Tomorrow, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Central Standard Time, the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, will be projected on televisions and devices across the nation.

Coppell High School, however, is treating the screening of President-Elect Trump’s big day with the same procedure as any other classroom activity.

“[CHS Principal Mike Jasso] has communicated with our educators, as he did at the beginning of the year, that whatever we have going on in our classrooms has to be aligned with our district curriculums,” CHS associate principal Jon Eric Ziaer said.

Friday, CHS is hosting the Region IX Academic Decathlon Meet, and students are released at 11:30 a.m., but if teachers maintain an academic reason to show part of the inauguration, they are able to receive approval.

“If an educator had an interest in showing that, they need to communicate how that aligns to their educational goals, their scope and sequence, and the curriculum goals for that particular course,” Ziaer said. “Then we’re obviously able to make plans for that experience to be a part of that day’s activities.”

As any other classroom activity, the airing of the inauguration is not off the table, but must have a clear educational purpose towards given curriculum.

“The educators, as with any other time, their place in this process is to serve the needs of their kids as to provide learning experiences that support that content area,” Ziaer said. “It’s not any educator’s place to be sharing their personal views, and trying to convince their learners about those kinds of things.”