Don't do drugs or Nascar.

"President Obama’s plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse the children from listening.

The uproar over the speech, in which Mr. Obama intends to urge students to work hard and stay in school, has been particularly acute in Texas, where several major school districts, under pressure from parents, have laid plans to let children opt out of lending the president an ear."


It's depressing that this doesn't surprise me. How has American society gotten to the point where parents are furious at the idea of someone telling their children to "stay in school" and "work hard"? My assumption is that the parents who are keeping their children home (and away from all that devil-inspired socialism) were the ones who cared more about the racing stripes on their leased cars than their grades when they were in high school. At the same time, I know I'm incorrect. I know there are well-educated parents out there who are simply keeping their children at home because of the simple fact that many of their beliefs are shaped around their racism. Let's be as straight forward as possible about it. I'm sure the Elisabeth Hasselbeck's, Rush Limbaugh's, and other misinformed of the world will say that the President is trying to impose some ultra-liberal socialist propaganda to our nation's (white) youth but let's be honest. Someone, pretty much anyone, telling your son or daughter to stay in school and work hard is not a bad thing. I would let Mel Gibson tell my niece to stay in school and work hard, and nobody likes Mel Gibson. Oh wait that's right, people do, and they're the ones that are furious.

Stay in school and work hard, so when the ignorant think its a bad idea to tell our kids to stay in school and work hard, we can scare our kids into the idea that that could be them some day.

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