Obama: I Didn't Mean MY Kids!

From the "some are more equal than others" department, we've been told that it's bad form to criticize The One for sending his children to a private school while denying those less fortunate the opportunity to do so themselves:

(CNSNews.com) - President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle “have every right” to send their children to public or private school, and no one should “criticize” their decision, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), said in an interview with CNSNews.com on Monday at the National Press Club.

Democratic Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack echoed Weingarten’s comments at the conference, telling CNSNews.com that “it’s a very personal decision” that the president-elect and his wife need to make and the issue “should not be subject to criticism or comment.” ...

...Weingarden said “none of us” can relate to being in the position of president of the United States. “Look, none of us knows what it’s like to be a president of the United States of America or a president-elect,” she said. “I think Senator Obama and his wife have every right to make a decision that works for their family and their kids, and none of us should criticize it.”

Vilsak and Weingarden can relate to and make personal decisions for the millions of ordinary parents they wont allow to escape from the corrupt and incompetent government school system. The education fascists would also prohibit parents from teaching their own children if they could as we saw in the recent attempt to ban homeschooling in California:

The California Teachers Association, the state teachers’ union, has been critical of parents’ rights in the case. “Parents do not have an unfettered right to dictate the terms of their children’s education,” stated a lawyer for the union. “Unregulated,unsupervised homeschooling, the lawyer said, is an invitation to ‘educational anarchy.’”

That's because the Obamas are part of the anointed ruling elite and their kids need and deserve the best education possible. The children of the unwashed masses on the other hand, merely need to be indoctrinated as loyal servants of The Church of Secular Government with just enough education to make them useful drones. Well educated, critically thinking people are just trouble making bourgeoisie.

So everyone should just know their place and stay there. Disruptive questioning of the ruling class will not be tolerated.

Obama: Teachers More Important Than Parents

Barack Obama addressed his indoctrination corps at a union meeting of the American Federation of (government) Teachers:

" ...the single most important factor in determining a child’s achievement
is not the color of their skin or where they come from; it’s not who their
parents are or how much money they have. It’s who their teacher is."

Peppered throughout Obama's speeches are dozens of tidbits like this that show his clear belief that individuals exist to further the goals of the state. Obama's definition of a child's acheivement is meant only in so far as they are trained to serve those goals. Parents are merely a necessary evil.