"about 10 phone calls and e-mails" -- No Obama speech tomorrow

[underpants]

Colonial Heights is also known as "Colonial Whites" around here because IT IS NOT PETERSBURG (other side of the river);-)

Colonial Heights schools won’t show Obama speech tomorrow
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/education/article/CHTS07_20090906-214604/291160/

Colonial Heights is joining the list of school systems in central Virginia that are electing not to air tomorrow's daytime presidential address to students.

Superintendent Joseph O. Cox Jr. wrote in a brief letter posted Saturday on the school system's Web site that Colonial Heights won't show Obama's address during the school day tomorrow, the first day of school for many metropolitan Richmond localities.

Cox said the school system received about 10 phone calls and e-mails regarding Obama's speech and that his decision to not show the speech was made in conjunction with the School Board.

"There certainly has been some concern out there in some quarters about what the speech may or may not say," Cox said. "Like I said, for us, I think it came down to looking at that first day and all the things that go into that first day," he said.

Hanover, Chesterfield and Powhatan counties' school systems also will not show the speech at 1 p.m. Hanover will record the speech and provide it along with supplemental instructional materials for teachers to use later.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Antebellum?

[underpants]

Massive resistance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_resistance

[janx]

2. TEN?

This is ridiculous. TEN?

[underpants]

4. That doesn't even cover what the opinions of the TEN were

being Colonial Whites it wouldn't surprise me if it was against indoctrination

[janx]

9. That isn't education; that's reactionary BS!

This is a standard motivational speech to school children from the current U.S. president--it's not new.

Where are people coming up with this stuff--from the media?

[jberryhill]

3. In Which State Are These Fascinating Places? /nt

[underpants]

5. The Ooooooold Dominion

How many Virginians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Three

one to screw it in and two "to rememb'uh how good the oooold one was"

Richmond is littered with trophies for coming in second place (Civil War)

[AspenRose]

8. ROFL!

"littered with trophies for coming in second place"

:rofl: That is a keeper

There seems to be more pride about losing the War of Northern Aggression than about being one of the original 13 colonies....

[AspenRose]

6. They just needed an excuse

I doubt they really wanted to show it in the first place and the 10 parents who called gave them the excuse to pull the plug.

[underpants]

7. Right

Spot on

[CatWoman]

10. Nothern Virginia is very strange.

[Skittles]

14. BEHOLD!

bring back any memories, Midori? :D

[Cleita]

11. Here on the Central Coast of California, schools are offering

parents alternative curriculum if they don't want their children to be subjected to President Obama's address to them. I wonder if that alternative curriculum involves sheets and pointy little hoods?

[NYC_SKP]

12. You should send Cox and the board the text of the speech, and write LTTEs, here's the text of speech

Ask them if they can point to the part that concerns them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8634352&mesg_id=8634352

:patriot:

[KT2000]

13. 10 calls in one day??

OMG - I would be terrified too.
The pressure must have been unbearable.

[JTFrog]

15. Well they just got an email from me. 10 emails? They better hold onto their damn seats now.

Flood them with emails.

I told them flat out that racists have no place in a system responsible for educating our young citizens. And those young citizens will grow up to remember exactly what happened on this day and why.