It’s things like this, from the Department of Education’s website, that concern me:

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.

Not “What can you do to help the country” but the President. I can’t stand this cult of personality that has developed around Obama. It’s unbecoming of a republic. And it is especially unbecoming to encourage schoolchildren to participate in it. If that makes me a right-wing nut bag, then I’ll see you at the Planter’s factory.