Sounds like wisdom is prevailing in your school. I still say that the root of this whole charade is to push groupthink on the little mushminds. Kids don’t like to be the outcast or the only one not on board. B.O. is counting on the implied pressure that his speech will bring. Since B.O. came on the scene, schoolkids who dare speak up against him are bullied and taunted—even by teachers! I think he is capitalizing on that. Otherwise, why not just PRINT up the speech and pass it out to kids?
our first thought was to keep them home especially with the books and collateral stuf we heard about
but our school is eschewing that and we have trips lined up so chose pragmatism over ideology this time