He did. In 1989.
Oh, Bush Sr. spoke to the schools about drug abuse. Well, I don’t think that the address was broadcast in my daughter’s high school in CA. If it was, there was not school follow up or class assignments to go along with it.
Just imagine if Bush had tried to speak to the kids about the opportunities that are offered through the military, telling the kids to stay in school and graduate so that they can “be all that they can be”. Then had the schools do follow up work, and started with an address to the grade school kids. Heads would be spinning on the left.
By the way, I am told by our local “Peace and Justice” crowd that it was Rumsfeld that inserted the language into the NCLB to require schools to allow military recruiters access to the students.