I want to achieve...who shouldn't want to?

This past week it was revealed that President Obama plans to spend an hour this upcoming Tuesday to speak to classes of children across the country. The overall purpose of the program/speech is to get children in lower grades motivated and become goal oriented at a young age. This all seems all and good to me. Yet there are a good amount of people who find this to be some type of socialist takeover by the President. Last time I checked, Presidents of the United States have often reached out to the younger generation. Reading them books or stopping by for a ceremony. George W. Bush was reading at a Florida school when 9/11 happened. No one thought then that their child was being "poisoned" by the President. Nancy Reagan is legendary is talking to children as she oversaw a "Just Say No" to drugs campaign during the 1980s. However, there are conservatives, anti-Obama supporters, and anyone else that leans that way going crazy over Barack Obama spending part of a school day to talk to children. Personally, shouldn't we want our president to tell our kids to study, read, work hard, and achieve. Whether it is for the president or themselves, it shouldn't matter. He isn't going to teach them how to be a Democrat or why you shouldn't be a Republican. He won't tell them that they need to tell their parents to support health care reform or how they can become more like him. Plain and simple, it is a message and lesson to spark their thoughts as they start another school year. Often too many young kids don't understand the rewards of hard work and what it will mean for their future. That is what the President's mission truly is. We don't need to twist something so simple as that into another political matter.

I wanted to learn and work hard and continue to do so to this day. I wish that the President talked to me when I was younger; it would have only motivated me more.