Obama’s speech did a good job getting his point about the importance of school across and also showed us how Obama is looking to America’s future- he realized that school children are the future and he sees importance in making sure we start our futures off right, beginning with school.

I think Obama did a good job of expressing what he wanted to say to the various age groups he was aiming for. He was trying to not only motivate young children to make goals and try new things, but also speak to those that were at the age where dropping out of school was a possibility. (In all honesty, it’s difficult to believe that this speech from the president could keep those kids who wanted to leave school from leaving, but, if it only helped one kid in America, that is still progress.)

One thing I liked was how he spoke of his own childhood and what he went through to get to school, you could see he paid attention to his audience and what they could relate to or understand. Rereading the text version you can also see he kept this throughout the piece- he tried to use examples kids understood and gave respect to his audience. Although he may have bigger things on his mind than homework, he never talked down to his audience of kids like they were, well, kids. I think Obama did a good job of being mindful of who he was talking to, getting his message across and being proactive about our future.