Originally Posted by dogzilla

I don't have any serious problems with his speech, but I do with the agenda around it. I read several news articles which claimed part of the associated lesson plan was for students to write letters explaining how they could help Obama. That is a bit out of line.

It seems like Obama's education department now realizes that since they have rewritten the lesson plan so the students are just supposed to write a letter about their own goals.

Obama urges kids to pay attention in school - White House- msnbc.com

Duncan's department has also taken heat for proposed lesson plans distributed to accompany the speech.

On Sunday, the secretary acknowledged that a section about writing to the president on how students can help him meet education goals was poorly worded. It has been changed.

"We just clarified that to say write a letter about your own goals and what you're going to do to achieve those goals," Duncan said on CBS' "Face the Nation."