Anyone else considering keeping a child home from school tomorrow in protest?

[Ilsa]

The written excuse has to be medical in my school district (and I suppose in all districts), but they'll still get hit with loss of money.

I haven't decided yet.

[mbperrin]

1. Absolutely not. What's to protest?

Here's the actual speech:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

And it contains paragraphs like these:

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

Pretty radical stuff - work to succeed.

It's also possible that you are talking about protesting the school NOT showing it, and if this is so, I apologize for any misunderstanding on my part.

I don't know how things go where you are, but here in the district where I've taught for 3 decades, the best way to get the point across is to call the administration building and give the superintendent an earful. They're not really subtle enough to catch on to something like missing children.

Maybe your administration is smarter. They can't be worse than ours.

[sonias]

4. DailyKos diary kid's permission slip to attend speech

BOR diary 8/7/09
(snip)
"Despite the warnings of right-wing radio hosts, and fully cognizant that my daughter risks learning a lesson in civics, I, nonetheless, grant her permission to watch a televised address by the duly-elected leader of these United States, President Barack Obama, on the controversial subject of the importance of school."

And take a look at some more of the "controversial speech". Why he even mentions someone from Texas. Gaaaspp!!!

That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.

Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.

:kick:

Sonia

[Aragorn]

2. medical?

Pre-Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder? (I want to prevent any sever emotional trauma my kids might experience so I am keeping them home - the opposite of working hard even if you think you can have instant success like on TV.)

[hobbit709]

3. I'd call it a mental health day.