Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

I’ll set aside my snarkiness for a moment to say something important.

This is something that every child in this country should hear, because in this one segment- the history of America echos. Men and women from across the globe have come here and written their own destinies. They had children who went on to write their own destinies. And more come to our shores every day with this same hope- the promise of opportunity.

For those holding their children back from school so they can avoid this now apparently horrible message- shame on you. You spit on the men and women who define the American Dream, you spit on those who have defended the American Dream, and you rob your children of the opportunity to ponder this Dream tomorrow. It’s about the most un-American thing I’ve seen in many years. Beyond disappointing.