Runs with Glue

President Obama’s speech to school children today encourages students to step up and take responsibility for their actions and their education.  For the past week, the media, parents and others have been in an uproar over the President wanting to address students, just because he wanted to tell students to work hard for success because it is not just going to be handed to you.  Not everyone has to agree with everything our President says, does and supports, but as a teacher I would hope that my student’s parents and others would want our country’s children to work hard so that they may be successful.  I can teach my best lesson, I can create the greatest demonstration and I can invent the most interesting game but all of it is worthless if my students have no desire to be there.  So while everyone is entitled to their political opinion, but please do not let those opinions stand in the way of supporting our children’s education and encouraging them to be successful.