Comments on: Not Listening http://stevengharms.com/not-listening My Blog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: the social bobcat http://stevengharms.com/not-listening/comment-page-1#comment-2306 the social bobcat Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:27:53 +0000 http://stevengharms.com/?p=1856#comment-2306 <p>i haven't verified this in article print but i believe the cause of controversy was language to the effect of asking the kids how they can "help the President" and then being given assignments by the teachers to say how they were going to help and then be graded on their achievement of that objective.</p> <p>the main protest, i guess, being that the verbage sounded political in an enrollment sense - hopefully it's something like that and not just that parents would keep their kids from hearing a "stay in school and be smart, our country needs you" message just because they don't like the messenger.</p> i haven’t verified this in article print but i believe the cause of controversy was language to the effect of asking the kids how they can “help the President” and then being given assignments by the teachers to say how they were going to help and then be graded on their achievement of that objective.

the main protest, i guess, being that the verbage sounded political in an enrollment sense - hopefully it’s something like that and not just that parents would keep their kids from hearing a “stay in school and be smart, our country needs you” message just because they don’t like the messenger.

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