Obama's education speech

I thought the speech was very good, however it was kinda pointless. He basically said things that our parents are always telling us. Even though I thought it was pointless I still though that it sent out a positive message to students and I really don't understand why people were getting mad over the speech, for example, Scott Ott clearly was not a fan of it. When it comes down to it, the speech was to get students to try harder and thats it. All of the negative comments relating to it is NONSENSE