Rochester Community Schools To Only Offer [[Obama) Broadcast To High School

**jhartmich** · September-03-09, 03:05 PM

Wow!

This is a little "out there" for a school district to not trust the words of a sitting president to be "fit for kids." This should raise some hell I would imagine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32678372

or

http://www.rochester.k12.mi.us/

**Sstashmoo** · September-03-09, 03:16 PM

Can't say that I blame them. This President is surrounding himself with outspoken racists such as his Green Czar, that stated "White polluters" are "Contaminating black communities" . I'd be a little leery of what he had to say to my kids as well.

**jhartmich** · September-03-09, 03:24 PM

LOL... here we go. This should get good!

Retroit · September-03-09, 03:34 PM

Why are parents not being allowed to preview the speech? Has anyone previewed it? I thought all curricula had to be approved beforehand?

**Mama Jackson** · September-03-09, 03:40 PM

I think people are seriously overreacting to this speech the President want to make the first day of school. I remember when we were in school, they lined us up to watch anti drug promotions and sex education, nobody hardly was up in arms!

How in the world, could parents think the President of our UNITED STATES [[WHO WAS A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION) could make a statement to our children about education that would hurt them in some way? I mean, come on. I cannot believe peole are acting this way!

The President is more educated than ALL OF THEM! This has taken a new low and I am disgusted with our country's citizens.

**jhartmich** · September-03-09, 03:43 PM

Retroit: Dear, this is a speech, not "curricula" as you called it.

Do you think every mayor, police officer, fire fighter, celebrity, etc. that visit the schools releases a preview of what they are going to say to the students? Like Obama or not, it just seems WAY over the top and seems a way or drawing children into the grown-up world of "us" versus "them."

**gazhekwe** · September-03-09, 03:47 PM

I'm with Mama Jackson. The President of the US is sending a message for the first day of school. On what planet do citizens not listen to their leader? I said "listen", which does not necessarily mean "agree with." Give me a break. We have a serious problem, where the majority who elected the president is not being heard but the loud tantrums of the minority are heard. I guess the news has descended to sensational reporting only. Sad day for our democracy.

**RickBeall** · September-03-09, 03:49 PM

Even if you don't agree with him [[and I don't: expanding government endlessly, running up huge debt, strangling business), you would think it would be a great teaching experience.

Retroit · September-03-09, 03:51 PM

So, if one day a Republican President decided he wanted to have a daily message for schoolchildren, you [[plural) would have no problem with it?

**jcole** · September-03-09, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by Retroit

So, if one day a Republican President decided he wanted to have a daily message for schoolchildren, you [[plural) would have no problem with it?

Who the hell said it was daily? It's a back to school speech. Bush was reading a story to first graders when 9/11 happened and no one previewed that.

**Kevgoblue** · September-03-09, 04:42 PM

Once again, the 900 lb gorrilla is standing in the middle of the room, yet no one wants to aknowledge it.

**RickBeall** · September-03-09, 04:46 PM

The president has the "bully pulpit". It comes with the job.

But it would be rather laughable if a president gave a daily speech to grade schoolers because they were the only ones who would listen. Is that what Bush was reduced to already by 9/11?

But this is a one time speech. What greater civics lesson than hearing your president speak to you? Start turning those young minds onto the fact that there are multiple opinions on current topics.

And darn, I don't even see the 900 lb gorilla. Where is it again?

Retroit · September-03-09, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by jcole

Who the hell said it was daily? It's a back to school speech. Bush was reading a story to first graders when 9/11 happened and no one previewed that.

I didn't say it was daily. I was asking a question [[notice the "if" and the question mark). If it is acceptable for the President to speak on the first day of school, why not every day? What is the acceptable level of political indoctrination in schools? What will the President be talking about? Is he just going to read a story to children?

Retroit · September-03-09, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Kevgoblue

Once again, the 900 lb gorrilla is standing in the middle of the room, yet no one wants to aknowledge it.

You're not implying that just because Obama is 50% African that he gets a free pass, are you?

**Mama Jackson** · September-03-09, 05:13 PM

Let us NOT bring up the racist crap again. Please.

the issue is how people think this is a poor thing to do in the schools, and it isn't. Both Reagan and Bush spoke directly to the students, and there wasn't any announcement or denouncement of it even occuring.

This is a partisan thing, democrats vs. republicans. Again, and again and again. I personally am sick of it. He was elected by the majority of the nation's voters, and the republicans don't like it. They will try and spoil his agenda in any way they can. The republicans know they don't have the majority in Congress, so they took their fight to the streets. Us democrats know street fighting, we should get busy.

**Kevgoblue** · September-03-09, 05:16 PM

The POTUS gives a speech about education, directed toward students and he needs to be censured? A past professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago [[whose law school is currently ranked 6th in the U.S.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_News_%26_World_Report) needs to be censured?

Totally unjustifiable. If you fail to aknowledge this, then little else needs be said about your ideology.

**Mama Jackson** · September-03-09, 05:18 PM

I will state again. This isn't about race, it's about politics.

How you read that into it shows something about YOUR ideology.

**Bobl** · September-03-09, 05:36 PM

I agree with mamajackson when she states that this is political:

"...Again, and again and again. I personally am sick of it. He was elected by the majority of the nation's voters, and the republicans don't like it. They will try and spoil his agenda in any way they can..."

However, I believe that latent racial fear is being manipulated by the republicans, with predictable results. It has worked in the past.

**gazhekwe** · September-03-09, 05:52 PM

I think people who object to the school bowing to the lunatic fringe should call and say they will keep their kids home on the first Friday count if the speech is not aired as intended.

Retroit · September-03-09, 05:54 PM

So if George W. Bush gave a speech [[one single speech) to schoolchildren telling them to support the war in Iraq, no one would have a problem with that?

The big problem for me is that no one knows what Obama is saying in this speech. The parents have a right to know.

**trstar** · September-03-09, 06:06 PM

Sheesh. I swear some of these "protests" are totally nutball.

**jtf1972** · September-03-09, 06:14 PM

Ok, so we know the facts that Barrack Hussein Obama is going to tell our children next week that they have to kill their grandma and convert to Islam and worship his real father Osama Bin Ladin [[this is the reaso he won't show his birth cirtificate!)

How can anybody be for this? He's not even an American and hates this country. He wants to murder our grandparents and fetuses! He'll eliminate health care for everybody except illegal aliens [[like him) and ban our guns!

God, I'm sick of this crap. Get over it, please...

**Jason** · September-03-09, 06:39 PM

He's going to tell them to do good in school, stay away from drugs, go to college, etc. just like the president always does. He might also tell them that now is a special time in history, being educated is patriotic, and that they are the future of the country, etc.

I think at the most he might bring up that being represented in government is important, and that they should talk to their parents about issue X. Ok, so your kid comes home, they ask you about it, you tell them what you think and you ask what they think and you sit down and write an e-mail to your representative together.

Or maybe he can invite Bill Cosby to join him, and then loony parents from all demographics can be outraged.

And kids don't really have much of an understanding of politics anyway. To them, he's "the president" just like there are the astronauts, fire fighters, mayors, etc. If you showed them the town hall meetings about health care, they wouldn't get why everyone is acting that way.

Stosh · September-03-09, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by 4real

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Parents, tell your kids to avoid the Propagandist maggots forced injection
unto their lives and skip school or the class..

Why in HELL would a president FORCE HIMSELF into children's classroom on the first day[[s) of school ???

What will he tell them? Tell you grandmother to die already, we need to lower the projected costs of my socialist health scam.

He is a power hungry marxist ideologue who cannot seem to get himself out of our face.

Hey Obama - Get the fuck out of our faces already you dickhead.

And I'd also wish that you would take your own advice. See above:

**Detroitej72** · September-03-09, 06:59 PM

In my high school, back in the 80's, we had to watch several of President Reagan's speeches for government class. I guess when a Republican is in power, its OK, but when it's a Democrat, it must be a conspiracy to indoctrinate the youth.