Posted on 03/18/2011 12:28:42 PM PDT by TopQuark
ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- As President Barack Obama was set to depart on an overseas trip Friday, he faced some sobering news back home -- a school bearing his name was to be shuttered because of low enrollment.
The Barack H. Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, N.J., will close its doors this summer as part of a school district consolidation plan resulting from a declining number of students there, the Asbury Park Press reported.
Students at the school, previously known as the Bangs Avenue School until it was renamed for Obama two years ago, will be reassigned to two separate schools when its doors officially close July 1, the report said.
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I wish they’d close the elementary school they’ve had to hold for Obama ever since he became POTUS. I’m sure great gobs of bureaucratic effort have gone into preparing POTUS 101 briefings that were entirely unnecessary for prior presidents having much greater managerial or political experience.
School Mascot: 'Reggie the Rat',
School motto: 'Can't I just eat my waffle?'
Maybe they could recycle the building into a mosque and keep the name. Though smart muslims would shun the Obama kiss of death.
Why the hell should they waste their time at Barack Hussein Obama Elementary School when Barry has promised to take care of them from cradle to grave? Life is good! Who needs an education? MMmmmm! MMmmmmm! MMmmmmm!
“The Presidency for Dummies”, lmao;)
The birthrate in the USA has fallen very sharply, 35% alone between 08 and 09 by what I’ve read. This means that in just a few years, they’ll need to lay off and close 1/3 of the staff as it pertains to early elementary ages. And that will run through the system for a long time. Trouble is, the govt is loathe to reduce or shut down. So, what? We’ll have 7-8 kids per teacher instead?
Not a good time to be an elementary teacher?
The head admin should have just voted the students “present”.
There’s something very ironically poetic to this story.
Couldn’t even get enough students to vote present. . .
But pay will still increase to outpace inflation and test scores will still drop.
Well, it's ABOUT DANG TIME he sobered up!
yesterday Obambi school was cited for underperformance ... much like its namesake !
If you can’t make your own kids to continue the ponzi scheme, bring them in from other sources...
So what if you lose your national identity, and decrease the wealth and security of your nation.
“Obama Elementary School to close its doors, citing low enrollment”
...should read, “citing lack of enthusiasm for Marxism and despotism”.
Shouldn’t they simply send the D & F students to Cleveland, Ohio, so they can grow up to be cops.
When achievement test scores for NJ were released in the newspapers the sole school not to be reported was Barack Obama Elementary School. The records for this school were sealed.
Plenty of illegals to take those slots...
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