President Obama gave a speech on September 8, 2009 to persuade students across America to stay in school and work harder in school. While he had much praise from many of the public, he had a handful of protesters who were waiting outside of the school where President Obama would present his speech. The protesters had signs with messages that said "Mr. President, Stay Away from Our Kids" and "Children Serve God, Not Obama".
In my opinion I think actually trying to approach our nations students is an action in the right direction mainly because there are so many high school students dropping out and ruining their futures. In an article published about high school drop out rates, it states that "If the high school students who dropped out of the Class of 2009 had graduated, the nation’s economy would have benefited from nearly $335 billion in additional income over the course of their lifetimes, according to a new issue brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education".
“As these findings show, the best economic stimulus is a high school diploma,” said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia.These high school drop outs are the generation that is supposed to control our future, if all we have is people that don't even have the courage to finish school then what do we have?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-schools9-2009sep09,0,4460117.story
http://www.all4ed.org/press_room/press_releases/09012009
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