Obama Wants to Address the Students in this Country

It is SO sad that people are getting so heated about Obama!! He is the President of the United States of America, why can't he make a speech that is geared toward the children of this nation. Asking them to work hard and stay in school...what the hell is wrong with that!! I am a teacher and I was planning on showing this speech tomorrow, but now the district has decided to hold off, tape it, and maybe we'll be able to play it later, after it has been reviewed! The school has been taking calls consistently from parents on both sides of this debate, and those that are against it are calling Obama the devil and the next Hitler!? This is ridiculous!!!! We watched him take office in school last year...why not allow him to address those same kids that watched history happen before their eyes.

There is no hidden agenda here!!! This is racism in it's truest form...people in a position of power are using this situation to get people all heated about a situation that is seriously nothing to get heated about. It's all caused by fear and the news media is feeding that fear. If President Obama was a white male, I highly doubt that there would be any debate about this! In fact, there was no debate when George Bush, Senior gave a speech to the students when he was in office.

I think that it's great that he wants to address the kids of this nation. To call on them to work hard and do their best, to be a part of their own learning. This is the exact thing that we as teachers are trying to do in our classrooms, so should we stop too!!!

This debate is sick and wrong! HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PEOPLE!!!