Obama's speech not on some schools' lesson plans -- latimes.com:
"President Obama's speech to students next week may be a 'teachable moment,' as some educators see it, but it will not be a command performance. A combination of scheduling, academic priorities and sheer bandwidth will keep the president out of many Southern California classrooms when he goes on the air Tuesday.
'We're an academic institution, and our responsibility is to cover specific content standards,' said James Stratton, superintendent of schools for La Cañada Unified School District, where the school year got off to a late and rocky start because of the nearby wildfires. In his district, he said, the speech will be shown only in those classes where it 'has any relation to the California content standards for that particular class.'"
"President Obama's speech to students next week may be a 'teachable moment,' as some educators see it, but it will not be a command performance. A combination of scheduling, academic priorities and sheer bandwidth will keep the president out of many Southern California classrooms when he goes on the air Tuesday.
'We're an academic institution, and our responsibility is to cover specific content standards,' said James Stratton, superintendent of schools for La Cañada Unified School District, where the school year got off to a late and rocky start because of the nearby wildfires. In his district, he said, the speech will be shown only in those classes where it 'has any relation to the California content standards for that particular class.'"
