Some days are a stark reminder that many of our Nation’s children come to school burdened by much more than school books and homework. Today was one of those days.
We owe our children everything, America.
Everything.
We owe them the chance to use their education to lessen the burden of poverty. We owe them the chance to become inspired to greatness. We owe them every ounce of today we have to give, and then a double-share more.
They will repay us with their remarkable spirit. Their recompense will be the hope they give us for tomorrow.
Give them all you’ve got. For their burden is great, but their spirit greater. And our every ounce of help may be just what these remarkable spirits need.