Dade parents can keep kids from watching Obama speech

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BY PATRICIA MAZZEI AND HANNAH SAMPSON
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Children in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties will have the option of not watching President Barack Obama's live back-to-school speech Tuesday, but Broward officials are holding firm on their decision that students should tune in.

...Miami-Dade schools will not mass broadcast the speech, spokesman John Schuster said. Teachers who wish to show the address will have to live stream it from the White House website. What students who opt out will do during the 15- or 20-minute speech is up to each school.

The Miami-Dade school district made its decision following a recommendation from its attorney -- and after several dozen parents called or e-mailed Friday objecting to their kids being forced to watch a speech they say could be political....

Parents in Miami-Dade will receive an automated phone call over the weekend asking them to send a note to school Tuesday if they don't want their child to watch the speech.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1218475.html

Don't students whose parents want them to see the speech have any rights? Guess I'll be live broadcasting from the White House website, and worry about losing my job.

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1. Racism.

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3. Smartism

[noamnety]

2. The parents who want their kids to see the speech

will be able to give their kids access to it. I'm confident they'll find a way to make it happen if it's important to them.

No parent has a right to demand that a school provides a specific lesson plan for a class - that's not how lesson planning works in schools.

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4. Baloney. The presidnetial address is an established practice among schoolkids with or w/o a lesson.

This is about disrespect and racism. And for the record the Education dept. merely suggested some things. Hardly in need of an indictment.

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5. How is it an established practice?

The last one was almost two decades ago and the whole thing seemed to have died in part because the democrats were so vocal about it being free paid advertisement for the president (clearly they were racist against bush sr)

[MichiganVote]

6. Not quite. Reagan addressed schoolkids after the Challenger disaster

and George H. W. Bush addressed students as part of the effort to counteract the growing drug use by schoolchildren. So Obama is not allowed to offer encouragement to youth to perform and excel in school?

Which Democrats were so "vocal", as you put it, of these republicans receiving a paid advertisement for the office uh...we could all visibly see they already had attained?

Edited to add that Eisenhower, Truman, and Clinton visited classroom to speak directly to schoolchildren. Mrs. Obama has also visited classrooms as did the former Bush wives. 'Course Jill Biden is a teacher so no telling what kind of commie messages she has been giving poor impressionable youth.

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[noamnety]

7. Exactly - Bush's address was 1991 - almost 2 decades ago.

The one before that - Reagan - was more than 2 decades ago. It's not current established procedure.

The democrats who spoke out against it were folks like the house majority leader.

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8. I said pratice---not procedure. Regardless, there was no uproar then

about broad based messages intended to offer support to schoolkids. No one that I know of raged about Reagan or Bush addressing the schoolkids on anything, in or out of a classroom.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who are charging the hill are exhibiting racism. The comments alone are appalling and there has been NO objection to them--again--by republican leaders. It appears that while republicans call for collaboration, they readily abandon that demand when it suits them. Making the Obama administration the object of derision is their intent.