Sep 10 2009
Starting the school year off right
The last thing that educators need on the first day of school is a big, hairy brouhaha but that is exactly what many started the year with this year.
Hurry on over and check out how the Obama speech debacle proves Arne Duncan does not know how schools work by Edward Hayes, it’s a great read. (I heard about it via Larry Ferlazzo on Twitter)
Personally, I never saw what the big deal was anyhow. This is a snippet of a Facebook conversation we had earlier in the week:
Me: Don’t see what all the flap was about in the first place. As if my kids can come home and change my political opinions based on what they heard in a speech at school.
Robert: Or, as if what your kids hear one day in school when they are seven or ten is going to have any impact on them at all tomorrow–if you don’t want it to.
Audrey: Another example of parents getting hysterical over nothing.Just concerned about their own politcal views. I assure you, kids would not have thought twice about listening to the president speak, if not for all this bickering.
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