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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
The difference is that Obama could have easily given more advance notice. It didn't need to sprung on people the week before.
And I don't know what your education was like, but a generic "stay in school, kids" wasn't part of my lessons very frequently.
There are a lot of ways the logistics could have been a lot better to get closer to 100% participation.
Think about it: if this had been well-planned and the specific content explained by the White House or DOE a month or two ago, there'd be pressure on districts to figure out how to show it. Instead, I suspect that the participation rate for any state that this isn't the first day of school will be far from 100%.
If this is the first day for a district, they had all last week to work out how and where they would show it. If it wasn't the first week, they were actually teaching, planning, grading, dealing with discipline, and probably didn't have as much time to devote to this. I know my district didn't. I think most of the districts around Atlanta figured out how to handle it in a way that didn't make parents mad; permission slip etc, but didn't send out any information about how to make it work with the lunch schedule or any of the practical concerns if a teacher wanted to show it. That will leave many teachers with the impression that it's much easier just not to fool with showing it.
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No, most teachers won't have a generic "stay in school" segment on their lesson plan. That still doesn't mean that it isn't relevant, and that it should not be addressed. I'm not sure why these districts are acting as though this is rocket science. When things came up like this in my district, it was never that difficult to plan it out. The lunch schedules were altered, and if necessary, there was extended homeroom. It is the POTUS giving an encouraging message for goodness sake! Seems to me like people would WANT kids to see that. All that other stuff about schedules and logistics? Just plain old excuses...and we all know what excuses are.