Name: President Obama's Message for America's Students
Uploaded: 2016-11-07T08:06:35.000Z
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Wakefield Student, Tim Spicer: Good Morning. I would like to extend a warm

Secretary of education Arnie Duncan, White House staff,

school board members, county board members,

superintendent Dr. Patrick Murphy, senior staff,

principle George Jackson, Wakefield faculty and of course

I am honored to have been chosen to speak before my

classmates as well as the students across America today.

Over the past three years, I've taken advantage of every

academic, extracurricular and community opportunity that has

As I reflect, a scholar expressed disappointment in my

writing and challenged me to do better; being reassigned to

After that experience, I was determined to excel.

Therefore, I managed to succeed in the advanced placement class

As I stand before my peers today, I want you to know that

excellent education opportunities may be handed

to us, but as students we must take responsibilities

We may be taught but we must take ownership of our learning.

As senior class president I encourage all of our freshmen to

take advantage of all the opportunity's that Wakefield

Along with the inspiration I've taken from President Obama,

I would not be standing here, before you, to introduce the

President of the United States if I had not been here at

Wakefield high school, in Arlington Virginia, pursuing my

education. Just as we are fortunate to have President

Obama to come here to Wakefield today to speak to us,

we are also fortunate that after he leaves, we will continue to

have the opportunities and support that Wakefield

At this time it is with great honor and pride that I ask

-- to welcome the man that proved "yes we can."

Ladies and Gentleman please join me in welcoming the President of

the United States of America, Barack Obama.

Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead

and have a seat. How is everybody doing today?

Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia.

And we've got students tuning in from all across America,

And I am just so glad that all could join us today.

And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding

host. Give yourselves a big round of applause.

I know that for many of you, today is the first

day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten,

so it's understandable if you're a little nervous.

I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty

some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you

could've stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.

When I was young, my family lived overseas.

And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all

but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an

American education. So she decided to teach me extra

the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.

Now, as you might imagine, I wasn't too happy about getting

And a lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at

the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would

just give me one of those looks and she'd say, "This is no

So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at

school. But I'm here today because I have something

I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education

and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now, I've given a lot of speeches about education.

And I've talked about responsibility a lot.

I've talked about teachers' responsibility for inspiring

I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure

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