Obama speech: Indoctrination into socialism?
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow

An Indiana parent explains why she is concerned about Obama's upcoming educational speech.
 
Diane Jewell is a former homeschool mom who decided to send her daughter to public school in Junior High. Jewell is now regretting that decision because she says her daughter is being indoctrinated into socialism.
 
"Right after Obama was elected, [my daughter's] like, 'Well then what's wrong with socialism? What's wrong with the government taking over healthcare?' [That] started into a big family debate over why we need to keep control over our own choices and I don't know -- I couldn't decide where that was coming from. I think it's coming from the school system," she explains.
 
That concern led Jewell to become involved in her school district to "help steer" the school back where she believes it needs to be. In working with the school, she found that many teachers and administrators were pro-Obama. Jewell adds that when she heard about Obama's planned address to school children, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
 
She contacted her school district's superintendant and was pleased with the reaction she received. Carrol Consolidated School Corporation's plan is to record the speech, have the parents screen it, and then make it available at a later date for students who have permission to view it.
 
OneNewsNow asked Jewell if the speech turns out to be an educational pep talk if she will allow her daughter to view it. She says it is not Obama's place to talk to children directly, without parental input. Jewell adds that she is very concerned with the increasing involvement of federal government in education.
 
"I have a problem with the states controlling education. The federal government has…no business at all. That's just way beyond their control; it takes parents even further away from what is and isn't taught," she concludes.
 

But Jewell says her biggest concern is that she believes children are the parent's legacy, "their footprint on the world." Jewell says that the more government is involved in education, the more the parents are excluded from the picture, calling that approach "abnormal." She notes that since moving away from parental involvement, there has been a complete erosion in society in general ethics and morals.
 
Jewell tells OneNewsNow that taking that into consideration, she regrets her decision to quit homeschooling and in retrospect she wishes she had stayed at home in order to continue homeschooling her daughter.

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