A Speech by the President
Right now, as I’m writing this, President Obama has finished delivering a speech to school children across the US about the importance of staying in school, hard work, and self-discipline (mostly in regards to doing homework every day). Predictably, the right-wing crazy has been in an uproar over his speech. Parents have been keeping their children out of school today over this. Entire school districts have chosen not to show the speech to their impressionable little angels, for fear that they will become indoctrinated Socialists. My child was not given the choice as to whether or not to watch President Obama speak. Our school chose not to show the broadcast at all.
Here are the scary, scary remarks President Obama gave this morning. Quake in fear at teh Indoctrination!!!11!!!
How shameful. That schools would be afraid of showing this to children. I’m guessing/hoping that the speech will be up on YouTube by tonight, so that the three of us can watch it together. I’d really like School Girl to write about what she thinks of his speech, and how she can apply what he talked about to her own school experience.
American kids need to know their president, whether they support his policy agenda or not
I’m with you! What a crazy world this keeps on being!
Were you guys able to watch the speech with the girls? Last night we watched it with School Girl on YouTube. It was great – the real shame was that we know kids who really need it – in her class at school – who will never get the chance to see it thanks to the decisions of somebody else.