The first time notices were sent home and family replied NO.
The last time the school said they forgot to send notices...left it to their honor to do what the family would want.
He opted out and was given an extra assignment and sent to the library. He was taken back to the room after the live speech for all the follow-up “indoctrination” and he was upset then, about both things. His Father contacted the school and they replied that they did not authorize punishment assignments! LOL He did not complete it.
My small Granddaughter was “opted out” here in Florida and she was forgotten in a small outer office for 3 hours, taken home to an empty house and finally returned to the school. She was left in an Unstaffed Nurses Office to wait for family at the end of the day. I would have SCREAMED!
I have no tolerance for these events at all. The young one says “ I don't like a President who will take my daddy's money and give it to other people. He works hard! They can too.”
The 13 year old boy there in VA has showed interest in the Military Academies and career service. He is working on his Eagle Boy Scout Award and completed the Life level. He is no dummy and after I have another 3 months with him this summer he will be back “on track”! I am sure this is a way to “go along” with the other kids. hard age to be different.
If you want to know the exact school we could Private email.
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It must have been a Principal with an agenda - because I just double checked with my kids and neither had to watch or listen to the SOTU.
My daughter was the only one in her class not to watch the video last Fall, she went to the library for 15 minutes.
Is politics a verboten topic in Scouts? I think you compare Barack Obama and, say, Sarah Palin and see which one matches up better with the Scout creeds, and it shouldn’t even be a contest.