Posted on 05/11/2002 2:58:45 PM PDT by summer
First Lady Columba Bush Helps Launch New Educational Teen Television Show: "Choices"
PALM BEACH--First Lady Columba Bush and Florida's Office of Drug Control Director Jim McDonough hosted the launch of a new education teen television show "Choices" at Palm Beach Garden High School today.
The "Choices" program will follow the lives of a teen-age cast as they struggle through the turbulence and frustration of the teen-age years. The interactive series is being distributed to middle and senior high schools throughout Florida.
"I am so pleased to see this diverse group of young people participating in a show that will not only educate other teen-agers, but their parents as well," Mrs. Bush said. "Through examples on this show, I hope that these teens are able to help other young people make the right choices."
Since becoming Florida's First Lady, Mrs. Bush has traveled with Director McDonough throughout the state speaking with youth about the dangers of substance abuse. Two of her top priorities are to reduce substance abuse among Florida's youth and to get them involved in the arts. In collaboration with Arts for a Complete Education / Florida Alliance for Arts Education (ACE/FAAE), the First Lady visits at least two school art programs a month. She also awards 24 art scholarships for $1,000 each to students in visual arts, music, dance and theatre a year.
"The tremendous support that Mrs. Bush has shown to Florida youth will have a positive impact on their lives for years to come," Director McDonough said. "She is a real inspiration to the kids in our state."
The cast of "Choices" consists of an ensemble of members, each bringing diversity, strong opinions, and challenging circumstances to the content of the series. Each character is coming to terms with personal and social issues as they face the defiant, turbulent period known as adolescence. Through the "Choices" series, this cast of individuals will work together, helping each other to make the right "Choices" about the trials and tribulations of teen life.
The program explores situations affecting teens on a daily basis. Its premise is to open the lines of communication between family members. The show's producers worked with the Palm Beach County School Board to find teen-age writers who will relate to the show's demographics.
"We believe that teens are often misunderstood," Tawny Gaines, senior producer of "Choices" said. "This program will help teen-agers understand why the choices they make now shape their entire future."
The First Lady and Director McDonough were joined by the cast of "Choices," parents, students, faculty and staff of Palm Beach Garden High, Charles Stiles, partnership chairman and Nat Harrington of the Palm Beach County School District.
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Pity-She should have stayed home a little more.
Columba Bump
Her daughter is an adult. Some kids never believe anything their parents tell them...until they are forced to learn from their own, heartbreaking mistakes in the school of hard knocks.
I have three adult children. I know.
You obviously have NO children and/or are still in the youthful "I know it all" phase.
Grow up.
...welcome to FR.
Grow up.
FYI :- )
GREAT READ!
I like what Columba Bush is doing--being part of the solution.
No. The teenager you save may not be one of your own, no matter how much you would like to save your own as well. It's a cold, hard fact of life that only experience and disillusionment can teach.
"Does she talk about her own daughter at these events?"
Why should she constantly drag her daughter through the mud in order to satisfy some primal, hateful need that the class-envying among us nurture in their twisted little souls? What would it accomplish except to justify the blind hate of the rabid left, who want nothing more than to see the Bush family completely destroyed?
Besides, Mrs Bush has people like you, dogging and drooling at the heels of all of her accomplishments, and draggind her daughter through the mud FOR her.
Me too.
What's next? Columba giving seminars on Free Trade? (how not to pay duties on your Paris shopping spree)
Am watching Apocolypse now-More hypocrisy.
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