Welcome back to school, America.

[msjen]

The New York Times provides a rather apt note in their story on the Obama back-to-school speech:

Millions of students watched, but not all with rapt attention. At Bolingbrook High School southwest of Chicago, about 200 students viewed the address on a large screen in an auditorium, and a few of them looked downright drowsy

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[g_na]

:(

[hep]

every kid at zane's school ate it all up. it was all they talked about all day long and she word for worded it to me when we got home.

[msjen]

Yay!

[jinx1313]

I preferred the AP's version. At least they found a few quotable kids who took some positives away from it.

[msjen]

I'm sure a lot of kids did, actually. And that's a good thing. :)