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Old 09-09-2009, 12:12 PM   #36
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Re: Obama's speech to students today

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Originally Posted by saden1 View Post
Obama people f'ed up with the lesson plan thing but the content of the speech was excellent.

Those people who want to shelter their children from disagreeable knowledge are only setting them up for failure for wisdom spawns from knowledge irrespective of its agreeableness.
The problem is that they did not release his speach until Monday and the only thing people knew about was the lesson plan stuff. I agree you cannot shelter your child but school is not the place for a president to make a political statement which some people feared and did not want their children to be a part of it. The speech was good and not political so there is really not much to discuss. I'm sure many people wonder if that was because of the public reaction or was it never intended to be political.
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