America…Obama’s INFANT Plan Part 8
In case you were wondering, here is one of Obama’s “brilliant” education reform plans:
“Zero to Five Plan: Obama’s comprehensive “Zero to Five” plan will provide critical support to young children and their parents. Unlike other early childhood education plans, Obama’s plan places key emphasis at early care and education for infants, which is essential for children to be ready to enter kindergarten. Obama will create Early Learning Challenge Grants to promote state “zero to five” efforts and help states move toward voluntary, universal pre-school.”
Read that again: “places key emphasis at early care and education for INFANTS, which is ESSENTIAL for children to be ready to enter kindergarten.”
I can’t even find the words. Who decided that is was ESSENTIAL for INFANTS to be taken away from their parents, put through some, I can’t even imagine what, “academic” training, so they’ll be prepared for “school”?
Notice, it doesn’t say, “provide child care for the unfortunate Moms who have to work.” The wording of the reform does something profoundly important: it convinces parents that their child will be “left behind” if he/she doesn’t take part in this “special academic preparation for infants” program. SO, regardless of what economic circumstance your are in, they have created a social peer pressure for parents.
It is a message of, “not only is it OK for mothers to be separated from their infants, but it is to their advantage”.
My heart aches.
By the way, if I can get up the nerve, I will be posting a shocking video that flies in the face of Obama’s “deep concern” for infants, revealing his true concern for them.
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August 15, 2008 10:40 am
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Wow, thanks for bringing this up. I hadn’t heard about this plan yet, although there are a hundred other reasons why I would never in a million years vote for Obama!
Does your video involve Obama’s opinion on the “born alive” act? If so, post it! People need to know exactly how highly he esteems life. And if it’s not about that, post it anyway! I’m curious.
I say post it too. It will be heart ripping but people need to know the truth. On Obama’s site under this early infant plan. It states that mother’s who are pregnant will be visited at home by a government worker to educate the mother on pregnancy ed. and child rearing and home education for father’s to get more involved. AND NO DOUBT, they will educate you on your option for an abortion for population control or if you have a troubled pregnancy. Looks like to me the feminist movement has come full circle. Except the socialist/communist government will be home educating us and our children in their indoctrination. To read the whole proposal go to:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/pdf/PreK-12EducationFactSheet.pdf
And I wouldn’t breathe easier if by chance he doesn’t get elected. This is the aim for all liberals!
If you don’t believe me here is a link to Hilary’s proposal. Same thing only different. She advocates home visits as outlined in her “HIPPY” plan. And early univerasal pre K
http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/education/index.cfm?topic=early
SORRY! I’m grieved!
Katherine, thanks for posting the information. I went to Obama’s site and found the info on the early education thing, but didn’t see where it said that pregnant mothers would be visited at home for education. Can you give me the exact link for that page? Thanks!
Oh, I found it! Never mind.
Oh for crying out loud! Go and read the comment I posted under “Feminism: Throwing Logic Out The Window,” and you will see how I feel about someone else trying to take care of infants besides the mother herself!
I HATE pre-school! I used to be a pre-school teacher and they are just “holding tanks” for children until their parents bother to come and get them. All that bullcorn about creative curriculum and early childhood education theories is a load of bunkum!
HOME VISITING???? EXCUSE ME? 4TH AMENDMENT ANYONE?
Yikes.
While I agree that sending a government official to a pregnant women’s home is going a bit too far–it would be better if pregnancy ed was dispenced by the womens’ doctors (although it just occured to me that the gov. official thing might be for women in poverty who can’t necessarily afford a doctor–why waste the money sending an official to Angelina Jolie’s house). I think the point that Obama is trying to make is that prenatal care has improved exponentially, but the majority of women don’t have access to that information because it is not accessible. That sounds rather totological, but if a woman doesn’t know where to look for information or doesn’t know it’s a vailable in the first place, then it might as well be nonexistant. That’s a fallacy. Compared to other top nations (if you can call us that anymore) such as the Netherlands or Denmark, our prenatal care is absolutely horrendous.
4th amendment rights refer to Freedom of Speech, which means that you can say whatever you want as long as you’re not threatening to set off a bomb or kill your Mayor or something to that affect. It doesn’t mean that since you don’t have access to information that would improve your health and lower the rate of infant/mother mortality rates at birth, you must have decided that you don’t want/need it. I’m sure many women who don’t have access to that information would love to have it. What’s wrong with making a point of providing it? And I would imagine that the pregnant women has the choice of rejecting the official’s visits, or she could always just not listen to the advice dispensed. And as long as the baby is in good health and seems to be psychologically sound, and the mother is okay, there would be no justification in allowing the court to take the baby away from the mother.
I would also agree that it would be better to provide a governmental universal plan to look after children while their parents are at work. I think that Mrs. Lady Sofia is making the fallacious assumption that since she had a bad experience in the Pre-K world, Pre-K’s are universally poor. There are actually some very good ones out there (though I think the super selective private Pre-K’s you see in places like NY, LA, etc. is going too far), for example where I live there is a very good Pre-K at a University (they rent the space). It’s a good atmosphere, and to give you an idea of the quality of the teachers, they were the first ones to suspect that I was Deaf, even before my parents–Deaf children are very good at adapting, to the point that it can be a long time before anyone realizes they’re deaf. Another thing that’s good about Pre-K’s is that they allow children to socialize with eachother, and other than socializing with eachother, it also means that any concerns (such as deafness) would be caught earlier on than if the child was simply baby-sat or something. I’m not saying all will be caught, just that it raises the probability that they will be caught.
The education of pre-K children…I really don’t know a whole lot about it, but if it involves flash cards and stuff then I would be very nervous. But overall I think Obama’s plan sounds fairly solid.
There’s a big difference between Socio-Communist government and a government that has a combination of Capitalist/Socialist functions. Pure capitalist government has been proved to be rather disfunctional, and pure Communist government has also been proved to be a failure (though in all fairness, Marx advocated a phased shift from one form of government to another, which is completely different than the shock therapy approach that USSR, China, etc. used. Shock Therapy form of transfering governments is ineffective regardless of the form of government, as can be seen in Iraq, Afgahnistan, much of colonialist Africa, etc. However, a slow and unintentional shift from one form of government, making changes in the economic sector which improve the lives of citizens to the point that they make the decision to improve their lives and start lobbying, fighting for, voting for, etc. principals and policies which give them legitimate liberty and stability in most major areas of government and life has been proven again and again to be succesful, mostly in Europe, but also in North American and some of South America. That is the form of transfer occuring in China, as well as other sectors of Asia and hopefully Africa–but I digress. Sorry for being so obviously tangential!
). I’m sorry about that! But I think it’s important to link the stage and form of government to education, so that’s why I didn’t delete it.
kakalina,
Please re-read the ammendments. 4th refers to “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Kelly,
This post and Born Alive post… stunned silence….
I didn’t know it was that bad!
Thank you, Monica, for beating me to the correction. I’m no expert on the constitution, but I’ve studied it some and I have a basic knowledge of which amendments are which.
Wenonah4th,
You’re welcome. :0)
I couldn’t sit back and let the perfectly sensible comment you made be incorrectly disputed.
I’m no expert either, but I can copy and paste really well. ;0)
Sorry Kelly if this got way off topic. I think it all started with you post though.
If anything I think this is a very misguided attempt to break down the family even further. Children belong with their parents, raised by there parents. And the reasons we have the rampant youth problems today is because of the degradation of the family and values seen in previous generations. I understand there are mothers struggling out there and they need help, but DCF provides day care assistance. If anything they should make a mandatory parenting class in junior high/highschool. I believe a push for all children to be mainstreamed is not only wrong but a disaster. Wealthy parents will not be the ones putting their children in state 0-5 programs. The people who don’t know better will. So abortion’s cool and then gov’t can raise you’re kid and brainwash them that they just monkeys and technology is god, and teach all about the ways of the consumer driven world. Disgusting! But Obama is the “change” for the future. The mindless minion future OBAMA ’08!