During this special address, the president will speak directly to the nation’s children and youth about persisting and succeeding in school. The president will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.
This sounds like a good thing, right? Not to some people, apparently. These people are organizing a "Keep Your Kid Home From School" Day on the day of the address as a protest against the President's message of staying in school and working hard to achieve your goals. They're calling it "the beginning of the Socialist Indoctrination of Americas (sic) children". Sigh. Really? Why must everything be politicized? Can't the President of the United States convey an important and simple message to our nation's children with him having some sinister ulterior motive?
Are people really that afraid of him? My dislike of GWB was all-consuming, but I know that I would have had absolutely no objection to him delivering a similar address to kids.
You can read a copy of an e-mail that has been circulating over at Daily KOS, and some commentary on the subject at CNN.
This crap gives me a stomach ache.
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The idea of a Keep Your Kids at Home day is just disgusting. I sincerely hope that we (as a fist grade class) get to see the address tomorrow... I guess time will tell.
Well, the address is at noon, and I think we have a special at noon (music)... bummer.
Look what I just saw on a Q&A:
Q: Has any other President done something like this?
A: In 1991 President Bush addressed the nation's students on live television from an American history classroom at Deal Junior High, in Washington, D.C.
Hmmm. Bush did it and I don't remember a big hue & cry over it.
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