Stupid is as stupid does
The following is an excerpt of an email from a loooooong time friend of mine who is a high school counselor in Texas:
Obama’s speech yesterday – our district gave each school the option to show it, if a school decided to show it they had to give the option for students to watch it or not. My school didn’t show it. Another local district required signed parental approval to watch it. How about the Arlington, TX school district that didn’t show the speech, yet is taking kids on a field trip to the Dallas Cowboys stadium to hear big Bush speak?
At the very time of the speech, I was talking to two 9th graders who don’t want to come to school, are refusing to and later, to one student who should have graduated two years ago and was here to get GED information. In the first two weeks of school, I have had about 6 students who are choosing not to come to school for various reasons. There are many more who come to school and do absolutely nothing. So… The hopeful and encouraging message The President of the United States has for students will do more harm than good? Won’t possibly encourage and motivate these kids? Pisses me off! There was one parent on the news who said it’s his responsibility to raise his kid to be motivated, do well, etc., not the President’s. This is the same parent who would be up here blaming me if his kid doesn’t pass a class, is skipping, unmotivated, doesn’t graduate.
Just one woman’s perspective.
And now, here’s a fantastic video that will be my last comment-in-the-words-of-other-folks. For now, anyway:
Now THAT was funny. I don’t care who you are.
My daughter met a new school friend during orientation. She was one of the few students whose parents signed the form saying she was NOT to watch the Obama speech. So she was removed to the cafeteria with the other “protected” students. What a loss. What a farce. This group of kids exiled from hearing their own president.
This is where all the partisanship has brought us. Where a speech on staying in school is suspect. And I will say this, if I could show my kids to be respectful of Bushie, after all of his lies of mass destruction, the lies that got us into a trillion dollar sinkhole called Iraq, and with his chronies who outed a CIA agent, these right wing nut jobs can damned sure find it in them to be respectful of Obama.