Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School | TPM LiveWire Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and MaliaObama. Protesters...
... local schools . This morning, they showed up outside of Sidwell Friends, the school that Sasha and MaliaObama attend. On Twitter, Megan Phelps-Roper — one of Fred Phelps’ grandchildren — posted a picture of the protest: Washington Post education reporter Michael Birnbaum said that he spent the morning at the protest, and MSNBC host David Shuster wrote, “Hopefully, some of the more...
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Malia to Sasha: "Oh, yeah. Because making turkeys shaped like your hand is so complex." Yeah, yeah, she ended up upping her grade to a 95 eventually, but still. Right now, somewhere in a library up at Columbia, Chelsea Clinton is grimacing in commiseration. [ Caucus/NYT ] Read more posts by Chris Rovzar Filed Under: barack obama , maliaobama , politics , school...
During his remarks at James C. Wright Middle School in Madison , Obama announced that his daughter Malia got a 73 on a science test. Gee, Dad, thanks for sharing. In his address on education, Obama was saying that both parents and kids need to set high standards for academic achievement. Once when Malia got an 80 on a test, she was satisfied. Obama said that wasn't...
Sasha and MaliaObama got to stay up late on a school night. Michelle Obama took the first daughters, 8 and 11 respectively, to a Miley Cyrus Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., according to ABC News . It's not the first time the tweens have watched the "Party in the USA" perform. Cyrus, 16, also took the stage at the Kids Ball on Inauguration Day. Earlier this summer,...
During a speech in Madison, Wisconsin today to promote education reform Obama veered from his scripted remarks to give an example of the importance of parents setting high academic standards for their children so that they come to expect such standards from themselves. We're not sure how much his daughter Malia appreciated the story since it involved the nation hearing how she received...
Last night, Sasha and MaliaObama went to see the performer voted "worst celebrity influence" (Miley Cyrus, natch) live in concert. The "First Tweens" (a phrase we hope does not catch on) have also... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Westboro Baptist Church is telling the Obama daughters that God is their "enemy." The Kansas-based far-right church known for its outrageous choices of protest venues picketed outside the private school attended by first daughters Sasha and MaliaObama on Monday morning. "God is your enemy," read one sign at the event outside of Sidwell Friends School, [...]...
... local schools. This morning, they showed up outside of Sidwell Friends, the school that Sasha and MaliaObama attend. via Think Progress » Westboro Baptist Church Organizes Homophobic Anti-Obama Protest Outside Sasha And Malia’s School . I just want to say; as a Christian, as a Baptist; albeit not a very good one, but I digress — that these hate-mongering bastards DO...
LA English teacher, Dennis Danziger, considers how pay-per-score might work, or not. From HuffPo : In the spirit of generosity I've been thanking the gods that private school teachers' salaries are not connected to students' standardized test scores. Else MaliaObama's science teacher at the Sidwell Friends School might have lost her job faster than you can say "grade inflation."...
Miley Cyrus gets the Presidential treatment this week. Actually, Miley gets the tween version, since it wasn’t Obama, but rather his daughters who went to see Miley in concert this week. Sasha and MaliaObama got to see Miley live! More pictures of Miley after the screening… Miley didn’t make a comment about the high profile [...]
In the spirit of generosity I've been thanking the gods that private school teachers' salaries are not connected to students' standardized test scores. Else MaliaObama's science teacher at the Sidwell Friends School might have lost her job faster than you can say "grade inflation." On November 3, 2009, the one-year anniversary of his election, President Obama, speaking at a middle...
Filed under: Friends & Family , News Being the president's daughter clearly has its upsides, but it's not all gumballs and jellybean trees. For example, when MaliaObama got a C on a science test, daddy Barack Obama used her as an example at a press conference. Repeat: He just told ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
... makes them champions of a world that includes only the United States and one city in Canada. Poor MaliaObama, whose dad went on the teevee yesterday and told everyone about that one time when she got a C on a science test. She needs to get some geeks from NASA to help her exact revenge. This man is a genius. The French sure don’t screw around when there’s wine to be drunk....
