What is SOOOO Wrong with Obama Motiva...

What is SOOOO Wrong with Obama Motivating Our Children to do Better?

Before delving into this subject let me first announce with as little fan fare as possible that I am not seeking the Mayor's Office.  For personal reasons and because the current Mayor has announced he will not seek re-election I will not be running.  Thank you to all that expressed your support.  It is very appreciated.  Expect me to be attentive to the goings on of the Council and Mayor and hold them to strict account.

This week Obama plans to address our nation's school children and ask them to be responsible for their education.  He also plans to appeal to the children and ask them to help him, the President.  On its face that doesn't sound so bad.  I have mentored children before and the first thing I told them is that even at 13,14,15 years old they are responsible for their own education.  So Obama and I don't differ too far from that.  Or do we? 

Obama might be asking the children to be goal oriented and to excel in school and to take responsibility for their own education, but that is not what he is really saying.  The translated version goes something like this: "School children of the United States, look not to yourselves or too your local communities or to your parents for guidance, but look to the Federal government.  Only we at this lever can decide for you what is good and fair and worthy.  Your individual states are not well suited to provide an educational platform and your parents do not know what is best for you.  Surrender to a least common denominator education that seeks first to lift under achievers to the ranks of the mediocre and drag down those that strive and show aptitude."

If Obama really wanted to help our nations children he would shut down the Federal department of education and send every penny collected for education last year to the states.  No longer collect taxes for education and let each individual state grow and learn how to best teach its own children.  You know, how the Founders envisioned.  Rather, what we will get next week is a "kumbaya" moment for Federal intrusion into State and Individual affairs and decisions.  Another inch down the road of Socialism.  I invite parents to contact their teachers and principals and superintendents and DEMAND to know ahead of time what exactly Comrade Minister Obama has planned for the impressionable future of our country.  It is not just what is said, it is also who says it.  Context matters.

Our President has NO CHARTER in the Constitution to be presiding over the education of our children.  Considering the first 8 months of his Presidency I see no reason to think his moves towards Socialism will not be targeted at YOUR CHILDREN.  When will you say "enough"?

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Superintendent

Dr. John E. Williams

E-Mail: jwilliams@chesterfield.k12.sc.us
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