Why parents don’t trust the Educator-in-Chief and his comrades

They think we’re crazy. “They” are the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can’t fathom the backlash against the president’s nationwide speech to schoolchildren next Tuesday. “We” are parents with eyes wide open to the potential for politicized abuse in America’s classrooms.
Ask moms and dads in Farmington, Utah, who discovered this week that their children [...]

Obama not wanted?

School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address Tuesday – forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation’s classrooms.
The White House says Obama’s address is a sort of pep talk for the [...]

Is Obama really that unpopular?

Let’s dispense with the “dog bites man” aspect of this first — Barack Obama’s approval rating has slipped. As it does for all presidents in the first year, as hope collides with reality, expectation with output.
His latest number is about 54 percent, according to the Real Clear Politics average of most recent national surveys. That [...]