letter my 8 yr old daughter received from Obama
Her entire class had to write a letter to Pres. Obama last spring. The replies were received by the school during the summer, which the kids just received from their teachers last week:
Dear Student:
Thank you for your recent note, and for sharing your thoughts with me. Your kinds words echo the message of millions of Americans who have welcomed me and my family to the White House with an outpouring of goodwill.
On January 20th, Americans spoke with one voice, choosing hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. Our Nation faces serious challenges, but we will overcome them if our imagination is joined to common purpose.
Now is our time to work together, reaffirm our enduring spirit, and choose our better history. With your help, we will renew our Nation’s promise to carry forth the great gift of freedom to future generations, as our forebears have delivered it to us.
Sincerely,
B Obama
my thoughts:
I do not impress on my kids what they can and cannot think, who they should or should not believe in. I express my values and morals in the way I raise them. Never once did I tell my kids that Obama was a bad person, should not be president, etc. They knew I was not voting for him, but when given a vote in the classrooms, my son voted for him. When asked why, he responded with, “Obama is going to help the world with recycling more and making the world a greener place. Factories won’t be able to pollute as much.”
That’s what my kid got from all of the hearsay, commercials, News, etc. That’s the understanding of a child.
THAT is not at all what Obama was saying in his letter to an even younger group of children than my son. No, of course I don’t mean that as his letter should talk about recycling. I mean that his letter did NOT speak to a group of children. It maybe spoke to teenagers, but not little kids.
Fear for a child is losing a friend, a favorite book, not getting their favorite teacher, cable TV going out, thunderstorms, bad dreams, monsters in the closet….So let’s talk to little kids about how Obama was chosen so that we will not have fear. As adults, yes, we understand what he is saying, children do not.
This letter should have been a letter that spoke to the students about education, not about politics. So, that chance was passed up and politics were preached. How are we to know if that same chance to talk about education is passed by again on Sept. 8th when he is going to speak to the students via a televised broadcast? If this letter was meant for young students, how are we to know that he will not speak the same way to students next week? This letter was completely out of vocabulary reach and understanding for a group of second graders. How will he speak to grades K-12 in a way that everyone can understand? It’s just not possible. That is my main reason for not wanting my kids to see it. Politics should not be involved in grade school education means. Let them get back to learning to write in cursive and how to work division problems. Save the political madhouse for those who could at least grasp and understand it.
