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[NAME],
Dear Friends,
Texas State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar
searched for federal authority that would allow President Obama to
address all school children. As you see below, he has NO AUTHORITY to
intrude into our children's classrooms and simultaneously address every
child in every state.
If parents want their
children to view the president, then they have ample opportunities at
home without taking time away from their studies. This is eerily like
Hitler's youth movement.
I oppose federal
intervention in public schools and support former President Reagan's
campaign promise to abolish the federal Department of Education. Its
creation was a payback by former President Carter to the teachers'
unions and has abused public schools of state and local controls since
its beginning. The Bush-Kennedy "No Child Left Behind" was no exception.
IF
your child's school is allowing this intrusion, then you can either ask
that your child be sent to study hall during the showing AND that NO
study guide be used to ask your child to "serve the president." Or you
can ask that your child be granted an excused absence from school on
Tuesday, September 8th, the day of the nationwide address.
Cathie Adams
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20 U.S.C. § 3403 (Pub.L. 96-88, Title I, § 103, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 670)
United States Code Title 20. Education Chapter 48. Department of Education Subchapter I. General Provisions § 3403. Relationship with States
(a) Rights of local governments and educational institutions
It
is the intention of the Congress in the establishment of the Department
to protect the rights of State and local governments and public and
private educational institutions in
the areas of educational policies and administration of programs and to
strengthen and improve the control of such governments and institutions
over their own educational programs and policies. The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the Federal Government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States.
(b) Curriculum, administration, and personnel; library resources
No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system,
over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or
content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional
materials by any educational institution or school system, except to
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