The President’s School Speech - Student Reactions

September 14, 2009
05:42 PM EST

The President's speech welcoming students back to school last week focused on a number of messages that all parents can get behind. He told them to take responsibility for their educations, to not only stay in school but to thrive, and to appreciate what they have. If the reactions of eight seniors at the School Without Walls in Washington, DC, were any indication, these messages got through to at least some of America’s students – watch the video from the Department of Education:

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