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Backlash from President's Education Speech ...
this is utterly ridiculous
Peace and Blessings Family,
President Obama will be presenting an education speech :
My Education, My Future, at noon on Tuesday, September 8th 2009. You can get all the information on the major speech coming up from the President welcoming America's students back to school. He'll urge them to take responsibility for their educations, set goals, and succeed.
Now, before the speech has even been aired, many teachers, school officials, and parents are saying they will not show it to their students. Of course they all have justifiable reasons in their own minds, to take this course of action, but I don't believe I've heard of any such thing ever in my life.
The office of president is being disrespected by parents and school administrators, sending (i believe) an unprecedented message to American students.
I hate to think the primary reason (in spite of the ones they are giving) is because he is a Black Man. When I was a child in school, we were taught to embrace and support all that the President did, to trust that what he did was best even if we couldn't see or understand it at that moment. Even slavery, when skimmed over, was presented as necessary and justified. I never heard of the President (or his message) being shunned by teachers or school officials. Not ever. In fact, if one did disagree with the President, it was considered unpatriotic ... like the Iraq War ... we were all encouraged to support the decision, the lives called and lost, for the sake of the country and unity. Many sending their own children to fight and die, in spite of their personal opposition to the national course of action. No matter how we felt about it politically, it was the message of unity and support as a nation, that was suppose to supersede all other concerns.
Now, we have a President encouraging education, not war, and he's being shunned and attacked by the schools?
What's really going on Family?
Why I Don't Want the Obama Speech Shown in Other Schools
Cameron Schools will not broadcast speech live
Quincy schools won't show Obama education speech
Norwalk schools bar education speech
President Obama's Address to America's Students: Right Idea, Wrong Message
Parents concerned by Obama's pep talk
Area schools to ban president’s speech
Can you all help me understand what is really going on?
Thanks in advance.
Destee