Every student must remember last year's presidential election; walking through the halls of New Trier seeing all the hipsters rocking their Shepard Fairey Obama T-shirts, seeing political pins on students' backpacks, and witnessing the student election (which Obama happened to win by quite a large margin actually). It was clear from all of the excitement that Obama, without a shadow of a doubt, had the young people's vote in the bag. Everyone in America was at least somewhat interested by Obama's promise of change; it was the goal of his campaign altogether.
The thing that I find most interesting about Obama's youth-aimed campaign is how amazingly it actually worked. Obama managed to get more voters under 25 years old out on election day than ever before (http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1700525,00.html). Young people love Obama. It's a trend, and high school students love to follow it.
So, when I came across this article the other day, I couldn't help but ask Why, Obama? Why?
Obama is considering cutting short one of the few things that ALL teenagers, no matter what gender, race, clique, and age love. What could it be, you ask? Summer vacation.
No decisions have been made yet, but the fact that Obama has even announced that he's considering this is extremely risky. With such an incredible following of students, I would never guess that Obama would introduce something like this so early in his term.
While it is true that the school calendar, based on the agrarian calendar and farming months, is a little bit outdated, reading this article really made me think about what reactions would be like if it actually happened.
How would you all react if your summer vacation got cut short?
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