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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1428197" data-attributes="member: 12952">School officials sent an official request for Obama to attend the renaming ceremony in 2009 and then again in 2012, when he was just a stone’s throw away at Hofstra University for the presidential election debate — but the students keep hearing “no” from the White House.A district school board official even offered to have the kids line up outside the fundraiser just to glimpse the president if he really didn’t have time to pay a visit.“If your schedule does not permit a visit to our district, could we arrange to have some of our students meet and greet outside the fundraiser with a Barack Obama Elementary School jacket?” board of education president Lamont E. Johnson wrote in a letter to the president, dated Sept. 26 and seen by The Post.“I tweeted, I’ve emailed, I’ve done everything to try to get him to come,” said fifth-grade teacher Rosetta Langlois.“The children have written to him over the years. He’s a role model. Our boys need his motivation so badly. Our boys and girls need him so badly.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1428197, member: 12952"] School officials sent an official request for Obama to attend the renaming ceremony in 2009 and then again in 2012, when he was just a stone’s throw away at Hofstra University for the presidential election debate — but the students keep hearing “no” from the White House. A district school board official even offered to have the kids line up outside the fundraiser just to glimpse the president if he really didn’t have time to pay a visit. “If your schedule does not permit a visit to our district, could we arrange to have some of our students meet and greet outside the fundraiser with a Barack Obama Elementary School jacket?” board of education president Lamont E. Johnson wrote in a letter to the president, dated Sept. 26 and seen by The Post. “I tweeted, I’ve emailed, I’ve done everything to try to get him to come,” said fifth-grade teacher Rosetta Langlois. “The children have written to him over the years. He’s a role model. Our boys need his motivation so badly. Our boys and girls need him so badly.” [/QUOTE]

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