Maybe those six kids were already stoned or hung over? I'm serious.

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...

good lord.....kids are sleeping during a speech..stop the presses....is this really news??

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 is the most disrespectfull thing i've seen in some time. Where are all of the administraitors? I think it's obvious whats going on and the administraitors are all involved. That school is an absolute discrace!

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)

Looks to me like a school full of hungover drug addicts and bums. Ther is no learning going on in this school. These young morons will not vote anyway.

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.

I have to say as one of the students that most likely people where asleep but you'll always have those few people that don't care. Honestly, I didn't want to listen to a candidate talk about things that i can't even vote for.

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.

This is ridiculous you caught us right in the middle of the day your right some people shouldn't of been sleeping but most of us aren't even old enough to vote.

just becuase some were sleeping and not paying attention you should not judge our 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.

I was one of the students actually paying attention

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.

As a student that goes to this school I would like to say that I am appalled that something like this would be put on the news. There are maybe 6 students out of 600 sleeping. For people half way across the country to be judging us instead of paying attention to what is happening in their own community is really just sad. No one at our school was high or drunk. For that to even be speculated is outrageous. We are high school students, we are not perfect, but for us to be subjected to this kind of treatment is terrible.

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.

seriously
come on name one time you say students brighteyed in front of goverment
and it was the day before our 5 day vaction

grow up
you cant always get all there atention

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

Is this all the media has anymore? I used to go to PMHS and it was in the top high schools for the state. The video showed a small portion of kids, who were all deffenitly not even close to being old enough to vote. More than half of the people weren't even old enough to vote. Not everyone likes politics, so why listen? The students didn't have a choice if they wanted to be in that assembly or not, it was on their schedules for the day. Having something like that in the middle of a school day, just before vacation, what can you expect? Students are going to be tired, 16 & 17 year old kids aren't going to be like "WOOT! POLITICS TIME! BETTER GET MY NOTEBOOK & PEN TO TAKE SOME NOTES! I CANT WAIT!" Not at all, don't turn it around and say that the school is full of druggies and they were all stoned. And, if you knew half of anything, half way through the school day, someone isn't going to be STILL stoned & go unnoticed to begin with, and even if they were, that right there im sure would have been a huge buzz kill. But besides the point, prospect is huge on drug prevention, they have many things set up to prevent the drugs. I think you should check into other news articles and see how last year prospect had the principal of the year, and was in the top listed schools for the state. Get the facts straight, and try to understand the fact that young kids don't want to always listen to a bunch of politicians talk about stuff that they probably don't understand in the least bit. Thankyou.

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"