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Broward County Makes President's School Speech Mandatory

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Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-08 10:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1758 views ] Top

1 Superintendent Notter with his "teachable moment" mantra, was quite unconvincing. He was assertive enough, but lacked the requisite tuetonic accent. Fox surely failed by not permitting him to speak live from a prominent place in a sportplatz, overlooking adoring jugend standing proper ranks.

I tried to send him a ....congratulatory e-mail but, not surprisingly his site is down or has been changed.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-08 10:39|| 2009-09-08 10:39|| Front Page Top

2 There are colossal amounts of time wasted in the average public school day. This is yet another example. I hope there's major backlash, Notter sounds like a real asshole.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-08 11:03|| 2009-09-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

3 Go to the school an hour before the speech, demand your kid. If they fail to bring your child and turn them over to you, call the police and have the school officials charged with kidnapping.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2009-09-08 11:46|| 2009-09-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

4 Having once actually been a kid, I suspect the pupils reaction will be to glaze over (heh).

The students reaction will be
a) Yay! We get out of doing work for an hour
b) The President just told me to wash my hands and apply myself? Gee, "Dad", good advice!
c) (for older kids) The President just said he goofed off in school and took drugs? I can sooo hardly wait to drop that excuse on Mom!

Posted by SteveS 2009-09-08 13:09|| 2009-09-08 13:09|| Front Page Top

5 #3 Go to the school an hour before the speech, demand your kid. If they fail to bring your child and turn them over to you, call the police and have the school officials charged with kidnapping.

Oh, they'll turn them over without a fight, I'm guessing. It's the 'punishment' that Notter has threatened that the parents should be objecting to.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-08 13:18|| 2009-09-08 13:18|| Front Page Top

6 Kids have a keen sense of being talked down to or being patronized. They will see him for what he is and shrug off the message. He will, like most of his other agenda driven crap, fail in the eyes of who matters most. I bet teachers spend more time justifying his historic speech than they do on the message. My kids will ask why is the President of the United States doing this? Isnt this what my parents are supposed to do? Why doesnt he talk to us about grown up issues like how congress gets a bill passed or how the US works with the UN

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-08 15:54|| 2009-09-08 15:54|| Front Page Top

7 I love Instapundit's comment about the ~~indoctrination~~ speech:

"I asked the Insta-Daughter how it went off in her class and she responded, My class was laughing . . . which really upset Mrs. _____, because she thought it was a great speech."

To quote the great man himself, Heh. :-D

Most kids have a built-in bullshit detector.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-08 19:09|| 2009-09-08 19:09|| Front Page Top

8 "My class was laughing . . .

Give them 10-15 years and the "laughing" will turn to TEARS!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-08 19:50|| 2009-09-08 19:50|| Front Page Top

9 No, Besoeker. Votes, for the other side. That kind of thing canalizes a child's thinking. I wonder which particular bits the students found so amusing...

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-09-08 23:54|| 2009-09-08 23:54|| Front Page Top

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