Obama’s plan to speak to schoolchildren ignites furor in Dallas-Fort Worth

A groundswell of parent opposition to President Barack Obama’s speech next week to students on the importance of education has forced many North Texas school districts to question whether to air it live in classrooms.

Obama announced the speech weeks ago, but opposition and concerns spread rapidly Wednesday morning through conservative social networking Web sites and radio talk shows.

By midday, local school districts say, they were inundated with hundreds of phone calls from parents urging them to not show Obama’s speech at school.

Some parents threatened to keep their children home from school if the video was aired.

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6 Responses to Obama’s plan to speak to schoolchildren ignites furor in Dallas-Fort Worth

  1. Darrel says:

    Only in Texas!

    The conservative leftist conspiracy theories and "brownshirt" finger points were cute at first, now they're just craziness. It's a civics thing, George W. Bush read to school kids, big deal–these people need to get a grip.

  2. Gracie says:

    Yes, crazy considering dropout rates:

    The statewide statistics are just as startling:
    • • Dropouts from the class of 2012 alone will cost the state of Texas up to $9.6 billion over the course of their lifetimes (The ABCD's of Texas Education: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Reducing the Dropout Rate 2009).
    • • Teens who drop out are more likely to live in poverty and three times more likely to be unemployed or working for poverty-level wages (CPPP, 2005).
    • • Two-thirds of inmates in the Texas prison system are high school dropouts (Intercultural Development Research Association, 2004).

  3. dan says:

    This morning's paper points out that Bush 41 gave a similar speech.

    This must have been organized and inspired by the hate-wing of the GOP and its efforts to undermine the respect for and authority of a president who has been in office for all of seven months

  4. Darrel says:

    And one more thing to add ~ the GOP needs to remember that Ronald Reagan addressed school children on November 14, 1988–pushing his uber-conservative agenda. So suddenly the president speaking to our nation's children is such a terrible thing?

    A Presidential speech broadcast to children wasn't wrong when Reagan did it and it isn't wrong when Obama does it. Plain and simple!

  5. blurdo says:

    Just crazy.

    If any school district had even considered not carrying a similar speech by W, they would have been branded evil and anti-American.

  6. Shae says:

    Agree with all of these comments.

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