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I have read responses to the content that implied that the content would have been really different if there had not been so much controversy but since people got up in arms, they changed it <eye roll> Seriously?
From what my kids tell me about what they see/hear on Channel One, it's very liberal in it's content. I'm surprised there aren't more protests about Channel One, honestly.
My kids attend assemblies at school all the time without parental permission or an "opt out" option. One, in particular, my daughter experienced in 2nd grade. It was a teenager doing an anti-smoking assembly because this teenager had gotten throat cancer at age 8, supposedly due to his parents' second hand smoke. I was a smoker at the time but NEVER in the house and NEVER in the car with the kids. My daughter came home hysterical that she was going to get throat cancer and have to talk through a computerized box because I smoked. She totally missed the "second hand smoke" part of the message and only heard the "If your parents smoke, you will get throat cancer" part. Additionally, it's nearly impossible to positively determine what caused any cancer. I mean, obviously, your risk for lung cancer increases tremendously when you smoke. However, when I was a kid, all of the adults smoked everywhere and anywhere, including in the car with the windows up (and both mom and dad were smoking like that!). I don't know a single person who got throat cancer in elementary school because of it. That presentation seemed completely irresponsible to me.
ETA: The teachers for whom school starts tomorrow weren't scheduled to be at work until Friday. I don't think they had any time to prepare.
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