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Article: Schools shun Obama yet let sales firms prey on students.(OPINION)(Barack Obama)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Byline: Betty Buehler
Las Vegas, N.V. -- "OK, sixth graders, scream!"
And, oh, do they, sending one teacher toward the exit covering her ears.
Who owns the sixth graders' attention during this period, just days after untold school districts, bowing to parental pressure, refused to broadcast President Obama's talk telling students to take responsibility for themselves and their education?
Let's just say that you won't be reading this in Time magazine, since Time Inc. owns fundraising company QSP, which is visiting our school today.
The screaming is the opening to the annual school fundraiser assembly, kicking off a couple of ...