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Originally Posted by tksensei
The problem isn't (and never was) the president addressing school children. Many other presidents have done the same. Justified concern was raised when the Dept. of Ed. sent out guidlines to all the nation's public schools that included suggested homework assignments to write letters to the president about how they could be good servants to the president and help promote his policies and such. The administration admitted their (again) overstepping and has redacted all the pertinent comments and suggestions.
This is Mao type shit folks, and they were hoping to slide it by before anyone thought about it too much. Fortunately, we still live in a country where public officials are watched and taken to task by responsible citizens.
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Let's take a step back into reality, please. There was never anything asking school children to write papers about "they could be good servants to the president" and how they could "help promote his policies". That is a complete exaggeration of the truth which is school children were going to be asked what they could do to help the president.
Literally : Students were going to be asked to "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president".
This could be telling the president he needs to make new jobs because my daddy lost his. This could be telling the president to stop the war in Iraq.
Tksensei, you have been duped by the conservative media machine.
Conservatives protested this innocuous question, and it has since been revised....leading only to more conservative criticism, and outlandish claims like tksensei gave above.