Duncan: Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility

[jefferson_dem]

Duncan: Obama's back-to-school message is responsibility
By Libby Quaid, AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON — Classrooms are filling up as kids head back to school, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan's two children are among them.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Duncan said students should take more responsibility for doing well in school, and he called on their parents to step up, too.

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Q: The president is making an address to the nation's school kids on Tuesday. You've encouraged schools to watch the speech. What ideas, broadly speaking, do you expect him to talk about?

A: What's so fun about working for the president is this is so personal for him. He did not grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father wasn't around much. There were times when his family was on welfare.

And here he is, the president of our country, the leader of the free world, because he received a great education and worked so hard.

He's challenging all of us, but he is absolutely going to challenge students and parents to take their education seriously, to really have personal responsibility.

He really is asking students think about how critically important it is that they do well, that they take advantage of those opportunities and they apply themselves and they work hard.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-09-05-duncan-message_N.htm?csp=34

[saltpoint]

1. I KNEW it! That goddamned President Obama -- trying to inspire

responsibility in young people.

The bastard.

[countingbluecars]

2. Oh the horror! n/t

[kestrel91316]

ZOMG, Responsibility?????

[Ilsa]

3. If Obama was named "Johnny English," had an R after his name,

the Teabaggers would be worshipping him and his life's story.

I guess the GOP doesn't believe much in education and responsibilty.

[Arkana]

6. Not Johnny English.

Theodore Q. McCrackerton Esq. III.

[iamalevi2]

4. President's Speech

I don't know why everyone on the left is upset over this. It just make the President's critic's look like a bunch of A-HOLES!

I don't know who said it, but when your enemy is destroying himself, don't interfere!

[joeycola]

5. The GOP continually pushes personal responsibility. What is the beef with them

opposing Obama saying the same??

[Cha]

7. Because they don't want their kids to hear

how much the President cares about them and their education.

The republicons are jealous assholes.