Gah, I AM the opposition and I think "we"'re getting weird.
However, what people spazzed at mostly (from the bloggers I saw that were considering not letting their children watch it), was not the speech itself, but rather the material that went it to prompt discussion after. Some of the questions were in the, "How can you help the president accomplish what he's trying to do?" vain. That prompted a combo of parents who don't WANT to help the pres, and parents who felt some teachers would take this as an opportunity to exthole the virtues of the current pres from a political standpoint (rather than simpy respect for the position). Note that as a result of this, the educational material was changed/pulled (I don't remember which) to something more politically-neutral.
I don't see the point of not letting your kid watch the speech/of spazzing, although I would want to see the text of it, preferably before it aired.
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Date: 2009-09-09 01:02 pm (UTC)However, what people spazzed at mostly (from the bloggers I saw that were considering not letting their children watch it), was not the speech itself, but rather the material that went it to prompt discussion after. Some of the questions were in the, "How can you help the president accomplish what he's trying to do?" vain. That prompted a combo of parents who don't WANT to help the pres, and parents who felt some teachers would take this as an opportunity to exthole the virtues of the current pres from a political standpoint (rather than simpy respect for the position). Note that as a result of this, the educational material was changed/pulled (I don't remember which) to something more politically-neutral.
I don't see the point of not letting your kid watch the speech/of spazzing, although I would want to see the text of it, preferably before it aired.