Bill Clinton: “Yes. Every kid ought to show up ready to learn, right? Not just intellectually but physically able to learn. My argument…”

“Yes. Every kid ought to show up ready to learn, right? Not just intellectually but physically able to learn. My argument is, if I were making your strategy, I would say that we represent the PTA, and our schools can't succeed if, by the time our kids show up for school, their deprivations have already been so great that they will never overcome them, and that the rest of us will pay a whole lot more in tax money and social misery later on down the road if we back away from our obligation to get these kids to school ready to learn. [Ms. Whitfill thanked the President for participating and presented him with a paperweight.]”