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Watching Obama in Harlem, middle schoolers agree to agree

Sixth-graders at Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem discussed Obama's speech after watching it live.
Sixth-graders at Democracy Prep Charter School in Harlem discussed Obama’s speech after watching it via WH.gov

Harlem students who watched President Obama’s back-to-school speech today in their school auditorium could not detect anything to disagree with — except for one point.

“I disagree with Obama’s mom about waking him up at 4:30,” Klara Arnold, a 10-year-old sixth-grader at Democracy Prep Charter School, told her principal, who had explained that the speech initially sparked controversy and asked if students had any differences of opinion with the president.

The speech referred to Obama’s mother’s habit of giving him extra lessons to supplement his schooling while he lived in Indonesia.

Since district public schools won’t open until tomorrow, few New York City schools had to tackle the question of whether and how to air the president’s speech today. Democracy Prep Charter School, which opened for full-day sessions today after half-day preparation last week, did, along with other charter schools around the city. (more…)

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