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I received a response via email to my previous post Archdiocese of Miami Punts the Ball on Obama and Politics. I see great hope in Hope’ response. While I disagree that she was misunderstood, I fully appreciate her response and it seems clear to me she can appreciate where I am coming from.

Unedited response form Hope Sadowski:

Talk about things being misunderstood!!!! You have totally misinterpret my comment about both President Bush father and President Bush son addressing the students. This I hear on WIOD this morning when people were calling with their comments on the Tuesday address. It was not at all my intention to downgrade their importance on the contrary I was trying to point out the double standards from the media in covering the presidency.

I am a Cuban-American that have experience the pain and sorrow of the Cuban people. My first reaction to this news was my goodness I am back at school in Cuba. See I left in 1960 when I was in 9th grade after having lived through all the confiscation of businesses, Catholic schools closings, of families divided, of people dying in “el paredon”, all the atrocities that people that haven’t lived through it won’t understand.

Mr.. Rodriguez I totally understand your concerns regarding this issue. Don’t forget that what makes this United States the greatest country in the world is that we respect the right of others to disagree with us.

May you have a nice day and God bless.

As a decedent of Cuban-American’s I am all to familiar with the “transformation” and “change” that the revolution ushered. Precisely because of this, I refuse to sit back and let our private school system move forward with this political operation. We MUST speak up now.

I am disappointed in the Archdiocese of Miami’s response for just punting the responsibility to individual schools.

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My wife and I made the decision with great sacrifice that we would have both of our daughters attend the local Catholic school system. We believe it provides the best environment for our children to be raised in an atmosphere that is complimentary to the principles we try to instill in our children.

Over the past twenty-four hours I have attempted to get some form of official communication from the school regarding Obama’s indoctrination speech next week, with little success.

Today, I contacted the Archdiocese of Miami Department of Schools to find out what the Archdiocese’s position was and what recommendation (if any) they were making to the local schools. After a brief search online I reached Hope Sadowski who is an Administrative Assistant presumably to Br. Richard DeMaria the Superintendent/Director of Christian Formation for the Archdiocese of Miami. I inquired what the official instruction to the local schools would be from the Archdiocese. She informed me that they had just received communication from the USCCB. It seemed to me that the email was a repetition of the press release issued by Secretary Duncan at the Department of Education. It contained the files provided by the Department of Education and communicated online via the department’s website. Here is the kicker…she went on to say it was her understanding that “the Bushes did the same thing and no one cared, but now that its Obama everyone is calling.” This is complete nonsense, the press release from Obama’s own administration indicates this is an unprecedented move by any US president. That is of course unless you live in Venezuela, Cuba or the Middle East, we all know Chavez and Castro are big on indoctrinating children at an early age.

Outraged? Let Hope Sadowski and the entire Archdiocese of Miami Department of Schools know your opinion.

Br. Richard DeMaria, CFC
Superintendent/Director of Christian Formation
305-762-1070
rdemaria@theadom.org

Hope Sadowski
Administrative Assistant
305-762-1070
hsadowski@theadom.org

A complete listing of all contact information for Archdiocese of Miami Department of Schools can be found here.

To learn more about the indoctrination of our schools please see my original post available here. Please share this with your friends.

Agree? Disagree? Let me know your thoughts by commenting below.

UPDATE: Hope Sadowski responds, here.

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This coming Tuesday September 8, 2009 President Barack Obama in an unprecedented move will address school children from pre-K through 12^th grade.

To say I am appalled would be an understatement.

I do not want President Obama, or any public politician of either party to be using our children for political gains. While little is known about what the actual speech will contain Education Secretary Arne Duncan has posted a public announcement on the U.S. Department of Education website. The address is being promoted as an “address directly to students on the importance of education” with the intent of “challenging students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning”. This is a worthy effort and taken at face value provides little room for objection. Along with the announcement, Secretary Duncan released several classroom activity guides. In them teachers are encouraged to open discussion prior to and following the speech.

Among the recommended topics and activities my pre-K3 child would be expect to discuss are:

• What do you think the President wants us to do?
• Does the speech make you want to do anything?
• Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
• What would you like to tell the President?
• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.  These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
• Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
• Interview and share about their goals with one another to create a supportive community.
• Participate in School wide incentive programs or contests for students who achieve their goals.
• Write about their goals in a variety of genres, i.e. poems, songs, personal essays.
• Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
• Graph student progress toward goals.

Are you seriously telling me that my child will be open to peer discussion and judging if she/he is not willing to be a team player?

Regardless of how you approach this subject it MUST be looked at through the political prism, if for nothing else as a direct result of the cynicism the American people have towards politicians on booth sides of the isle. Political indoctrination at an early age is a hallmark of the revolutionaries of our past AND present. From Hugo Chavez to Fidel Castro communist leaning politicians have always reached out to the youth. With the sole intention of beginning the process of indoctrinating them into a given ideology. This is not something limited to communist rulers, we see example of this throughout the world. The most glaring example is in the Middle East where children at an early age are indoctrinated into hating the “evil” Jews and that martyrdom is the ultimate panicle in life. If you have any doubt about this just read the book or watch the move “The Kite Runner”. While the president has done a heroic effort to distance himself from radicals like Bill Ayers he sure seems to continue to embrace Ayers’ ideology and as is evident in this Ayers’ speech before the World Economic Forum in 2006. During his speech he described education as “the motor-force of  revolution”. You can read more about this here, here and here. And just as can be expected, in today’s political landscape the make-any-excuse for Obama bloggers have torn apart anyone who dare question why the President would make such an unprecedented move. The Huffington Post recently ripped apart Jim Greer for objecting to the President’s use of “taxpayer dollars…to spread…socialist ideology” that appeared in the Orlando Weekly titled “Chairman Greer has now boarded Glen Beck’s train to Crazyville”.

This unprecedented move is a slippery slope. President Obama is embarking on a dangerous raid of our school system for political gains as he embarks on a drastic indoctrination of our children. President Obama came into office with the promises of hope and change but has delivered nothing but darkness. What would have been the response form The Huffington Post or the Orlando Weekly if former president Bush had planned a national address to every school and the Department of Education issued some suggested “thought provoking” questions?

For example….

What is your option about the prosecution of CIA operatives who extracted information using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques from “high value detainees” (aka Terrorists) that saved your life, while at the same time we are releasing these same “high value detainees” out of Guantanamo?

I can’t help but ask myself am I still living in The United States of America? Learn more about Obama’s Marxist inner circle here, here, and here.

You can take action today! Contact your local school, superintendent and school board. Let them know you object to politicians using our children as political pawns for selfish gains.

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