School district that barred students from hearing Obama will bus them to Bush speech.
School district that barred students from hearing Obama will bus them to Bush speech.
The Arlington Independent School District in Texas decided not to show President Obama’s address to students live yesterday because it reportedly didn’t want to interrupt its regularly scheduled lesson plans. However, the district has now decided to bus its students off-campus on Sept. 21 to hear President Bush speak:
District officials said it’s part of a Cowboys Stadium field trip that the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee invited 28 fifth-grade classes to attend several months ago.
In addition to hearing from Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, the students will hear from legendary Dallas Cowboys players and North Texas business and community leaders. The event launches the Super Bowl committee’s largest-ever youth education program.
Dwight McKissic, the pastor at the Cornerstone Baptist Church, which offered an alternative venue for Arlington families wishing to listen to the President yesterday, criticized the school district’s “blatant double standard.” “Why is it appropriate for students to hear from former President Bush on Sept. 21 at the Cowboy[s] Stadium, but inappropriate for the current president to address students while they remain on school campuses?” McKissic asked. (HT: Raw Story)
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They don’t even pretend anymore….
September 9th, 2009 at 11:52 amI am so tired of these hating basterds…why don’t they just come out and say “I am a freeking racist” and be done with it?
September 9th, 2009 at 11:54 amSimilarly in Ohio a school district in John Boehner’s district that bussed students to VOA park for a Tea Bagger protest refused to allow students to view President’s Obama’s speech yesterday.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:55 amIn addition to hearing from Bush and former first lady Laura Bush, the students will hear from legendary Dallas Cowboys players and North Texas business and community leaders.
So, they’ll get to listen to a war criminal, and then be forced to listen to the Hank Hill’s give them a speech about the joys of propane, and other worthy endeavors.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:56 amIf only Obama had been willing forgo talking about controversial topics like improving academic achievement in order to talk about really important issues with the school children, like the Super Bowl…
/sarc
September 9th, 2009 at 11:56 amYet again, Texas takes the prize for being the most ignorant state in the Union. Kick them out of the Union, giving the many educated people time to flee, of course.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:57 amThe Arlington Independent School District in Texas
– - Independent? Well yeah, in the sense that the district seceded from reality.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:58 amLet’s see… Refusing pupils to see the elected President of the U.S., but busing them to see the most UNPOPULAr ex-Pres. in decades… Only in Texas. OHH.. Unless that you are the group who wasn’t allowed to see Obama, but one kid got Baptised instead! Praise The Lord!!
September 9th, 2009 at 11:58 amNo White President Left Behind!
September 9th, 2009 at 11:59 amMexico, please take Texas back! If you do, all else will be forgiven. We promise.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pmWell listening to these idiots should lower the Texas students collective IQ a few points. Mission Accomplished Wingers! I hope GWB regales them with stories of humans riding dinosaurs. Then he can teach them how to run everything from oil feilds, baseball teams and a Nation….into the effing ground. Maybe a few tips on torture and covering up criminal activities before he teaches them the import of being a legacy when it comes time for college. The business leaders can teach the youngsters the “I’ve got mine so fcuk you” mentality and the virtues of drilling now and blowing the tops off mountains. I just hope LAla doesn’t have a few too many before driving Georgie into a parking lot full of children.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pmApparently “Racism” is one of the 3 Rs in the Arlington Independent School District.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:01 pmSmall-minded people keeping their children’s world small.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pmAttn: ThinkProgress
If Bush talks about policy issues, such as taxes or healthcare, I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT! (as do we all. Please!)
September 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pmHmmm… Texas… football…
Makes perfect sense to me!
September 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pmHow’s that Texas secessionist movement going?
Will they please hurry up and go the f*** away?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pmRemember that line in the Simpson’s, Miss Hoover,”I question the educational value of this assembly.” Mrs. Grabbaple, “Hey, It will be one of their pleasant memories when they are pumping gas for a living.”
September 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pmI guess they’ve finally realized that they don’t have to pretend, since their base holds only one principle: Party Before All. So anything — any lie, any double standard, any violation of the law — is excusable as long as it benefits The Party of the Conservative Movement.
So crap like this that is so obviously hypocritical to normal, aware people? Rolls of their base like water off a duck’s back.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pmWill Dubya’s speech be thoroughly vetted before he gives it? Will he advance a copy to school administrators, parents, and the media so they can make sure he won’t be “indoctrinating” the children in any way? Will the media talking heads speculate endlessly on a covert political agenda Dubya plans to sneak into his oratory?
My guess is no.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pmTo paraphrase Ann Coulter:
Texas has become the land of religious zealots and seccessionists. The hard currency could soon become prayer cards. At this point, we couldn’t give Texas back to Mexico.
(She was making a very lame tirade against California. It works both ways, Annie.)
September 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pmWell now we know why Laura Bush said children should listen to a speech by the President. She didn’t want to lose the money from Georgie’s Super Bowl gig.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pmSomeone is voting down every comment that doesn’t support the Arlington Independent S.B.’s blatant anti-Pres. Obama behavior. Indoctrination is ok with them as long as it’s coming from the right wing.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:10 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
texas cannot secede soon enough. and take oklahoma and florida with them.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pmWill Bush’s speech be screened for teh stupid?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm“Why is it appropriate for students to hear from former President Bush on Sept. 21 at the Cowboy[s] Stadium, but inappropriate for the current president…
…uh, let me take a wild guess here..
…BECAUSE THEY ARE REICHWING RACISTS?
I think I may just be right.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pmZooey says:
Will Bush’s speech be screened for teh stupid?
Seems unnecessary, doesn’t it? I mean, it wouldn’t be a Bush speech unless it was absolutely teeming with teh stupid, would it?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pmHypocrisy and racism, can there be a limit? Everytime you think it could not get any worse, it gets worse. Obama’s election has brought out the underlying racism, that had been below ground for so long that many thought this country was past that, it is sad to realize we are not.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pmThinking the unfortunate thing is I do not think Mexico wants Texas back.
As after it loses all the perks of being part of the USA what will it have. Noting but lower educated people then in Mexico.
As i would believe all the smart and well educated people would move to some where back into America.
just thinking
September 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pmConservatives today are a disgrace to the union. It’s simply unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it.
And conservatives, please don’t try to argue that Bush received the same treatment from liberals. Bush had approval ratings in the high 80’s after the 9-11 attack. You must know by now that if the tables were turned and it was a Dem in office, conservatives not only wouldn’t have supported him, they would be calling for his impeachment for not protecting the country.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pmNotice how every evil hateful plan backfires. Now as the students listen to Bushisms and Laura does her best to correct George’s mistakes remember how many Black Football Players are in any SuperBowl. Yes to win the game all the players have to work as a team. Now we know who the minority players are and so will the students as they cheer for their team to win. I just live how God works on evil doers.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pmlinda @24
If we could deport all the bible thumping bushies back to Texas, Oklahoma would be blue again.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pmCan’t wait for the 2010 Census results.
From 2000:
But new census data show that the same demographic trends that have reshaped California, notably the influx of Hispanics, are happening in Texas, and faster than expected. To the surprise of some demographers, Hispanics have already become the largest ethnic or racial group in Texas’ two biggest cities, Houston and Dallas.
Methinks this has EVERYTHING to do with Rightwing hysteria since last November.
Teh Republican Party is OVER.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmTrudy Rubin had a interesting editorial in the Philly Inquier today. She states how health care debate is being played out in the U.S. is resembles the Middle East. In the Middle East the public views everything throgh a consprital view. That is happening here right now. Faux News and Limpballs, Beck and Hannity are turning Americans into conspriacy nuts. Depressing no?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmWhat is these children learnin’?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmZooey says:
Will Bush’s speech be screened for teh stupid?
LOL>>> if they did that no parent or adults be aloud there especially the ex pres him self.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:22 pmIf he forgets his lines he could always do a little dance or a jig. Then he could show the younguns how to do shooters of texas wiskey.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:23 pmHey!!!!
All of who are calling for Texas to secede really needs to stop! There is no need for that.
Most of the hate in Texas is coming from OLD, FAT, White people…We need to look at this in a positive manner. By the next election, many of these haters will have croaked.
Let’s just hope their kids are not as warped as they are.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pmI told my kids (grade schoolers), who actually needed a fcuking signed permission slip to watch President Obama TODAY, to be proud and start cheering “GOBAMA!” at the end.
They were SO excited.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:26 pmExcellent points, smidget & Pilotshark. :-D
September 9th, 2009 at 12:27 pmasinca says:
What is these children learnin’?
Sadly, Texas is teaching these kids on how to be future “racist.”
September 9th, 2009 at 12:28 pmtexasrick says:
September 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
The secession crap must be wearing on the smart people in Texas, such as yourself.
I’m just grateful the teabaggers in Idaho aren’t quite as vocal. :)
September 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pm…and by “Rightwing hysteria” in my post #33 above, I meant “overt racism”.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pmDwight McKissic Sr., the senior pastor of Arlington’s Cornerstone Baptist Church, said he’s concerned about the district’s decision to not broadcast Obama’s message while transporting students to hear a message from Bush.
“I do not understand the duplicity in this situation,” McKissic said in a news release from the church. “I believe the students and the public deserve and need to have these differences explained.”
You go Pastor Dwight!
September 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pmIf it were, we’d be reduced to George approaching the podium, intoning, “good morning” into the mic, and returning to his seat.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pmTundra says:
#4,
I’m not gay,
Of course not.
If you were, you’d at least have one redeeming quality.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThe only silver lining I see in these kinds of things since Obama became president is that the right can really no longer have any pretense of being fair minded or even good citizens.
They’ve made it clear that for them, it’s only about political power. They have no respect for our institutions or our history. Yelling at disabled people trying to make their case for health care shows they have no common decency. Raising alarms about things this president does when they didn’t utter a peep when other presidents did the same thing exposes their racism. They’re just pissing all over themselves and they don’t seem to realize it.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThese school district officials should be fired for being so blatantly partisan & probably racist. These same liars wailed that Obama’s speech would be too political for students (which it certainly was not) yet listening to Bush, who will likely lie yet again about all the good he has done– well, that’s perfectly okay. These officials are anti-American; they are insulting to the President and care only about the Repub party, not the country.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pmDNFP: Be careful of what you wish for…. Mexico is over 90% Catholic. If the Republicans were smart (granted a big IF) they would talk to these communities about social issues: the liberals driving religion out of the schools and public places, their commitment to abortion on demand, etc. The Hispanic vote could become a reliable Republican block…again, if they were smart about it.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pmOkay, ignoring the hypocrisy for a moment…
Why are we using instruction time to educate youths about the Super Bowl?
It’s Texas. I’m pretty sure these kids are aware of Football and I’m almost certain that they know about the Super Bowl, too… how are we justifying the loss of instruction time again Arlington Independent School District?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pmWhat ‘enrichment’ will this glorified pep-rally offer?
The crazy is making me dizzy and the stupid is making me nauseous. Stop the world I want to get off.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pmtexasrick says
All of who are calling for Texas to secede really needs to stop! There is no need for that.
Sorry i am guilty of this. and you are absolute right we need to look at that threw we need to get the dumbass out of Texas and keep it as a state.
So I will stop that. and will joint you and others in helping Texas become blue and stay with us all in this great country the one place were you know WE THE PEOPLE live.
handshake TexasRick
September 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pmI’m glad it was a Churchman who spoke out against the school district.
Red state school boards have become de facto lobbying organs for McChurches, populated with stay-at-home busy-bodies with no qualifications other than being gossipy and judgmental.
Let’s hope these are just the “last throes” of a bitter ideological cult rapidly becoming demographically irrelevant.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pmWhy do you think the Repubes always push charter schools and independent school districts?
So they can legally pull stunts like this.
LBJ is rolling in his grave.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pmSad. It makes it worse that they knew about this, it’s been scheduled. Parents aren’t upset that kids will be taken out of school for a promotional event about football? Not in texas, home of the stupid racists.
FCK texas!
September 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pmTeh Republican Party is OVER.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I cannot IMAGINE why you’d think that.
46% of the electorate voted for the WORST TICKET IN HISTORY, rather than vote for the (half-) black guy.
Whites–the overwhelming majority of whom are lower- to lower-middull class–still constitute over 70% of the population. The GOPukes will have plenty of support for the foreseeable future…The Pukes are the party of the Angry White Folks. That number is not declining.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pmI believe you are wrong about this tl.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pmIf I were still in academia, I would not accept any Texas school ‘credential’ at face value, but would require any student of mine from Texas to take a literacy and a history test, just to get in the door.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:49 pmzooks: “The Hispanic vote could become a reliable Republican block…again, if they were smart about it.”
I think the way they reacted to Sonia Sotomajor pretty much guarantees that Hispanic support for Repubs will further erode.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:49 pm***
#23,
why don’t we just skip the bu||shit
and go straight to the chase?
^
here:
Tundra says:
Hey, if it makes you all happy,
Cheney is just a bad guy and anything said bad about him is obviously true.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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September 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pmI believe you are wrong about this tl.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
believe what you like, compadre…there’s gonna be a Puke/Fascist president in 2013…and there’s unlikely ever to be another “novelty” president–a woman, or a non-white…
I don’t like it, but I cannot see how it will work out any other way…
September 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pmI think the way they reacted to Sonia Sotomajor pretty much guarantees that Hispanic support for Repubs will further erode.
Anybody wanna do a side-bet on how Sotomayor votes on the challenge to McCain/Feingold?
I predict she sides with the CorpoRats…
September 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI don’t like it, but I cannot see how it will work out any other way…
2013 will not be kind to the Republican party… no matter who they run.
And women and non-whites are not ‘novelty’ presidential candidates to the Democratic Party…
And the Republican’s inability to see women and non-whites as anything other than a ‘novelty’ is a big part of why 2013 will not be kind to them.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pmShameless
September 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pmYou think Sotomajor will vote to overturn 100 years of precedent? I don’t think so.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYou said the same thing in 07 about what would happen in 08.
Is your real name Krystal?
September 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYou know what, though? Good for McKissic. I must admit that his reaction surprised me.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pmI just spoke with the most conservative guy I know. He announced that he wakes up almost embarassed the be a GOP voter. He feels the party is idealess, leaderless, allowing itself to be defined by kooks and whackjobs, and offering nothing but no as a solution. Alas we have found common ground
September 9th, 2009 at 1:05 pmtokin thinks all the new “independents” are immigrants.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pmYou had better face up to reality. There is a war going on. A war that pits racist, religious bigots and an elite oligarchy based upon money against the rest of the United States. They are winning largely because we fail to understand the war or fight it. If you do not believe it, then you are part of the problem.
Are you really such idiots that you can not understand that the crazies have taken over? Blatant lack of respect for the President embodied by the right such as this school in Texas, the words of Republican Senators and Representatives pushing blatant lies such as birthers, death panels and allegations of Hitlerism against the President. Do you really think that things are going to get any better when the Supreme Court (packed with the right wing traitors placed on the court by previous Republican administrations) upholds the free speech rights of corporations as though such inanimate constructs were people. What are you going to do to protect your democracy when the billions of dollars crowd out any effective speech by the individual as will soon be the case.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pmtom says:
Mexico, please take Texas back! If you do, all else will be forgiven. We promise.
Pilotshark says:
Thinking the unfortunate thing is I do not think Mexico wants Texas back.
Not with Bush living there, we don’t.
Maaaaaybe when Bush goes off to live in Paraguay. And also, if you let us keep the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pmAustin, TX, resident here–a displaced Yankee. Please give us a few days to evacuate before you drop the bomb…
You’d think that having been in power for such a long time would mellow out our winger friends, calm them down, bring them to their senses.
Instead, they seem crazier than ever.
Evidently, anything whatsoever that happens flips right-wingers out. They’re freaked when they’re in control, and they’re hysterical when they’re out of power. They’re like a bunch of political berserckers.
Death Panel
September 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmI used to think that 100 years after the civil war, the idea that the U.S. was anything but a united nation was far far in the past. Sure the south and north remain distinct, even hostile to each other, but everyone’s American first.
Unless there’s a Democrat in the White House, then all bets are off. And if he’s black, apparently he’s not even allowed to say stay in school. It’s not that the racists and lunatics holler and rant, it’s that pretty much every mainstream media outlet, and pretty much every political leader, treats the lunatic hate mongers with more respect than, say, Howard Dean gets. Really, if it’s culturally acceptable to call the President a commie agent of sedition, a foreigner, to bring guns to where he’s speaking. Hell Pat Buchanan’s pitching Hitler apologia, and keeping his job on the “wacko Liberal” network. No problem. It’s not like he suggested providing medical care for the babies of poor people.
Sigh. America, you’re committing societal suicide, live on Fox every afternoon.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pmI am appalled that they are trying to indoctrinate those children into becoming football players. ;)
September 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pmTokin Librul: “I predict she sides with the CorpoRats..”
The latest news says she is siding with the liberals on this one and actively looking for a middle ground which will prevent the 5 conservatives from completely dismantling the last 100 years of precedent – possibly allowing non-profit groups but not profit-driven corporations.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pmIt is an appalling double standard but where are the progressive Dem leaders pushing back against this with the same vigor that the conservatives push back against the Obama speech?
The right wing is always louder, bolder and knows how to win the news cycles.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pmmk3872, what are they supposed to do about it. The facts speak for themselves. Southern conservatives are a disgrace to the nation, period.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pmThe republicans have used these tactics successfully in the past for political gain. In upcoming elections we must show our appreciation for their efforts by showing up at the polls to vote against them to show our appreciation, and no, this is not snark.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pmWe’ll show our appreciation by showing our non-support for their policies. They want positive results for their actions, so we’ll vote positively for their opponents.
The students and fellow Dallas Cowboy fans cheer for such black people as Tony Dorsett, Emmitt Smith, quarterbacks Randall Cunningham and Rodney Pete. Yes to win the Super Bowl you have color and team work. How many in Texas have worn the number of a Black Dallas Cowboy and was proud of it? I plan could have worked if minorities weren’t allowed to play in the NFL.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:59 pmLookee here, aliens. We in Arlington have a $1.2 billion dollar stadium that needs usin’. Did I mention that it cost $1.2 billion? Did Obama even mention our $1.2 billion stadium? I don’t think he even likes football. In Arlingtion, with our $1.2 billion stadium, we love football. We can’t actually afford to attend pro football games at our new $1.2 billion stadium, give that it costs $700 bucks for a family of four to attend a game. No shit. One game.
Instead we ship our kids off in the middle of the day to hear the worst President ever try and talk without telling a fart joke. Because who in Arlington would be upset about sending our kids to sit in our new $1.2 billion stadium and admire where all the rich people play? Hey, here in Arlington anything approximating a liberal is fenced off from the rest of town. This ain’t Austin, ya’no!
Is ten bucks for popcorn too high a price to bear? $75 parking even enough? $14 plastic cup margaritas give you a headache? We here in Arlington, with our $1.2 billion stadium, will pay any price, bear any disgraced politician, to stand proudly in debt up to our kiesters and learn how to put food on our families.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pmWhat a horrible use of a perfectly good stadium and giant screen.
They want patriotic and Texan? Skip Dubya and have the veteran Roger Staubach give the speech in Cowboy Stadium, or someone who actually served in Iraq/Afghanistan.
Vanderjagt was more of a Dallas Cowboy than Bush.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:10 pmThat’s because right wingers own all of the media companies….
September 9th, 2009 at 2:18 pmI don’t get these folk. I sat through a lot of assemblies in school. Being exposed to different groups is part of education.
I can understand differences in political philosophy.
But on last nights news was a lady crying her eyes out about how she couldn’t stand the thought of her kids having to hear what the President had to say. Where does one get this total sense of loss and devaluation ?
September 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pmThese bozos are turning Obama into a culture hero in Texas for the kids.
The Republicans embrace this simpleminded indoctrination model that never works and never will.
Do they not remembers their own childhoods, sitting bored to distraction in classrooms, subjected to trivial disciplines and meaningless tasks, listening to adults they have no respect for trying to tell them what to believe?
Have thousands of years of pronouncements from the bench convinced kids not to have sex, take drugs, or even smoke cigarettes? (OK, not thousands in the last case….)
If they wanted to turn Barack Obama into a hero for all those kids, they couldn’t do better than to try to keep kids from hearing him. No, no, go hear the nice white President who’s (not really) from Texas! We’ll bus you to see him!
It worked so well with rock ‘n’ roll and hip hop.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pmSo what’s the problem?
September 9th, 2009 at 2:56 pmconservative guy says:
So what’s the problem?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The problem is you havent killed yourself yet. You are still afflicting mankind with a level of stupidity that is burdensome to decent human beings. The problem is you are an ignorant subhuman moron and a pile of dogshit and you need to go kill yourself. Cowboy up you worthless cretin. Go do the right thing
September 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pmconservative guy:
What’s the problem? Dude, are you truly that dense?
Dwight McKissic is the problem.
In Mr. McKissic, we have a Dallas-based, evangelical, Baptist preacher who dares call BS on conservative hysteria. That would seem to be a serious problem indeed.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pmThere has been an on-going attack by Republicans on the US education system for 50 years and more. Republicans understand that educated citizens are less likely to fall victim to lies and being misled. The flap over the Obama speech was part of this. Telling students to stay in school and work for their future is claimed to be a conservative value, but from Republican behavior I can’t see it. It is an elitist attitude that Republicans hypocritically accuse Democrats of, psychological projection to say the least. The Republican support for vouchers is another example, while supporting what they call “choice”, is just another attempt to rip funding away from public schools. The thing is vouchers will not cover private school tuition, and only parents that can afford to pay the difference can really take advantage of them. Thus the students left behind in public school get less funding and a lower quality education. It is classic Republican tactics. A quality education is bad for the future of the Republican party.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pmThe GOP thinks winning by Faux ratings is something. They cannot and will not win at the only place that counts for a very long time. The voting booths.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pmI’m originally from Big D – Arlington used to be out in the sticks. Then it became home to Six Flags. Now the Cowboys. Makes one embarrassed and I live in Nashville.
Will someone put up the contact info for the Arlington School District? I do not have time to look it up right now and I REALLY want to get to them.
Many thanks.
September 9th, 2009 at 4:50 pm70. JMOHR
What do you suggest? I’m a single woman in a big city. I need my car for work, so am not even willing to put a bumper sticker on it at this point. I want to fight, but Congress doesn’t seem to care. Please give us suggestions, don’t just spank us. Thank you.
September 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pmThis is a perfect example as to why I left Texas 37 yrs ago. I’m thankful to be represented by Al Franken, and Amy Klobuchar – 2 thoughtful, rational, dedicated public servants!
September 10th, 2009 at 12:34 amThey don’t want to interrupt their lesson plans? So listening to a speech from the former president is considered part of their lesson plans but a speech from the current president is considered what? Avoid all the speeches or stop making BS lies. Such hypocrisy!
September 10th, 2009 at 4:12 amThis is f—ing comical considering Bush’s politics are similar to that of Obama. I would want my kids to hear an old JFK speech before I would have them listen to Bush or Obama, the American Hitler’s of this era.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:39 pmWhether we agree or not, it is their right to raise their children as they see fit. The problem is that they are too stupid to understand that Bush was no conservative, he was a complete and total neocon.
Lib Linebacker, I wouldn’t go as far to call Bush or Obama American Hitlers, they are definitely acting/have acted in the interests of big business, especially the owners of the private Federal Reserve Bank.
The real Hitlers are the owners of the Federal Reserve.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:44 pmremember when the McCain Camp also Bussed in
4000 students to an Ohio rally to fill the crowd
of 6000?
plumber joe wasnt there either.
September 11th, 2009 at 5:22 amhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/mccain-camp-busses-in-sch_n_139300.html
plumber joe,
September 11th, 2009 at 5:23 amwhere are you?
I did check our the Arlington Independent School District website calendar…and this “field trip” is not posted, so we really need someone with a child in that school district to confirm this story.
http://www.aisd.net/information/calendar_2.aspx
September 11th, 2009 at 10:40 amOk, all of these comments are making me sick. I can’t believe there are so many people ready to discredit Texas, claiming us as ignorant and racist! You read one article online about students missing an Obama speech, and somehow that supports the idea that “texas cannot secede soon enough.” (24. linda)
“55. Bob says:
Sad. It makes it worse that they knew about this, it’s been scheduled. Parents aren’t upset that kids will be taken out of school for a promotional event about football? Not in texas, home of the stupid racists.
FCK texas!”
The promotional event is not just football, Bob. Yes, its organized by the Super Bowl committee, but if you dig a little deeper (which shouldn’t be too difficult for you) you’ll find its a lot more. The ceremony at Cowboy Stadium is a launch event for one of the largest arts, education, and community outreach programs in the country. And, in addition to former presidents and sports stars, also involves local business and community leaders.
Not only that, but its a field trip, which requires (surprise, surprise) parental permission. What a concept! Plus, the trip has been planned for months. Even schools that showed the Obama speech still gave students the OPTION to not watch it. Man, options sure are great. And where do these options come from? FREEDOM. You’re living in a great big land of freedom, which conveniently allows you to direct your negative comments towards families whom you don’t know, whom you’ve never met, and blame them for stupidity that they likely didn’t cause. Just because your opinions differ from others doesn’t make you right, or them wrong.
To quote Merriam-Webster (yes, the dictionary): ignorant – “lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified; unaware, uninformed”
So in that regard, who is the ignorant one? The person who has an opinion about what their children should or should not be exposed to, or the person who criticizes them from afar for being “stupid racists”? When was the last time you made an effort to contact one of these “stupid racists”? Way to go, Bob. Openly mock people you’ve never personally interacted with, and couldn’t possibly fully understand.
“54. RedBeans says:
Why do you think the Repubes always push charter schools and independent school districts?
So they can legally pull stunts like this.
LBJ is rolling in his grave.”
And RedBeans, last time I checked, LBJ was from Texas. “Small town, redneck, stupid racist” Texas. There’s a good chance you already knew that (I really hope so), but I thought that I should bring it up. As a matter of fact, I live off LBJ freeway in Dallas. Funny how that works.
OH, and for the record, I voted for Obama. I believe he’s exactly what we need. But here in Texas, we’re taught a little something called respect. Ever heard of “southern hospitality”? It’s not a myth, I promise. So please, keep your asinine comments to yourself, and stop plaguing us with hatred and unnecessary diatribes about how people are “jus’ so gosh dern stoopid heer in Texas.”
September 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pmMy anus is a flexin’ giving birth to another Texan.
A state filled full of bible humping bigots and ignorant rednecks.
“Texas-It’s Like a Whole Other Country”… the rest of the country wishes it was.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:17 pmtxrosco – you go off on a diatribe about Freedom and choice, yet you fail to realize that by not allowing students to watch the President’s speech, this school district took away those same freedoms you’re extolling. People are upset because the school said no to the duly elected President of the United States and yes to the most unpopular former president since Hoover.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:52 pmAlso, I’m pretty sure that RedBeans knew LBJ was from Texas – otherwise they probably wouldn’t have mentioned him. It’s not like they said Truman was rolling over. So I think you’re a little off there.
Of course people on here are being harsh about Texas, but when you read stories like this and the Bible is being taught at another public school and some politicians there openly talk of secession, it’s not hard to wonder why.
As and actual resident of Arlington and a person with a child in the district who likes to be informed I checked things out when I heard about this speech. Arlington decided to have the speech recorded and avail. to the teachers to use at their convience since it fell during many of the lunch and free peroids of the high schools. This also gave time for parents to review the speech and speak to the teacher if they had a concern on how or if the lesson plan sent by the White House would be used. As I understand from a number of friends with High School students the teachers plan to use the speech in various classes for different purposed most are not using the lesson plan. Arlington ISD is very much not making these decisions on racism all you need to do is pull up the demographics of population and you will find that we have no overwhelming majority here especially represented in our schools. I wish people would take time to do research before they make an opinion. That is truely something to learn in school, how to research things from multiple sources.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:27 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 11th, 2009 at 3:21 pmHere is the message from the superintendent.
http://www.aisd.net/aisd/Portals/95/Releases/Superintendent%20message.pdf
September 11th, 2009 at 7:39 pmwhy would you bash people for making the choice to do something else? Field trips take a lot of planning, so this trip was probably in the works several weeks before Obama scheduled his speech. You want the honest working people, regardless of their political views, to give up the money they put into the trip, waste the former president and the cowboys time, just to hear the president say stay in school? That’s ridiculous. And those of you that immediately jump on people who oppose Obama by saying they are all racist are just as bad as the people jumping about waving their hands saying he wasnt born in the states and has no birth certificate.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:39 pmif you want to dismiss the decision of the aisd, so be it. i don’t like it any more than you do. but don’t dismiss the entire state. if you don’t know us, don’t talk shit.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:28 pm… and if you think all texans are bible-beating, redneck racists, a la verga con TODOS de ustedes.
September 11th, 2009 at 8:33 pmNot all people living in Texas have the same views. I believe the media has been the main problem here. I am pretty sure that other states have ignorant people also so I’m not sure why it all comes down to Texas, oh yeah, the media. I never saw any other states commenting but I’m pretty sure not every other class in the USA watched the presidents speech. Please try not to be ignoant and blame an entire state for a some ignorant people’s thoughts. There are caring, educated and down right nice people here, just like in your town, I’m sure. Let’s all try to look and see the truth, without the crud the media feeds everyone.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:50 pmDamn. Now I don’t think we can even get Mexico to take them back. Wonder if Cesar Chavez would take them?
September 11th, 2009 at 10:01 pmIf Texas were to leave the union, it would be to become it’s own country. They are the only state in the entire union that has ever been it’s own country and it was the only state to break away from it’s former country without outside help. They had a few people from the union assist but no army of the united states. They won their independence from Mexico like the US did from Britain. Don’t try to auction us off to someone else, we’re here by choice. I don’t want us to secede necessarily, but if it was decided that we would, i would support it seeing as the representatives of this country don’t give a rat’s ass about what we (most American’s that are politically knowledgeable) want. And I can’t be racist, I’m color-blind.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:25 pmMy nine-year old daughter opted out; she thought it would be boring and would prefer to ….get this READ. I read the speech, it was innocuous. I’m glad she made the choice to not waste her time. She gets her motivation, guidance and inspiration from her parents, not the President, or athletes or celebrities.
The questions parents should have been asking is, do we have to pay teachers for the 2-hour distraction this caused while they weren’t teaching.
September 12th, 2009 at 9:27 amJust because schools sometimes have to juggle their schedule because something comes up doesn’t mean they’re obligated to do so every single time that something comes up. meme büyütme
September 15th, 2009 at 7:20 am