I always thought it might be interesting to go back and look at a formerly hot topic and review it after it had long gone cold.
If we go into the way back machine to September of 2009, back when this blog was less than a year old and still called Home School Dad, we can discover a topic that was very hot at the time that has since gone cold, but still has some relevance today.
On September 8, 2009 President Obama spoke to students in Virginia and the speech was telecast to students all over the country. For some reason this created quite a stir.
I remember not understanding what the hubbub was all about and watching the speech with my students (children) at the Izola Becker Home School. Some time has passed and now the K-12 students who may have watched the event at school are all at least 2 years out of high school by now. Students who were seniors in high school will be having their 15th hisg school reunion, and my youngest daughter who was 3 at the time of the speech is now a Freshman in college.
Here is the then "controversial" address:
Click here for a transcript of his speech.
Click here for an Albert Mohler post decrying the controversy
Click here for politico's take on the controversy
Click here for a blog post stating why it was a conservative speech.
I was interested to see if I could find out more about Tim Spicer, the student who introduced Obama. It turns out that in addition to being involved helping students and school districts in low income communities, Spicer was a contestant on Season 46 of Survivor.
There we are, our first edition of cold topics. I was either going to call it that, or perhaps hot topics for procrastinators. Once today's news becomes yesterday's olds we may have another edition.
