The outcry over President Obama talking to schoolkids makes me so cranky. I shouldn't really blog about it.
But one of the columnists at the Dallas Morning News did a nice job summarizing how I feel about the whole situation. You can read the column here.
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I think both sides have valid points on this...although one side is acting like a two year old throwing a temper tantrum so they are having a hard time being taken seriously :) First and foremost, Obama's message of stay in school is great for the kids. I think his heart was most certainly in the right place. The problem I guess becomes when someone's heart is NOT in the right place, and there is a precedent set allowing the president to speak to school age children without any indication of what might be said. I lean on the side of smaller government- stay out of my life as much as possible. So, coming into the school system is not something I personally feel is necessary. I have to sign all kinds of forms allowing my child to see certain rated movies or to watch a sex ed video. But I have no say in this, which bothers me. Thus the overkill comparisons to Hitler and the nazi youth program etc....Whenever parents feel there kids are getting info they didn't "okay" by a political figure, they get nervous. This kind of "political" speech in school has bothered me for years....don't indoctrinate my kid - whether it's what I believe or not! (Someone in Emily's class last year was being teased for supporting Obama- really? Do we need to have mock elections in elementary school?) But the outcry by the right has been ridiculous and I think they are making unfair comparisons and taking it too far as a personal attack on Obama. Attack the idea, not the person. So Sharon, politics makes me crazy too :)
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