Pardon me, but I smell a setup by a left-wing excuse for a teacher who probably has a lifetime membership in the anti-American National Education Association. If your grandson argues in favor of President Bush he will no doubt be wrong in the teacher's eyes, and will probably be humiliated in front of the class as a bigot.
And, as a previous poster wrote, it's not the president's job (or that of the government) to take care of people. Rich or poor, people are expected to take care of themselves. This is a republic, not a socialist welfare state. Yet, anyway.
Depends on the teacher. I had a teacher do a similiar thing with us in high school. She had both Dem and Rep cantidates for local offices come in and talk to us. She treated each very courteously and did not try to influence the opinion one way or the other. We then had to choose a cantidate and represent his point of view against a student representing the other cantidate. Mine was a Republican congressman and I smoked the other one. The teacher gave me a good grade. She was a good history teacher.