Obama’s school speech will be at odds with his own beliefs

What the hell is wrong with your slacker kid? Back in '41 these kids had already become community organizers by the time they were ten.

Tunku Varadarajan (our favorite name of the year) is a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School and a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He’s also executive editor for opinions at Forbes.

Here’s how he described today’s speech by President Obama to America’s school children (except for the ones for whom school doesn’t begin until Wednesday, that is):

“According to a White House spokesman, the aim of the speech is ‘to challenge students to work hard in school, to not drop out and to meet short-term goals like behaving in class, [and] doing their homework …’”

Cool. Why, that sounds almost presidential. Almost conservative. That being said, the message would resonate much more strongly if it were actually reinforced by Obama’s liberal beliefs instead of being undermined by them.

Seriously, Mr. President. Being rewarded for hard work is a concept that’s clearly at odds with your modern liberal theory.

Liberals tell us that kids shouldn’t keep score at soccer games because losing harms the precious little darlings’ self-esteem. So why work hard? Everybody gets to play in T-ball because the even the most uncoordinated among us must not suffer the rude realization that they will never be good enough to be the best. So why work hard?

And, of course, studying is pointless when grades are meaningless at even the nation’s finest schools. So why work hard?

“Some of the nation’s most prestigious universities are among the worst offenders when it comes to grade inflation. 91% of Harvard students graduated with honors in 2008. While 22% of grades given at Harvard in 1966 were A or A-, last year 50% of grades were A or A-. Brown University professors award A grades two-thirds of the time.”

And, of course, once you graduate from college and begin building your career, hard work is an antiquated concept. If you’re successful, liberals will call you “one of the winners of life’s lottery” and say you’re greedy for not sharing enough of your hard-earned success with those who haven’t worked as hard. And if you should be lucky enough to someday own your own company, you’ll be called an oppressor who steals from those who produce your wealth. So why work hard?

Here’s our advice to America’s tykes:

Don’t do your homework. Don’t study. Don’t give a rat’s ass. Hard work won’t pay off in the long run because that guy who’s speaking to you today will punish you if you do better than that kid in the next seat.

The only real way to succeed is to become a community organizer. Start by organizing your schoolmates into a union and protest the oppressive “stay after school” policies of your Nazi-like teacher.

“Power to the people. Power to the people. Power to the people.”

Source: Forbes.com, Education Reporter

Tagged as: Barack Obama, school speech

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