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this year not the case. ed henry at the white house. tony mullen with me. a teacher, teacher of the year last year, national teacher of the year. steve perry, educational contributor in hartford, connecticut. ed, start with you. nothing sticks out in this particular conversation. it was a message to students to do well and possibly t their parents and teach toers support them. >> exactly why the white house aides sort of laugh off this idea, last year republicans made a big deal out of this. thought kids would be indoctrinated into an agenda for the president, some politic. what i thought was interesting, how he tried to make a personal connection with students talking first of all about how his mom pushed him as a young student. important tore young people toer that from the president of the united states saying, used the word goofoff. at one time i was a goofoff and his mom pushed him. we've all been down that road one way or another. number two, these are middle
and i -- i can speak from experience here, because unlike kelly, i can't say i saws had this -- i can tell she was always disciplined. i wasn't always disciplined. i wasn't always the best student when i was younger. i made my share of mistakes. i still remember a conversation i had with my mother in high school. i was kind of a goofoff. and i was about the age of some of the folks here. and my grades were slipping. i hadn't started my college applications pine was a applications. i was acting as my mother put it casual about my future. i was smart enough to kind of get by, but i wasn't really applying myself, and so i suspect there's a conversations that will sound familiar to some students and some parents here today. she decided to sit me down and said i had to change my attitude.