<p>Frazzled, your homeless comment made me tear-up. </p>
<p>Our school taped it so the principal could review it first. It hasn’t been shown yet and probably won’t be shown, based on our neighborhood political make-up.</p>
<p>Both boys watched, grades 4 and 7, but both watched them the following day because the speech was shown during lunch hours.</p>
<p>My old school district didn’t watch it because it would be a “distraction”. That and our superintendent openly gave money to McCain’s campaign last year :rolleyes:.</p>
<p>My old political science teacher taped it and showed the class today though. He was a center-right person, but a dead center teacher. He despises the super for trying to keep the kids from the president’s speech so he went behind his back and showed it anyways :D.</p>
<p>My sophomore started school today, no speech. But I would not expect them to show it on the first day of school when teachers are trying to hit the ground running with their policies and procedures, etc. Maybe later when things settle down.</p>
<p>Toledo, you are kidding right?
What is wrong w/this country? How can encouraging your kid to get a good education and try hard be so bad? Must be the person delivering the message.
How shallow.</p>
<p>radannie, agreed.</p>
<p>I also agree with radannie.</p>
<p>The superintendent of our district sent an e-mail saying it would be too disruptive to show during the school day, but they would make it available on the website. My suspicion is that they thought it would be controversial in our rather conservative area. I know at least one of my D’s teachers was planning to show it in her class when it was on. Our district regularly interrupts the school day for other activities, so I doubt that was the real reason.</p>
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<p>That was the good news, the bad news is that there is an “opt-out option” for parents who might not want their children to see it. I read the entire transcript and can not imagine how anyone would want to opt their child out of having the President encourage them to get an education and practice personal responsibility.</p>
<p>If it were up to our teachers, I’m sure they’d show the speech. When school administrators cater to the parents, that’s when it doesn’t get shown. Sometimes I think they just want to avoid any conflict.</p>
<p>toledo, I’ll say it. Those school administrators were wimps for avoiding “potential” conflict.</p>
<p>I am fairly certain the transcript was available ahead of time for the paranoid to view.</p>
<p>Yes, I believe when the first complaints started coming in, they posted the speech somewhere so it could be viewed in advance. That’s another reason why I didn’t buy our administrator’s excuse for waiting until after the speech, in order to review it.</p>
<p>Some parents are listening to too much drive-by radio, I think.</p>
<p>Some people shouting at town-hall meetings, too, need to get off the limbaugh.</p>