If your child goes to public school in RISD, chances are you got a robocall from the district last Sunday (9/12) explaining that President Obama’s stay-in-school speech would be shown to schoolchildren on Tuesday, unless a parent wrote a note excusing the child.  After that, do you know what happened? 

In the case of my child (ninth grade, Richardson High School) I asked him casually on Thursday what he had thought of the speech.  He hadn’t seen it, he said, because the teacher who was supposed to show it was too busy.

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Depending on your politics, this might be good news or bad news.  I have heard from the teacher by e-mail (I take her at her word, she was too busy and the rest of the week, just forgot.)  I asked the principal, is that how it works?  Can teachers just forget to show the speech?  He has thanked me for bringing this important matter to his attention, and he says he will follow up.

So, if you got one of those robocalls, did you have any idea the follow up would be this casual? 

As a parent, I wonder, why bother me with the robocall?

Politics aside (if that is possible) I am curious what other parents’ experience in RISD was last week?