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policies making it more difficult for young people to find
extracurricular opportunities.
I was recently in Denver and I young man told me that he had
been a wrestler for his first two years in high school, but next
year because of budget cutbacks his family was being asked to pay
$150 for him to participate in that extracurricular activity.
Many of us saw the Richard Dreyfus's movie, "Mr. Holland's Opus"
and we could chart the decline in the drama, music, and art that
was available that I took for granted in the 1950's and 1960's in
my schools, where children now are not being given those
opportunities. Television is being used to fill a void that
parents, teachers, schools and communities used to fill with
positive, productive activities for young people supervised by
adults.
So while we take a stand against what we see on television,
we should take a stand as you have done on behalf of providing
more opportunities for children to say yes to, to give them
something that is positive for them to learn from and be part of.
There is wonderful opportunity in our country now, because I feel
it as I travel around from place to place. Americans are tired
of just wringing our hands at our problems we want to roll up
our sleeves and get about the business of solving them.
And every where I go I find people who are doing just that.
And it doesn't matter if I'm in an inner city school in
Philadelphia, or in a school outside of Duluth, or in Corpus
Christie, or in the San Frenado valley of California, everywhere
I go it is so heartening to me, because every parent I talk with,
every teacher, every young person is saying the same thing --
they are saying to me, as a young boy in Philadelphia, in a very
tough neighborhood, in an inner city school that was attempting
to be a haven against gangs, and graphti, and violence, he looked
at me and he said, "You know Mrs. Clinton, most of us are good
kids, but the only kids who get the attention are the bad kids,
you know they are the only kids who get on television, they are
the only kids who people really worry about sometimes, and most
of us are really doing the best we can. 11
And I believe that, I know, I've looked into the faces of
thousands and thousands of preschooler, and elementary kids, and
middle schoolers, and high school students, and they are good
kids. And even the ones who are teetering on the brink of gang
pressures and family disruptions, and all of the problems
children should not have to contend with, but do in today's
world, they are desperate to be pulled back. They want some adult
to say to them, 'You are a good young person, don't waste your
life, learn to read, get out and do something positive for
somebody else. Don't feel sorry for yourself, don't let yourself
be turned into a victim."
That is what the PTA has done for a hundred years. Because
you have brought together parents and teachers in a partnership.
You have presented a united front to our children that reminds ne
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