Had a chat with my daughter, as usual, when she got home from school this afternoon and asked her what she did in school today.




She has daily reading assignments, and normally she's very, very bored with them, so she doesn't remember much about them. She'd rather be reading the latest Nat. Geographic.




This one, however, she remembered. I asked her for details on the assignment, and she said it was about President Obama, and how great a man he is, and that part of it was about him winning the Nobel Peace Prize.




History lesson ensued, we went to the Nobel Prize web site, and looked up the history of the award and the requirements. I broke down the criteria to a level she could understand, and asked her if Pres. Obama had, to her knowledge, done any of those things listed as criteria for the award.




She replied no, and as only a third grader could, stated her opinion of the commmitee. She said she didn't think Mr. Nobel would be very happy with the committee, and she thought they were pretty stupid.




Now, I remember knowing who the president was in Third grade, and getting political lessons at home from my parents. However, I never had a daily reading assignment about the President, and my parents would have screamed if I had.




I have no issues with the school teaching her WHO the President of the US is, but to have a reading assignment in the classroom declaring what a wonderful man he is goes beyond what I'm willing to tolerate. He's a man, no more, no less. Looks like I'm going to be speaking to the teacher in the morning.