Amazing 5th Grade Letters to the President

January 23, 2009

Dear Mr. President,
My name is Sydney Rastatter and I am 11 years old and living in Santa Cruz, California. I am in 5th grade at Rio del Mar Elementary School. We were named a Blue Ribbon School and my prinicipal and assistant principal got to go meet and have lunch with George W. Bush in the White House just because we were named a Blue Ribbon School. I also want to say congratulations! If I was old enough and if it was allowed, I would vote for you 100 times. With you as the President of the United States, I believe that we can make a change and get through these bad economic times, together. I really hope that the war will end soon; but I am also concerned that it will not stop. All of the soldiers deserve to be at home with their family and friends rather than off fighting in Iraq.

One thing that I think needs to change is on the topic of education. The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in my opinion is wrong about cutting funds from schools. I thought that kids wee the future; if so, aren’t we supposed to make sure that the future is the best it can be? All in all, California’s schools need your help.

My 5th grade class stopped in the middle of our spelling test to watch and listen to your Inaugural speech. You are a very powerful speaker and 5th graders listen to you when you use words like next generation, peace, today challenges, and courage. The thing I liked best about your Inaugural speech was when you said, “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” It showed me that you really do care about changing the ways of America, right now.

When you were officially elected President of the United States of America, I felt that we were on our way to the ‘Promise Land’ as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said. We still have a long way to go but because of you, we are now one step closer. Now, before I bid my final adieu, I would like to ask you a couple of questions. Are you really going to add a basketball gym to the White House? What type of dog are you getting for your children? I hope you will write back to me, soon.

Sincerely,
Sydney Rastatter

PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA

Dear Mr. President,
I’ve written this letter today to congratulate you on how tremendously great you’ve done in the presidential race. First let me introduce myself, my name is Jackson O’Boy, I’m ten years old and a big fan of yours. I live in Aptos, California and go to Rio Del Mar Elementary School. I feel extremely honored to serve as a citizen of this country with such a fantastic new leader. I believe you will help us out of these hard times. My hopes for our countries are that we can end the war in Iraq, and rebuild our economy so that Americans have the opportunities in the future to fulfill their dreams of living prosperous and stable lives. I hope you will standby your goals of rebuilding our energy resources so that we can be freed from our alliance on foreign oil. I pray that my generation has as much as my parents and grandparents have had. I believe investing in the education of science and mathematics will be very important for my generation succeed. Please invest in helping us. I am so proud of our country for overcoming its racial barriers and electing an African American President of the United States. I am inspired by your knowledge and leadership. Watching the inauguration was one of the proudest moments that I have experienced being an American. I hope we can all appreciate how lucky we are to live in this great nation!!!!
Sincerely,
Jack O’Boy



P.S. “ YES WE DID ”