Something I wrote down from the President’s speech that I liked was this: “ Every single one of you has something that you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer…And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is.” I liked how he talked about the students’ worth in such a positive light. His speech involved examples/stories of many people who had hard times and overcame them by getting an education and never giving up.
I did think the speech had some unprofessional content because he shared his personal life experiences and even said, “When I was your age, I was a little bit of a goof-off. My main goal was to get on the varsity basketball team and have fun." I didn’t like that he said this. When I was young and people talked about overcoming mistakes, all I thought about was that I could make those mistakes too and turn out fine like them.
There were some articles written about this speech that discussed that issue of some parents and some teachers not allowing the speech to be shown in the classroom because of a possible political agenda. If I was a teacher at the time this speech was going to be presented, I would’ve liked for my students to see it. After watching it, I don’t think it had any political ‘polling,’ so maybe I would have recorded it and showed it to them later if the parents were ok with it. Giving the President of our country the benefit of the doubt, I think he had pure and good intentions of getting the students of America a motivational boost, and I support that fully. I never remember an opportunity to have the President of the United States speak to me, as a student, and I think it would only improve the value and importance of each student's feelings for education.
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