Shame on Newport News (VA) Public Schools.

They, along with York County, are not going to show Obama's speech live (apparently, they want to have the chance to "review" it for future use. Let's just see if it's ever viewed.).

My hometown has really disappointed me (I attended Newport News Public schools in the 1970s and 1980s).

military area?

NN is a military area, but I think it went for Obama.

lives large off the military tit. Socialists, the lot of them, IOW.

Our district is going to "review" it first and show it on Weds. There is an option for parents to have their children excused. Those children will be given some other lesson or activity. (They didn't say what that would be.)

One of the problems is that it is airing at noon, which is lunch time. Another is that some districts refuse to waiver from the curriculum. (Unless it's for a pep rally, or something really important.)

do want them to hear what the Prez has to say..have any voice in this?..The duly elected President?

If you are afraid to see something because it might change what you believe, you must think that some of the things you think might not be true. Deep down, many people know some of their thoughts are wrong, so they can not allow themselves to see those things or they will have to face their own existence, and what some of their beliefs mean about them.

I was talking to two people at the park. One of them was angry and yelling like people at the town halls. While I tried to have a calm discussion with his friend, he jumped up and yelled trying to literally get in the way of me talking to his friend. What I was saying made sense, and he could not allow that in his mind.


After he repeated many talking points I had heard from far right people, I turned to him and asked him how he would feel if everything he thought turned out to be wrong. Not saying he was wrong, but just asking him if he could contemplate changing his point of view, and what that would mean to him. His direct quote was really interesting since he had never seen any of the posts I have made here.

He said it would be very scary and would feel like he is falling into a black hole.

That helps explain why some people can not challenge what they think or how they think, it is just too scary to lose the foundations of what someone believes. And that means it has nothing to do with being right or wrong. By thinking on my question, he responded to the question why would someone argue against something without reason. Fear, fear of what could be, or what they might see in themselves. I do the same thing on some topics, we all do. But I think that is what alot of what we are seeing is. It is not about right and wrong, it is about if people can face what might be wrong in society and admit they have a some thoughts that are wrong and can be improved also.

Many who can not listen to an opposing point of view seem more like this picture, and not people that are thinking about something. Why would a person speaking about kids studying be an opposing point of view? Because it shows respect to someone they can not accept should be respected. They literally can not even let that thought in, or it would create first the knowledge that not everyone agrees with them, then the fact that they could be wrong, then self examination. I think that is what alot of it is about.