re: School ban of inauguration apparently false. Shows hypocrisy with media outrage.

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There are definitely Teachers who have declared they will not show the inauguration.

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I'm sure there are, but the article is about a specific school banning it. That was apparently false, and isn't any truer because someone else does it.

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Is your issue with the article that it states Principals made the decisions instead of Teachers?

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My issue is that the article states that an entire school had banned the inauguration, when they appears to be false.

And beyond that inaccuracy of the article, the journalistic standards to reach that conclusion were terrible (didn't speak with school; based on a Facebook post; interview with one mother, etc.).

And even if we find a teacher who refused to do it, at that school, that doesn't make it any more accurate or better journalism. I mean if the calculus teacher wants them to learn calculus during calculus class, that's not very controversial and quite different than one the article argued.

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However much Fox is mocked for their "Fair and Balanced" - they're the closest to it - at least on hard news reporting - obviously their slate of commentators are heavily represented by all shades of the right and a handful of centrists or left-leaners.

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And I'm not criticizing Fox, except for the fact that they employ such a terrible journalist. I actually expect more from them.

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so I expect the hard-hitting journalism to be rejuvenated with the quickness.

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And while this reveals their hypocrisy, I'm afraid it will unfortunately reveal the other side's as well. In other words, they'll dismiss quality journalism, regardless of its implications, because they didn't do it during Obama's tenure. The inconsistency will deserve criticism, but the dismissal is just as or even more problematic.

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ike how the press cares about law and order and government accountability when Nixon and Reagan are in office, but not so much when Clinton and Obama are (the ends justify the means to Marxist revolutionaries).

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Look no further than the President-Elect for the same hypocrisy. Prior to this year, he's on record stating that Hillary was a victim (and would make a great president or vice president), but all of a sudden years later his opinion changed. He was either wrong then or he's wrong now; either way, it reveals either terrible and fluid judgement, or he just lies like atypical politician, the ones who live in that swamp.

And if you look, talk, and act like those swamp dwellers, then its probably your habitat too. So is he going to really drain his new home?

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Prior to this year, he's on record stating that Hillary was a victim (and would make a great president or vice president), but all of a sudden years later his opinion changed.

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And I don't think this is unfair, per se, but at the very least, he's been doing that on his own dime. As of tomorrow, he's on the clock.

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So is he going to really drain his new home?

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The optimist in me believes he will get the job started, for sure. But, that's a big fricking swamp - I think we all can agree on that.

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I'm quite certain he's got a serious Blue Velvet Frank set up right next to his desktop. I'm guessing he's wearing a Walkman with cassette tapes of old hair bands blasting through his ears, filling himself with Grapico and vienna sausages.

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This is going to sound terrible, especially as a person who loves film: Besides Twin Peaks, I can't ever remember watching anything by David Lynch. Eraserhead creeped me out when I was younger and have refrained from his films ever since.

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STEEL CURTAIN!!

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You know as terrible as the post is, I dislike the Patriots so much that a Steelers victory wouldn't be as terrible as usual.

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He does not provide a comment from the school/district

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I've never heard the parents complaining saying it was a district/school policy. Personal friend of mine from the Ft Worth area was complaining that the teacher told the kids that she personally didn't want to see Trump nominated, so they wouldn't watch it. I think that has since been reversed

And that's exactly what the supt was saying in your letter, some kids will see it, some wont

So Snopes rates your OP as MOSTLY FALSE. Good job, you posted fake news, about fake news.

And another reason the article is terrible. Here is the direct quote from the the student who Starnes uses (with her mother) as a primary source:

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We watched the last 2 presidential inaugurations in school.”

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The 2013 Inauguration fell on MLK day, and public schools have a day off. So Starnes freely accepted and posted this when a 30 second search would show that this was not possible.

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You even linked a letter that confirmed EXACTLY WHAT I SAID: some classes will see it, others wont. Teachers were making decisions based on their personal views

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But the "fake news" was that all teachers were banned from showing it, even if they wanted to and even it was actually relevant to their course (e.g., American History).

What you said above is correct, but that's irrelevant to the discussion about an article that was accepted as fact, despite the clearly poor journalism.