Oprah, can you come to school?

We were watching a video, an excellent documentary, on the Holocaust. The idea was to give students a visual look at survivor's stories, to co-inside with the reading of The Diary of Anne Frank in Reading class. What follows is a quoted conversation from one of my students.

Him: "This is boring."

Me: no comment

Him: "It would be better if it were live and we were in a stadium."

Me: "What?!"

Him: seeing the look on my face "You don't understand."

Me: "No, I really don't. Please explain what you mean."

Him: "You know, like when Oprah has people sit in the stands, like it's live, like people sit in the stands and watch."

(silence)

I just walked away...