White House Backs Off on Lesson Plan

Teachers won't ask kids to say 'how they can help the president'
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 3, 2009 5:45 PM CDT
White House Backs Off on Lesson Plan
Heather Renehan, second left, poses with her daughters, from left, Sami, Jessi and Ally, at their home in Richmond, Va., Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.   (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

In response to criticism over a speech President Obama plans to deliver to schoolchildren Tuesday, the White House will make the text of the speech available for review by teachers and school officials a day earlier, the Dallas Morning News reports. The administration also changed a widely criticized part of the proposed lesson plan designed to accompany the speech: it originally suggested pre-K through sixth-grade students make lists of “how they can help the president.”

The new plan now calls for them to discuss how they “can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”
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