Just watched Obama's speech on national TV. Yes, I hope, too, that kids will learn responsibility, to not skip school, to not be troublemakers. "You probably won't be the rap-star, the reality TV star, the movie star...."
Yet assuring each one that keeping their nose in the books, getting good grades, going on to college and in to a professional career is the way to national health is just plain foolish. If that were true this nation would have no need to import labor---and with the labor a host of problems that we need not experience.