The President’s Horrible Subversive Message to Students: Stay in School, Work Hard, Take Personal Responsiblity

Well it’s finally done.  The President has launched his evil, calculating, socialist worldview on unsuspecting students.  Good thing all those vigilant Christian mom’s and dad’s got wise to the bad man and his bad message before their children were polluted.  So what did the President say?  Some snips . . .

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.

OMG, you mean his mom HOME SCHOOLED him?  Well what self-respecting Christian Republican would do that! And can you imagine getting your kids up at 4:30 in the morning?  Maybe the problem here is that she had a job.  Or maybe that she wasn’t married.  Oh wait, divorce rates are highest in Red states.  Anyway, onward . . .

I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.

There he goes again.  He wants to talk about education. Too bad it’s the public kind.  Here’s where it really gets repulsive.

I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.

I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox.

I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’t getting the opportunities that they deserve.

The nerve.  Parental responsibility.  Teacher responsibility.  Standards.  The last thing we want is a politician talking about values! But wait, it gets much worse than that . . .

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world — and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.

I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.

Say it’s not so.  PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!  You mean kids should take responsibility for themselves?  That’s their parent’s job.  That’s what church is for.  We don’t want kids thinking for themselves.  We don’t want children and young adults trying to “follow their bliss”!!  But wait, there’s more . . .

And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.

And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

There, it’s finally out in the open, Obama’s secret plan for polluting the minds of another generation.  “Problem-solving skills?”  Code for evolution.  “Insights and critical-thinking skills?”  Code for separation of Church and State.  “History and Social Studies?”  There is only one true history and it was written thousands of years ago.  “Creativity and Ingenuity?”  It wasn’t needed in the Iron Age, why would you need that now?  This is outrageous!

Not content to stop there, he goes on to tell these young, impressionable kids that divorce is good, that a woman’s place IS NOT IN THE HOME, and that it’s possible for black people to succeed in a white man’s world.  Someone needs to stop this nonsense!

Now, I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.

I get it. I know what it’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn’t fit in.

So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

But I was — I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

And this most certainly won’t do, evil Obama telling kids that they should respect authority.  We don’t need Democrats saying that.  That’s the job of Republicans!

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life — what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home — none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.

And this . . . the nerve of him saying that life is hard; that you have to work at being successful. Not in John Calvin’s world!  You either got it or you don’t and I won’t have any child of mine thinking that hard work is a virtue!

But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you’re not going to be any of those things.

The truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject that you study. You won’t click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That’s okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. J.K. Rowling’s — who wrote Harry Potter — her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeed.”

These people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failures define you — you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

And just when you’ve had enough, he brings back that old saw about personal responsibility.  And then he has the nerve to bring GOD INTO IT!

So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud.

Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you.

Thank God I didn’t let my kids listen to this socialist subversive message! If you still haven’t heard enough, you can read the entire text of the President’s message here.

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