Add my child's school district....

[WyldRogue]

...that will NOT be showing President Obama's speech on education. Even my family are upset about that as the District's move was a political cave-in.


I have already emailed every contact listed in the staff directory from the Superintendent to the the Director of Educational Services.

I am getting pissed at how people are catering to the very vocal minority whack jobs. Why is it we have all Both Housed and the Senate yet the self-righteous Right dominates every single issue?

I remember when Dems were minority and couldn't/wouldn't speak out or speak up so wtf is going on? Are they still afraid to speak out or speak up??

Here's an EDITED version of what was posted on the school districts website:

Message from SUPERINTENDENT regarding President Obama's address...

Hello! I hope this message finds you enjoying this gorgeous weather that September is bringing to us!

I want to take a moment to inform you about the School District's approach to the address President Obama is going to make to our Nation's children at 12pm on Tuesday, September 8th.

We recognize that President Obama's message may be of historical significance and are certainly very hopeful that his message is one of helping our students understand the importance of education, participating and staying in school, and valuing the learning process. We are aware that some media are suggesting that his message may be politically motivated. I am hopeful his message is intended to be positive and appropriate for all our community members to help us as educators and you as parents have our children understand the importance of education.

We are not going to organize our students in a particular fashion to watch this address. There will be no live broadcast of this address. The address will be taped and then viewed by our administrative team at which time it will then be determined if any, all, or part of the address are appropriate for our students. We would then share the speech with our teaching staff who will exercise professional judgment based on the age of their students, developmental readiness, and academic connections to our curriculum, to use any portion of the recorded message.

Fundamentally, I believe that we need to be socially and politically knowledgeable as American citizens so we can bring our own critical thinking to issues that are occurring in our country. It is not our role as a School District to support one political party or another, but we do feel a responsibility to expose our students to information and teach them to be critical thinkers so they can choose freely how to interact with political or social issues in our country or world.
The President's message will be posted as a link on our web page so that you, as a family with your child may view, if you so choose and discuss the message together.

Superintendent

[mzteris]

1. someone just posted the idea that

people in those districts NOT showing the speech should keep their kids home.

Be sure to tell the office it's an EDUCATIONAL absence.

[WyldRogue]

5. We have already...

...planned on doing just that. It appalls me that some people would actually politicize education!!

Oh sure, they'll show Bush's numb-nut address to students but not Obama's.

Needless to say, I will be attending the next School Board meeting looking for answers that will not make any sense other than to either defray or deflect the ingrained hostility towards Obama.

Here's what's posted on the school districts website:

Message from Dr. Fellin regarding President Obama's address...
Hello! I hope this message finds you enjoying this gorgeous weather that September is bringing to us!

I want to take a moment to inform you about the Saucon Valley School District's approach to the address President Obama is going to make to our Nation's children at 12pm on Tuesday, September 8th.

We recognize that President Obama's message may be of historical significance and are certainly very hopeful that his message is one of helping our students understand the importance of education, participating and staying in school, and valuing the learning process. We are aware that some media are suggesting that his message may be politically motivated. I am hopeful his message is intended to be positive and appropriate for all our community members to help us as educators and you as parents have our children understand the importance of education.

We are not going to organize our students in a particular fashion to watch this address. There will be no live broadcast of this address. The address will be taped and then viewed by our administrative team at which time it will then be determined if any, all, or part of the address are appropriate for our students. We would then share the speech with our teaching staff who will exercise professional judgment based on the age of their students, developmental readiness, and academic connections to our curriculum, to use any portion of the recorded message.

Fundamentally, I believe that we need to be socially and politically knowledgeable as American citizens so we can bring our own critical thinking to issues that are occurring in our country. It is not our role as a School District to support one political party or another, but we do feel a responsibility to expose our students to information and teach them to be critical thinkers so they can choose freely how to interact with political or social issues in our country or world.
The President's message will be posted as a link on our web page so that you, as a family with your child may view, if you so choose and discuss the message together.

Dr. Sandra Fellin
Superintendent

[Bozita]

7. Administration is going to review BO's speech and edit out the racy parts? Just like a porn flick?

Disgusting!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Get the names of the school board members

find out who caved and who didn't. Go to Board meetings and take names, And get progressives to run for the Board offices. It only takes a few folks to vote in the Board usually.

[Blue Diadem]

3. Our district won't show it either, although it didn't come as a surprise to me.

I'm surrounded by hateful right wing loonies.

[SCantiGOP]

4. my daughter's principal is a hero

She's in 7th grade middle school. The District sent out a letter to every principal and told them to send it to all parents saying they could opt their child out of seeing the broadcast. She said she called the District and asked if she had to send it. They said yes, so she said "I might rewrite it a bit before I send it" and hung up before they could say anything. The first four paragraphs talked about what a good opportunity it would be to hear the "leader of our country" (she used the word twice) and recounting the impact Reagan's speech to school children had when they had been traumatized by seeing the teacher and other astronauts explode on the Challenger shuttle. The last paragraph said "If for some reason you do not want your child to see this with his or her classmates, you can call me and opt out."

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Wow. Did * pipe in speeches? How is it a wrong to listen to a speech by our President?

This is a discussion that shows the lying control of Fox stations and the ridiculousness of the RW.http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/42787/02Sep2009/The_One_is_Now_Injecting_Himself_Into_K-6_Classrooms/22
Notice the link that relates the use of school speeches by other Presidents.

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Jesus Christ.

When I was a kid, we watched taped beginning of school speeches by Ronnie Raygun and Poppy and the closest thing that those speeches got to being political was "Just Say No."