Dear Leader to speak to the little ones on September 8

For some reason just outside the sphere of my comprehension, for the first time in the history of the United States, a sitting President will officially address public school students in grades K through 6.

Lesson plans can be found here. Here's an excerpt:

As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?

This makes me decidedly uncomfortable. I'm not sure why the President of the United States has any business directly addressing children under 12 in a formal speech, much less "asking them to do" anything or "challenging" them to think about "new ideas and actions". I keep thinking of those little Khmer Rougue kids torturing Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields". Apparently, there are many folks who agree with me; the Twitter group #PASS (Parent Approved School Skip) has been formed for the purpose of encouraging parents to take a stand against this move by the administration. Some are even organizing rallies on Facebook.

Even if this is not some Bill Ayers-style stealth move to continue the work of the NEA in indoctrinating our children into leftist thought, the very best we can hope for it is that there is no real purpose to it other than to tell kids to stay in school and do their homework. A harmless, even beneficial message, to be sure. But imagine if instead of Obama delivering it, it was George W. Bush.

But this is far too organized by the administration to be blown off as harmless and the MSM's studied gloss over of this move, suggests that the Administration wants to keep under the radar as much as possible the fact that Barack Obama is going to speak directly to our children. The Administration is either operatng under a grand illusion that Obama is truly the "great uniter" he ran as (and not the deeply polarizing figure he actuallly is)or has decided that it's time to speak directly to the next generation of voters. As a parent who has seen children come home from school to talk about the great success of "We are the World", who has seen children so effectively terrorized against smoking that they cry in despair if their parents light up, and who had seen so many been indoctrinated into unquestioning belief in the state-sponsored religion of environmentalism, the effect of presenting a message---any message--in a school setting cannot be underestimated.

It gives me the creeps. Stay away from our children, Barack.