President's Speech to Schoolchildren

I praise the President for speaking to school children across the US.  Having him encourage children to be ‘the best they can be’ is a great thing. Heaven knows we need children to embrace education and get interested in the joy of reading, writing, math and science.

It is amazing to me that some citizens & media are against a motivational talk at the beginning of the school year that could make a positive impression on school age children. Ridiculous!

Are we so afraid that maybe a child will like the “other side” and perhaps support a viewpoint different than ours that we can’t allow the President to address school children?  Are we really so weak that we think such an address will brainwash children into a cult that will eventually overtake our country and destroy it? 

Instead of all the polarizing rhetoric, let’s have much more support from politicians and media in our education system.

Congressmen and women can take some of the time spent running after reporters so their face will be plastered everywhere and use it to get more involved with their local schools. They could encourage more community and corporate involvement in education.  How about the big mouths on television speaking to school children about issues?  Or, reporting more about how parents can help their children learn. 

If all the energy and time spent on opposing everything the “other side” does was put into helping our overworked and underpaid teachers and education administrators what a better US we would have.