We all know the shock and awe: Parents learn a lot of secrets at Fourth Grade parent-teacher conferences. We learn that little Jacob's failing Sex Ed and that little Emily's got a bully problem.
Teachers care, but there's only so much they can do.
This is where it's really, really good being President and First Lady. This is the payoff for being bullied for not having a magic wand to make the world perfect AND having to put up with chubster bully Rush Limbaugh having the gall to tell the world that he thinks you're fat.
Now, we don't know what went down at the Obama's P-T conference with their Fourth Grader Sasha's teachers, and we sincerely hope she's passing Sex Ed, BUT, we do have a glimpse into how the Obamas can deal with something we, including Barack and Michelle have all shared; bullying.
When you're First Parents, you and address the problem on Facebook, host a media summit at the White House AND launch a slick, expert advice filled anti-bullying website, StopBullying.gov.
We safely assume that this action makes Barack and Michelle Official Teacher's Pets.
We're not being political here, we're admiring the Obamas' determination and ability to be real parents do something meaningful to help school bullying. And for maybe the first time ever, we can appreciate, applaud and even believe that these two big kids actually did something awesome to deserve to be Teacher's Pet.
We teachers never say "good luck with that"! If you are any kind of a teacher, you care about your kids and what they are going through. By the way, this website has more and more spelling and grammatical errors lately. Yikes!
Sorry, Lisa, we've changed the copy to be less snarky and more accurate. Honestly, we've had mixed experiences teachers, from the burnout "It's not my problem" to teachers who actively address and fix the situation. We LOVE those teachers! Rock on!
We didn't notice any grammatical errors today but we did fix a couple of typos. Clearly, with keyboarding skills like ours, we really need to wear our reading glasses when spell checking in order to see our errors! :)