My daughter received the President's Education Award tonight...

[Emit]

Should I be excited?

[travisbailey]

1. what is it?

what is it?

[Rosco T.]

6. An Engraved Draft Notice.. n/m

[Emit]

11. Yikes! n/t

[Emit]

10. Good question

I didn't know that it was going to be the "President's Education Award", and funny thing, the principal didn't announce that it was until all the kids that received it were up standing in a line.

It is for kids who achieve a 3.87 or above GPA (my daughter is 4.0--but I'm not bragging :D ) and for kids who also scored at or above 85% on their ITB tests. You should have seen her face when he announced that it was the President's award!

[Joyce78]

24. Where do you live?

Oops, sorry, I'm not looking for your residence ... that's the job of the USPS and the Real ID. Just interested in which state you are currently residing.

[Emit]

29. Reno, Nevada

Where the good ol' boys are. :crazy: At least we have Reid. I'm blue in a red state that should've gone blue.

[newyawker99]

49. Hi travisbailey!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Pobeka]

2. Only if it got funding! n/t

[Joyce78]

25. Yes. Leave No Child Behind. Where is the funding. eom

[seabeyond]

3. i would be, dont know what it is, who cares

pat her on the back, a huge hug and kiss coming her way

[lonestarnot]

4. Eww is she going to publically burn it?

[whatgives]

5. No

Tell her to reject it until we have a good President.

[seabeyond]

7. hey she is a kid that was honored

,y kid got one in physical fitness, i would never dismiss his accomplishment

[Emit]

19. Agreed

I received a President's physical fitness award when I was her exact age--8th grade--Sad thing is, there wasn't this feeling about things--Carter was in office. She's much more politically aware than I was anyway.

How to teach her respect for such an award with Bush & Co. in office has been very challenging, in all honesty. Lately, she won't even say the Pledge of Allegiance, and says she won't until Bush & Co. are gone.

[seabeyond]

20. wow to her not saying the pledge

i have a couple aware kids too, 7 and 10. they are going to be the ones cleaning up this mess

[Emit]

32. My son, who's three can chant:

"Bush died, Soldiers died, and you don't care!" really well. He learned it from the protests we did this past summer--we got a lot of Bush and Cheney here in Nevada.

Edit: To add, she says her homeroom teacher just glares at her, and I had expected to get a call from him. I would've backed her up all the way, even though we had discussions to the effect that she can still love her country and hate her President. This is America, after all...and she should take advantage of that while she can!

I agree, these kids are gonna be the ones impacted the most.

[seabeyond]

38. nevada

i lived in reno for a while. i really didnt like what was happening there during the elections. should have been a blue

[Emit]

42. Yeah, down south in Clark County...

We suspect foul play. And maybe even up here--funny things in the rural areas happened. My Precinct (for which I was a Leader for the GOTV) went bright blue. :D

[whatgives]

18. Forgive me

I let politics influence my thoughts. By all means, accept and be proud.:loveya:

[seabeyond]

21. lol lol lol of course you did

kiss on the cheeks and a twinklin

[whatgives]

27. Do you have a point to make?

Please let me hear your "thoughts". Or do you just attack?:wtf:

[Emit]

30. Actually, I liked your first response...

because it was my gut reaction when they announced "President's Award." But, your second response was mine as well...

[seabeyond]

31. i wasnt attacking

you just said you allowed politics to get the better of you. you said forgive. i was just accepting, saying tis cool. that was the point. not a big deal. and not an attack

on edit, i figured you felt bad. i dont like people feeling bad with an oops

[whatgives]

34. I agree. Are we cool?

[Emit]

35. I think you're both cool! n/t

[whatgives]

37. Both?

[seabeyond]

39. you and i, lol lol

of course we are. cool that is

[whatgives]

41. OK

Off to bed now. See ya.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. well you should be proud of her regardless

of what the award is.

[whatgives]

36. Gotta admit that is silly

[Joyce78]

9. From President Gore or Kerry?

[Emit]

13. If she had known that it was what it was...

She for certain would have worn her Kerry buttons and various anti-Bush buttons...and I would have let her!

[Joyce78]

17. I would have made her wear them!!

An Irish Catholic mum who detests Bush/Cheney et al.

[NEDem]

12. Of course

She's your kid, you should be very proud of her in her achievements.

[Emit]

14. Yes, and I am very proud--she's worked hard

We had a talk after the ceremony, and I told her that she needed to think about the fact that it was from the office of President, and not dwell on the fact that Bush's signature is on it.

[Joyce78]

15. I'm concerned that the author is Laura Bush!

However, congrats to you and your daughter.

[ewagner]

16. Maybe you'll feel better

to know that my kid got one too.....in 2001....it seems that award has been in existance before Bush came on the scene....so it's sort of a genericPresident....

[Emit]

22. Exactly, and that's how I explained it to her...

She was literally beaming, until the Principal said "President's Award" and the look on her face...well, I just hope we caught it on camera. Kid's have a funny way of showing raw emotion that adults have learned to hide.

[gardenista]

23. Yes, you should be proud of your daughter. Particularly because she has

achieved an accoloade so ironically named.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

26. I heard about that at my daughter's school...

She won an award for Mathematics (yay, I'm so proud of her!), and at the awards ceremony they also gave out the President's Education Award. Even my 9 year old snickered at the irony of W giving out an award for being smart. LOL.

[Emit]

28. Yeah, a friend just sent me this message:

Yes, and no. She got the award, but Bush thinks the 7,000 year old earth is flat and you can get diesel from wheat!

“The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”
~ George W. Bush, 2004-01-23, Washington, D.C.

“You know what the world needs? It needs more world leaders named Al Smith.”
~ George W. Bush, on the difficulty of pronouncing names such as ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, Al Smith dinner, New York, 2000-10-20

“And when we find children trapped in schools which will not teach and will not change, as a society we must demand something better, because there is no second-rate children in America.”
~ George W. Bush
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, Remarks by the President at Chris Chocola for Congress, and Indiana Victory 2002 Finance Dinner, 2002-09-05

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
~ George W. Bush
Source: ABCnews.com, Washington D.C., 2001-02-21

“There is no second-rate children in Arizona. There is no second-rate children in America.”
~ George W. Bush
Speaking about raising education standards Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Delivers Remarks at Salmon for Governor and Renzi for Congress Fund-raiser, Tucson, AZ, 2002-09-27

“As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.”
~ George W. Bush
CNN, 2000-09-30

“To those of you who receive honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say: you too can be president.”
~ George W. Bush

[mykpart]

33. I understand your feelings.

Both my children received this award while Ronald Reagan was in office! Ugh! I was proud and kept the awards, but couldn't bring myself to frame them. They are hidden away in a box in the closet.

[Blue Belle]

40. The President's Education award...

Should only be given to someone who educates this President.

My Nomination: John Conyers. Can I hear a Second? Are there any other nominees??

(By the way Emit... congrats to your daughter. She's probably already smarter than the President. :applause: )

[Clark2008]

43. Yes, you should.

My liberal Mom didn't freak when I won awards signed by Reagan.

It's your daughter's award, not Shrub-a-Dub's.

You should be proud! I'm proud for you! (I have a son that won all kinds of awards in kindergarten this year - we're looking forward to more academic acheivements in first grade!)

[Emit]

45. Congrats to him!

I have a kindergartener, too, and she's "graduating" tomorrow.

You know, your message gave me pause because I was in the bleachers when they announced the type of award, so she couldn't see my response or anything. But her own response was shock, I think, and then rolling of the eyes, a thumbs down, etc. as teenagers do. Anyway, when we found each other in the crowd afterward, it was the first thing she commented about.

Isn't it sad that such an achievement has to be tainted with these thoughts? That I'm of course proud, but that she, being only 14, thinks differently about the award because Bush's signature is on it.

[katamaran]

44. I got it three times...

(insert shameless brag)

I got it all three times I was eligable:

5th grade, signed by Reagan
8th, signed by Bush
12th, signed by Clinton

The Clinton one is the only one that matters to me. It's the only one I still have tucked away in my folder of school awards.

(end shameless brag)

Seriously, it's been around since at least 1988 when I got the first one. It's a nice thing for the kids to bring home and go "Mommy look!" and put on the fridge if the kids are young. If the kids are older and political, then give them the option to burn it.

[Emit]

46. I forgot to mention...

They mispelled her name on the certificate!

[katamaran]

47. My Bush era award was spelled wrong too

My Bush era award was spelled wrong too. My middle name is Maran. Guess how it was spelled. Yep, Moron. Like my fragile 13 year old ego needed any more crushing.

[Emit]

48. No way!

Moron? You've got to be kidding? That's really sad that such an error could be made..but oh, what am I thinking---it's Bush era!

Hey, by the way, my youngest daughter's middle name is Miren, similar to yours, huh?--meaning "of the sea" or "sea white, sea fair." "The very appropriate name of the 6th century mermaid caught by a fisherman in Lough Neagh. He brought her to St. Comghall who baptized her which transformed her into a woman", according to one source.

[kliljedahl]

50. Can she, unlike *, pronounce education?

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