The Arlington Independent School District in Texas decided not to show President Obama’s address to students live yesterday because it reportedly didn’t want to interrupt its regularly scheduled lesson plans. However, the district has now decided to bus its students off-campus on [Monday] Sept. 21 to hear President Bush speak.
Well, sort of. In fact, the former president and first lady may not be the main attraction:
[T]he Arlington Independent School District… accepted an invitation to take 28 fifth grade classes to a Sept. 21 media event sponsored by a committee preparing for the 2011 Super Bowl to be played at Arlington’s new $1.15 billion Dallas Cowboys football stadium.
Along with the former president and first lady, the program will feature “legendary Dallas Cowboys,” along with business and community leaders from across North Texas. The event, being held to announce “the largest youth-education program in Super Bowl history,” will give invited students free lunches and a T-shirt. Planners were also working to “secure a performance by a well-known recording artist to cap the festivities in high style.”