tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post692063152993652559..comments2024-02-15T11:55:02.998-08:00Comments on Why Homeschool: Proposed option for Obama's education speech tomorrowHenry Catehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03097237237859928969noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-44193072283634292402009-09-08T08:32:47.319-07:002009-09-08T08:32:47.319-07:00@Grizzly, Please explain more about what you perso...@Grizzly, Please explain more about what you personally found objectionable. Reading through the "lesson plan" (hardly...), I couldn't find anything particularly noteworthy (positive or negative) to rail against. <br /><br />I might argue that any opportunity to get kids interested and engaged in the politics of our country is a good thing. We, for one, enjoyed the opportunity to watch the inauguration as a family and will take time today to listen to our President's prepared remarks to schoolchildren. Thankfully, we as homeschoolers can immediately interact with our children and discuss the role of the President, how he governs the nation, and how there are many who don't agree with every decision he makes. <br /><br />Of course, living in the D.C. area gives us added interest in tracking politics and the actions of our elected officials.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584647654366747916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-14529978075075989432009-09-07T22:46:05.364-07:002009-09-07T22:46:05.364-07:00LOL - this is hilarious.
Adam - as the people who...LOL - this is hilarious.<br /><br />Adam - as the people who object continually point out - it's not so much the speech (although we had no idea what the content of the speech would be until the day before it is slated to be beamed into classrooms all across the nation..), it's the 'menu of options' lesson plan that was distributed to the schools only last week that gives one pause.<br /><br />Silly parent that I am - I objected to several items on the 'menu of options' directly to my daughters' school principal. They will not be showing the speech OR doing the lesson plans. We have now heard from the top guy at the Department of Education - not only does he think we are 'silly', but we are bad parents as well!Grizzly Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140654835381345450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-78228634103201035802009-09-07T18:15:52.377-07:002009-09-07T18:15:52.377-07:00That's just silly. How could Obama possibly th...That's just silly. How could Obama possibly think he'll be talking to public school kids tomorrow? Public schools don't have enough money to pipe in C-SPAN for the whole school to watch! :)<br /><br />Seriously, though, the negative hoopla over this speech has been kinda sickening. The <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/" rel="nofollow">full transcript has been posted to the whitehouse.gov</a> web site and... it's pretty tame.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584647654366747916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-53274916713663691552009-09-07T09:19:24.181-07:002009-09-07T09:19:24.181-07:00I'm glad you pointed out that it's satire!...I'm glad you pointed out that it's satire! For a minute there, I thought the teacher's unions were going to be calling for the President's head!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15202716125247172211noreply@blogger.com