Obama’s ‘homework “- Set Goals And Reduce Drop Out Rate?
Here is the homework:
* Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants or puzzle pieces or trails marked with the labels: personal, academic, community, country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in those areas. It might make sense to focus on personal and academic so community and country goals come more readily.
* Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president (reduce drop out rates- has been changed to help student achieve goals) These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
How is this some kind of communist plot?
I am starting to understand our high drop out rate if parents object to this,
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AHA! Well let’s see:
“…help the president”? As in trying to further his socialist agenda?!
“…collected and redistributed…” AHA! MORE SOCIALISM!
(I’m kidding of course, just speaking for the especially paranoid.)
And if George Bush had asked teachers to make students write letters on how they could help him, there would be no objections, right? Because writing an essay in eighth grade helps reduce the drop out rate. What does any of this have to do with the drop out rate? You took this totally out of context and I think you know exactly why parents are objecting to this.
This was not a political move.It was a P.R. move.
He’s getting a lot of bad press lately (just or unjust..it’s a mixed bag). I guess his advisers thought that him making an empowerment speech to kids would shine a better light on him.
Personally I didn’t like it.
I dropped out of school when I was sixteen to treat a mental health issue. It really isn’t the kiss of death people make it out to be. Anybody who tells you otherwise either hasn’t gone through it themselves or is just plain uneducated about student options or lack thereof.