Living Wicked

I have read several articles, sides, opinions and the plan of discussion that was made public to us as U.S. Citizens. For anyone to bash a person for being INVOLVED with our children’s motivation to take their education seriously is both asinine and ignorance at it’s finest. Many of us never had someone who was a positive influence … a ROLE model … sit down and help motivate us to look at education and the benefits of staying in school, trying our damnedest to be successful at whatever it is that we wanted to do AND understanding just how God damned important it is to take it seriously.

Many children still do not have this. Their parents are drug addicts. They are being beaten down by someone or something and do not have the energy nor the means to pay any attention to these kids’ futures. They are gang members. Some of these kids are being physically, sexually and emotionally abused. Many kids come from broken homes, where the parent in their lives desperately wants to be an active part, but with 2+ jobs and a struggling economy, they simply cannot.

How is this interest … this … DESIRE to actually give a shit about the future leaders of our Nation propaganda? How is it a motive to indoctrinate children with ’socialist ideology’? I am seriously asking here. I am confused as to how it is different than any other President’s or First Lady’s attempt to be active in the lives of our young people.

Furthermore, I cannot imagine why a parent would threaten to TAKE THEIR CHILD out of school to prove a point? Please clarify what point this actually proves. Is it 1) proving that you actually really don’t care about your kids education? Because having them miss a day of school over an hour of EDUCATION AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT discussions with our Nation’s Leader … doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Is it 2) that really, you did not / DO not want President Obama to actually BE our President? So supporting anything he says or does be it good, bad or indifferent … would be completely going against your beliefs?

Either way. Ignorant to the ignorantest level. Why? Because you are slighting your children. Why not offer an alternative for the kids that would not like to hear what the President has to say. ASK THEM what they want to do. And, if they are uninterested in hearing from their President, maybe their option is to write a paper discussing what education means to them. What do they plan on doing with their education? Why is important to stay in school? Because really … isn’t that the goal? Isn’t that what we need our kids to be doing? Staying in school? Going to college or military or apprenticeship or vocational training? Isn’t the reason why we are parents … to ensure that we provide the necessary tools for our kids to be the best at whatever it is that they want to do?

Well, kind Sir’s and Ma’am’s: Denying them the right to learn something … to be positively inspired … to possibly CHANGE the life of a less fortunate kid somewhere … is doing the complete opposite. I like to refer to this whole thing simply as “hating.” I say, stop hating. Knock it off. And, think about it. It’s all I am saying. I for one will make sure that, if my child is not allowed the opportunity to listen to our President speak, will be dismissing him from class to watch it with me at home and then returning him to school to finish out his day.

C.