Posted on 09/15/2009 3:40:16 PM PDT by upchuck
During the regular Board of Education meeting Rose, president of the Valdosta/Lowndes County Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, spoke to the board about the superintendent’s decision not to air President Barack Obama’s speech on education during school hours.
Rose and hundreds of others converged on the BOE office demanding answers for why the speech was not shown in a school system that is predominately black.
On the day the speech was scheduled to air, Rose and others met with Cason and discussed why the speech would not be shown. Cason, Rose said, had plenty of time between the meeting and the speech to call the schools and tell them to allow the children to watch the speech.
Rose said Cason’s reasons for not showing the speech were that it did not align with the Georgia Performance Standards that are the basis for school lesson plans and that the speech and the lesson plans provided would cut into instructional time.
“Let us be clear,” Rose said. “We read the President’s speech, and at no time did he propose lesson plans before, during, or after his speech, as claimed by Dr. Cason. He never mentioned lesson plans. Never.”
Rose went on to say that any offer to show the speech later is not acceptable, he said.
“Here is what I know, here is what you know, here is what the hundreds of people here and out in the street know,” Rose said. “If Dr. Cason were black and 80 percent of the school children in his district were white, and he arbitrarily decided not to allow white children to watch a white president’s ‘back to school’ speech,’ and whites came here tonight in the numbers that blacks have come to protest, he would resign, or be fired. And we are here to demand no less.”
Rose got a standing ovation after his address to the board.
Cason then responded to what he called “allegations and accusations.”
He said that he received notification of the speech only several days before it was scheduled to be shown.
Cason went on to say that lesson plans were included to be used before, during and after the speech.
During his comments a person from the audience shouted “He lies!”
As the lesson plans were presented they did not align with GPS, Cason said.
Checking around with other school systems in the area he found that many chose not to air the speech at its scheduled time and if they did they had provisions where students could opt out of watching the speech.
Deciding to not air the speech is racist? WOW!
“Let us be clear,” Rose said. “We read the President’s speech, and at no time did he propose lesson plans before, during, or after his speech, as claimed by Dr. Cason. He never mentioned lesson plans. Never.”
A classic case of misdirection, a fav tactic of barking moonbats.
Cason went on to say that lesson plans were included to be used before, during and after the speech.
During his comments a person from the audience shouted “He lies!”
Since the lesson plans were readily available from the WhiteHouse.gov web site, that shows how really, really dumb the people in the audience were.
“If Dr. Cason were black and 80 percent of the school children in his district were white, and he arbitrarily decided not to allow white children to watch a white president’s ‘back to school’ speech,’ and whites came here tonight in the numbers that blacks have come to protest, he would resign, or be fired.”
But whites wouldn’t come to protest. They wouldn’t care. Unless, that is, they were professional activists. Or dupes rabble-roused by race hustlers.
Second, I make the motion the Superintendant of NYC schools also be terminated since they refused to show this speech as well.
It doesn't matter that the school year hadn't even started yet, it's just the fairness of the principle....
Fire Rose. Obviously a ‘misguided’ zealot clinging to her ill-conceived racially biased ideals hellbent on indoctrinating the next generation of black victims.
Check the headline again. I noticed the error right after I clicked the Post button (of course :) and requested the admin correct the error which they did.
Thanks Admin!
The lesson plans were there. The speech was changed slightly, but the lesson plans were not.
Also, since when does the Federal Government directly address a school principal? This garbage was not submitted to the school boards or to the State or County directors of education. It went directly to the principals and teachers, in order to intimidate them, give them no protection, give it no publicity, and make it impossible for them to say no.
Most white parents (especially in the South) wouldn’t want a white president directly addressing their kids without their permission. Why the assumption is that black parents think this is cool just because Obambi is half African, I’ll never understand. Or maybe they do.
I thought the lesson plan was changed to take out the part about “What can you do for the President.”
Yawn. Those uppity whites just don’t know their place.
The rest of it was still there...”read books about President Obama,” etc., and then they were supposed to list their goals (obtained from the speech), discuss them, sign a pledge, and review them with the other students at the end of the year. This is the usual Communist crit-self-crit stuff, and on top of it, Obama was still the focus of the whole thing.
Yep, the post-racial president scores another one.
Deciding to not air the speech in real time is racist.
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