Obama Speech to Students Draws Conservative Ire

Obama plans to speak directly to students on Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. Your address will be broadcast live on the site of the White House and on C-SPAN at noon Eastern time, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

Schools do not show. However, districts across the country have been inundated with phone calls from parents and are struggling with the controversy that erupted after the Minister of Education, Arne Duncan, has sent a letter to school principals want to look.

The district states, including Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin, decided not to give the address to students. Others still think that more or let the parents that their children opt-out.

Some conservatives, led by experts on radio and bloggers, urge schools and parents to boycott the address. They say that Obama is using the opportunity to promote a political agenda and is beyond the limits of federal involvement in schools.

“In my case, not civic education – gives the impression of creating a cult of personality,” said Oklahoma State Senator Steve Russell. “It’s something you expect to see in North Korea or Iraq under Saddam Hussein.”

The Superintendent of Public Schools Tom Horne Arizona, a Republican, said the lesson plans for teachers created by the Ministry of Education Obama “call to prayer rather than critical approach.

The White House plans to publish his speech Monday, in line for parents to read. He will deliver the speech at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia

“I think it is really unfortunate that the policy was put into this,” deputy director of White House policy Heather Higginbottom, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“It’s just a call for students to actually take their learning seriously. Find out what is good. Setting goals. And take seriously the school year.

He noted that President George HW Bush delivered a speech similar to schools in 1991. Like Obama, Bush drew criticism, with Democrats accusing the Republican president to do the event in an advertisement campaign.

The critics are particularly upset by the lesson plans of the administration created to accompany the speech. The program, available on-line, initially recommended that students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.”

The White House has reviewed the plans on Wednesday to say that students “can write letters to themselves about how to achieve the objectives in the short term and long-term education.

“This was in-artfully drafted and corrected,” said Higginbottom.

In the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, school district of 54,000 students are not the 15 – to 20 minutes, but the direction that the video will be available later.

Cara Mendelsohn PTA Chairman said Obama is “cut” the father to talk with children during school hours.

“Why do not parents to watch with your child at night?” Mendelsohn said. “Because it makes a powerful statement, when a father is sitting there saying, ” This is what I dream for you. That’s what I do.”

Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, said in an interview with the AP that “certainly not advise anyone to send their children to school that day.”

“After hearing the president speak is always a memorable moment,” he said.

But he also said he understood the criticism coming.

“Nobody seems to know what’s going to be talking about,” said Perry. “Why not spend more time talking with local district superintendents and at least give them a helping hand on this?”

Several other districts in Texas have decided not to show the floor, although the District of Houston is to leave the decision to the directors of each school. In suburban Houston, Cypress-Fairbanks district planned to show the direction and saw their social studies teachers build a curriculum and student activities.

“If someone is opposed, not force us to listen to the speech,” said spokeswoman Kelli Durham said.

In Wisconsin, Green Bay School District has decided not to show the speech live and the teachers decide individually if you want to view below.

In Florida, Jim Greer, chairman of the Republican Party issued a statement that he was “absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are used to propagate the ideology of socialist President Obama.”

Despite his rhetoric, two of the largest districts in Florida, Miami-Dade and Hillsborough, are considering taking courses to watch the speech. Students whose parents for failing to do so.