Superintendent Neosho MO schools on Obama's speech: "we are not wanting to disrupt class"

The Neosho Schools will not stop the educational process and watch the President's Speech. Many of our classrooms do not have televisions and even though we could make arrangements, we are not wanting to disrupt class time to do so. However, we will record the speech and if for some reason in the future we would want to watch it, we could.

As most of our President's speeches, they are played back on the 5:00 news and at that time the parents can decide to view it with their children.

Hope that answers your question,

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http://web.neosho.k12.mo.us/ask/index.php?expand=70


I wonder if Bush's speech was a "disruption" of class? I just asked him, lets see if he responds.

"The Neosho Schools will not stop the educational process and watch the President's Speech. Many of our classrooms do not have televisions and even though we could make arrangements, we are not wanting to disrupt class time to do so. However, we will record the speech and if for some reason in the future we would want to watch it, we could."

Srambling for nonexistent equipment is listed as the disruption, not the speech itself. We have the same problem in our school. (That's one of many obstacles, the main one being the majority of our students will not be in school that day). If you had to magically produce dozens/hundreds of televisions with no notice and get them all hooked up while trying to run classes, would you find it disruptive?

disruption.

between notification and implementation. No, that's not enough time to procure tv's, cable up rooms, borrow equipment from other facilities in the district. Could we theoretically do it?

Yes. It would come at the expense of having student schedules printed in time for the first day of school, all classes would be disrupted not just for the speech, but pretty much the entire morning as we rewire the building and install equipment - and as I said the kids wouldn't have their schedules.

I love the "just use your prep time" solution, though. That's funny.

and I went to school there, they had the ability to do this years ago at the majority of their schools. Can you find Neosho on a map?

where we don't rely on channel one and don't have tvs in all the classrooms. I've read comments from other schools as well stating they aren't set up to pipe live tv into all the classrooms.

If they don't have enough tvs in their classrooms or the ability apparently to broadcast it in their auditorium, what do you suppose their "arrangements" would entail?

out.

Yes, I am suggesting this may have influenced their decision.