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.
Falling back on that so soon? Proof positive that you need to grow up.
" -Imagine if this was Hillary & Chelsea?"
No need. It's already happened. The stories were buried by the media, at the request of Bill and Hillary. Why is the same courtesy not extended to the Bush family?
Oh, no need to imagine.
Roger pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and served a year in prison.
Bill pardoned him.
You have to be out of your mind to bring that up. After what we've been told about how Hillary Clinton has spent her married life being kicked to the curb and disrespected by her husband who has spent his married life banging anything with a pulse, you would think that Hillary would tell her daughter to drop this college guy she's screwing (to whom she is not married) and stop being a slut like her father. Seeing as how Chelsea and her current "paramour" are still making time, I guess that means Hillary hasn't had any kind of talk with her daughter.
What, Chelsea's an adult? So are the Bush's children. Say, Hillary wouldn't happen to be a hypocrite, would she?
ROFLOL...I was TRYING to be considerate to the new member!
"There's horsepower and then there's horsesh*t."
Jeb Bush is horsepower.
And then there's Bill Clinton.
Can't improve upon a perfect post. I'll BUMP to that!
Miamimark needs to get off the canned rhetoric.
Ah, E-Bay. Have fun!!
Tell that to all the moms out there whose kids are in jail for Mother's Day and didn't get a pass. THAT is the hypocrisy.
They're all hypocrites once they get a taste of power.
That shows character.
And who better than the brother of an abuser?
In Roger Morris' recent book Partners in Power, Morris quotes Roger Clinton on a 1983-84 surveillance film stating, "Got to get some [cocaine] for my brother. He's got a nose like a vacuum cleaner."
I believe that Floridians should be very proud to have her as a First Lady. Besides, if this were Hillary and Chelsea..they'd find a way to blame it on ANYONE but themselves. The Right Wing Conspiracy would have been the reason that Chelsea became this or that.
Columba has three beautiful children and a man that loves her. Which is more than I can say for Hillary Clinton. Columba can proudly hold her head high. Hillary can only countdown the days until she's departed the Earth with shame or she's voted out of office and she's riding Air China to her true homeland. God Bless Columba, Barbara, and Laura!!!
No, not all. A mother who has suffered heartbreak as a result of the decisions made by a grown child attempting to spare other parents that heartbreak is not a hypocrite, but a selfless, compassionate individual.
How you can possibly see hypocrisy in what Mrs. Bush is doing is beyond me. For her to go out and speak publicly after what her family has been put through by the choices of this grown daughter, and to risk charges of "hypocrisy" by Clinton kneepad leftists whose blind hatred of anything conservative is downright pathological, is, to me, an act of great courage.
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