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		<title>Most if not all Rockwall County schools not streaming live Obama speech to students in classrooms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J.J. Smith.Â MostÂ and perhapsÂ none ofÂ Rockwall County&#8217;s public and private schoolsÂ will be showing President Obama&#8217;s controversial live speech to school childrenÂ in their classes Tuesday morning at 11 a.m (Central Time). Rockwall ISD will provideÂ &#8221;optional access&#8221;Â at a designated location on each campus. Royse City ISD and Heritage Christian Academy (HCA)will not. The Fulton School&#8217;s administrators were meeting [...]]]></description>
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<p>By J.J. Smith.Â MostÂ and perhapsÂ none ofÂ Rockwall County&#8217;s public and private schoolsÂ will be showing President Obama&#8217;s controversial live speech to school childrenÂ in their classes Tuesday morning at 11 a.m (Central Time).</p>
<p>Rockwall ISD will provideÂ &#8221;optional access&#8221;Â at a designated location on each campus.</p>
<p>Royse City ISD and Heritage Christian Academy (HCA)will not.</p>
<p>The Fulton School&#8217;s administrators were meeting Friday morning and have not yet decided.</p>
<p>RISD and RCISDÂ willÂ use their websites to make a recording and text of hisÂ speech available for students and parents to view at their convenience.Â </p>
<p>According to a letter sent home yesterday with children fromÂ RISD, &#8220;due to the important content and historical nature of President Obama&#8217;s address, we will provide all students and their families optional access. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;On each campus the president&#8217;s addressÂ will be available at a designated location.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Please contact your campus administrator if you would like your student to view the message as it is broadcast live.&#8221;</p>
<p>RISDÂ will also post &#8220;the full content of the message&#8221; on the RISD website home page&#8221; &#8220;so all students and theirÂ parents and guardians will have access to President Obama&#8217;s address at their convenience.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our mainÂ goal is to keep the decision in the hands of the parents,&#8221; said RISD Director of Communications SheriÂ Fowler.</p>
<p>According to the RCISD website,Â &#8221;Royse City ISD will not be attempting to show this event live to our students.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Â There are too many issues,Â  including the capability of our technology system to stream a live event to all classrooms, as well as the fact that it will be during the lunch time of many of our students and staff.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Â However, we will make a recording available to our social studies teachers for them to use at their discretion.Â  Parents always have the ability to opt their children out of the viewing of any video.Â  This should be done by contacting the teacher or the principal at the appropriate campus.&#8221;</p>
<p>HCA administrators said they had noÂ particularÂ comments to offer.</p>
<p>In a letter last week to the nation&#8217;s school principals, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the speech streamed live from the White House website would simply challenge students to work hard, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning.</p>
<p>But some education experts and parents are criticizingÂ the speech because they say aÂ suggested lesson plan that calls on school kids to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help Pres. ObamaÂ  establishes the president as a &#8220;superintendent in chief&#8221;Â and may indoctrinate children to support him politically.</p>
<p>Pres. Obama will deliverÂ the national address directly to students on Tuesday, which will be the first day of classes for many children across the country. Most Texas schools have already been in session for twoÂ weeks.</p>
<p>&#8220;The goal of the speech and the lesson plans is to challenge students to work hard in school, to not drop out and to meet short-term goals like behaving in class, doing their homework and goals that parents and teachers alike can agree are noble,&#8221; Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, told FOXNews.com. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a policy speech. This is a speech designed to encourage kids to stay in school.&#8221;</p>
<p>But in advance of the address, the Department of Education has offered educators &#8220;classroom activities&#8221; to coincide with Obama&#8217;s message.Â </p>
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