Eric Owens
The Daily Caller
3/4/2013
A very courageous fifth teacher in the Chicago Public Schools has written a scathing critique of the almost comical misery she and her students endured when they participated in a massive February 28 event kicking off Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Active Schools campaign.
The First Lady’s campaign is an effort to improve (and in some cases, bring back) physical education in American schools. White House officials called the event “a groundbreaking, earth-shattering, awesomely-inspiring day.”
Lisa Putnam and her fifth grades most certainly did not experience the event the same way, however. According to Putnam, the event at Chicago’s McCormick Place (the largest convention center in North America) was an unmitigated catastrophe…
…Most of the 90-minute trip to the convention center was spent sitting behind all the other busses full of kids staffers had shipped in as props.
As per the request of Michelle Obama and her massive support staff, none of the children brought any food or drinks…
…When Michelle Obama finally came out, she didn’t face the children.
“She was facing the media,” reports Putnam.
What followed was a bunch of exercising. Recall, though, that the kids were instructed not to bring any food.
“They were dropping like flies,” explains Putnam…
Read the entire article at The Daily Caller.
Related: Michelle Obama: ‘I Don’t Want My Children to Be Weight-Obsessed’ Got a strange way of showing it, hasn’t she?
First she came for your children. Now, she’s coming for your dogs…No. Not to eat them. Michelle Obama: American Dogs need balanced diets, exercise too
Update: 5 Busybodies Who Want to Parent Your Kids. And why you don’t have to listen to them.
H/T Blazing Cat Fur
Update: Getting healthy: Michelle Obama hosts dinner meeting at DC pizza parlor
Every now and then, even Michelle Obama deserves a big slice of pizza. However, as with many Obama outings, she chose exactly the wrong time. Earlier today, the first lady held a highly publicized Google hangout promoting her ”Let’s Move” campaign to end obesity. Yet tonight, she’s holding a dinner meeting at Capitol Hill’s popular We The Pizza…
Update 2: Michelle Obama wants to talk about dogs by Jim Treacher
If there’s anything I like talking about more than Obama’s relationship with dogs, it’s this administration’s view of the proper role of government. This story has both. Yay!
