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Just fyi, President Obama wasn't charging your son with finding the cure for cancer. He was presenting a real problem to the next generation of doctors and researchers, as a goal to be attempted. Like I said, platitudes. If I were to give a speech to American students, I'd probably include stuff like that, too. "If you work hard and apply yourself, you could become the doctor to cure cancer." It's a nice sentiment, if a bit pie in the sky.
If I were your son's teacher, I'd challenge his beliefs regardless of what they were. If he was a hard left wing progressive, I'd challenge him just as much as I'd challenge Limbaugh Jr. One of my best teachers was my freshman Bio teacher that challenged my position on evolution. She managed to change my position because I hadn't formed a strong position to begin with, and my understanding grew as a direct result of her teaching. That's what teachers are supposed to do in order to create free-thinking, creative, and intelligent adults. I'd be remiss if I didn't do everything I could to teach your son how to learn and how to think for himself. Unless I were a PE teacher. They mostly just make kids to jumping jacks and uncomfortable square dancing. Man was that uncomfortable.
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