Should a president (Republican or Democrat) be allowed to do a address to school children?
January 29th, 2010 | 
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No. Not unless he has been vetted the same way childminders and school teaching assistants are, otherwise any President could just address the children without anyone knowing if he had a history of child abuse or anything.
I dont think the President should have a right at all, with or without the parents consent. It’s like he’s trying to mastermind innocent children. In this country, the law says that we are not a legal adult until the age of 18. So, I dont think the president has any right speaking to kids that are 3-11. The three year olds probably will have no clue wtf he’s talking about, but it may brainwash them a little because the schools are making it such a huge issue, along with the parents who are against it making it a big deal. I would not let my children watch it. And If it was mandatory for the children I would pull my children out of the fkin public school and start homeschooling.
it’s not a president
it is The President Of The United States
Yes he should be allowed. You aren’t forced to watch it.
NO. And why I say that is because no matter who is speaking in class, all parents should be notified. So it would be wrong if the school did it without the parent’s consent. The children belong to the parents not the school. Just like going on a school trip, the students are sent home with a permission slip for the parents to read and sign. Permission slips should go to all parents for any type of activity for students to participate in, weather they go or not. I also think that NO one should ever try to indoctrinate students with their Socialist agendas. So hopefully, parents who are against this will surely take their kids out of school for the day.
Probably not a good idea unless parents can check out the message ahead of time. In the current controversy, many believe that assigning questions to students like “What can you do to help President Obama” is a form of selling the Obama brand to kids.
Young people tend to be more impressed by personalities than by real issues. Obama was swept into office by young people who ‘idolized’ him, but now that there is some real “work” to be done, they aren’t around to support his issues with that same hysteria.
Of COURSE !!! Doesn’t the President sign the Education Bills whose funding goes towards keeping Our Public Schools open ??! Then WHY shouldn’t he be able to SAY something to urge Students to do WELL- so we get the biggest “bang” for those Tax Payer Bucks ??!
Sure, as long as his or her message is appropriate to the audience. Politicians of all sorts address, visit and work with school children. Rarely do schools obtain “consent” for this. A senator visited my child’s school a couple of years ago – no one asked me if it was okay. I didn’t care. I remember seeing Barbara Bush on “Different Strokes” when I was a kid, and reading an article with President Clinton in our kids Time magazine insert in school. All presidents visit schools, make speeches in and from school, and until some conservatives with a grudge against Obama got wind of it, no one thought anything bad about it.
NO and HELL NO especially this one………..doesn’t he have something else to do, I makes me nervous asking that question too, or has he ran out of his worthless ideas, he has to resort to the kids now? If I had kids and knew it was coming to my children’s school I would take them OUT for the day.
SHURE WHY NOT. IF THE PARENTS FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IT, KEEP THE KIDS HOME THE DAY OF THE SPEECH.
Yes address the schools, but parents, if they object that strongly could write a note or something and they could go to a school library or something.
My local news just had a story that at least one school district is going to record the speech, review it and if it is not too political show it to the kids, I think with parents’ permission. It is not going to be forced on them, it is not going to be, like some people have said, like Hitler (I knew Germans from that time, they did have to listen to Hitler or they were in trouble), but I don’t see the big problem.
Is it that President Obama is liberal or is a racial thing? Or is it he is young and kids would pay more attention to a younger President, like my generation did with Kennedy than an older one? I’m serious, I don’t understand the uproar. I’m not finding fault with parents, I’m just trying to understand what the big problem is.
And if kids are in middle school, jr high or high school, they should be getting to an age when they would understand that politics is made up of differing views and everyone does not agree with their parents, or them or whatever. (I heard it was to 6th graders, I’m not sure)
By the way, Ronald Reagan, a staunch conservative and George HW Bush apparently both addressed school kids at some point. I don’t remember anything about it or liberals getting all bent out of shape about it, but could be wrong.
Of course, It’s been done for decades. Paranoid conservatives want to shield their children from Obama no matter what.
However, the person responsible for titling the classroom materials as “how you can help the President” should be fired immediately.
Talk about feeding the fires of hate.
1stBush and reagan already did it but there was no controversy then. imho i would hate to be a conservative or republican right now because this is making them look so stupid and crazy to regular americans and the rest of the world. This is embarassing.