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President Obama will be just five minutes away from the first school in the nation named in his honor, but he cant step away from his deep-pocketed pals at a Democratic Party fundraiser on Long Island to visit its students, parents at the school say.

When officials at the Barack Obama Elementary School in Hempstead, LI, learned three weeks ago that the president would be in town this week for an up-to-$5,000-per-head fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at The Garden City Hotel, they sent their third official request for a visit.

Students at the primarily Hispanic and black elementary school have been sending letters begging for an appearance by the nations first black president ever since they campaigned in 2008 to have the name of the school changed from Ludlum Elementary School to Barack Obama Elementary School.

The Hempstead Union Free School District board agreed in a unanimous vote to adopt the name change in November 2008, shortly after his election.

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 stones 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 didnt 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.

Your platform on education has acted as a true inspiration for us, and it would mean the world to our students to meet the incredible leader after whom our school is named.

In the coming days you will be receiving hundreds of letters from the children wishing to see you.

A White House scheduler called the school to say that neither option would work for Obama, a school representative said.

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