Obama's school speech

If the kids only remember to take personal responsibility
and that there is no excuse for not trying, then the speech
was worth the effort.
If everyone got the message that education is the
Constitutional responsibility of the Federal government,
then the speech did more harm than good. Those folks
who have read the Bible know that the education of
children is the responsibility of parents. Our founding
fathers knew that.
The pure form is home schooling. The next level is using
trained teachers who will faithfully follow the wishes of
the parents. Only when these options are not available
should parents give their children to the government to
educate and indoctrinate for 40 hours per week.
True conservatives - not neo-cons like GW Bush - have read
the Constitution, and were distressed when Carter created
two new bureaucracies with the Departments of Education
and Energy. Part of the conservative agenda was to abolish
these and return power to the people in these areas.