After reading this thread, I have a couple of questions for all of you. If you had a child in school and they opted out, where did they go? While NOT watching, what were they doing? Were they allowed to chat or were they made to sit quietly or what? I ask this because I read the speech and liked it. I do not agree with Obama but he speech was good. If my daughter had been in schhol and she opted out- I would have been ok with that IF she had a good reason. Not just the "I don't like him" crap.