My 10th grade daughter on wingnuts keeping their kids home from school during Obama's speech:

[scheming daemons]

"Good! That will be the best school day ever."

[YOY]

1. "Can we talk about evolution without them throwing a shitfit now?"

n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Better yet.

Pop quiz the day after the event.

[bluestateguy]

3. The speech will be all over YouTube and TV

And the more of a fuss the Right makes over this, the more attention the speech will get.

The kids will see it one way or another on TV at home or on YouTube.

[alsame]

4. Exactly. Nothing spikes a kid's interest more than telling them

they can't see something. :)

[4_TN_TITANS]

24. Reminds me of something posted on here awhile back...

The only 2 ways to get something done:
1. do it yourself
2. tell a teenager they can't do it

Same applies with getting something seen.

[redqueen]

5. LOL!

:rofl:

[Uzybone]

6. LOL. Smart kid.

[subcomhd]

7. Daughters Rock.

My little girl's political awareness amounts to knowing the name of the president.

[NYC_SKP]

8. IMO, Parents do not have the "right" to pull their kids because of a POTUS speech w/o consequences.

I'm fairly sure this was not going to be an all-day affair, so there is subject matter that will be covered in students' classes.

Teachers should carry on as usual, and of course this is a great opportunity to design a civics lesson around the POTUS address, and students who are kept at home should have to complete a make-up assignment.

Spoken as a former teacher.

:donut:

[scheming daemons]

10. I'm wondering how there are any Republican kids that are in public schools anyway.....

After all.. if they had the courage of their convictions, their kids would all be home-schooled.

[havocmom]

20. Big divide between takling and walking, as you know. Most don't walk the walk on schooling

It would cut into their time WAY too much, and they would have to interact with agencies governing schooling. Lot of effort. Most won't make the effort.

[havocmom]

19. Doesn't it cost schools $$ when kids are absent?

So, schools with more winger fool parents pulling this boycott are taking money out of their kid's education.

[NYC_SKP]

23. Yes, typically. And it does take money away from the school that they need badly.

Just one more way that this is very wrong.

[RedCloud]

9. No wonder birthers don't know Hawaii is part of the USA.

And this also shows what little importance they give to education.

So much for you have to respect the President and they died fighting for your freedoms.

[NYC_SKP]

15. What? Hawaii? When did THIS happen???

I'm always the last to know.

:shrug:

[Mari333]

11. geez when I was a kid if the POTUS was on TV, we ran away

and climbed trees. There were only 4 channels back then, so Eisenhower was on all 4 of them. What a snorefest that was.

[NYC_SKP]

12. The only presidential school event on TV I remember was a very sad one...

In the early 60's

:cry:

[Mari333]

14. they had a TV in your classroom during Kennedys funeral?

wow. we just had a nun run in and tell us.

[NYC_SKP]

21. Yeah, black and white. It never occured to me before today...

That our little country school was technologically advanced for the time...

[scheming daemons]

13. No.. she meant it would be the best school day ever BECAUSE the wingnut kids would be at home

...not because she's that interested in the President at age 15.

[Mari333]

16. oh well that makes sense

I was just remembering how boring the potus is to kids, pretty much.

[Cha]

17. I like her positive

spirit, scheming!

[havocmom]

18. Congratulations on raising a clear thinking young woman!

Good job. And thanks for one more example that the future can be bright with such bright kids around!

[lisa58]

22. too funny....