Here is the email I will send to the Superintendent of my sons school who refused to let Obama

Lerkfish

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Tue Sep-08-09 11:25 PM
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Here is the email I will send to the Superintendent of my sons school who refused to let Obama

show his speech to my son, without notifying me of that decision beforehand.

I will send this tomorrow, after I've slept on it.

At this school you have a D.A.R.E. program. You teach our children not to give into peer pressure to take drugs, to dare to stand up for their principles and do what is right, no matter if all their friends pressure them into doing what is wrong.

You teach them to ignore pressure from others to steer them in the wrong direction.
As educators, you pat yourselves on the back for this good work. And it IS good work. It is just a shame you seem to have forgotten to teach yourselves the same lessons.

Recently, this school refused to allow my son to see a speech directed at him by the President of the United States of America. Let that sink in a bit: you silenced the highest elected official in this country.

And why did you do this? Because you allowed yourself to give in to pressure from your friends, just like you teach our children NOT to do. You did not DARE to be stronger than pressure, you did not DARE to be open in your decision making, you did not DARE to allow other parents, like me, to have a say in your decision. You gave into pressure, into the temptation, of the drug of telling the president “no”.

How many parents pressured you? I don’t have those numbers. I DO know I was not notified of your decision through any note or permission slip. I DO know I was not given the same level of access to your decision as these other parents that pressured you. Am I not a parent? Isn’t my child a student here? When did you consult me?

Oh that’s right. You did not. Instead, you let the pressure of a select, secretive group make that decision for my child and you took that decision away from me without asking.

You are educators. Let’s recap what you just taught our children:

-- You taught them you do not trust the President of the United States, because some parents pressured you not to.
-- You taught them its ok to make prejudicial judgments of things and people without enough information.
-- You taught them at the first sign of pressure, its ok to cave in and abandon your principles.
-- You taught them that you value some select parents over the rest of the parents, merely because they match your politics, or they throw louder tantrums. And further, that you will do so secretly, in the dark of the night, so that no one else can have a voice.
-- You taught them that you, as their mentors, believe that their care and their education is less important to them than how you are perceived by others.
-- You taught them that adults can be hypocritical, that they can teach you do brave things that they themselves do not have the temerity to even attempt.

And why did you cave to this pressure? Since the president’s speech was to tell kids to stay in school, study hard and make themselves a success… we KNOW the content of the speech was not being objected to, not honestly anyway.

What possible reason would there have been that you were pressured to silence the President of the United States? I can think of only a few real reasons, and being “controversial” is not a real reason:

1. Partisan political pressure
2. Anti government pressure or Anti American pressure (you are, after all, blocking the President of the United States from talking to our kids)
3. An African American President.

If there is another reason, please explain what it could be.

As you go to bed tonight, put on your jammies, kiss your own children, your wives, your husbands… I want you to think about this:

You did not DARE to stand up to pressure. You took the drug. You listened to the dealer in the schoolyard. You lit up and you got high on the arrogance of thinking that its ok to show kids not to respect the President of the United States. You got the buzz of placating the complainers in order to be more popular. You mainlined on abandoning reasoned debate and replacing it with naked prejudice.

And then the next day, when you talk to MY kid, who waited all week to hear the president speak to HIM and was denied the historic and educational opportunity to be inspired to succeed, and you try to tell him to DARE to say no to drugs, I want you to know in your heart what a hypocrite you are.

And, in the future, I want the SAME access to your decision making as the ones throwing private secret tantrums. I can make my points without making threats. Isn’t that what you teach our children?

Sincerely,

Lerkfish(I will use my real name here), a true American who respects the office of the President of the United States, like I was taught as a child, in my school, by my school board, and my principals, and my teachers. It’s a shame my son will not have the same high level of education.