Decatur High Students Watch Obama’s Speech
Decatur Metro | September 8, 2009
DHS teacher Chris Billingsley sends in a couple pics from today’s noontime viewing of Obama’s address to students and adds…
Most, if not all, the students at DHS watched president Obama’s speech today. I prepped my students with excerpts from Patrick Henry’s “Liberty” speech, the first two paragraphs from Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence” and a copy of the president’s speech. I thought it was a good activity for most of the students. They paid attention.
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Can we get a before and after shot to see if any of the kids are goose-stepping now?
stoopid—commonists don’t goose-step
My second and fifth graders saw it too….funny, they don’t seem to have turned into socialist zombies…..
I keep getting my fascists and communists mixed up.
They kind of look like socialist zombies- or as about as bored as I was when Reagan spoke to via video feed to my class on the value of conservative ideology back in the 1980s. Ummmm……anyone else confused?
Makes me wanna write a letter!
We debriefed at dinner time last night with our Renfroe student. The husband and I talked about succeeding through failure, hardwork, personal responsibility, blah, blah, blah. My daughter’s big takeaway from the speech? Obama’s mom made him get up at 4:30 in the morning to do extra school work!
Give me more examples of good parenting, people. I have a two year old who seems to be a bit of a sociopath and need all the help I can get!
Re sociopathy: That’s normal developmentally. It is recurrently developmentally normal through adolescence, although there’s a delightful latent stage period for 3 months at age 10 when they have developed a conscience but not hormones. Just to keep you on your toes, your children will also intermittently be brilliant, kind, generous, and thoughtful. Then back to being sociopaths. Anyone who claims to have the answers in parenting is a liar just like anyone who claims their labor was painless or that their children have always slept through the night from birth. What to do? Read 800 parenting books and articles just to make sure you aren’t missing anything and then go with your gut.
“…is a liar just like anyone who claims their labor was painless…”
I can honestly say I felt no pain during the labor of both our children. My wife, on the other hand…
Eric, I am so proud of you!
I popped in to Clairemont to attend to a “sick” child who wanted to go home from school and found the whole school in the auditorium watching the speech. The kids actually seemed interested and engaged to me. The “sick” child was fine again. At the end, the principal said something engaging and relevant.
The President of the United States is a big deal to kids, no matter who it is and what the politics are. Watching him or her on a big movie screen once or twice a year seems appropriate to me as long as it’s accompanied by appropriate learning about American government and world issues. This seemed much tamer to me than putting Kennedy the martyr’s picture next to the Virgin Mary statue and praying to both, which is what I remember from my time in Catholic School.
Obviously all the melodrama and hysteria was overreaction. [edited]
Damn, I’ve been listening to way too much Hannity and Beck….
Oh lord…yeah its a big conspiracy…geez louise.
Just think the thread WAS ending so nicely.
Agreed SAACJack. I’m not in the mood to see where that sort of comment takes us today.
Same here, DM. Not sure what was said, but thanks for editing and keeping the the thread from going downhill.
what I want to know is when the kid in front is going to get a haircut …..
Hell, if my hair did that, I’d never cut it.
DM —
I remember the guy with the afro in high school … he’s now bald .. and not on purpose .. I take that “big hair” comment back ….flaunt it (as long as you) got it …
That kid’s hair is awesome–he’s in high school, why should he be in a hurry to be like you?
I say rock on Fro Bro!
That kid’s hair rocks. Also digging the Lennon-style sideburns of his neighbor.
Word. I was thinking that a lot of these kids are rocking the very same looks my peers & I were back in junior high in the 70’s…(I’m aware that I’m dating myself here, but so be it!) That kid’s ‘fro is plenty righteous.
that is cool hair.
it’s obviously the hair style of nascent socialist (who else would be ingesting DHS-forced government propaganda) but doesn’t reduce the coolness of that doo.
and what’s up with that “satori movement” t-shirt?
looks like we might have an obama-plant Berkeley-esque commie on our hands.
An afro-having, skateboarding socialist! Run for your lives!!!
Looks like that kid’s bein’ brought up right!
By the way, I just noticed in the first picture the McCain, Palin and Saxby posters on the wall just to the left of the TV with Obama on the screen.
No political statement there, I just like dichotomy (or should I say bipartisanship?).
Eric,
The McCain/Palin sign is right next to an Obama sign. I was there last week for curriculum night and the collection of posters/signs is diverse and interesting! Mr. Billingsley is a super teacher. I’m so glad my daughter is in his class this year.
Students got English literature, history and politics: “Much ado about nuthin'” (Apologies to Will S.)
I watched the President’s speech last night on youtube. By the end of it, I kept thinking, “wow…if only my earth science teacher spoke like that…”
Or if my high school chemistry talked about moles and grams divide by formula weight with as much clarity (of voice).