Beck endorses Twitter campaign to skip school on day of Obama student address
September 02, 2009 12:50 pm ET
From the September 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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June 17 attendance
And attendance rates in DC are just as high, rolling in at 90% for 2007-2008.
DC rates
Where did you make up your statistics from?
I heard Mr. Beck say in a recent show on Fox News that he "would like to share a personal story from today but it would put his family in danger"
This was pretty much the last straw for me and Mr. Beck, dancing around the fear of "They" or "Them". But this latest goes beyond the pale. Go ahead and grow a set Beck, say what you really want to say ... we have a N..... President, with a bunch of N..... advisors and it scares the hell out of me, but wait, I can make money off of this.
C'mon, get with the present. Today, no true patriot respects the president.
BUT NOOOOOOOOOO not these idiots! "Dont Go To School, That will show em!"
Does Glenn and his fellow crazies understand the impact they are having on their children- its a diservice to them and to America as a whole?
This really irks me because as an African American who has had family members in the deep south fight and claw their way just to be able to go to school...immigrants came to our country to work hard just so they give their children a decent education.
And to hear Beck and his RACIST fanbase advocate NOT sending kids to school because they dont like President Obama makes me both angry and sad! The MOST patriotic thing one can do in America is send their children to school so they can grow up and move America along in literature and the sciences.
Despite everything they profess, we're not dealing with ideological adversaries, here. We're dealing with political adversaries. They're uninterested in debating the issues on the facts. They're interested only in R vs D, and any means necessary to win the contest are acceptable to them. The lies they've told during the healthcare discussion and the lies they told and supported during the Bush presidency, smearing of all things Democrat, the flip flops on what constitutes a patriot and the respect afforded the president, support for war - all are indications that facts don't matter. They've got their whole being tied up in being a Republican, and wearing that R on their forehead, and will do anything to avoid the appearance of supporting a party which is not good for America. Ironically, they'll unabashedly sacrifice everything they claim to support - patriotism, children, morals, chrisitanity, benevolence, education...
Those are just the kind of liberal values we need to protect our helpless children from.
Will somebody PLEASE!!!! think of the children?
What they will miss is a political speech asking the elementary school children to "flush once", stop using bottled water and a number of other political goals of progressives scattered in with some good sense. The effort is blatantly political. Political speeches to elementary school children is disgusting.
My concern is that it is disrespectful to the SCHOOL.
Teachers are underpaid and underappreciated for what they do. Principals try their best to keep children prepared for the future and for the opportunity to contribute back to society through volunteerism and work.
By holding back a student because of a speech from the President, the parent is showing that they have little respect for the school's ability to teach. By doing this on the first day of school, the parent is also developing a bad first impression with the school. If future trouble were to occur between the school and the student, there would be very difficult negotiations between the school and the parent.
Basically, if you are going to hold the student back the first day, you may as well hold him or her for the rest of the year.
the speech is about staying in school. anything else is a load of crap
as has been noted by many, both bush's made similar addresses to school children, i don't recall any kind of political speech occurring.
how is encouraging kids to stay in school something that is bad. unless you want everyone but yourself to be uneducated fools and to serve you McDonald's.
Will there be an opposing view that the students will be required to listen to, as well?
your ignorance is astounding
By the way, whether you call it "Parentally Approved Skip Day" or "Parentally Approved Skip School Day", either way it's not PASS.
PASD or PASSD maybe, but it seems to me it just reinforces the argument for education.
I'd say this parent just made a faulted, arrogant, ignorant, lazy, and erroneous decision.
its a speech about staying in school!
what don't you get?
I hear no motions out there that PASS Day will lead to demonstration. Sounds like the kids are just staying home.
I call that playing hooky.
Granted, you probably don't think much of your education at the moment, but let's consider Beck's education. Now, I don't have anything against those who only have a high school diploma, but what did Beck do after high school?
Education-wise, Sen. Joe Lieberman got him in to Yale on a special arrangement, where he took one class in theology, but dropped out mid-term. Probably due to the strain of his marriage problems, which would make it hard, wouldn't it? This according to wikipedia.
So, kids, when Beck says stay out of school, realize that you could aim for a higher trajectory than radio-DJ-to-paid-conservative-liar.