Posted on 09/06/2009 9:16:11 PM PDT by goodnesswins
Parents Not Welcome at President's School Speech By: Michael Noyes | 2009-09-04 BOZEMAN – Parents of students in Bozeman schools may not be welcome if they want to watch the President’s address to students on Tuesday morning with their child.
Bozeman Public Schools Superintendent Kirk Miller said the president’s address falls under the school’s policies on guest speakers. That policy states that, “Unless the principal approves otherwise, the teacher will not allow non-class members to hear the speaker.” The rest of the story is here: http://www.montanapolicy.org/main/story.php?story_id=15
Please take a look and pass along as you feel appropriate. And have a good weekend! Carl
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Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
• Teachers can build background knowledge about the President
of the United States and his speech by reading books about
presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate
students by asking the following questions:
Who is the President of the United States?
What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
What do you think he will say to you?
•
Teachers can ask students to imagine that they are
delivering a speech to all of the students in the United
States.
If you were the president, what would you tell students?
What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what students would say.
•
Why is it important that we listen to the president and
other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members
of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech
•
As the president speaks, teachers can ask students to write
down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally
meaningful. Students could use a note‐taking graphic
organizer such as a “cluster web;” or, students could
record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children
could draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students
listen to the speech, they could think about the
following:
What is the president trying to tell me?
What is the president asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me
to think about?
•
Students could record important parts of the speech where
the president is asking them to do something. Students
might think about the following:
What specific job is he asking me to do?
Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
•
Students could record questions they have while he is
speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger
children may need to dictate their questions.
Menu of Classroom Activities
(PreK‐6)
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America 2
After the Speech
•
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they
recorded, exchange sticky notes, or place notes on a
butcher‐paper poster in the classroom to discuss main
ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal
responsibility, and civic duty.
•
Students could discuss their responses to the following
questions:
What do you think the president wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
What would you like to tell the president?
Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
•
Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted
in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the
following labels: personal, academic, community, and
country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for
achieving goals in that area. It might make sense to focus
first on personal and academic goals so that community and
country goals can be more readily creaed.
•
Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve
their short‐term and long‐term education
goals. Teachers would collect and redistribute these
letters at an appropriate later date to enable students to
monitor their progres.
•
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to
post around the classroom.
•
Interview one another and share goals with the class to
create a supportive community.
•
Participate in school‐wide incentive programs or
contests for those students who achieve their goals.
•
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, such as
poems, songs, and personal essays.
•
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their
goals.
•
Graph individual progress toward goals.
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/lessons/prek-6.pdf
All you Freepers - Write to Kirk Miller. Here’s his email address: kirk.miller@bsd7.org
I had to google his name, and now I remember the story..what was the outcome? I see that he indeed was arrested. Was he ever allowed back on the property?
My kids have a standing rule that they must tell me as soon as possible if they are told not to tell their parents about anything. We also have a standing rule that if there is a school activity where parents are banned, my kids will not attend. This school's policy is creepy, and my family would not comply.
my kids would be sick....F’em
Was he ever allowed back on the property?
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Nope! I believe that he is under a permanent injunction not to enter onto the school property for any reason.
At my kids’ school, a parent may enter the classroom at any time, unannounced.
Are we sure this is barring parents? It could be meant to bar another speaker at an occasion and thus prevent some type of conflict.
Maybe it’s poorly worded lawyer-speak.
Thanks for posting that.....email outgoing!
Actually, many schools in NY aren’t even starting until Wed, I believe.
It’s normal for schools here to start the Wed after Labor Day.
That makes it pretty late this year, they won’t be getting winter break because of it.
But anyway, it keeps the kids out of harms way, unless the schools plan on recording it and presenting it later as part of history class.
That would be a way to sneak it under the radar.
Yeah.... 0bama hasn't gotten out of campaign mode. Stealing the US election for POTUS was easy with the help from Soros.... now he wants to run for class president. Maybe he'll be popular in one of the elementary schools and we can finally find a classmate that remebers him.
That'll teach the popular kids to snub him.
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