Students Catch Zzzs During Obama Speech

Maybe these students were just trying to make a statement like I am Republican and I don’t want to listen. They should have just stayed out of the room. Or maybe they were just kids being kids and the media made news out of it… once again trying to make Obama look bad…

OH MY …This has nothing to to with Obama’s speech. It is the future of the USA. A bunch of self-asborbed APATHETIC American citizens. Truly this is frightful scene. USA is going dowhhill quickly C u in 20 years KIDS!
JOHN LENNON’s IMAGINE

This was an obvious attempt by the students and administraitors to show SEN. Obama no respect but all it shows is a gym full of lazy, sorry high school students and teachers. This has got to be a school of under acheiving bums. (administraitors and students)

I attend the school that Senator Obama spoke at that day, and I would just like to say that if that photographer was actually there to report a story, he would of gotten a shoot of the crowd of students that were actually paying attention. As a matter of fact the ones that really matter are those students that have a vote in the 2008 elections. Most, if not all of the students featured in that clip were under classmen who can not Vote. If he kept turning the camera and not focusing in a minimal section of the gymnasium, you would all seen that this was not the case for the majority of the audience. Do not be fouled by false advertisement, and that is exactly the case for this article.

Hey there
ya um i am one of the students
and our school is not full of drug addicts and alcoholics thank you very much.
Our students are very respectful and look at how our seniors turned out after graduation!
I am a freshman
and from what i saw most of our students were very into it many of the freshman wanted to ask questions which shows that we were paying attention.
This is a stupid article on something that is a total lie.
I agree it was rude for SOME of the students to sleep and were using it as an excuse to get out of class
but most of us were paying attention!
those induviduals do not represent the characteristics and opinions of the whole school.

I attend Propsect Mountain, and we are one of the best schools in the state. I think its ridiculous that the media would focus more on the students, reactions than the speech itself. Apparently the reporter wasn’t interested in reporting an actual story.
First off, Prospect Mountain is one of the best schools in the state. This is a false advertisement, and our school should not have its teachers, administrators, and productivity judged by this.

Since when do you need to have your eyes open to listen?
Yeah, maybe some kids were sleeping. But do you know how many people were in that auditorium? Did you count the number of people listening intently?
You probably wouldn’t be able to see more than 10 people on that video who are sleeping, or not caring to listen to what Barack Obama has to say.
As others have pointed out, many of the students attending that speech were underclassmen. It’s not up to them to vote, they can’t make the decisions, and they don’t have the power.
At what point of time was this video taken, during the speech? Near the end? After countless minutes of someone standing on a stage in front of you, eventually everyone will lose interest.
Since when do we judge the whole by the impression of a few? Why should you people focus on the bad?
I didn’t see anyone saying ” Oh look! 90% of the teenagers in that auditorium were listening.” Everyone focuses on the bad. That’s the trouble with America these days. We didn’t become the great country we are because we focused on the bad. Where’s the loyalty?
These kids are the future. Like it or not, and you should be there to support them whether a choice few would like to participate or not.
Can you honestly say that when you were 15 years old, you were interested in the political campaign of the time? Were you itching to get out there and cast your ballot? Or were you chasing girls, playing sports, and enjoying your youth? Don’t forget what it means to be young.
The only ignorant people are the middle-aged members of society who have nothing better to do than criticize, ridicule, and insult the group of people who will someday run this country.
I don’t go to this school. Let myself be an example that we’re not all stoners and hungover brats.

This video clip and article is an absolute disgrace. Not towards the students of this school BUT TOWARDS THE MEDIA. I was in the audience the day of Sen. Obama’s speech and was in a large group of people who were devoutly listening to what he had to say. This is a horrible portayal of PMHS. This young, excellent school has surpassed everyones expectations in sports, academics, and school spirit. PMHS is home to the 2006 NH principal of the year 2007 Class M NH baseball champions and has an impressive reputation in New Hampshire. Maybe if the media had focused on more than 6 students of this 600 student school, you would all see what Prospect Mountain High School is truly like.

lol,why have “remember my personal info” if it gets deleted when you fill it in?

Imagine this:
You’re back in your teen years, Did you even give a crap about what politicians had to say? Was it FUN? how about EXCITING? No it wasn’t Politics were/ and still are boring. Especially to a group of 14-18yr olds. Most of which wont be able to vote for another 1-4 years.
It’s a sad day in America when people are so quick to presume the worst of a mass of minors. Being an alumni to that specific school I find it hard to believe that a whole of 1% of students can represent Prospect Mountain as a “school full of school full of hungover drug addicts and bums.”
Considering that it may just as well be possible that they were tired. It was 2hrs before the school day was about to end into a glorious 5 day break. The first of the School year might I add.
So maybe it would be best to get your facts straight before you’re so quick to judge such a good school. By the way it wasn’t just the students who were un-entertained; I noticed a few of the faculty who were uninterested in what Senator Obama had to say about “current issues”

First let me say that I am a parent of two students attending Prospect Mountain High School and neither one of my children are druggies or drunks! However, one of my children was sitting there with his head in his hands looking dazed. He works after school, comes home does homework and has no interest in politics at this time in his life, he is only 16! Did anyone mention that Obama’s speech was an hour and a half long? Add to this that most of these kids can’t even vote and it was the day before a 5 day holiday weekend! What made him think that going to a school and addressing a bunch of kids would produce overwhelming enthusiasm? Prospect Mountain HS is a great school and I think that it is getting a bad reputation for nothing. Go to any other school and see how many kids are sleeping in the class rooms. Does this make them bad, hung over, druggies? No, it makes them kids!!! With all the other issues in the world, why focus on a few kids that fell asleep during a speech?

I’m a senior and i think that this is completely RIDICULOUS. We are one of the best schools in the state. There was only around 10 students sleeping at the most. And they were all under-class men. They didn’t show the senior class who has just about all the students that can vote. Everyone i saw was paying attention. I stayed after with a bunch of other students to see Mr.Obama and ask him questions that were not answered during his one and a half hour speech. I asked him his stance on gay marriage. The press didn’t pay attention to the real story they just payed attention to the few kids that were not paying attention.

I am a student and I am appalled at these ridiculous comments. The news today focuses on all the bad images. What about the other 90% of the student body that were fully attentive and interested in everything he was saying. We the students are the future whether you are willing to accept that or not.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to our school? Have you sat in a classroom and seen how kids pay attention? No. It is wrong to classify and judge all the students on the few of us who were being slightly disrespectful. Also, these politics don’t apply to a majority of the students in there. Including me.

I think that this whole thing is so dumb the press has no right to tell the country that kids in our school are bums and drunks, if you are going to say anything about our school you need to be there for a little more than an hour and a half to judge us, i think that the people that were across the country have no right to comment on what abc news had to say they don’t know anything about us!!!!!!!!!! so next time get your facts straight and stop tell lies!!!!!

What I meant was stop telling lies, and don’t be immature about the situation.

As a student that was ACTUALLY at the event that so many of you have so kindly taken to bashing, but unfortunately were unable to attend, I am particularly curious as to what some of you would have liked the administration to do about the 6 out of about 600 (about 1%) of people that were not paying attention? Because last time I checked, forcing kids to be interested in something is really not possible. I was also interested in how quick you were to judge our school after seeing a 1 minute and 22 second video of the 1% of our school that was uninterested in seeing a political speech. From this 1 minute 22 second video you seem to be fairly confident that, as you put it, we are “a school full of hung over drug addicts and bums.” I mean I only go there so how would I know, but I didn’t see anyone high or hung over during Obama’s speech. What I did see, because again I was ACTUALLY there, were a few sleepy, under-age kids on the day before Thanksgiving vacation who were surprisingly uninterested in the political views of a presidential candidate.

I love how the video returns to the same footage time and time again. Yes, I saw those five students last time; anything new to say, ABC? Oh wait, no, there isn’t! You’re so desperate for ratings that you’re running a smear campaign against both Obama and PMHS because ten TEENAGERS were bored during an assembly. Oh, the relevance! Stop me now before I’m crushed under the weight of your incredible insight! If the best you guys can do, it’s no wonder nobody pays any attention to you anymore. Is that Mike Huckabee banner finished yet, guys?

In the video they concentrated on the negative when in all actuality there were a lot of us who were paying attention. Prospect Mountain High school is a great school. This is merely one side of the story.

i think all of the stupid media rumors are ridiculous. We are a very bright and well educated school and we deserve much better than to be slammed by the press. Like many of my fellow students have said, we are not able to vote yet and it was the middle of the day. You cant expect us to be 100% jumping around and eyes wide open. Yes, some of the student could have been a little more awake but it doesn’t mean we don’t care.

Hi im a student at PMHS and i don’t like the accusations being made against our school. We sat in our gym for an hour an half and most of us were paying good attention to what Mr. Obama had to say. But honestly I don’t think this has anything to do with us and our school it has to do with Obama and trying to make him look bad. Honestly whoever recorded this video i have so much pity for, because he should of been listening to what Obama had to say not filming the kids. That shows just how much interest he really had. So I think before you judge Obama or the students and faculty of prospect mountain high school you should get the story straight.

I am absolutely appalled that the media was so desperate for a story that they had to focus, literally, on 1% of our school’s student body. Prospect Mountain is one of the highest ranking schools in the state of NH. We have an excellent staff and our students have exceeded everyones expectations in academics, athletics and school spirit. We were home to NH’s principal of the year in 2006 and the Class M Varsity Baseball State Champions, and we have had many other impressive achievements in our short 4 year existence. For people across the country to be so immature and naive and post comments such as “Maybe those six kids were already stoned or hung over?” or “This has got to be a school of under achieving bums.” is completely ridiculous. Prospect Mountain High School has achieved so much and is certain NOT full of drunks, drug addicts or under achieving bums! Of course there will be people not paying attention, you will find that in any situation, but the percentage of people paying attention to those in other schools I can guarantee is MUCH greater. More than half of our school cannot vote yet, but did the media look at all the students that can? No. They focused on a TINY percent of underclass men. I mean, seriously, 6 students out of 600, that is probably the best percentage any high school will EVER see. I just love how the media must portray everything in such a negative manor, seriously. This was NOT newsworthy, even if 6 of our 600 students may have been being disrespectful. I am absolutely disgusted by this…

I don’t get it!! Why is the press full of MORONS these day!! why??? All they do is tell stupid lies!! I mean if they want to call us morons they are just as bad!!

James Monroe. You talk about “what does this show about education in the US”; what does ABC show about journalism in the US?

As a past graduate of Prospect Mountain High School, I think that expecting a group of high school students to listen to a politician discuss his future endeavors to a majority of underage voters is a little bit ridiculous. I was very interested in politics in high school, so yes, I would have been interested, but for those 6-10 kids who were catching a little bit of shut eye, found politics boring. I believe that if you had the same number of adults in an office you would have had the same reaction. It has nothing to do with the administration or lack of values, it has to do with this society being so focused on “the problems” of todays youth and the lack of respect by young people. I think that ABC should be a little ashamed of themselves for choosing to report on the behavior of these select kids instead of questioning why they needed sleep in school. Maybe a job after school, hours of homework at night, or the boring speech for that matter. I just find it interesting that once again the media chooses to blame the kids.

This video shows just how awful these teens are getting today. I was literally amazed by there incredible ability to turn an hour speech into a one minute twenty second video (which was dreadfully edited) to show the few seconds that sick students felt ill enough to be forced to lay down. Also, these kids must have been “… stoned or hung over…” during this speech. It only took place in a hot gym after a long day of school before vacation. It’s really incredible how only one side of the gym was shown numerous times at different angles zoomed in. The students who had the ability to vote (seniors, and students 18 and older) were offered seats much closer to Obama because they are actually given the ability to voice there opinions in the form a vote.
The school, Prospect Mountain High, was previously searched by drug dogs, but apparently they must have missed the hundreds of stoned students that are so evident during this speech and are leading our country to absolute hell as it was previously stated. Obviously, putting students with mental disabilities into the direct sight of the general public who have no idea of what the actual situation was is another good way to show how lazy the general teenage population is. It must be impossible that any of these students or administrators have a good reason to appear sleeping while actually they were yelling at students, or I don’t know, camera shy.
To anyone who did not attend and comments/writes harsh words about our school or the general teenage population: Our school is one of the best in not only New Hampshire, but the entire United States, and it’s disgraceful for your view of us to be obscured to such a level, and ABC to show us as “…the most disrespectfull thing [this viewer has] seen in some time…”.

As a student that was ACTUALLY at the event that so many of you have so kindly taken to bashing, but unfortunately were unable to attend, I am particularly curious as to what some of you would have liked the administration to do about the 6 out of about 600 (about 1%) of people that were not paying attention? Because last time I checked, forcing kids to be interested in something is really not possible. I was also interested in how quick you were to judge our school after seeing a 1 minute and 22 second video of the 1% of our school that was uninterested in seeing a political speech. From this 1 minute 22 second video you seem to be fairly confident that, as you put it, we are “a school full of hung over drug addicts and bums.” I mean I only go there so how would I know, but I didn’t see anyone high or hung over during Obama’s speech. What I did see, because again I was ACTUALLY there, were a few sleepy, under-age kids on the day before Thanksgiving vacation who were surprisingly uninterested in the political views of a presidential candidate. Maybe to someone who was not there those kids would seem a bit “self-absorbed [&]APATHETIC” but what ABC News conveniently left out was that not one of those kids were of voting age and would not be voting in the 2008 election. They also, due to a certain level of incompetence on the part of the camera man, happened to leave out the large group of students and adults that WERE of voting age and WOULD be voting in the upcoming election that WERE paying attention and shaking the senator’s hand and asking questions. I would also like to point out that Mitt Romney spoke at our school about 6 months ago. There was no doubt a small number of kids who weren’t paying attention there as well, but there was a larger number who were. Not every student is going to be interested in politics, or one specific politician for that matter. The majority were interested and paying attention. The point being that this is a high school, and this was not an act of extreme disrespect toward senator Obama. A large majority of the people that attended the speech seemed to support Obama and his political ideas. One student, right before asking the senator about his views on gun control, even made the comment “I would first like to say that we are much more pleased with your visit then with Mitt Romany’s.” This comment earned not only immense applause from the audience, but a grin and chuckle from the senator.

i go to prospect mountain and i really don’t think that the opinion you have on the school is the best one. Maybe some people were sick or had a headache or something. Do you really know they weren’t paying any attention to what Obama was saying? How do you know they weren’t paying attention while having there eyes closed or looking at the ground? Some people think it’s better for them to concentrate on something if they’re not even looking at who’s talking to them or the crowd they’re in.

Why do people have to be so mean about our high school? The real story is ………… ….that the reporters couldn’t think of anything better to do other than focus on six people who were tired after an hour and a half speech witch might I add was a very nice speech. And another thing the teachers at our school are the best my civics teacher was excited about seeing Obama. I also want to know were you guys were when people took there (My civics class and many others) time to decorate the gym and made it look great!!!!!!! All I can say is …….BACK AWAY AND LEAVE OUR SCHOOL ALONE!!!!
P.s I love this school!!!

Making news out of this is completely ridiculous! I am a senior at the school and I thought the school was very well behaved. I was impressed with the questions that were asked.
I was also impressed with Obama. He seemed very genuine, and even took the time to sit down to and interview with one of the students on the school newspaper. Shouldn’t something like that have been a story instead?

By the way, it’s funny how the kids who were, according to ABC, “dead asleep” were somehow able to awaken at just the right moments and offer tremendous applause for Obama’s comments. That’s some powerful timing, there.

This is a disgrace to the world news as we know it. A reporter, so disinterested in a speech he probably cannot even comprehend takes the time to point out a few students who are not giving their full attention to Mr.Obama. It is rude, but some of those students obviously have good reasons. Maybe ABC should give Prospect Mountain a chance to speak on behave of what was said about us.

i would like to clarify that none of that was in reference to Senator Obama
rather in reference to my friend O’bamba , hes from Kerry in Ireland.

I think that it was really stupid that they only shown the kids that weren’t paying attention because the other side was. It’s mean that others are judging people that they don’t know. Next time they should think about what they say.

All the comments by the students from PMHS are true. Instead of focusing on the students that actually cared and listened, you focused on the ones that probably have jobs, after school activities and actually do their homework or study, which, surprise, would make them tired. I believe that ABC owes the entire student body an apology. My daughter is a student at PMHS and I know that she does not do drugs or drink and to say that they are all drug addicts and alcoholics is a personal insult because our children are better than that. This is the best high school in the state of New Hampshire and because a few of the students were tired is no reason to insult a fine school and good students. I await your apology ABC!

What is going to happen in 20 years when we actually make a difference in this country? What then!

PMHS students and family- keep in mind that while ABC’s reporting may have been less than responsible, they were not the ones accusing the students of beeing “drunk or stoned”. Those accusations came from readers.

Captive Audience
The students were kept in the gym for 45 minutes before Barack Obama’s speech started. Already soar from sitting on the hard seats and then they had to listen to him give his speech for another hour and a half.
This was a captive audience and it should have not been during a day when school was in session. These students have to be there and had no choice but to be there. It was a required day of school. It should have been a day when there was no school and then have the public invited there if they wanted to be there. I understand that it was a civics class that invited him and not the whole school. Most of the students that were there were forced to be there and are not able to vote because they are underage. That is a captive audience and it was unfair to do to the whole student body.
It might have been a better response if other candidates were invited to have a debate because not everyone is for Barack Obama or a democrat. I teach my children to be independents.
I think that the reporter is not a Barack Obama supporter and it showed in his reporting. I think that he could have come up with a different swing on the captive audience and shown the students that were paying attention and asking questions. This reporter made it look like our school is full of horrible children rather than the truth, that it was a captive audience. Shame on this ABC news reporter for expecting children to be perfect listeners while having to attend the political event during a school day.
It is my opinion that it should have never been. I think that if we can not have God and Jesus, Christmas, and other religious ideas in the schools that the politicians should be kept out as well esp. if they are a captive audience. Separation of Church and State in the schools should be observed.
I know many adults who do not vote and never have but complain about the way things are run in this country. Why not blog about those who can vote and don’t instead of blogging about students who can not vote. As for the one blogger who said something about being disrespectful, I have always been taught that respect is earned and not owed and to be a respecter of others is a sin because God is not a respecter of anyone. Those students do not owe him any respect and he was there to earn it.
My children are not druggies or dope heads or any other stereo type that the bloggers are saying. Most of the children that attend the school are very good children and I am proud of all of them for doing what they were told to do that day for they were truly a captive audience. They had to be there like it or not and that is not fair.
No one could have forced me sit there and be of great cheer but they expected the students to do it. It is an easy thing to expect children to be perfect when no one adult is. Students of Prospect Mountain High school, be proud of yourselves and ignore the ignorant blogs of the not perfect adults. They expect you to be perfect when they are not themselves.
Could a religious organization go to the schools during a required attendance day and force the students to be of great cheer and of full attention? Not in this day and age but the Politian’s can.

I agree dak…
ABC has intentionally and irresponsibly portrayed PMHS in a negative light but it is up to you all to prove them wrong

It’s nice to see that the only thing the media knows how to do is pick out all the negativity in a situation, and disregard all of the positive things.
For all of you who think that Prospect Mountain High School is just full of careless druggys, who don’t want to learn, I challenge you to come to our school. This way, we can prove to you that this truley is just the media misrepresenting our school, to boost its ratings and entertain people.

could Ron Paul come? I need a nap.

First of all I can assure anyone who does not attend Prospect Mountain High School that they have no business bashing our administrators, teachers, staff nor students.
It’s also quite astonishing that people all the way in California would feel that they have the right to assume that what was aired on ABC was a fair and accurate depiction of the events that transpired at Prospect last Tuesday. Nor does anyone have the right to label the school as “an absolute Disgrace,” or describe us as “lazy, sorry high school students and teachers.”
Anyone who attended Senator Obama’s speech would know that the school’s students and teachers were exuding enthusiasm and excitement for having been lucky enough to be part of the event. Students sported t-shirts that displayed phrases such as “Obama is my homeboy,” “Like the Seniors of ’08 Obama will dominate,” and “Barack the Boat!” The Senator himself even seemed impressed by the interest in his campaign. All day the school was abuzz with anxious whispers from nearly every student, all of which were possitive and respectful. Throughout the senator’s speech students laughed along with and applauded Mr.Obama, and near the end they joined in a chant with him and expressed their support shouting “Fired up? Fired up! Ready to go? Ready to go!!” and where were ABC’s news camera’s while this was taking place? Apparently it’s true what they say, the media seems to be very adept at portraying people and events in the worst light no matter how inaccurate the portrayal may be. It’s sad to see a network take a school that was home to last years Principle of the Year and State Champion Baseball Team, a school that has accomplished so much in so little time, and make us out to be disrespectful, juvenile delinquents when nothing could be farther from the truth.
You people, hundreds and even thousands of miles away, can believe what you’d like about our school. You can believe that we must be terrible, horrible, disrespectful students who are taught by incompetent teachers, but before you judge us just consider the fact that everything you know about us has been taught to you in 5 minutes of flash frame, computer edited, footage by a network that is certainly not interested in how 600 people are going to feel when they’re made to look like fools as long as 10,000,000 people have something good to talk about over coffee the next morning.

They are most defeatley deleting them because mine isn’t here any more

you know what i just thought
there juts picking on us because
they dont have anything better to do
but judge us and make comment on how bad we are dont you think?

when i saw this on tv i was very depressed. i almost cried when i saw how you people have tried to run down my school. I love this schoool as i love my family. I do not fault ABC but i think they need to be more conciderate of others feelings.

Anyways, i stil feel that this is a very depressing situation and the fine people at ABC are wrong for posting this. it seems like they just want something as news. i mean the ABC hit show Thats So Raven is more interesting then watching kids sleep

I am a graduate of PMHS class of 2007.
You can not blame the students for falling asleep or being worn out. I was informed by my brother, who is a current student, that many of these students had to undergo standardized testing earlier in the day. Which I know from personal expeirence is quite exausting. In addition, this assembly was on the last day before Thanksgiving which, in opinion, was not the best time to schedule this.
I do not understand why the 9th and 10th graders were involved in this assembly because they are generally not of age to vote and have little or no interest in politics. The administration should have limited this assembly for 11th and/or 12th graders.
I just ask that those of you who are speaking poorly of the school please stop. This issue was caused because of poor scheduling and is in no way a reflection of a normal day.

no but really find something else to complain about

They can have freedom of speech but we can’t on this thing?Wow,irony right there.But all yall defending the school,right now you have made me smile.And I also notice my point that I made at the end of my thing was deleted…Is that because you knew it was the truth?I believe it was this:
“I’ll tell you….YOU’RE ONLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NEGATIVES AND TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST SCHOOL I’VE EVER ATTENDED LOOK BAD!Nothing you or anybody across the US or the country can affect the bond or what we know to be true at this school.So,you can just apologize cause there’s people waiting…When will you?”
I end my qoute now with this.PMHS ROCKS!

Evidently, as made apparent in the overwhelming response to the article and video our children/students really are paying attention, and do care deeply about their school, administrators, teachers and fellow students. I am proud of these young people for advocating so vehemently for the truth. In regards to the spin of the story it makes me ponder the lack of truth in reporting that takes place in our media, as well as how easily people are manipulated into thinking what the media wants them to. I’ll be suprised if this gets posted.

do you guys have a problem with chuck norris

apologize please

Hey, what did i say about making comments over and over again till my voic was found by eveyone. well looks like thats ture expect to be hearing from me.

and do you have a problem with chuck norris do ya

If I may say so myself it seems to me that some of you are not upset because your children were “forced” to listen to a politician speak, but infact you’re upset because that politician didn’t happen to be one of your choosing. And to say that you would like for politicians to never again visit the school is like saying that you would like nothing more than to rob hundreds of children of the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the political stance of this country, which at the moment could use a bit of change, and a bit of hope, a country that could use informed and knowledgable youth.
You shouldn’t strive to rob students of wisdom for the simple reason that you are close-minded, but rather let them gather pebbles of information from any and all sources from wence they can obtain it and allow them to grow by piecing together the pebbles to form a solid foundation of beliefs of their own masonry.

This is just another typical example of the media showing only what they want to show. I guess they don’t like Obama. My neice was there and she was very interested along with most others. Shame on this reporter. With all the negative comments, it just shows how the media can influence the public.

I think that the media got the whole story. Ohhhh only a few students were shown supposably sleeping. You know kids can listen even though they are not looking at the person. There are over 400 students in this school. Figure out that percentage. That is approximatly 1/100 of the school. Hey media show the kids that were excited about Obama there was three hours of this footage not two seconds.

So USAYEAH. Is this all you have time for? To sit here and read students comments about what you have so wrongly accused us of? Is your life that boring or does putting other people down (a bunch of kids) make you feel good? We were put into that gym with no other options for over two hours. On hard bleachers. I’d like to see you sit on those bleachers for that long. A select few of us can vote. Instead of saying we are all alcoholics and bums why don’t you try asking why they brought a presidential candidate to a high school. Keyword here: SCHOOL. Which means full of under the legal voting age and having no say no matter what anyone says. Students tried asking questions. They got ignored. For you to say that about us is all wrong. Try finding something to do then support Barack Obama so much you criticize a very small minority of students that can’t change an election.

Well,if they wish to critisize its showing they really don’t know about the applause that obama got or how many students were paying attention.Which concludes them being ignorant and believing everything like they would a hollywood love story.SO ABCs fans probably split like a hollywood marriage because of all the negativities aimed at PMHS when everybody knows how hard this school has worked to get where it is today.The baysider article for Thursday December 6 2007 was a really good one.You people should read it.And ABC should focus on the politics like they’re supossed to,not try to ruin an awsome reputation of a school.

Its a sad day when the media has nothing better to report, how about gas prices or the way we are being robbed everyday by the oil companies or the homeless, need I say more, SHAME on you ABC, what a joke your station is

I think abc should get a life and right
thigs that is worth righting about.

for your information, our school is not full of drug addicts and bums. i highly doubt that anyone was hung over either. i’m a junior at prospect mountain and a lot of these comments are extremely offensive. everyone seems so quick to judge our school and students, but if you were to check the records, you’d see our school has extremely high testing scores. we also recieved second place in the academic school of excellence in 2006/2007. so maybe everyone that is commenting from ohio and everywhere else should stop judging our school and making us look foolish. until you’ve come to our school, met our students, and looked at our test grades, i suggest you keep quiet.