President Obama's Speech to our School Children

I am not sure what all of the hubbub is about the President's speech to our nation's school children. I listened to it with the children in a class that I was a substitute for. I also read the speech. I have to say that the speech was one of the best and most encouraging-along with putting responsibility where it belongs-that I have heard in a long time. I am glad that we seem to be past the rhetoric that said we need to not make children feel bad by giving them bad grades for bad work. (Are you kidding me??) Americans need what they were taught a long time ago--times like when this country was founded. They need to know that there is such a thing as morals and that having morals is what makes this country a great country and a better place to be. Without morals, our country would sink to a lower place than it ever knew. The Founding Fathers knew that morals were something, along with religion, that would be the foundation that kept this country free. They said so in their writings. Part of being a moral people is being responsible for yourself. And I mean responsible in a positive way. This country is still around because of the great people in it who are responsible, moral, freedom-loving people. I am one of them. I hope you are too.