奥巴马开学演讲稿My education My future.docVIP

My education, My future. ——Barack·Obama I am here with students at Wake?eld High School in Arlington, Virginia.And we've got students turning in from all across American from kindergarten through 12th grade.And I am just so glad that all could join us today.And I want to thank Wake?eld for being such an outstanding host. Give yourselves a big round of applause. I know that for many of you, today is the ?rst day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, of starting middle or high school, it's you ?rst day in a new school. So it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you are in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could've stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning. I know that feeling.When I was young, my family lived overseas.I lived in Indonesia for a few years.And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education.So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because she had to go to work 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 up that early. And a lot of times I'd fall asleep right there in 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 picnic for me either, buster". So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school.But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you.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. I've given a lot of speeches about education.And I've talked about responsibility a lot.I've talked about teacher's responsibility for inspiring