Since Obama is doing nothing but telling them to study and stay in school..why are

[FlyintheOintment]

some Conservatives whining? Bush showed school kids that brains were not necessary to be President. Reagan showed them that even a D actor and old man with Alzheimer's could be President. How could Obama hurt them by telling them to stay in school.? Since all he is saying is study hard and stay in school, I see nothing wrong with that-do you?. I do see the ones protesting as embarrassments to most Americans though. Why don't they just let their kids stay home. Of course this should be marked as a day absent however since there is no "stupidity" rule for those to miss school.

You will need as source for that Gephart qoute as Obama is not speaking politically to these kids. Even if he did. I would not care as my grandchildren are smart enough to think for themselves.

[JM]

It is one more example of how unhinged the right wing has become. It also shows how hateful and unamerican they have become.

They are teaching their kids that it is allright to disrespect the president of the united states. And they wonder why they have lost the culture war. It is because they cannot hide the fact that the "culture" they promote includes a lot of hate.

[JM]

It is one more example of how unhinged the right wing has become. It also shows how hateful and unamerican they have become.

They are teaching their kids that it is allright to disrespect the president of the united states. And they wonder why they have lost the culture war. It is because they cannot hide the fact that the "culture" they promote includes a lot of hate.

[VforVendetta]

Obama has nothing of any value to say to students or teachers, or American workers either for that matter.

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Obama escalates assault on public education
By Tom Eley
25 July 2009
World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/educ-j25.shtml

On Friday, President Barack Obama announced an assault on public education that would go beyond the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program. He outlined an education “reform” that would link teacher pay to the test performance of students and force state governments to shift funding from established public schools to so-called charter schools.

Obama spoke on Friday at the Department of Education, unveiling a $4.3 billion “competition” among the states for federal grants, named “Race to the Top.” Money from the fund would be awarded to only a handful of states that best promote “innovation”— charter schools and merit-based pay among teachers. States that forbid these policies, such as California, New York, and Wisconsin—home of the nation’s highest-ranked education system—would be barred from consideration.

Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the .3 billion as if it were an extraordinary amount of money. But it is tens of billions less than has been doled out to individual banks, such as Goldman Sachs, in Obama’s bailout of the finance industry. It is also less than the personal fortunes of about 90 Americans, according to the Forbes 400 list of 2008. Nor does it meet the desperate needs of cash-starved public education; the Detroit public school system alone has a deficit of 0 million.

This relative pittance would do little even if it were distributed equitably. But that is not Obama’s intention, as he made clear. “Rather than divvying it up and handing it out, we are letting states and districts compete for it,” he said. “That’s how we can incentivize excellence and spur reform and launch a race for the top in America’s public schools.”

Like a master dropping a bone among his starving dogs, the Obama administration is openly provoking a bitter competition among states and school districts for paltry funding.

Continued . . .

[MataHari]

Well Cons will whine over anything Obama does. This is only good news for us Democrats as more and more people see that the Cons are not serious or for that matter sane enough to deal with we will just drop them completely and never deal with them again. Where are the Republicans on this, why haven't they condemned this?

[allysum19]

They fear their children are as easily influenced by left-wing politicians as they are by right-wing politicians.

[tymestops]

It's not just conservatives. Prove otherwise please. And other presidents have spoken to schools, but they didn't include lesson plans and how to HELP THEM PERSONALLY with their agenda.

[CaptainParker]

I can't believe some of these crazies are Parents - raising the next generation!

[TylerF]

In the lesson plan, given to teachers by the WHITE HOUSE, it has the students write letters to themselves asking "how they can help Obama." Thats why.

[Steve]

When you are engulfed in racist hate nothing Obama does is ok, including something as innocent as asking kids to stay in school.
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