve. Education
Here’s another one, Rail.
Use Obama’s school speech as a teachable moment
Is Teaching Kids to Quit a Better Idea?
“Little white lie”:

With a record that included business tax cuts, promoting charter schools …

Take special notice of the 2 minute video and it’s submission (to be announced).

Will/can this video be used for promotional purposes? Whose purpose? When? How? Why?

The other item that jumped off the page was to take note of ‘words’ that they remembered.
Are they ‘test marketing’ the young/impressionable listening audience?

In a MTV/BET/YouTube world of teens craving their 15 minutes of fame, most will settle for TWO!
For those with younger children, parents can still intervene and interrupt information and guide them – this is a harder sell for the older students.

http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Back when the liberal/left started pushing the idea of a “pre-kindergarten” entitlement, I had a bad feeling. I wasn’t sure whether their goals were a no-cost childcare alternative, an earlier propagandizing opportunity or some combination of both. President Obama’s background and now operational proclivities seem to argue for the propagandizing as a higher priority in his “modus operandi”, a la the good Professor Ayres. In addition, the opportunity to use the social pressure of the children’s classmates is pretty sinister in my opinion, right up there with the Hitler Youth and the Communists’ Young Pioneers.

The best advice I have for effected parents would be a concept that I first heard from the Italian (and I mean Italian with a capital I Italian) grandmother of one of my long ago sweethearts. She told her granddaughter to remember to “keep-a her pocketbook-a closed”. I’m sure that that had more than a financial meaning, but the basic idea was to avoid spur-of-the-moment decisions that could have long term negative effects. I would caution the young folks to be respectful but to keep their allegiance pocketbook closed until they had a chance to get the parental input to which they’re entitled.

Nope. The indoctrination program is K-12.

But, I’ve noticed that Obama is doing a lot of things with kids lately. I saw a report on the TV news last week that he was interviewed by a grade schooler; and now this. I don’t remember any other President doing so much with children before (not about children, with children).

Does anyone else wonder why is is doing so much with kids lately?

Is it because the adults that he, as President, now has to deal with (as opposed to the “yes-men” that have been a part of his pre-presidential life) are now willing to tell him the not-so-rosy truth and not always say “Oh, How Wonderful you are Obama”?

He reminds me of one kid back in my school days – you know, the one older kid who hung out with younger kids because he was too socially inmature to deal with those his own age.