Okay, now can someone explain it to me? Are we assuming that these parents' seething partisan hatred for Obama is based simply on race, and therefore all actions stemming from that hatred is also racism, or are there some other meta-signals particular to this school address that I'm not picking up on?
I don't think any politician should be telling our kids lies and half truths in schools and since that's what all politicians do, tell lies, then I'd be against my kids listening to politicians in schools. That goes for any politician, not just Obama.
This isn't just this one school. I don't know if your post is implying that or not, but this is a right wing talking point nationwide
I say let the idiotic parents pull their kids from school. Then we’ll be able to tell which families we can target for the re-education camps!
But Obama isn't lecturing the kids on why we need to change healthcare or about abortion rights...he's talking to them about why education is important (something I would consider him an authority on, unlike W).
Because, like it or not, they're Americans, too. That said, any parent that opts their child out really needs to get some help. The rage and hatred built up in some on the right is really starting to scare me a bit. This is the President of the United States. I remember watching Regan, Bush 1, and Bush 2 speeches. I was curious about what the President had to say. I might not have agreed with it. So you know what I did? I talked about it with my parents.
I'm willing to give most of these people the benefit of the doubt and say that it has more to do with the letter (D) next to his name than the color of his skin. I just can't believe that it's come to this. Parents blindly using their children (who couldn't give two ****s either way) to protest the fact that 'their guy' didn't win the election. People on both sides just seem so dug in to their trenches, guns pointed at the other side and ready for war while being totally unwilling to listen to what the other side has to say. It'll probably never change though.
From the original article: [rquoter]They also have the right to opt out their kids from any program they might object to,” Bradley said, citing sex education as an example. [/rquoter] I presume in CA that parents can still home school their kids and can also give excused absences for all sorts of things, such as the family is going out of town.
It's sad that parents are scared to let their children listen to their president due to fear that they can't brainwash and mold them their own way, but it's their children and they can raise they how they want. I may be able to understand if he was going to talk politics, heathcare, etc... but it's about the value of education. What posible negative could they get out of it?
No, I didn't mean to imply that. Just trying to figure out why it is racist. If Bill Clinton was president today and faced the same animosity that Obama now enjoys, do you think he wouldn't face a similar boycott? Or is the point that Clinton would not face the same animosity in the first place because he, at least, is white?
but where does the anomosity come from. bill faced animosity, but he came in with very real character problems for some people.
i think there is, AT THE VERY LEAST, a part of this all coming from the fact the man is black. i really, really, really hope that i'm wrong.
Always comes back to name calling and racism, doesn't it? If the parents want to take their children out of school that day then let them. They have a legal right to do so. Do you have to agree with them? No. If a family wants to raise their children a certain way and they believe that subjecting their children to something will hinder that, then by all means they should. Calling them insane or stupid for the way they want to raise their families is not right. I don't see why this is such a big deal.
my kids have a daddy and a mommy- they don't need the gov'mint to take on that role. <object width="640" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i2naSzb1psU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i2naSzb1psU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="505"></embed></object>
I'm not saying they don't have a right to do it. I'm lamenting that I believe racism is at least a part of this....and that we've gotten to a point in this country that the political discourse is so difficult that simply disagreeing with someone means you can't even stop to listen to what they might have to say....and can't credit them with anything good whatsoever, including a "pep rally" for kids to work hard in school.
my kids do too. but i have no problem with public schools extolling the virtues of hard work and discipline. i'm happy to have them come along side me in that effort.
