I'm not so sure that most people necessarily have a problem with the Prez telling kids to work hard & stay in school.(At least I don't - meh.)
What the leader of the CT GOP conveniently neglects to point out here, however, is that the WH tipped their hand about what this speech was all about with that creepy study plan for teachers instructing them to ask their students to promise to serve this particular President, Kim Jong-il-style.
It was the very parental outrage Mr. Healy dismisses in response to that very important little detail Mr. Healy chooses to obscure in his comments which made the White House itself back down from their Pyongyang-style initiative here.
If parents had been 'relaxed' as Mr. Healy implores them to be, the WH wouldn't have had to back down & CT schoolchildren would have been force-fed the O-team's banana republic-flavored kool-aid.