Friday, September 25, 2009

Obama's Health Care Speech Used to Indoctrinate Students

Obama's Health Care Speech (Berman Post: Obama Address Congress on Health Care Plan) appears to have been used to try an indoctrinate Students. The speech was not shown at the school, but the anatomy teacher made their class watch it and then gave a quiz on it. The quiz appeared to be more than your garden variety 'were you paying attention', but forced the students to accept what Obama said as fact after stifling an attempt at debate. Given that this happened to a class of high school seniors it is not as egregious as indoctrinating young school kids (Berman Post: School Children Taught to Praise Obama?), but it is still wrong for a teacher to push their ideology on their students.

http://smartgirlnation.com/2009/09/the-president-speaks-to-our-children-information-or-indoctrination

"Her daughter, a senior in high school, had come home upset because, although the speech was not shown in her school, her anatomy teacher had made the class watch the President’s health care speech. After the video was shown, the students were given a short quiz about the speech. The questions asked gave the assumption that the answers provided in the President’s speech were fact and not opinion. The students were given no opportunity to discuss opposing views or have a debate on the topic. In fact, when one student stated that the President had lied, the student was told that kind of talk was unnecessary. Students in the class with opposing views were forced to remain silent or whisper amongst themselves.

The daughter of our member was so upset about what had occurred that she refused to finish the quiz and brought it home to her mother for review. A copy of the quiz is provided below. Some of these students were educated on the health care debate going on in the country, while others simply took the information as fact and filled out their quiz. For those students, President Obama’s speech was their education. Is that not considered indoctrination?
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Copy of the quiz available at the source.

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