Obama's message to students needs to be heard
What is the big deal about President Obama’s message to students to study hard, stay in school, graduate, get a good job?
What are people afraid of? That their children may hear another opinion than from their parents? That they may agree with the idea of staying in school? Tell me what parent doesn’t want their children to study hard, stay in school, graduate and get a good job?
This whole controversy makes absolutely no sense to me.
If nothing else, President Obama’s speech may spur a conversation or two between parent and child, or teacher and student. Heaven forbid!
Pres. Obama fed into this himself by 1)allowing the DOE to release a lesson plan that included instructions to students to write letters on how they could “support the President” then 2) not releasing the text of his speech for nearly a week after questions/concerns were raised about that (begging the question – what does he have to hide).
I think it was legitimate to ask what students were going to be “supporting” in those letters. Without a copy of the speech nobody had any idea. If it were my kids, I’d be uncomfortable if that was the plan for just about any class let alone a speech by a prominent Politician.
They later changed the lesson plan to remove the “support the President” and changed it to “support your education goals” (or something like that). All intentions aside, that shouldn’t have been there in the first place and helped create the furor.
The event should have had more planning. He should have just made a speech without providing a specific lesson plan & should have released it all to the public earlier. Had he done that, those with concerns wouldn’t have had 1/10 the energy they did.
They were afraid. With that many kids one well placed fart joke would have secured Democrat control of the House and Senate for the next 60 years.
I alsothink there are still plenty of people who think a black man need to ask for permission…even when he’s President.