By Ryan Calo on March 13, 2009 at 9:12 pm
826 National is an incredible non-profit dedicated to improving writing and other skills among children ages to six to eighteen. A few days after the election of Barack Obama, 826 centers in seven cities asked children to offer advice to the new president. The result was the deservedly celebrated book Thanks And Have Fun Running The Country.
As you might imagine, this book is a major tour de cute. One 9-year-old in Los Angles opines that if he were president, he “would help all nations, even Hawaii.” A Seattle 7-year-old suggests that President Obama “turn on the heater, so it won’t be cold.” In short: awwwww.
You can imagine my surprise, then, when I came across the following suggestion from a Boston 12-year-old: “Dear, Barack Obama, … You should also build cameras all around our city to find out who is breaking the law, and also in movie theatres so we can tell who is making illegal copies.”
Wait, what??? Did the DOJ and RIAA have a child together? The rest of this writer’s suggestions are eminently reasonable—more power efficient cars, less smoking, and the like. Still, it’s not often that you see a 12-year-old proponent of ubiquitous surveillance!
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Bill March 22, 2009 at 10:46 pm
PermalinkThat's nice to hear that children also gave their views to obama about their views about country. I think these type of kids will be the next president in future.
Jesse March 21, 2009 at 9:07 am
PermalinkI hadn't heard of that book before. It sounds like a great read. I know that there is a lot of great wisdom in the mouths of the youngest of our young people.
I am going to check it out.
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