Some parents are very unhappy that the schools are trying to involve kids in learning what an inaguration is all about.
Huh.
I’m just irritated that schools are closing around here. I’d love to send QKid off to watch in inauguration at school!
The University of Virginia is cancelling classes during the middle of the day. I don’t see the point, they didn’t do it for any other inauguration.
I recall watching the news in class for Clinton’s inauguration in 1992, but that was it. It was business as usual in 2000, definitely.
Yes.
I’m not sure why she has a problem with that.
Oh…
Indoctrination
main entry: in-doc-tri-nate
- to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments: TEACH
Can’t have that.
Perhaps surprising coming from me, but…
…I think this is more of a teachable moment than any previous inauguration in our lifetimes.
While it’s true that we should strive to be a color-blind society, it’s also true that those ideals have not been around long enough to allow a person of color to be elected President. We elect as presidents people (men, actually!) in their forties, fifties, sixties, seventies. A forty-five-year old was born in 1963, the year Dr. King made that speech. It’s unrealistic to say that everything racial was fixed in that instant.
The fact that we’ve reached this milestone is just as newsworthy, historical, and teachable as other great milestones in our progress towards racial equality. And it makes this event different than Bush’s was or McCain’s would have been.
Now, I am assuming that this is the focus of these events, and they’re not telling the kids, “Finally we have a president who understands the progressive liberal policies are best for us all!” Obviously that’s objectionable. But if the focus is simply: this is a historic moment for our country and its march towards racial equality… yeah, it’s a teachable moment.
Aw, let the kids have their hoopla.
HOOPLA!
Thanks for your post, Bricker. Well said.
The fact that Jan. 20th fell on a Saturday in 2001 may have had something to do with that.
“Indoctrinate,” as typically used to refer to the world of education, is a far more loaded word than that definition would suggest. If it wasn’t, I wouldn’t have been subjected to an education class that tried hard to explain the difference between educate and indoctrinate, and why we mustn’t do the latter.
I’m reporting Bricker’s post. Somebody’s hacked his account.
(Kidding! Kidding! ;))
Make that 1993 and 2001. :smack: My head has seriously been elsewhere all day.
I like how she says, “I could care less…”
Me thinks someone needs to go to back to school herself.
First of all, the word is ‘methinks’. Second of all, ‘I could care less’ is an accepted idiom. It’s not incorrect.
Hell, I watched the OJ Simpson murder trial verdict in my high school.
District had to put those expensive tv systems in use sometime.
:smack:
I knew that.
There is a line where it stops being an event and turns into a circus.
My father for instance, was from a small town and was well known. So when he died my mother buried him in that small town.
Now what should’ve been a dignified service turned into a circus. Anyone in that town, even remotely connected to my father showed up and while I admit, everyone had a great time and a wake doesn’t have to be a “downer,” a lot of those people were there for a party, not because they cared anything about my father.
So it’s kind of the same thing, Obama’s inaguration is a bit different because he’s either African American or Mixed Race or the Messiah, depending on your viewpoint. But people have really lost sight of what its about.
When I see kids on TV saying “I want to go because he’s our first African American president, and it’s symbolic of our roots and our trials.” This makes me gag, cause these kids (who are African America) clearly don’t understand Obama’s roots have nothing in common with an average black man of America. In otherwords even when the reasons are good, they’re not correct and no one dares to correct them.
Nobody has the third viewpoint.
Nothing? Arguably. But if these kids are inspired by his inauguration, or even only made a little bit happy, is that really something to complain about?
Bricker’s excellent post doesn’t surprise me a bit. Sounds exactly like what I would expect him to say. And yeah, I do know his posts on these boards, I read every single one I notice.
Markxxx, I wonder if you think any President’s upbringing is really typical of the average white kids’ upbringing. Not usually, right? We don’t want ‘common’ presidents. We want the cream of the crop.
These kids are being raised in a society that looks at them and see someone they consider “black” or “African American”, and a lot of these kids thought that could keep them from being president, no matter how smart and gifted and hard working they may be. Now they see that’s not true. Not a good reason for a circus, but a pretty good reason for a celebration, I think.
But it just sounds stupid, and it makes no sense. I could care less about my family and friends; I could, but I don’t. On the other hand, I couldn’t care less about Indian cricket teams; there is no possible way that it could concern me less than it does. And don’t even get me started on “irregardless”. Besides, both of them are far more inaccurate that putting “me thinks” in place of “methinks”.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris