During the month of August, I'd like to take a few minutes each week to kind of share with you some thoughts about the coming school year. Many of us have worked real hard in Wisconsin and invested great time and energy in developing academic standards, standards that define for us what our children and young people need to know and be able to do if they are going to succeed in school and after graduation. These are values, I believe, we can agree are important to instill within our children. Together, we must help families teach these values, reinforce them in our classrooms, and we as adults ought to model them in our communities. Education is not simply about reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Education is also about getting along with others.
Thank you for listening.