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I do not see how anyone can seriously believe that little Sally Third-Grader is going to go home and try to convert her parents to the President's agenda or try to indoctrinate mom and dad into socialism or any of the other really irrational things I've been hearing and reading everywhere. What is politically non-neutral about our President telling our nation's children how important it is to work hard and behave in school and not to drop out? What horrible agenda is the President trying to promote by talking to our kids about getting a good education? If anyone is doing any indoctrinating and promoting an agenda, it's those people who are misrepresenting the President's message, censoring him (without legitimate reason), and propagating fear and ignorance. What message are our students getting? That they should not learn to think for themselves? They should be making choices, decisions, forming opinions, and governing our communities, states, and nation based on fear, ignorance, irrationality, and erroneous information. We have far too many people now that make decisions this way. Our job as educators is to teach children how to think critically, to use reason, to study all sides of an issue to make informed decisions or express informed opinions and not pander to fear and ignorance. It is truly a sad day when the President of the United States of America is censored and the example being set for children across this country is the exact opposite of everything education stands for and everything this country stands for! Sue Bailey MEd, Instructional Technology/Library Media Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia Program Coordinator VSU Continuing Education subailey@valdosta.edu "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." --Dr. Seuss -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ --------------------------------------------------------------------