Obama's speech to schools

Last week, President Obama gave a speech to schools all across our country. In response to this, many parents reacted by threatening not to let their children go to school that day, apparently to keep their sons and daughters away from democratic propaganda. Personally, I thought this was absolutely absurd. I don’t care if you are a Democrat, Republican, independent (like myself), or part of any other political standpoint, Obama is the President of the United States and he is owed a certain level of respect from all people of this country. To be honest, I am not a big fan of Obama, but if he wants to make a speech, then far be it from me to say he can’t.

The thing that really got me about this was not that parent’s didn’t want their kids to listen to the speech. They are not my kids so I have no right to say how they should be raised and what they should be subjected to. What really got me was the message this would send to students. Speaking from experience, kids looked for any excuse to miss classes and stay home from school. All of a sudden, their parents are saying since they don’t believe what the president is doing is right, they don’t have to go to school. So does that mean if I believe that science is going against my religion, I can just skip it and blow that class off? Before anyone gets on me, I do believe science is important. But anyways, parents letting their kids stay away from school because the person elected to be the leader of this country wants to talk to students does not benefit student. Let’s be honest, when you were in grade school, when you got to watch a movie or T.V., you were pumped. My guess is a good amount of kids didn’t pay attention to what Obama had to say, they were just glad they weren’t taking a spelling test.