While I was conducting an event at the Honors House tonight, I heard from a colleague that Miss Teen RSI had stood up during a high school class and said that it was time to listen to President Obama's speech. I was also told that the teacher had told her to sit down and that the class wasn't going to hear the speech.
Yes, I had a brave daughter who was willing to stand up to authority in the name of all that was good and true.
But it turned out to be an urban legend.
When I got home, the daughter in question said that she had sort of stood to make her hand visible but that she forgot what the teacher said and that it hadn't been any kind of put down or anything like that anyway.
All very mundane.
It turned out that about half of the high school teachers didn't show Obama's speech in their classes.
Not much of a surprise.
High school teachers are pretty conservative--especially in a Bible-belt area like this.
I'm just glad that they're not teaching the "Answers in Genesis" line in the science classes.
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