When are these fartknockers gonna knock off their BS? It’s not funny and stupid anymore, it is starting to become annoying;
The National Tea Party Coalition called on parents to take their children out of participating classrooms in favor of alternative activities. Member Katrina Pierson said on hallpassonthat.com that Obama’s lesson plans were “uncomfortably partisan.”
What freaking color is the kettle Katrina? You idiots created modern partisanship. It’s not like he is asking students who are in school band to put on a free concert at the expense of taxpayers in a public park for a freak show political demonstration, if that was the case, then I would understand your objections.
Tea Area schools will not show the webcast.
“We are not showing the feed, but encourage parents that want their children to see the message to record it and show it to their children at home. We have had numerous phone calls from parents objecting to their children seeing the speech,” Superintendent Jerry Schutz said by e-mail.
Don’t you mean you have had numerous TEABAGGER parents object to the speech. C’mon, we know this is just a handful of kookbags objecting. What is wrong with the president telling kids to study hard and stay in school? Seriously? Heck even GW and his mom did a PSA about eating supper with your parents. Where was the objection to that?
The Sioux Falls central office received its first handful of phone calls Wednesday afternoon from parents who wondered how the schools would handle Obama’s invitation. The district responded with a recorded phone call and e-mail to parents Thursday and a news conference with Superintendent Pam Homan.
A News Conference! Give me a break. I wonder how much that cost taxpayers? Homan, don’t you have better things to do, like proofread pamphlets that are handed out in your school?
Homan said the district’s protocol is to let individual teachers decide “when and how that might fit into the curriculum.”
Duh. Why censor the PSA from all students when only a select few parents don’t want their kids to see it? It should be handled like sex ed, if you don’t want your kid to have comprehensive sex ed, pull them out of class, but don’t ruin an important educational opportunity for other students because you have a white hood and bible shoved up your ass so far you see and hear cross-eyed.
Harrisburg parent Terri Feilzer said she worries about what Obama might say during the address. She said that if her son’s teacher plans to show the address, she will remove him from class for the rest of the day.
Feilzer said Obama’s message is not worth interrupting class time. “I don’t think that he needs to take the time to talk to kids about staying in school. That’s my job as a parent,” she said.
BAHAHAHAHA! “If the president is going to be telling my son to stay in school, golly, I’ll pull him out of school. That’ll show them sushi eating lefties!”
Barbara Christen, a Sioux Falls parent, said it would be good for kids to hear a pro-education message directly from a president who most kids think is “cool.”
She is disturbed by those who fear Obama will use the opportunity to somehow indoctrinate students to his way of thinking on other issues.
“When I was a kid I remember watching Jimmy Carter talk about the importance of education,” Christen said. “To me, it’s displaced racism. … All we’re doing is promoting hate.”
So the teabaggers get their way once again? F’ing Tards.
This is the difference between the left and the right. The crazy left wingers never liked George W. Bush much, but when he went to a school to talk to students and to read to them on 9/11 there were zero protests. Zero.
When Reagan sent a videotaped message to schools to be played – there were zero protests. When Bush Sr. had a message broadcast to schools – there were no protests.
Why? Because even the nutjobs on the far left know you don’t need to respect the President to respect the Presidency. Regardless of political party and your feelings about the man, he is still our President, and thus he should be able to speak to kids about a crazy concept like education without false fear from the right about indoctrination or hidden agendas.
The far right nutjobs don’t respect the President, and by default they translate that into having no respect for the office of the President, and therefore they feel it is in their best interests to censor their children from anything and everything the man says or does.
We are seeing division in our nation on unprecedented levels. Hell even when I was in school we watched Reagan on television – it wasn’t a partisan thing… the man was our friggin’ President! Why can’t the President be Presidential without the teabaggers and talk radio crowd getting all bent out of shape?
I remember in Jr. High we watched all the shuttle launches.
If Obama took a piss, these fucktards would complain that he didn’t shake enough times.
I think it really burns them (no pun intended) that a black man is telling their white bread kids to stay in school. Oh the cartoons that could written on that . . .
The President of the National PTA, Charles Saylors, is on CNN right now promoting Obama’s speech on Tuesday, and basically said what INTELLIGENT Americans already know; if the students disagree with the speech they can go home and discuss their disagreements with their parents, in other words making it into a learning experience involving their parents. Imagine that, promoting an educational experience.
This is unprecedented, sure I watched a Pres or two in classroom settings over the course of my education, but one was when the Challenger blew up and Reagan was on after that, and I honestly don’t recall the other, might’ve been Carter & the hostage crisis.
Either way, this was a whole different animal and even the WH has backed off the original idea. Via Politico:
“The White House moved Thursday to quell the controversy. First it revised an Education Department lesson plan that drew the ire of conservatives because it called for students to write letters about how they can help the president.
Then Obama aides said they would release the text of Obama’s address on Monday, a day before his speech is to be beamed into the classrooms – an apparent attempt to show skeptical parents ahead of time what he plans to say.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26744.html#ixzz0QAC07DUF
You have to remember where Obama comes from and where he cut his political teeth: Chicago.
Have you ever noticed in Chicago you can’t view a public sign, placard, envelope, postcard, billboard or anything else City-related without inevitably seeing “Richard M. Daley, Mayor” in bold type, usually right at the bottom. Daley has mastered the idea of getting your free campaign advertising in front of as many people as possible without having to actually spend his campaign cash.
I’m all for Obama telling kids to stay in school and to study hard, but this crap about “How can you help the President” or “Rate which three words from Obama’s speech are most important” reeks of just more focus-group, talking point campaign crapola that has no place in a school.
It’s not like the NEA hasn’t already carried his water thus far and will continue to.
Sy – the Education Department did explain that their ideas for “lesson plans” were optional (as they always were and just as viewing the speech itself has always been) and I think posting the text of the speech in advance is a great idea, but nothing has changed the context of Obama’s message.
This is intended to be about education – not politics. Assuming it is going to be a political message meant to indoctrinate children into the liberal line of thinking is just silly.
Granted if Obama steps out of line I’ll be quick to call him on it, and I won’t be so willing to give him the benefit of the doubt next time, but thus far he has done nothing to suggest this will be about anything other than education and a “stay in school” type message.
The fact is, Reagan did send messages into schools, but back then it was via videotape rather than the Internet. I remember watching a taped message from him although I can’t tell you a thing about the specifics of his message. I do recall it was around election time however, because a while later we (as students) got to hold a mock election where I specifically recall ‘voting’ for Reagan.
The point is people are quick to make assumptions, but with the audience in mind there is no reason to think this President or any other would turn this into a political speech rather than one about education.
Some people respect the office and give the President the benefit of the doubt – and others protest for no reason other than to protest.
Which of those two groups is doing a better job of dividing our nation?
Like the healthcare debate, Obama really needs to stop running for office in 2012 and grow a sack already. Stop making exceptions and giving the right-wing rice crispy bars a ‘I told you so’ moment. If you say you are going to do something, do it. Let their heads explode, I’m sure it wouldn’t take more then a Brawny towel to clean up the mess.
God forbid students being told to stay in school, don’t quit, study, be good students and they might grow up to be the president. We don’t want them to even think about that. But stay home and that way the state can take away money for each kid not being in school for a day. Schools are already broke. Makes sense to me. Just gives the governor a little more money to fritter away on using the state plane.
This must be more in line with what the teabaggers want taught their little kiddies in schools:
In Texas “The GOP-controlled State Board of Education is working on a new set of statewide textbook standards for, among other subjects, U.S. History Studies Since Reconstruction. And it turns out what the board decides may end up having implications far beyond the Lone Star State. Approved textbooks, the standards say, must teach the Texan student to “identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Moral Majority.” No analogous liberal figures or groups are required,”…
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/could_texas_gingrich_based_curriculum_go_national.php?ref=fpb