Obama calls on States to keep students in school

[T3ISS]

WOW. This is HUGE ! We (Swedes) don't even have this ! Why would you want to have that ?? To keep kids from getting a status of being "unemployed" ???

Seriously. Ron Paul 2012.

[Sjusovare2]

Hahaha.... This is so nice to see.... There is one issue where US is more socialistic then Sweden.

We have only mandatory school untill 15/16.

And I have understood that U are not allowed to changes school for your child?

We had that system 20 years ago, but took it away because it was to socialistic.

And you worry about social-medicin ? ;-)

[dolittleskippy]

So what do the states do? Arrest the teachers? The kids? Or is Go bomb ya going to arrest the states if kids drop out?

[dolittleskippy]

I only comment on spelling to show how great our schools are. No offense to anyone here.

[dolittleskippy]

All I have to say is "Charlotte Iserbyt"

[naomik777]

I really believe that schools need to allow their teachers to be able to work more creatively so they are able to teach to ALL students. I agree that teaching just to get students to pass tests is wrong. I completely disagree however that keeping a student in school until they graduate or turn 18 is going to help anything. It's not going to keep teen pregnancy down, its not going to make them go to college, its not going to make them get better test scores...

[Infoman665]

 IMPEACH is the answer

[Krucifide]

Everyone, when more students stay in school, more students finish school. He has it all figured out.......

A school with 300 people and 2 dropouts graduates 298 people and a school with 300 people and 20 dropouts only graduates 280. Holy crap, the solution is just force them to graduate. This math is difficult for me without my own cabinet but I think I figured it out.....

[mimbriglio]

Ron Paul 2012

[slodok9]

Progresive madness.When progress is forced ...and enforced ...become total lunacy and failure.Good intentions with forced delivery...let progresive fail like on good housing intentions just throw whole union backward in decades.

[dolittleskippy]

@slodok9 So much for our schools. It's progressive.

[a35intheShade]

at 2:03, illuminati all-seeing eye of horus placed over the world (new world order).. this is deep so do research in symbolism before you bash this comment.

[a35intheShade]

look at boehner's face! he hates the idea. decent into tyrrany continues. Ron Paul 2012

[dolittleskippy]

@a35intheShade So much for our schools. It's Tyranny.

[Crashbanksbuysilver]

FU "O" piece of crap, sad thing is it will be another sellout for Pres in 2012, people are too dumb. 

[BriansJoy]

Stop teaching to the test--AGREED! All students stay in high school till they turn 18! No THANKS! Mr. President, have you ever tried teaching a class with kids whose 1 reason to be in class is to stay out of jail? I have and they don't learn much with their heads on the desk. Trying to get them to stay awake while trying to get others to learn is not something you can do & say kids need to be FORCED to stay in school. If they don't want to learn, they ruin the environment for those who do.

[kirkfisher2005]

the federal departments are very poorly equipped to handle such a broad situation when concerns over budgeting begets waste and fraud while important features of school systems are destroyed and with it many times communities and families.

GOV'T INTERVENTION IS USUALLY THE CORE PROBLEM IN MANY ISSUES

[kirkfisher2005]

the fundamental problem has been that the current system is not performing as good, to find out why is to help in solving the issue in the most intelligent path. when the government decides across the board that all communities must enforce this will lead to control over youth in many areas, but what will it do for the already vicious schools surrounding ghettos and slums?

[kirkfisher2005]

ron paul would let local communities fund they school systems. federal budgets and cuts are usually not better for the school systems nationally. paul would phase out the department and clear paths to allow local control.

[mbryant107]

About died laughing toward the end! Go to about 1:30 and watch Boehner's expression when obama starts talking about students being forced to stay in school. Prior to this coming up, he's kind of just looking around the room. Then, this really gets his attention!

Is obama going to to somehow mandate this? I can see Boehner thinking, "Now, just how does he propose to do this?"

But then, obama does consider himself a god of sorts...

One solution: Ron Paul 2012!!!

[Sistarovat]

Who do you think you are Barry to tell my state what they should do. We still have states' rights in this country even if your Mama's ancestors did win the Civil War. If Alabama wants to let kids drop out at 16 THAT'S OUR COTTON PICKIN' BUSINESS!!! RON PAUL or MOTSB (More of the Same Bull).

[LaxM]

$50,000 says Newt Rick or Mitt would do the exact same thing. Prediction: After passing the "Keep our Children Safe Act", the following was heard in the 2016 Republican presidential debate: "...saying we will allow our kids to drop out of school before they're 18, I think is a mistake..." OR "a FUNDAMENTAL problem when you have kids dropping out of school we should have a voucher system outsourced to coupon companies that says if you stay in school we will pay for your college tuition"

[AJDeBosco]

Paterson again: The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic profession for any suggestion that they should be dislodged from their dictatorial position; it will be expressed mainly in epithets, such as reactionary, at the mildest. Nevertheless, the question to put to any teacher moved to such indignation is: Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you to pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

[AJDeBosco]

More from Isabel Paterson (1943): "The Germans are notably literate; and they had very fine technical schools. Their literacy enabled them to read 'Mein Kampf,' and their technology enabled them to build up a war machine which must destroy them. That is what education under the political power must do, once it obtained full control. It routes human energy into the dead-end political channels.

[AJDeBosco]

Selected excerpts from Isabel Paterson's _The God of the Machine_, published in 1943 and still worth reading today. "A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state." "There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure."

[SirTenenbaum]

Public schooling does not mean access to education. Nearly a third of students in the US don't graduate and many that do can't do basic algebra. Getting the government entirely out of education (not even vouchers) is what we need.

[Eye2EyeIIIV]

Good thing I was homeschooled...

[js290]

No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending...Force and restraint may... be in some degree requisite in order to oblige children...to attend to those parts of education which it is thought necessary for them to acquire during that early period of life; but after twelve or thirteen years of age, provided the master does his duty, force or restraint can scarce ever be necessary to carry on any part of education. --Adam Smith

[Zalahblue]

There is NOTHING in the US Constitution giving Government Authority to interfere in Public Schools! NOTHING! I swear to god that man uses every damn thing to steal $ away from US Tax Payers! He looks sick too, like he has Hepatitis or something, he's yellow.

[Zalahblue]

Doubling Down? How many times did he say that Last Night? This man is so full of shit. OTHER Nations are doing the same Education they have been doing for the past 20 years. I'm so sick of his lies.

[TheLibertyOmega]

This looks just like star wars. palatine who reorganize the republic into an empire.

[jcrife]

OBAMA can't even understand that you can't get out of debt by spending more money, how can he demand kids stay in school. This is known of the federal governments business!!! RON PAUL can end this madness!

[JamJHolmes]

In 08, Obama and McCain's campaigns were funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers and other bailout banks. Go to opensecrets site to see. Newt and Mitt also run on Goldman Sachs and other big business money. Both parties are puppets to the military industrial complex and the banksters. Ron Paul runs on small citizen donations. Ron Paul 2012.

[CauseAndEffectPost]

Or what... they go to prison? FUCK YOU Adolf!

[J3D1JC]

ya take away the parents power to decide how they want there children educated. this isnt america anymore. people are so passive. the sheeple are everywhere.

biggest scam in human history is goin on now. where supposed to be the most educated society to date and where not. majority of people are far too gullible and dont care about this world enough. pathetic existance from more people then not.

ron paul 2012 lets try and show the world were not fuckin retarded?

[MrSephihroth]

Part 2: . A real solution would spring out from just voting Paul in. He's ideas are futuristic and will end most of all the paranoia in the world, hence make people positive, hence making people want to live and get educated.

So I beg you, Vote Ron Paul in !!!

[MrSephihroth]

Part 1: I'm a huge Ron Paul supporter; Everyone should support Ron if they want a better world.

However, Obama's idea is fitting this shit world kind of well I believe. If the status quo continues, this might actually be working out in the end.

But, we shouldnt have to go through all this forcing to achieve the goal of getting the youth educated. Its just a wrong aproach to a REAL solution

[ExposeZionistCrimes2]

Force kids to go to School and get brainwashed by the State? Where has Liberty gone Obama? Oh that's right you are a sell out worthless traitor. My Kids are going to be Home Schooled.

Ron Paul or Revolution.

[johannsteve]

Now the state wants shove education down our children's throats.  We do not need education, what we need is true liberty, then we can decide what education is and what is truly worth learning in life that is relevant to a natural dignified existence. RON PAUL ALL THE WAY!!!

[ThisIsRogueLiberty]

Wow...Fk you Obama...seriously.

[mortisgod]

Great, more government involvement in education. Government is nothing BUT involved in education, and its crap. SO how is more, going to make it better? When he talks, all I here is blah blah blah, just like Bush and Clinton, NO difference.

[RonPaulSwede]

standing up and clapping....that is right out of Sovjet. just sayin.

[ApologiaTV]

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg = all drop outs (of college, not high school...but still!!!)

[sadkins1]

I guess Obama is pro choice except when it comes to education.

[ApologiaTV]

Why doesn't Obama mention great nonprofits like Donors Choose? Many teachers have stopped spending money out of their own pockets using that non-profit organization.

The founder of Donors Choose is analogous to the next Steve Jobs.

[ApologiaTV]

Christian Lawyers for Ron Paul 2012. End this regulatory mindset.

[WhiskeyBlade]

Require? WHat is the punishment then?

[sadkins1]

@WhiskeyBlade predator drone

[mikek241]

Well, what do oyu expect when you have a Federal Education program, I'm surprised this is only being proposed now...

[danz177]

This dude has got to go, I'm a mixed guy just like him so I'm racially color blind, but he's clueless, he has to go, get him out of the White House before he starts a Federal Dog walking program to get unemployment reduced. Please vote for Ron Paul!!! The World needs him.

[sadkins1]

@danz177 He's not clueless - he's done pretty well for himself. I bet he will be wealthy and influential for the rest of his life. Many people sell their souls for much less.

Oh wait you were talking about economics? Then yeah he's clueless.

[sadkins1]

Studies show...uh...that college diplomas can....uh...increase lifetime income by as much as 200%. Therefore....uh...for our future prosperity, I propose that every individual should be forced....by uh gunpoint if necessary....to get a college degree. People with masters degrees do even better. PhDs do the best. Free compulsory phds for everyone!!!! **the crowd goes wild rahhhhhhh**

[sadkins1]

lol@biden sagely nodding in the background.

Get a job, loser.

[claire41095]

first minute and a half was great! the last part is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. how will keeping kids from dropping out solve anything? nothing good can possibly come out of that.

[Pref4n]

sooo bill gates? stayed in school. I THINK NOT!

[invisibleaznDJ]

Even if this idiot was making sense. You can't trust anything this flip flopper says. To bad the teachers unions that this idiot supports, will not allow the system to get rid of the idiot teachers. So now Obama wants to start parenting people kids......Wow

[Paikai111]

School is complete bullshit.

[jmfrels88]

Hey barack , you had your fun .Its over dude , clear your desk , theres a new Doctor in town...

[nikolayzou]

He makes me sick. These people are worse than the worse criminals on earth, at least criminals don't feed you bull shit. You know a main pointing a gun at you is going to rob you, he doesn't pretending to love you. Our children are going to be robed of a free thinking mind and indoctrinated into a corrupt collective. Why doesn't he just say, "We are going to make you stupid, so we can rob you" at least that would be honest.

[RainbowPieTV]

School is crap. I learned more on YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google than I ever learned in school.

[gladiator1010]

@RainbowPieTV I learned more reading one book than almost my entire school career...they waste our youth with useless garbage then complain we are clueless...if we really are clueless, then whose fault is that?

Parents are the ones who are supposed to teach the children...certainly the uber rich don't send their children to be taught by "someone else"

[StorminNormin1977]

Why don't we try freedom & free market education system.

[enriquedacostacambio]

and the seals applaud...

it is ron paul or more of this.

[iwannasmoochu]

ALL the children must be properly socialized. There must be no dissenters.

[babour0]

It works, it's like that in France, but 16th instead of 18th. And let's get real, who has the best educational system between both?

[FlyFSXWithMe]

The federal government requiring states to force students to stay in school? How does that work? That seems intrusive to the states to me. Let the states decide what's best for their students.

[iwannasmoochu]

On December 31, 2011, Barak Obama signed a new law called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This new law allows the President to use the US military to arrest anyone in the world, including American citizens (who were included in this bill at his specific request), without a charge, without the right to an attorney and without a trial, and to be imprisoned indefinitely (forever), anyone that he deems a threat to the nation.

[ryan834455]

Required! Do people realize, that under current law our loved Benjamin Franklin would have been picked up by a government official and forced into school. His Life would not have been possible today.

[gladiator1010]

Diversion Summary

Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.

Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.

Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level.

Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals

Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars...

[iwannasmoochu]

More top-down, big-government, socialist type ideas. Booo

[Vertigo2903]

bullshit

[cdc482]

All rhetoric. No specifics. NObama.

Vote for honesty for a change. Ron Paul 2012.

[Sideshowbobx]

Well welcome to the Soviet/European Union where education is mandatory and totally worthless.It will just cause a further inflation in the cost of education. But hey, why not following those fools on their path to serfdom - slavery was great, it kept the south economically poor and underdeveloped. And due to that a save heaven to the Demorcats for decates... godspeed emperor Obama - we see that you wear no cloth!

[americanwithclass]

ron paul, the only answer

[gsuitter]

Force them to eat their vegetables and brush their teeth three times a day also. They'll be much healthier for it.

[24hourgrind]

Debt Is Wealth.

Slavery is Freedom

Evil Is Good

Welcome to America, Hail dictator Barack Obama.

[killerhz]

"You will learn what we teach you and eat what we want you to eat in your cafeterias, but only after you submit to a body cavity search".

Statists go home! We're tired of your ruinous policies imposed on the greatest experiment in world history. Ron Paul 2012!

[phatbui1984]

Federal Grants will not be fairly distributed through out the school system. Federal pensions and perks are key for people wanting to be in the education department. President Obama have no idea what he is talking about when it comes to educating children. The Grants go into much of the bureaucracy of the system and not much left for the class room. The teachers ends up suffering along with students. Ron Paul solutions are better.

[TeamUs]

Slavery is freedom and peace through war. Heil Obama!

[carloftomorrow]

This is nothing short of insanity. We need REAL change, not more government intervention.

Ron Paul 2012

[tehdouglas1]

Teachers got me more confused about the world, glad I read a real history book after I graduated instead of going along with the America is Awesome now go get job and pay taxes cause everything is alright version.

[jacksprrow]

RESTORE AMERICAN LIBERTY! RON PAUL 2012

[DMINATOR]

What ? And how are you going to do that ? Put barbed wire on and give guards machine guns!? I know in USSR we were forced to go to school (parents could be punished for that), but in USA, Obama really ? I am speechless..

[serNevh]

Ones educational needs should come from ones desire to learn. Teachers can only stimulate that desire, learning it self comes from the student. What do you think happens to a desire if you force it to like something... go go America the land of the free.

[Jcrewjem]

Wow look at all these Ron Paul endorsements! It's Awesome!

Ron Paul 2012

Not the answer but a step in the right direction.



[EDSKICA1]

@Jcrewjem amazing how many people too young and naive that think ron paul is the answer!!! while some of his economic and tax reform ideas have some wisdom, his foreign policy and immigration stance is disasterous. he is a cartoon character, much like mr magoo

[ryanisfootdrums]

@EDSKICA1

Did Mr. Magoo ever get an audit of the Federal Reserve?

[casewon1]

I'm with you guys.....RON PAUL 2012!!!

[kevinwrightm]

this is absurd, what kind of policies are these when all energy & focus needs to be placed on fixing our monetary problems - what kind of future do you think schools have when states & the federal government is running deficits? You want good teachers, get rid of tenure & give aging teachers incentive to keep their jobs. Remove federal carrot dangling requiring students to it markers & let them flunk & stay in a grade until they learn the material they will need for next year.

[junglemassivez]

ObamaDOESNTcare Program! woohoo!

[rogerver]

Slavery is Freedom.  Obama 2012

[JMiskovsky]

It some how remind me old Soviet times great leader speak. And nobody opposes his plans. What about voucher program that would help.

[BookofMartin]

As a teacher I can tell you this is not what the kids who don't want to be in school need. They need the freedom to find another path, they're not a bunch of losers, they're people who learn in ways schools don't accommodate, this is plan made by politicians that don't know anything about how people learn. How about some freedom America? RON PAUL 2012!!

[mdrichar270]

I completely see his point, I mean the federal government will do a great and efficient job at rewarding the good teachers, and getting rid of the bad ones... (that was sarcasm for the idiots who didn't get that)

Ron Paul 2012

[rchicks22]

Obama's 2012 campaign slogan "Force and Change"

[rutilequartzlight]

This is pure controlled and forced system idea like communist state so Obama/NWO elites can manipulate children to make their kind of world. That is exactly what IB program is doing anyway but they want more children to be manipulated. It is sickness and madness. Wake up US! Wake up whoever nodding and crapping hand for this speech! Your future, children and next generation will be destroyed if you listen to him/NWO puppets.

Dr. Paul 2012 !!!! He is only candidate and world need him.

[trangaroo882]

Are they schools or prisons?

[jubeikiba6]

@trangaroo882 they've been prisons for years

[CitizenBeta2]

What a great way to fudge the unemployment figures in his favour...

[quimrider1]

Great idea! Keep the losers that don't want to be there in school so they can interfere with the people who actually want to learn and better themselves. Pure genius!

[MrClipper23]

Wow. Obama either does not have a clue of the limits of federal power or, probably more likely, does not care. It's not the government's job to force kids to complete school.

[martianman68]

Holy cow, the entertainment industry will lose a lot of future folks if that law goes into effect. Do you know how many people drop out before 18 to pursue entertainment careers? Obama hates Hollywood!

[wookeye]

HEIL OBAMA

[DonSolo52]

Obama is about as clueless as a "leader" can be.. Give me someone with vision, that can for-see problems, and has solutions.. may I suggest RON PAUL! wake up America..

[SHNUCAU]

@DonSolo52 I agree. I would rather follow the teleprompter that tells that idiot what to say than to follow him.

[Groose1972]

Restore Liberty. Ron Paul 2012.

[mrmcygan2010]

ralph nader 2012

[volcomSNOW29]

@1:07 Good luck smoothing that over with your Teacher Unions...

[Sasukelegend5]

@volcomSNOW29 I agree on that, but then you gotta consider... Who should teach kids? People who WANT to teach and have a passion while connecting with their students? Or teachers who just teach and go to the paycheck. Honestly, I will happily admit, that my best teachers were people I also viewed as friends. Another went from paycheck and treated the students horribly. She quit the next year. We called her "Kent the cunt" because that's how horrible she treated us.

[Yz7604]

RON PAUL 2012

[Sony881994]

@Yz7604 Fuck Ron Paul!

[dolittleskippy]

@Sony881994 Go watch "Endgame" Then have the stupidity to say that!

[wifibrawler3501]

yeah, abuse more of your federal power why don't you?