I couldn't believe how many kids were kept at home here in backwards Alaska on Tuesday. I guess their parents did not want their children to be exposed to President Obama's speech about this terrible socialist idea (namely the value of education,?!?!)
My son's High School history teacher didn't show it because it supposedly "did not have any relevance" -- what the @&F*%?
I had a school class on a fieldtrip at the Nature Center and the teacher said many stayed home because of the speech -- who knows, might we have piped the speech to them in the woods?
My daughter's 6th grade teacher taped the speech and showed it a day later -- good for him! Parents had the option of sending a note if they wanted to have their child to go to another classroom during the speech. I bet they would not have had to do that last week when our Republican governor spoke last week at a local school about the same topic...
SO, let me get this straight -- people kept their kids home to prevent them hearing Obama telling them to stay in school and work hard. I kringe at the message these parents are giving their kids: are they saying don't stay in school like Obama tells you to -- emulate Sarah (the Quitter) Palin instead...
Actually, come to think of it, there's one of those celebrity READ posters at my kid's elementary school with Palin in a dogsled holding a book, and the message is "READ A BOOK" -- how subversive!!! I better start writing nasty letters. After all, there's not many letters difference between Palin and Stalin! And if kids don't value their education, they may not be able to tell the difference...
Yikes, do they have any room in Canada...?
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Of course, I've been talking a lot about this, but here's one addendum: Maybe the Republicans have a point. After all, remember another time a sitting president made an appearance at a public school? September 11, 2001. "My Pet Goat" lives on in infamy. The conservatives were just trying to keep us all safe!
Maybe, MAYBE, the kept them home to make sure that they DID hear it? Maybe they were afraid that the schools wouldn't broadcast it and their kids would miss it, and they didn't want to chance that happening? (Yeah, I know, I am a little nuts...wishful thinking, I guess) We asked our Superintendent why our school didn't show it, or mention it or tape it - and she said "oh, well, because I really wasn't aware of it until the day before, and well, so I just didn't think it was too important." That is a direct quote, from a School Superintendent. But then, what can I expect... she spells schedule as "scudule" and cannot pronounce ANYTHING correctly to save her life...sigh.
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