palsied primitive's son gets baited-and-switched by school teacher

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

This is truly funny.

patsified  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-21-09 08:05 AM
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My son's teacher pulled a devastating bait-and-switch yesterday

My 9-year-old son is a rare bird -- a child who has genuinely been interested in politics since he was at least 4-5 years old. He's crazy about history and enjoys learning about how our government works. From the moment Obama announced his candidacy, this child has wanted him to be our president (he was not parroting me -- it took me a little longer to come around).

As Inauguration Day approached, I was trying to figure out what excuse to give in order to keep him home from school so that he could watch this momentous occasion with me. Although I am not a teacher, I come from a family of public school teachers; we do not believe in pulling kids out of school unless it's for an illness or funeral. I don't even schedule his doctor/dentist appointments during school hours. I told him to ask his teacher if she intended to let them watch the event on the classroom TV, and we'd take it from there.

Last week, he came home from school, very excited. "Mom, you don't have to worry about it. My teacher said we could eat our lunches here in the classroom and watch the ceremony! And the kids who don't want to see it can sit outside in the hall." I was so relieved, as he was.

When my son got off the bus yesterday afternoon, after the bus had pulled away and the other children were out of sight, he burst into tears. "Mom, we got to see Joe Biden sworn in, but just before Obama was to raise his hand and begin his oath, she made us go to the cafeteria and get our lunch! We missed it!" When they returned to the classroom with their lunches, Obama was making his speech (I told my son that the speech was every bit as important).

He was inconsolable. This was an event that genuinely MEANT something to this child. I told him he could watch the oath on TV when it was rerun, but he said, "It's not the same," and I totally understand, because I'm the same way myself. I told him that when Obama is sworn in for the second time, 4 years from now, I will absolutely let him stay home to watch it. I cannot entrust my son's love of history to the educational system, I have learned. If something is important to him, I see that I have to take care of it myself.

I'm tempted to write a letter to his teacher and to his principal (an African American lady -- I thought this event would surely be safe in her hands),--interjection by franksolich; there's something significantly Freudian in this comment, revealing deep-seated racism on the part of the palsied primitive, but never mind--but I'm afraid it would only mark him as a troublemaker. A teacher who apparently (?) takes history so lightly has a different values system than I have, so who knows how she would take it out on my son.

I completely understand that school procedures and cafeterias wait for no one, but the oath is a single sentence! How much would the school day have been impacted if the teacher had waited 60 seconds so that her class could witness this? He's told me that all but 3 of the kids in his class are for Obama, but only a few of the supporters are as passionate about witnessing history as he is. I would think that a teacher would want to encourage those few AND to try to instill a little of it in the others.

Poor kid is just sick about this, and I don't blame him a bit. But I certainly have learned my lesson! Your child's education truly is in YOUR hands, no one else's.

One wonders why the palsied primitive assumes the African-Americaness of the principal supersedes the teaching ethics of the principal; isn't that racist, suggesting that one might consider one's blackness more important than one's character?

Damn, primitives are such ****ing racists.

The skumbag primitive commented, but not worth bringing over here.

And then the Jew-hating 0bamaite cali primitive:

cali  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-21-09 08:15 AM
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11. You should have kept him home. You sound rigid regarding the issue of school attendence. It's not the teacher's fault you made the decision to send him.

[Flame]

Good grief.  If this is the biggest thing this lady has to worry about, she should be on her knees thanking God.

You need to teach your kid the following: Get over it already.  Life comes with disappoinments.  Learn how to live with them.  Move on.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Good grief.  If this is the biggest thing this lady has to worry about, she should be on her knees thanking God.

She is.

She's just upset her son didn't get to see him sworn-in.

[Carl]

Good grief.  If this is the biggest thing this lady has to worry about, she should be on her knees thanking God.

You need to teach your kid the following: Get over it already.  Life comes with disappointments.  Learn how to live with them.  Move on.

You see that is something that DUmmies can never accept.
Lifes disappointments just have to be someone elses fault and must be made right for them somehow.

[JohnnyReb]

She is.

She's just upset her son didn't get to see him sworn-in his pony.

Fixxed

[Rebel]

interjection by franksolich; there's something significantly Freudian in this comment, revealing deep-seated racism on the part of the palsied primitive, but never mind-

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree, Frank. I was thinking the same thing before I read your statement afterwards.


BTW, any guesses on what would have happened had the teacher made them stay through the inauguration and pick their lunches up afterwards? 

[crockspot]

Kudos to the teacher for giving this moonbat child a valuable lesson in the disappointments he will face throughout his lifetime. Rove will slip a little something extra into her pay envelope next week.

[Texacon]

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree, Frank. I was thinking the same thing before I read your statement afterwards.


BTW, any guesses on what would have happened had the teacher made them stay through the inauguration and pick their lunches up afterwards? 

I could definitely imagine the outrage had a teacher "Held a class hostage and forced them to watch McCain, Bush, Bush, Reagan, et al ..." take the oath of office.

Also;

Poor kid is just sick about this, and I don't blame him a bit. But I certainly have learned my lesson! Your child's education truly is in YOUR hands, no one else's.

Huh?!  did a DUmmie just write that?!!!!

KC

[Splashdown]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4877898

Oh my.

This is truly funny.

One wonders why the palsied primitive assumes the African-Americaness of the principal supersedes the teaching ethics of the principal; isn't that racist, suggesting that one might consider one's blackness more important than one's character?

Damn, primitives are such ****ing racists.

The skumbag primitive commented, but not worth bringing over here.

And then the Jew-hating 0bamaite cali primitive:

Well, the principal is black, Obama is black; maybe they know each other?????

 

[terry]

   

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82. What an asshole. You should encourage your kid to be a total shit for the rest of the year!

Nice.   I seriously hope that VS has not and will not reproduce, nor have any influence over any children.

[USA4ME]

patsified

--but I'm afraid it would only mark him as a troublemaker.

I'm betting with you as his mother, he's already been marked and they're quite aware of you.

.

[Ree]

I call BS on the whole bouncy....No 4 or 5 year old is interested in politics...

[Peter3_1]

KID'S 9. At 9 all I can recall as political is my Dog was named IKE, as Mamie a mix blood Chesapeak Bay/Lab lived next door. So naturally, my parents named the Lab. we got IKE. Parents who had voted for Ike, reminded me of Mrs. Eisenhower's name  , and thought that it was appropriate that Ike should live next to Mamie.

HOWEVER, by age 14, I had figured out that SS was a Ponzi scheme and government was the problem, not the answer. Government has done nothing since then, but prove that those early ideas were completely correct. I watched the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Was concerned whan Kennedy won that things would be worse, but Kennedy did everything a good republican would do with the sole exception of creating the "Peace CORPS" . So I was satisfied with him by the time 11-22-1963 rolled around.

YES, the story seems yet ANOTHER fabrication . 

[delilahmused]

This woman was just given a concrete example of why we shouldn't rely on others to fulfill our needs or wants. Here she is dealing with what has to be the most local and personal representation of government and was disappointed by their refusal, their inability to consider the mere WISH of a single child over the NEEDS of the entire school population. This young man's teacher knows him. She cares for him and teaches him 6 hours a day, 5 days a week yet she never once put his "needs" of him above the other 20 students (who she also knows and cares for). Heck she even put the entire student body's needs above those of this boy in her care. I have to say that in a way I'm surprised because I thought this was the world the left wanted, a world where everyone was equal and ONE person's want would not be deemed more important than the needs of the collective. Sadly, this woman is completely unable to realize if even at the most local of levels HER personal "needs" aren't fulfilled how in God's name is it possible for a federal government who doesn't even know she exists, make her dreams come true?

Cindie

[The Village Idiot]

They tried to get my wife to show the fiasco in her classroom.

She told them "I teach math, not Social Studies".

She didn't show it.

She should have said "I teach math, not mental health" or "I teach math, Not masturbation"