Like a slice of Texas just across the lake from Seattle, the Bellevue School District won't allow its students to watch the president's national address to students this morning. The district's superintendent, Amalia Cudeiro, decided to ban—or at least suspend—classrooms from airing Obama's speech last Friday. She posted a notice on the district's website, stating that "the tape will be made available to any teacher who wants to use it in a balanced discussion, so long as it fits within the education objectives of the class." And she sent district staff a message saying that, when she made the decision, "none of us had seen the script of the speech and we received multiple contacts from parents and community members who were concerned that this was going to be a political speech rather than just a motivational one."

But school district spokeswoman Ann Oxrieder says there was no evidence that the speech would contain inappropriate content. She says, "The text wasn’t up when the decision was made." She reiterated that it was purely a response to parents who believed that Obama "is sending a message that isn’t appropriate for our kids."

Despite the uproar stoked by the radical right, other local school districts didn't block the speech, instead choosing to let parents or students opt out.

Was the Bellevue district concerned that the objections were based on rumors and speculation—and that there was no indication the speech would contain the socialist "indoctrination" messages that Glenn Beck and other right-wing pundits warned it would?

"At that time nobody had time to research," says Oxrieder. "We just knew that people were saying it was going to be a political message. We didn’t know where it was coming from. It was coming from our families."

Oxrieder doesn't know if the school district aired similar addresses to students by former presidents George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan.

"I don’t think there is any reason to worry because we have read the script now," Oxrieder says. Of course, they're still not airing the speech.