Fulton County Schools Fail in Teachable Moment
Open Letter to Dr. Cindy Loe, Superintendent of Fulton County Schools
Dr. Loe:
By giving parents an option of whether or not to let their chidren listen to the President of the
Further, I believe you have set a dangerous precedent. Speeches by politicians to any school organization, group or class must be vetted or not allowed. At the least parents must be notified that their child can "opt out" without penalty. Let's say a state representative wants to give a speech to the American History class, before that can happen the teacher must get approval from the system office, the speech must be pre-approved and parents sent letters letting them know their child can "opt out" of the class that day without penalty. At the end who is hurt for missing the class? The student - regardless of their political leanings they missed an opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue and learn a little about being tolerant of others.
Dr. Loe, I'm dismayed that your administration would bow to such a stunt from a few disturbed individuals. Teaching my children to get along with everyone and respect authority has been undermined by the Fulton County School System.
The easy answer to parents wanting to remove their children would have been - "do it quietly". Your action only raises the noise level in the room. In my original comments on the system's website, I called the move to give parents an "opt out" bigoted; I stand by my comments.
This WAS one of those teachable moments you and your staff failed miserably. From this I'm taking the stance that NO elected official of any stripe should be allowed to speak at or during any school related function.
It's my hope that parents will stand up and let the school system know this action is being driven by a group with an agenda and it's not in the best interest of our children. I'm sure this would have never happen at any time BEFORE the election of President Obama.
James Reese
Parent
404-421-5399
P.S. My sons will not wear school uniforms on Tuesday, instead they will wear President Obama t-shirts as a sign of support for the Office of the President of the
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James,
Why is criticism of President Obama's actions automatically considered bigoted?
Is questioning his actions off limits simply because he is black?
Why shouldn't parents have the choice to op out? They did not allow the bible in schools because of so called indoctrination fears, but they should allow the President to preach to our children?
The issue here is not so much the speech but the talking points from the White House and the discussions afterward by the teachers union members who will likely be biased in favor of President Obama without any balanced alternative views. The leading questions from the US Department of Education like "how can you help the president" [advance his policies] are troubling from those who believe that these same policies will destroy our children's future.
When you play the race card on everything, soon genuine racist actions have no merit in the public's eyes.
Remember Peter Wolf?
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To Anonymous Person:
Before answering your first questions, why are you anonymous? Is it you don’t want anyone to know who you really are? Why hide behind a pseudonym?
If you know anything about me, which you don’t, you will know that I’m the LAST person on earth to scream someone or something is bigoted. If I’m speaking out then THERE IS A PROBLEM!!!! I never play the race card, it doesn’t work. To your dismay I’m not a member of ANY black or white activist organization, never has, never will. I enjoy a good debate from both sides. I make it a point to listen to the other side of the debate on a daily basis for hours at a time. Again, for me to yell from school house roof this School System is bigoted is not a stretch.
I’m not sure how long your child(ren) have been enrolled in this system. My two have been in the system for eight and 10 years, respectively. I fought to have Sandtown MS built when the system wasn’t thinking about our needs. I also stood up to have Westlake rebuilt, when no new high school had been built in South Fulton for more than 15 years. Hughes is actually the first, Westlake doesn’t count.
Criticism of President Obama is not off limits by no stretch of one’s imagination and it shouldn’t be. I have criticized the President when he’s not upholding the office in which we’ve elected him (I’m not a shame of the fact I voted for Barack H. Obama and I may again).
Remember you brought race into this. As the first ½ black man to sit in the Oval Office he’s not above reproach. Somehow because he is ½ black, he’s considered a full black man. The republican side of the debate, which you seem to be familiar with (talking points) based on your dig at teachers and the US Department of Education are doing everything in their collective powers to pray this man into failure. What they don’t understand is, if he fails so does this country, but they can careless.
Do you know of the unintentional consequences this causes? I don’t know if you’ve read my letter to Dr. Loe, you can see it at www.blog.southfultonliving.com (my community blog, my website www.southfultonliving.com has been online since 2002)
Parents can do as they wish. Why wouldn’t you want your child to hear a message from the President of the United States is beyond me? The only reason I can dare think of is the parent has an issue with the President on a different level. It appears that only the majority white school system saw fit to give parents an option. Do you think that may have something to do with bigotry? Maybe the President is going to put a little voodoo on the chil’ren? It’s simple in Fulton County the partisan white members of the Board led by Katie Reeves I’m willing wager came up with this drivel because their talk radio buddies or fellow Neanderthals told them to do it.
James Reese
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Continuation of answer to the anonymous person questioning me....
Talking points from the White House, obviously you missed Presidential talks to schools. Funny how things go around in circles in politics, one guy’s advantage is suddenly wrong when you are not in charge.
Obama’s speech won’t mark the first time a president has spoken directly to students. In October 1991, President George H.W. Bush urged students
to hit the books harder in a speech televised on CNN. In June 1985, President Ronald Reagan told students at the former Northside High School in
Atlanta about his tax reform plan. – AJC 9-4-2009
It’s obvious you have a secret dislike for teachers. Do your child(ren) teachers know you loathe them? The use of “teacher union members” is a fascinating way to describe our local educators. Wow.
Preach to the children? Have you read the piece? You’re tossing up apple and oranges.
Do you believe the President policies are ruining our children’s future?
Finally, calling someone a bigot is not the same as calling them a racist. A bigot is one who is intolerable of one creed, belief or opinion. It is the PERFECT word to describe this situation. The Fulton County school system is allowing parents to show their bigotry. BTW, a racist is one who thinks of their race as being superior to another.
I blasted Chris Lennon and PTSA for joining the bigotry. If it becomes necessary, I will again.
Don’t hide behind pseudonyms.
James Reese
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I agree with you, totally. What a shame on our public schools to bow to pressure from the fringe.
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You are just mad because he didn't FORCE the children to watch the speech. You would rather have government officials FORCE "their" citizens to listen to the speech. I disagree, they have a right to choose!
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I agree with you totally, James. This sets a very dangerous precedent, because it, in my opinion, was a racially-motivated move by some of the Metro school districts.
President Obama, like him or not, is the President of the United States of America. Presidents, over the years, have been heard in schools and no one made a big to-do about it.
It's just getting real ugly out there, when folks try to turn a speech by President Obama to schools into something that it isn't... that it wasn't. It was a speech that encouraged kids to stay in school and do well.
But, yeah...
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I really think the parent should have they right to chose if there they want there kid to listen to the speech or not. I do agree that it seems like it wouldn't have hurt anything. Motivating kids to go to school I would figure that would be something that they would want there kids to hear, and coming form someone like the president.
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