“A suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help President Obama is troubling some education experts, who say it establishes the president as a “superintendent in chief” and may indoctrinate children to support him politically…”

“But the White House says the speech is merely “designed to encourage kids to stay in school.” Source

“…It was his own fault, he knew. He should have kept his mouth shut like Dennis told him. All his friends had come and shook his hand and pounded him on the back. “That’s telling them , Adams!” they said. But their voices were hushed and they glanced over their shoulders as they congratulated him…”

“..And later, when the “volunteers” of the Green Ribbon squad kicked his ass all over the shower room, they had stood by in nervous silence, their faces turned away, their eyes averted, and their tremulous voices silent.

He sighed, Could he blame them? He’d been afraid too, when the squad walked up and surrounded him, and if he could have taken back those proud words, he would have. Anyone is afraid when they can’t fight back, he’d discovered. So they taught him a lesson, and he had expected it to end there. But then yesterday had come the call to Dr. Morton’s office, and the brief hearing that had ended his career at the university.

“Thomas,” Morton had intoned, “You owe everything to the State.” Thomas snorted…”  Read it here

“..Thomas Adams closed his eyes tightly as he relived those moments that had forever changed his life. Those shouts and angry accusations as the agents found no secret arms cache still seemed to ring in his ears. They had threatened him with arrest, and once he had thought the government agent named Goodwin would actually strike him.”

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