My problem was that in the schools that had parents decide via permission slips, for example, it seemed highly likely to me that said slips would either not make it home in the first place, or end up in the trash if they did make it home.

Don't most schools communicate via email these days?

Don't most schools communicate via email these days?

 

Maybe. I suspect that there are a many students in Mason and the surrounding counties without it, though.

No permission slips were required for my sons to hear this message. (and I am glad). My youngest (14 and a freshman in High School) said he thought it was good. He also asked what all the hoopla was about...he said he heard kids saying that their parents thought the President would "brainwash" them somehow. Then he said the most suprising thing... "If the President can brainwash them after 20 minutes then they must not have much upstairs to start with!"

 

 

:lol: Great line! I have to agree with your son. :thumb:

Don't most schools communicate via email these days?

 

I'd say it depends on the district. A good portion of the parents in my school district do not have internet access at home. Instead, we use a telephone alert system to get out the most important information. It's a good system to use to supplement the paper communication that goes home.

If it were the former George Bushes or someone named Brantley Whitaker III, this wouldnt be an issue. I have voted Democratic in the Presidential election once in 26 years and all of this nonsense makes me ill. People wonder why our country is in the state it is in today with the internal division. This issue is Exhibit A

But that's the problem. I couldn't show it in my school. Even though it was BECAUSE of partisan parents, it will still affect my kids whose parents couldn't care less. At least fifteen kids come to mind immediately as ones that the president might have been able to reach. Kids without fathers, from broken homes, poor, yet with great potential. Am I teaching the next president? The next astronaut? The next scientist that discovers the cure for AIDS or cancer? All I know is that kids need to hear possibilities. They need to hear what they CAN become. They need to know that many people have struggles and work to bypass them. Success can be achieved through hard work and dedication.

 

I'm so disappointed that I couldn't show this to my students who need it.

 

You make some great points.........too many people with their own agendas just don't really care though, which is sad if you ask me.:confused:

If it were the former George Bushes or someone named Brantley Whitaker III, this wouldnt be an issue. I have voted Democratic in the Presidential election once in 26 years and all of this nonsense makes me ill. People wonder why our country is in the state it is in today with the internal division. This issue is Exhibit A

 

Back when daddy Bush spoke to school children, the Democrats through such a fit about it they demanded an investigation by the General Accounting Office as they thought Bush was wasting taxpayer dollars for speaking to the children. The investigation happened and the GAO said he did not.

But that's the problem. I couldn't show it in my school. Even though it was BECAUSE of partisan parents, it will still affect my kids whose parents couldn't care less. At least fifteen kids come to mind immediately as ones that the president might have been able to reach. Kids without fathers, from broken homes, poor, yet with great potential. Am I teaching the next president? The next astronaut? The next scientist that discovers the cure for AIDS or cancer? All I know is that kids need to hear possibilities. They need to hear what they CAN become. They need to know that many people have struggles and work to bypass them. Success can be achieved through hard work and dedication.

 

I'm so disappointed that I couldn't show this to my students who need it.

 

Here's a question, if parents could raise enough of a stink that their kids weren't allowed to watch it, what would have happened if a parent or some parents wanted to be sure their kids were able to watch it? Would the school have had to provide a room for the kids to go to where the speech would have been shown?

Back when daddy Bush spoke to school children, the Democrats through such a fit about it they demanded an investigation by the General Accounting Office as they thought Bush was wasting taxpayer dollars for speaking to the children. The investigation happened and the GAO said he did not.

 

This may be true. However, it was not parents demanding that their kids not watch the president. This is ordinary America not willing to let their kids see a speech on the importance of education.

Here's a question, if parents could raise enough of a stink that their kids weren't allowed to watch it, what would have happened if a parent or some parents wanted to be sure their kids were able to watch it? Would the school have had to provide a room for the kids to go to where the speech would have been shown?

 

I don't know. In my district, I am told that one teacher (me) complained and that one parent complained. That parent was told that she could take her children home to watch the speech.

Here's a question, if parents could raise enough of a stink that their kids weren't allowed to watch it, what would have happened if a parent or some parents wanted to be sure their kids were able to watch it? Would the school have had to provide a room for the kids to go to where the speech would have been shown?

Youtube.

This may be true. However, it was not parents demanding that their kids not watch the president. This is ordinary America not willing to let their kids see a speech on the importance of education.

 

The times, they are a-changin'.

The times, they are a-changin'.

 

That's what the campaign slogan was, vote for change and it's starting to show up.:thumb:

No permission slips were required for my sons to hear this message. (and I am glad). My youngest (14 and a freshman in High School) said he thought it was good. He also asked what all the hoopla was about...he said he heard kids saying that their parents thought the President would "brainwash" them somehow. Then he said the most suprising thing... "If the President can brainwash them after 20 minutes then they must not have much upstairs to start with!"

 

 

Then again, one may look at this and say if the kids had much upstairs to start with, they wouldn't have needed the President to tell them about the value of staying in school. They'd have been smart enough to know that on their own.

Then again, one may look at this and say if the kids had much upstairs to start with, they wouldn't have needed the President to tell them about the value of staying in school. They'd have been smart enough to know that on their own.

 

I'll disagree. There are many "smart" kids that have no influences in their life that have even graduated high school (much less gotten a college degree) besides their teachers. The superstars that they look up to may make their money in sports or entertainment. These kids need to hear stories - from multiple sources - about how one's circumstances do not determine where one ends up in life. They need to know that being poor is not an excuse for doing poor work or behaving poorly. They need many positive, educated examples in their life.