principal's response

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yesterday i posted the email i wrote to my son's principal expressing my feelings about President Obama's speech not being shown at school.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6494424&mesg_id=6494424


i got a response this morning:

Thank you for bringing your concern to my attention. I would have loved nothing more than to show the speech to our entire student body at the same time. Unfortunately, we did not receive information on the speech until last week. The speech took place during part of our B lunch and part of our C lunch, so 2/3 of our student body would not have been able to watch without the schedule being changed. Given the late notice of this speech, we were unable to coordinate a last minute plan that accommodated the entire student body minus those whose parents refused to allow their student to watch the speech. Teachers were given the option to show the speech in their classroom, but many were unable to because of their lunch period.

Good news, the speech is on the WRAL website and I have included the link.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/video/5954697/

i'm mollified by the response; it makes sense to me. except the "minus those whose parents refused to allow their student to watch the speech" - aargh.