Our ISD plans too, I don't know how I feel about this.

Little affection for children and young adults is seen as roots of this great recession :

1. Too few parents know about CHIP program.

2. They are more worried about the Afghanistan war than future energy.

3. Of young adults ages 19 to 29, 13.2 million, or 29 percent, lacked coverage in 2007.
current generation is to build a bridge for generations to come, and it will be for both, too. By converting Incredible waste in health care system into funding for the uninsured young adults, both generations are better off after all, otherwise, Medicare and Medicaid system are also facing insolvency.

4. Two thirds of Americans don't understand what the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress are proposing, according to a new CBS poll.

That is not Obama's job. Tuesday will be an extension of the Labor Day holiday for my children. Obama needs to tend to his own children.

thank you and much love to our president .first lady and family. thank you for wanting to take time out to encourage our children on how important education is. and also willing to have and open ear and let there small voices be heard by asking them to write what can they do to help you. i think it gives them a sense .of responsibility that what they think counts we love you all
may GOD continue. to bless you all thank you president obama

OMG, the man is the elected President of the US. So he is not your party! He is the elected head of our country. Let him speak. This is civics, social studies, history, whatever. Freedom of speech.A person's right to information. America. I can not believe how insecure some people are. How can anyone feel threatened by listening to a speech? Think for yourselves. This blog has become such a joke. Where is the intellectual bent it used to have. I give up and then try occasionlly only to find this kind of total dribble called trying to be posts. Keep your kids home. Maybe you can teach them about Labor Day! Maybe Melissa should unschool her kids.

I think that politics should be kept clear of our children, let the parents decide what lies will be told! I'm tired of the liberals (most educators in my area are liberals) trying to indoctrinate our children! If anything should be taught, it should be the deep study of the Constitution, and what that means for each and every American and their Freedom. The core Values and Principals of Freedom should be taught, however instead these liberals are trying to "Change" and warp the Constitution into some thing that changes with the times....WRONG!!! and immmoral!

@Melissa -
So having the president of the United States, who is pretty popular with most kids in City Schools I think, say that kids need to see the value of education and take some responsibility for their education is somehow insulting to you? You've got to be kidding. I have the feeling if he said we need stop killing each other you'd object as well. Thank goodness your a parent and not a teacher.

I bet you a lot of money, a LOT of money, that the speech to children has zero politics in it. As a president who campaigned on paying attention to kids and public education, he is simply fulfilling a campaign promise. He is uniquely qualified to do so. He worked hard, overcame obstacles and was elected the first African-American president in this country. So, our kids can follow in his footsteps, too. This is uniquely apolitical. Who cares if you agree with him? Tell your kids when they get home that you disagree with his policies, but you agree with him about inspiring children to WORK HARD. It's incomprehensible that anyone would be against this speech. Work hard, study hard and make your life better; only you can make your life better. Sounds like a message that our kids should hear, that my kid should hear. Obama's kids have already heard it and they're amazing children.

The real reason parents don't want their kids to hear Obama? Because then they'll know their parents are idiots for dissing him.

What's the big deal? I think it's great that President Obama is taking time out of his busy schedule to encourage kids to work hard and stay in school. This has nothing to do with politics. It'd be nice if more leaders and even everday folks went above and beyond to encourage others.

Funny how the GOP fringe did not complain at all when Reagan and Bush Sr. made similar speeches.

Besides their ceaseless hypocracy, I'm looking forward to the teabaggers/Republican/birthers increasing marginalization as a political movement.

It's not the President's job to speak to my child about the importance of education.

It's mine and mine alone.

Obama appointed Van Jones a convicted felon to be the czar of green jobs.

I think Obama should pay more attention to his staff and not spend so much time parenting my child.

@Justin -
Is it OK for teachers and principals to speak "about the importance of education"? I mean if you consider it a task that is yours alone, should a math teacher be punished if they explain that your child should learn to do subtraction so they can check the change they get back at a store? Or how about those inspirational speeches from principals at the end of the year about how your education has prepared you to go on to higher education and become a contributing member of society? Do those get banned as well?

Feel free to dislike the president, but to say he has no business talking about education is absurd. It really just makes you sound like a lunatic.

Obama is a socialist!!!! HAHA - joking. It's funny how having a black president is too much for some.

This is insane.

The President of the United States wants to take an opportunity to speak to the children of the US, live. When's the last time a President even bothered to do that?

And parents are so brainwashed by the Screaming Heads that they go all "He ain't *MY* President" and keep their kids home from school.

Agree with the guy's politics or not, you have to admit he is an inspirational speaker who wants to inspire kids to get a strong education. And our kids -- not exactly top notch in the First World Education Dept., -- certainly need some inspiration.

But what do they get instead? Head-in-the-sand parents who put politics over country -- and the future their own kids.

It is so ironic to me that 25 years ago Ronald Reagan embodied hope and optimism. Now, the Dems stand for that and the Republicans are all about fear and screaming.

I called my child's middle school (Dunloggin, in HoCo) to ask if they were going to broadcast the address. The poor lady was already shellshocked, no doubt from the Limbaugh and O'Reilly puppets who had already called to give her a dose of what for.

The HoCo School system, a presumably intelligent organization, has caved to this BS and will broadcast it a day late in homeroom. We certainly can't poison the well with any unity, right? We gots us a country to divide, here.

So, the President of the United States will not get to address all of the kids. Just the ones of parents secure enough in their beliefs to allow their kids to actually get to listen to their democratically elected leader.

And I feel sorry for the other kids.

Why is it that some feel that the president should mind his own businees is beyond me.
Our childrens education should be a priorty and for anyone one to feel that it is not his business hopefully does not have children or works for the system.
Why are so many so offended by this. No one knows what he will be saying, so why not listen instead of assuming just because a few Repubs have said what they think he will say.
Our children are failing, we are behind so many countries it is not funny.
This is a man who is the father of young children and his opinion does matter, what you do with what he says is up to the individual.
Justin--hopefully if you are a parent, you are active with your childs school, goes to board mtgs., attends or is a memeber of the PTA. If not, then you are not doing your part.

One more thing:

To all of the parents who think that, by keeping their kids home from school they will prevent them from hearing the President's message:

1. Do you really think that your kids aren't going to ask their friends what the President said?

2. Your kids will get the entire message from their friends. It will be non-partisan, and inspirational, making you look like a controlling moron.

3. Your influence over your kids will slip yet again, to be replace by that of their peers. Which is probably a good thing.

Better keep them out of school for the rest of the year, just to be safe. Better yet, home school them.

The children of open-minded parents can use the extra money in the educational budget.

He is the President of all of us. When I was in Catholic grade school in the 70's we watched innagerations and selected speeches by politicians. We went to Jefferson City and none of this depended on whether or not the politicians in office were Democrat or Republican. The people inserting politics into this are the parents pulling kids out. How ridiculus!!!! As an aside, in 1973, when Roe v Wade was decided, the nuns came into our gradeschool classrooms crying and we spent 30 minutes praying for the unborn children. Do you think if my parents were Pro Choice they should have pulled me out of school or complained???? Come on this is ridiculus.

I think every true Republican, who considers themselves aligned with today's Republican Party should immediately pull their children from this (let's be honest, here) *socialist* model of "government-run schooling" and homeschool their kids.

It is the least you can do to prevent any long-term problems, like, say, an "open mind" forming in your offspring.

Before you know it, they might get real uppity and start considering universal health care a human right, like it is in most of the other developed countries.

Protect your children from this poison! Homeschool them!

Better yet, form a cult. You can elect Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh as your Leaders for life and they can tell you what to think forever.

Sometimes Americans scare me.

Really? It's a problem that the President of the United States wants to encourage children to take responsibility of their own education? That's a problem?

Really, sometimes people scare me.

@David et. al....... whoa, I am a republican. Please dont place us all in the same box. I voted Obama and will surely be watching along with my students. BTW, wasn't Bush speaking to children during 9/11? Any time our students can here a POSITIVE message, who cares where it is coming from? Especially in a city that is 75% african american. Do people really believe he is recruiting for the Hitler Youth? Give me a break!!!

a parent....are you a teacher...it is you're not your.

Pure and simple... Racism, can the Queen Mother come and speak...

@ anonymous..are you a teacher? god I hope not!! you're? really??

After the President of the United States speaks to school children about the value of education, Republicans will make opposing comments extolling ignorance.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/obamas-dangerous-message-to-our-children/

This is utterly ridiculous. Why does Obama need to take time from a child's school day to tell them to stay in school and etc.? That seems more like a contradiction than an inspiration. Let us students learn instead of put up with teachers who believe that Obama is a wonderful man who is trying to "Change" everything. As a high school student, I would much rather be participating in my AP classes than be exposed to Obama's blathering. I have already heard a million and 17 people who say "Stay in school" or "Try hard and you shall succeed" I don't need anyone else and Obama saying it will not motivate me or my classmates any more than we already are. If my 3rd block teacher decides to allow this speech to play in her class, I shall promptly ask to leave the class and waste time doing busy work. As always, I pity the blind Obama supporters who are eating up his "inspirational" speeches and messages.

The president's speech is giving him access to children that he should not have. If adults have been persuaded by his smooth talk, how much more will little children. It's indoctrination pure and simple, no matter what the speech is about. He will come across as a very nice and caring man, but in reality he doesn't care one whit about what a large majority of their parents think.

In our nation's 50 largest cities the drop out rate hovers around 52%. Let's see how well that stat translates into a global economy. As an educator I believe education is the great equalizer and apparently Obama does also. Most studies, with a growing consensus, place students at a success rate of finishing high school at 7 students out of 10 – 70%! This data came from a nonpartisan study by America's Promise Alliance. So to expect educational leaders to gather their students to listen to an age appropriate message about staying in school and the benefits of education from (after all) the President of United States is not what I would call an indoctrination but rather a motivation. This seems more than reasonable - it is proactive!
Our state legislatures are really the ones who should be addressing the students of our great country to explain to them why they are not funding public education adequately as prescribed by law under the 10th amendment of the constitution. What I would like to say to them is, "Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore" - wake up! We need money, time and resources to educate the diverse population of our nation's public school populations

Yes, Virginia, there are some jackasses out there who believe that Obama is trying to convert their kids into a new generation of Pravda subscribers. My message to them? Just relax and take a nice, deep breath. As someone recently remarked, this in not a policy speech, it's a pep talk. For all his minor flaws, this president really believes in education. His is the classic American success story in which the education he received plays a crucial role in the plot line. He wants to inspire the littlest of us to climb the highest mountains of achievement. What the hell is wrong with that? What's the matter with thesse people?

You would think the way some of you have been acting that the president is some kind of pervert stalking the neighborhood school bus stop, ready to expose himself. He means your children no harm. He's not trying to turn the little darlin's into Socialists - or even Democrats for that matter. Hell, for all we know he might even inspire one of them to greatness! It's a fairly safe bet that one day more than one of those kids will grow up to be the president of the United Sates of America! Let them be inspired.

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Goshen, NY