I am very impressed with our young people today. A couple weeks ago I did booth duty with some students from Union High School’s Junior Achievement program. All of those kids had their act together.
Our local paper, the Tulsa World, has an article Saturday about students from anther Tulsa area school, Booker T. Washington High School, who are working hard on a contest, the “White House’s Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge” where the President will pick a school to deliver an address at their commencement. You can read the article here. According to the article The Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge, invites schools to show how they are making “great strides on personal responsibility, academic excellence and college readiness.”
Part of the student’s entry is the video (produced by the students) below:
So do you think this is a good contest?
What do you think about our young people today? Are you hopeful or despairing? I want to know!
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Let’s try this again. If I have to judge by my niece (17) and nephew (12) I would be scared but if I look at my girls (30 and 24) I’m optimistic about the future. I’m not around too many young ones to know the mindset anymore but I’m hopeful for ours and their future.
Every generation faces daunting challenges and manages somehow to rise to meet them. My generation of greasy duck-tails with a pack of smokes rolled up in our sleeve looked pretty hopeless to our parents, but we have done OK.
I am definitely hopeful! I think this is a good contest.
Hopeful. I’ve met lots of amazing high school and college students and they have great potential!
Hopeful. If you don’t have hope you have nothing. We know that and I think kids know that. Great post!
I LOVE this promo! Well done Booker T. Washington.