Video: NHSD Students React to President's Back-to-School Speech

President Barack Obama delivered his third annual Back-to-School speech a live telecast to children across the nation Sept. 28.

And for the first time in two years, all students of the North Hills School District listened to it together. 

The North Hills School Board decided in a slim vote of 4-3 in favor of showing the speech to students.

In the video, North Hills School District student Mike Cooknick moderates a discussion about the speech with students (left to right): Sydney Brown, Mariee McConnell, Scarlet Sparke.

Overall, the students said they appreciated the thought, but the message was familiar. 

"It wasn't anything we haven't heard 30 times already," McConnell said. 

"I think he could have shortened it," Sparke said. 

A transcript of the speech is available on the White House website, as is a video.