My G.W.Bush Experience

Hilligan

[Militiaman7]

Way to Go!!!!!!!

Sounds like the leadership of the Chillicothe City Schools System are a bunch of RATS!

[Sockdologer]

Thanks for sharing this with us!

[mhking]

And let me echo GW: "Thanks for being a teacher!"

[bitt]

'"THANKS FOR BEING A TEACHER"'

He could have milked it and said something pompous like, "Oh, another teacher voting for ME!"

but instead, it is:

Thanks for being a Teacher.

What a guy.

[Jewels1091]

How great is that!!!!

[HardStarboard]

>>> "THANKS FOR BEING A TEACHER" !!!!! A statement rarely heard.<<<

I don't have any kids; that said; the most important job in America is teaching our nations kids two things: 1) that learning is fun and a life long experience and, 2) America and its freedoms are special in this world, and must be cherished and protected at any cost.

Thanks for being a TEACHER!

[Senator Goldwater]

Thanks for being a Republican teacher.

[SandRat]

I get to thank one every day when I kiss my wife good-bye to leave for work in the morning and lots more when I come home.

I get to thank a new teacher every weekend on the phone when my daughter-in-law calls just to talk.

I get to say thank you to a retired teacher every weekend when my wife calls her mom and right now my youngest daughter is at class in college so that she can become a teacher in two more years.

So yes I get to thank a number of teachers and do.

[oldpath]

"The Chillicothe City Schools did not, frustrating a large number of elementary teachers (YES, teachers, many republican, who wanted to attend the rally with their families!). The superintendent sent out a fax to the schools that teachers would not be permitted to use personal day time for this event. It was announced also that any students who were signed out of school by parents to attend the President's speech, would be considered UNEXCUSED."

Another reason that we Home School!

[Loyal Buckeye]

Neat.

My daughter is also a teacher and she tells me there are more than a few Republican teachers; they just don't feel they can talk about it.

She broke down recently and put a Bush/Cheney sticker on her car.

[hilligan]

I knew that if anyone could appreciate the thrill I got from President Bush directing a comment to me, this list would!!!!!

Hilligan

[texasflower]

That is so very cool!

[Darkwolf377]

The superintendent sent out a fax to the schools that teachers would not be permitted to use personal day time for this event. It was announced also that any students who were signed out of school by parents to attend the President's speech, would be considered UNEXCUSED.



How come he gets to determine what teachers do with their PERSONAL time off? And what PARENTS decide is right for their kids?

Give a school administrator a little power, he thinks he's Stalin. Wouldn't want to let a kid out of school to see the most powerful man on Earth, our nation's president, no can't have that. What a jerk!

[MarkL]

"The Chillicothe City Schools did not, frustrating a large number of elementary teachers (YES, teachers, many republican, who wanted to attend the rally with their families!). The superintendent sent out a fax to the schools that teachers would not be permitted to use personal day time for this event. It was announced also that any students who were signed out of school by parents to attend the President's speech, would be considered UNEXCUSED."

Another reason that we Home School!

There are a bunch of leftist dems in Lee's Summit, MO, who are having kittens about President Bush's rally at Lee's Summit High School. They claim that the kids were only allowed to miss the even if they had a parent send a note. Some moron actually said on a call-in radio show that the kids should be able to decide if they wanted to attend or not. I was thinking that maybe kids should also be allowed to decide which classes to take ("nah, I don't really feel like taking english or math this year").

Others claim that it shouldn't have been done, since the school is a publicly funded facility (never mind that the Bush campaign DID PAY FOR THE USE and clean-up of the school grounds. And I don't remember them complaining when the Kerry campaign held a rally at Kansas City's Union Station. That's also a publicly funded facility.

The biggest issue they had with the event (IMHO) is that it was so successful.

Mark

[grey_whiskers]

You quoted:

"Others claim that it shouldn't have been done, since the school is a publicly funded facility"

Did you remind these "stuned beebers" how absurd it sounds...

to deny the PRESIDENT the use of PUBLICALLY-FUNDED facility?

[islander-11]

That is a great story, Hilligan - way to go!

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

You probably surprised him....a teacher not heckling in the crowd.

Way to go!

[LouisWu]

"Thanks for being a teacher."

Such class! Not 'thank you for voting for ME.'

Once again, W places the emphasis on the future rather than his personal needs, right and wrong rather than popularity, and the nation's strength rather than his own ego.

His focus is not 'my power' but 'our health & strength', and he diplays the sincerity of that focus when he expresses it by default, ad lib, from the hip, no script.

[vox humana]

Please feel free to tell this moron why his students and teachers should have been permitted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a President.

Dr. Michael Trego
Superintendent of Schools
235 Cherry St.
Chillicothe, OH 45601
mtrego@mail.gsn.k12.oh.us