Wakefield High School

Obama's Supposedly Controversial School Speech Urges Students to Study Hard

In a 2,389-word speech to students to mark the opening of the new schoolyear, released Monday to quell a controversy, President Obama does not say one controversial thing. There is, said Obama in the prepared text, "no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future." ...

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