What a difference a year makes in the never-ending news cycle. The Fox News article is - I think - a pretty fair summary of the overall issue today.
- Some districts leave the decision up to the individual schools.
- Some districts show the speech.
- All the districts offer families the ability to opt out if parents don't want their kids to watch the speech.
Richard 
Some Colorado Schools Will Not Air President Obama's Speech
FOXNews, 13 Sep 2010
http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-obama-...0,719925.story
The President's Back to School Speech: "We Not Only Reach For Our Own Dreams, We Help Others Do the Same"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...-others-do-sam
Remarks by the President in Back to School Speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14 Sep 2010
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...a-pennsylvania
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