Posted on 02/19/2009 7:21:21 AM PST by Islander7
A Dobson High School Advanced Placement government class with strong opinions about Barack Obama watched the president's speech Wednesday on a small, grainy TV in the corner of their classroom.
Some of the students attentively watched the speech, giving questioning looks and comments, shaking their heads and laughing at some of Obama's words. Other students listened, occasion ally glancing up to watch, while texting on their cell phones, reading a book or finishing school work.
The gymnasium's events were shown simultaneously in rooms throughout the Mesa school, and teachers were given discretion on whether to show the speech, the students said. The students in the class were hopeful things will work out but questioned whether Obama's plan would actually work to dig the country out of its economic woes. They also expected a longer speech.
Senior Syna Daudfar took some notes during the speech and was among the most vocally opposed to Obama's words.
At one point, when he talked about the costs of his stimulus plan, senior Maaike Albach and Daudfar looked at each other and said, "uh-oh."
"Overall I think it's a good idea, but he's not addressing the issues of the economic crisis," said Daudfar, a John McCain supporter who added he leans more toward being a moderate conservative. "The spending bill he just passed is just progressing the Democratic agenda rather than addressing the economic issues in the country."
Daudfar thinks Obama's plan is backward and deals with the "less important stuff" first. "Bailing out businesses" and "providing better regulatory systems for giving out money to businesses" should have been first, he said.
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unless they're leftists...
Good one. ;-)
I have an update about the Obama sign at my son’s school. My sweet son came home from school today with a big grin saying that the sign had been removed. He didn’t see it happen, all he knew is that it no longer graced the hallway. I guess I wasn’t the only angry parent!
Awesome!
All right!
They'll all be Republicans as soon as they figure out they're going to be paying for this crap for the rest of their lives.
I work with a recent college graduate - sweet kid, but extremely naive.
She has recently made comments such as, "you can tell he (Obama) cares" and, "I guess I'm not too thrilled with what he's done with the economic stimulus, but I'm glad he's at least doing something"
I told her to imagine her house was on fire and consider that throwing a can of gasoline on it would qualify as "doing something".
Love the name.
Did you know that Obama is Swahili for “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today.”
From this point forward we will officially refer to him as “Wimpy”.
“BTW, we do need to give kudos to their teacher Jeff Sherrer, apparently he does let them debate and come to their own conclusions, not forcing liberalism down their throats.”
Amen!!! There ARE some really good teachers out there.....even in public schools. ;-)
“The US History AP class is a standardized curriculum dictated by the College Board test.
Amazingly, it is actual US History.”
Yep! (Unfortunately not everyone takes AP....though they SHOULD). Parents need to examine the history books used in their local public schools for the vast majority of students. That will tell them a LOT. They also need to make noise when necessary. Putting pressure on local school boards can be VERY effective.
;-)
It’s in Mesa. Lots of Mormons out there as well.
Now that Kid has a head on his shoulders.
me too
I wuv you.
I really think it was his finest hour (he thought so too.)
Great article from years ago in American Heritage magazine, which used to be far better than it is now:
Verdicts of History I: The Boston Massacre
Lots of typos because the text was scanned in from the magazine. But worth reading.
Yeah, it does. That was definitely one fine bit of lawyering on his part, no doubt about it.
Amazing that such a fascinating and pivotal Founding Father was such a footnote in our history for so long...
I learned to read from that magazine. I highly recommend leaving copies around for your kids. The online scans don't have the pictures, which are a major feature of the hard copies. The mag specialized in human interest stories from history and what you might call "sidelights" - interesting and relatively obscure aspects of well known people and events.
Genuine, official, 0bama photo op sod.
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