Houston Speaking Event 2-25-15 Part 1

you know life wasn't all that great and i was terrible still so i thought that i want to be a doctor in the kind of student that i quite

match in fact my nickname call me and and they love hit me in the class no one ever had to worry about getting the lowest mark on a test long

without within i was what's known as the safety net but i didn't and like it very much but you know i was kind kelly

q. that was just there in i don't see it so terrible feeling when you don't feel you're going to learn anything and

education phil vitally important it's critical and that's it is the great divide in our society today

we i can't emphasize that people once again you know a lot of our thirty the public school system is

higher graduation rate because for tribulation rights why are the big city mayors and

city council grabbing hold of that and making sure that the students have choices

in terms of the schools that they can go out because i get all of our students doing well not just a small part of him we

only have three hundred twenty million p. china has over billion india we can't afford to wait any of ours we

we need to take advantage of that yeah that's one of the problems with our society we have plenty of people who

can gather data put it together but we don't seem to know what to do with we allow ourselves to be driven by ideology

and special interests rather than by facts and that something that we have to get over it we're going to make progress in

our nation for you with the thought that maybe now all my problems would be over wrong because when i got to high school i ran to the worst thing a young person can run into it's

called appears p. e. e. r. s. lessons for people who incur aaron's rudeness it

it and they're still split they were doing country what kind of clothes where hanging out with and

think here that was cool asking the hi fi in the low fives in the past in the back doing the detroit strat everything

to detroit and sometimes i'm walkin around people sell you limping i should know the residual detroit struck nnnnn and

no i just got so caught up in it and one when night i was complaining to my mother for more about

not having the fancy clothes she works so hard she was so disappointed because you early

on i was this formal student and then because of the reading program but she put on a half i

now here i was throwing my lot in with all the other speech negatively affected by the peer pressure going

right down the tubes like everybody else she was so disappointed there i was asking her for close she was working a fingers to the bone she

said they looked at me as he said benjamin nnnnn tell you what i will give you all the money i earned this week score

floor cleaning toilets doing with everybody else didn't want to i'm gonna give you the money want you to pay the bill and