You would think for someone who was "homeschooled"... 'Bama would be more supportive of it.
You would think for someone who was "homeschooled"... 'Bama would be more supportive of it.my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve. But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.So remember that, kids - and the instant one of your friends tries to do better than the rest of you on a test, gang up on him and accuse him of "acting white." After all, I've admitted to you that I was a goof-off in school - what does he think, he's better than me? </sarcasm>Seriously, credit where credit is due. For some schools, this is a very needed message. As long as it's not followed up with the sort of "cult of personality" claptrap that the DoE planned for the schools to indoctrinate the students with afterward.
But the central point is that Obama couldn't have faked being an American even to the extent that he had pulled it off, if it wasn't for his homeschooling. It made him - but his bread is buttered by the teachers' union . . .