What can YOU do to help the president? REVISED

Sorry, little dude.


Those "schoochildren" (as the spellcheck-lacking Department of Education called them) may not have to write letters to themselves after all.
(Above links go to my posts.)

The White House now admits they helped the Department of Education write the guidelines for teachers to follow before and after Obama's unprecedented National Address to Children in the Classroom. But the White House is revising those guidelines.

That line about students writing "letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president" has been replaced by a line that says students should "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals."

Jesus Christ. You preempt education to make an unprecedented speech broadcast to every classroom television and the White House wanted to talk about supporting Obama???

UPDATE: The address to "schoochildren" was timed for the opening day of school (Sept 8) EXCEPT, as Baseball Crank Points out, schools in New York, Boston (Sept 10) and Los Angeles (Sept 9) aren't open until later. He suggests it may have more to do with the Bill Gates-funded back-to-school documentary scheduled for cables that night.