Barack Obama

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears on “Face the Nation” to address criticism from the right regarding President Obama’s in-school speech to schoolchildren.

“All the drama, all the hoopla, at the end of the day, if the President motivates… one student who’s thinking about dropping out to stay in school and take their education seriously., it’s all worth it.”

He also noted that it would be “just silly” for parents to keep their kids home from school on the day obama would be speaking to schoolchildren. “It’s just gonna be an 18-minute speech,” he said. “That just doesn’t make any sense.”

“I don’t spend any time on the silly stuff,” Duncan said. “I try and stay laser-like focused on really dramatically improving what’s going on for our nation’s children.”

Duration : 0:3:50

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