Showing the Inauguration in schools...

My kids are elementary age, so they aren't watching it. However, I'd still be OK with it - Much as I loathe Trump, the fact remains that at roughly this time tomorrow, he will be the president. Ignorance and hiding under the bushes is disingenuous. At high school age, I think it could be appropriate to show it and then have the students do some activity to help them express their thoughts. I'm not a teacher, but the first thing that comes to mind is that it's a good time to be able to practice writing a persuasive essay.

I do agree that a time delay is probably good. I can't help but fear something bad is going to happen, which kids don't need to see in real time. I hope the worst that happens is peaceful protesting.

It is entirely possible that there is different school district administration and different policies now, not necessarily tying into who the president is. I wouldn't necessarily freak that permission was required 8 years ago but not now. I think it's fair to ask the question, though, even if you're just framing it as covering your own rear. "Gee, we had to get permission slips 8 years ago. Is it different now? Can anyone tell me why?"

Hmmmm, on one hand you all are telling the left they're going to have to be more aware of/sensitive to the feelings of the right in the future, and on the other hand you're calling "snowflakes" those who simply want to opt out of celebrating the the inauguration of someone whose values they find offensive.

He still gets to be president. Perhaps y'all are the "snowflakes" because you can't handle that everyone isn't either jumping for joy or curled in a fetal position in the corner.

I didn't see you telling us we should have been more sensitive to the right in other threads, or calling anyone "snowflakes" here, so I guess this isn't directed at you.

Some high schools in our district (we have not yet received from my daughter's school) have emailed an "opt out" form for parents who do not want their kids to watch it.

People are all up in arms on FB over it. They seem to have forgotten the same form was sent home for Obama's inauguration, as well as his address to students several years back.

No matter who I support, I have no issue with my kids watching it. It's history. But the folks who are up in arms around here are upset over it being Trump, forgetting that the same happened with Obama.

No, it definitely is not.

And my post was horrendous with all the missing letters and the wrong they're. Geesh!

As a movement I think not watching the inauguration is kind of awesome. I'd actually love for it to be the lowest rated inauguration ever only because I think that sort of thing is important to Trump.

But as part of a curriculum, the tv will be tuned to it whether there are 25 or 20 students in a classroom so it won't affect much. I also think that it is important for social studies or civics.   

OK so son came home and asked if he could stay home tomorrow and watch the inauguration. He watched Obama's and enjoyed the process. I said of course not. Apparently the junior high classes are watching them but my son has a science test at that time. He is not happy and thinks the test should be postponed so all the kids can watch it. There are 4 classes of junior kids and sadly for him his science period happens to fall then.  I asked my daughter if the middle school aged kids (we have a k-8 but jr high has it's own hallway, and middle school has their own section) were watching it and she said "I don't know".
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he could always set the DVR to record it.  I don't remember ever watching inauguration ceremonies in school, but what do I know? I was in school in the 1980s, and we very rarely did stuff like watching live television events in our classes.

I do vaguely remember seeing the Challenger blow up, and I remember us watching the return  / release of a Middle Eastern hostage-- a soldier who was held for a very long time (I can't remember whether he was held in the Iran hostage crisis or not)-- but that was only because he was from our local area.



ETA:  it sounds more like your son really just wants to postpone taking his test!

Not really about the test. He's your typical Pea kid and has a 98.4 average with his report card last week. Isn't bothered by tests. He watched Obama's inaugurations. He finds this stuff interesting. I don't. BUT he doesn't think it's fair the two 7th grades, and other 8th grade rooms get to watch it, but because his 8th grade class has science during that time he has to write a test. He feels if all the other jr high kids get to watch it they all should. Plus he wants to.  We don't have DVR etc. We will find it online somewhere this evening.
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Ahhh. I understand you then. Yeah, I would call them snowflakes as well. If you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen. LOL. However, I would say the same is true on the opposite side. The left listens to way to much fake news from the left wing media outlets and far left media disinformation campaign as well. The incidents of "attacks" by Trump supporters, some of which have been proven to be outright lies, are also way overblown by CNN and MSNBC and their ilk as well. 

If the left can applaud a man like Castro, and turn him into a folk hero, and praise his "so-called" humanitarian efforts in Cuba, then again, they are hypocritical because Trump is no where near as bad as that monster. And as a sexual predator, again, Clinton. 

You are quite right that may be possible that it was the same as the "attacks" by Trump supporters, however seeing the crying and nashing of teeth at the protests in the days following the election honestly, for me, became quite comical. 

I probably would have responded to the email with, "I recall back in 2009 we required signed permission slips from parents order for students to view the inauguration. Are we able to show the inauguration this year without the signed permission slips? Just want to avoid any possible conflict with parents."

But sometimes my snark comes out when it shouldn't.

But that's the thing...I don't think that it is that we went wrong with enough of the population to warrant all the discussions. What I do think is that there is a generational communication difference-which is common to every generational difference, enough so that if you work with the public in social service situations you will inevitably get training in effective ways to communicate with each different group. A baby boomer will have a different set of expectations than a gen x-er who will have a different set of expectations than a millennial.

For example, I heard an interview either last night or this morning (I can't remember which) where the person was clearly a baby boomer talking about the generation of 'every one gets a trophy' and how they 'just need to get over it and realize that...' It perpetuates the idea that a young person just has sour grapes and should get on with things. Reality is though, that the a lot of the kids who got participation trophies didn't like them, didn't want them and pretty much tossed them the minute they got home. They don't get sour grapes any more than anyone else, but they are expressing their feelings, passions and expectations in a different way than what I (as someone who doesn't really fit into the baby boomers but am a little too old to be squarely a Gen X-er) am often comfortable with. 

If the truth be told, who I actually blame for part of the problem is not so much the kids, but the true helicopter parents. They are giving the impression that the kids are the special snowflakes by calling college professors and demanding participation trophies. I can tell you right now that if I called my kid's professor or the other kid's officer in charge there would be absolute HELL to pay. For the most part, the kids are just the same as any other generation coming up that the elders of the world just don't understand.

(I am not trying to be ugly here, it is just that I have an issue with this because I have seen some incredibly awesome kids who not only don't fit the media definition of their generation, but resent it and feel as though it is being perpetuated to fit a political agenda.)