On Tuesday next week President Obama will address the nation's school children. Schools across the country are being encouraged to broadcast his speech in their classrooms and lesson plans for both lower ed and upper ed have been developed around the speech. There is a LOT of controversy around this speech and rightfully so. I haven't made up my mind yet about the content of the speech since it won't be posted on the White House website until Monday...Labor Day. I just find it really curious that whole lesson plans (and they are quite detailed) have been developed around this speech yet nobody has seen it yet. Some schools are giving parents a choice whether or not their children will watch at school. That's great for schools that started last week or earlier who have a chance to contact parents with this decision but what about the many schools that have their first day on Tuesday - the day of the speech?
I'm not a particularly political person. I have a few pet topics that can usually swing my vote to one party or another and of course, education is one of them. It began with Special Education and has broadened to homeschooling rights. My children do not need to watch this speech. They don't need the president telling them to work hard in school and think of their futures. That's what they have parents to do. That's what they've been taught since they were old enough to understand what the future was and what it could hold for them.
Maybe I should turn the TV on to CSPAN at noon next Tuesday though just in case...someone might be watching.
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