Posted on 11/05/2009 8:37:27 AM PST by TexasCajun
MADISON, Wisconsin – President Obama marked the first anniversary of his election on Wednesday by calling on states to toughen their education standards – and wound up calling on parents to toughen theirs, too, as he confessed that his 11-year-old daughter, Malia, recently got a 73 on her science test.
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The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Yeah ;-)
Oh come on, knock it off. The kids is 11 years old.
Good grief.
kids -> kid
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a rarity for a president who has tried his best to keep his children’s lives a private matter.
Really, hadn’t noticed that for all the pictures and stories of what Mallia is doing.
a rarity for a president who has tried his best to keep his children’s lives a private matter.
Really, hadn’t noticed that for all the pictures and stories of what Mallia is doing.
This is a good example of why we don’t let kids have guns. Stupid, insensitive parents.
We will now get a Science Test Czar.
He has not reticence about using his daughters for his political advantage. Just as long as it’s on HIS terms.
Translation: I've upped MY standards, now —
what a horrible father! What a moron! I don’t care what your motive is...a dad should never embarass his child in public! What a jerk! He is such a Zero!
I feel bad for that poor little girl. It’s bad enough to live in a fishbowl but to have your dad embarass you like that for his own gain in disgraceful. He is a horrible president and a horrible dad.
Didn’t they bash Palin/Bush and others for the things they do all the time? like “Using kids as props”
Was that 73 AFTER the affirmative action bonus points?
So, is he saying to children that if they get C’s, they too can be a first daughter or son of the USA?
73 % is a suck grade coming from the daughter of the supposedly brightest man on the planet aka “ The Obamamessiah”!
” Okay dad.... now you show them your college papers!”
She would have scored a 100% if she were going to the DC public school system.
>>what a horrible father! What a moron! I don’t care what your motive is...a dad should never embarass his child in public! What a jerk! He is such a Zero!<<
I totally agree!!!!!!!!
My father would have never done that to me.
My DH would never do it to our girls.
He’s proven himself to be even more of a self-centered jerk.
Zero is despicable.
And she was rewarded by getting to go to a Miley Cyrus concert on Tuesday night? What, no school the next day? Geesh, is no one figuring out the problem here?
Utterly disgusting!
I thought it was every father’s dream that their children would do better than them in school... so why is 0 taking his daughter to task for besting his grades?
1) The Fed relinquishes all control, funding and control of public schools. The States take over their own schools. Cut Federal Income taxes in the amount equal to Federal Education Spending so the states may take up the slack.
2) Make it illegal to have government workers, including teachers in a Union.
3) Seniors must past a standardized test before graduation that includes (among other things) studies from a mandatory History Class about our Constitution, Federalists Papers, Anti-Federalist Papers, etc.
Why it works....If states run their own schools, there would be real competition. People consider schools when they choose where to work and live.
If there are no Unions and teaching jobs, salaries and benefits to protect, teachers can focus on teaching instead of political bureaucratic twister teases for showy edumacation.
Finally, Kids and most adults my age know little about the founding of our nation, our actual charter declared, our constitution, what our nation stands for and what thought went into the way our nation was founded. There is no way to preserve our way of life if we don't know what our way of life was suppose to be. It was very successful at one one time (and still is today). But we are in a bad drift away from the values this nation were founded on. Unfortunately, most of my generation (Gen-X) and nearly all of generations to follow mine or historically ignorant. They do not know what to fight for as a result of the BS they are learning in schools today.
BTW, did you see that someone in the comments of that article said that it’s a “future couch moment”? When the kid grows up and sits a therapist’s couch, this will be a moment she talks about.
We Have A Winner !!
What’s next, Obama’s college transcripts?
C’s? 73%?
In my duaghter’s school (private) 73% is a D. 69% = F
Or Mr. Fank.
Maybe she is just a dumbass. Maybe Bush did it.
And this from an expensicve private school. Imagine what the score would be if she was enrolled in a public school!,
Why does this remind me of that scene in Clueless where the kid negotiates her grades higher and her father says he couldn’t be prouder than if she actually earned them.
Personnally I think most of us would be far mlore interested in knowing what his test scores and grades were so we would have a real look at how “brilliant” he is.
Personnally I think most of us would be far more interested in knowing what his test scores and grades were so we would have a real look at how “brilliant” he is.
He is brilliant only because he hired lawyers who sealed all of his records.
My bad. It was a typo.
Totally agree with both your comments. Not a wise thing to do.
Why Children Commit Axe Murder, Chapter thirty-seven...
Can you just imagine what the questions on her science test were at “Friends”. All PC,,no real science or math..just propaganda. And she still failed. Guess she doesn’t want to appear too “white”.
Is that you, Pat?
73 was a heck of lot better than he could have gotten on his own! The girl done him proud!
He may have been sending a message to her teacher at the school. No more C grades for Malia or you’ll be the next one under the bus, I mean — I talk about.
Yuk! All I can say is he's close to her teenagerhood and he's sowing some really good seeds for her rebellion.
Pretty much my sentiments too.
Yes, that MACAROON will throw ANYONE including his own daughters, mother, father, grandmothers and grandfathers under the bus. Only a matter of time before his wife Michellin gets schoolbus-ified.
Exactly right. I still treasure an email I received from the guy who was able to use certain test scores to figure out that Bush had a higher IQ than the oh-so-intelligent John Kerry who served in Vietnam. I’d love him to do it again with 0 but we have nothing to work with.
Maybe that’s why Michellin (lol) wears those boob belt...that belt could probably stop the tires of a bus!
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