[mlizzy]

Our prez is a HUGE downer ...

He tells the kids not to dream of being a famous basketball star because that probably won't happen anyway, and then two paragraphs later he talks about the amazingly successful Michael Jordan.

Having a daughter whose very first words were Kago Bulls, I'm pretty certain M.J. played round ball.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

” Our prez is a HUGE downer ...”

That’s what I took away from it.
Broken classrooms , sad and lonely childhoods , alienation, not fitting it , AIDs, cancer.
Jeez, isn’t the first day of school bad enough without Barry Black Cloud intruding into your classroom ?
Maybe they should offer counseling or a 1-800 number for those students who feel unusually depressed after the lecture.