This generation will build a reputation for meeting and beating adult expectations. In 1990, America’s third graders were issued three major challenges: Dr. Koop called on this Class of 2000 to be more drug-free, smoke-free, and sexual disease-free high school graduates than their predecessors; President Bush summoned them to graduate “first in the world in mathematics and science achievement”; and the African American Project 2000 called on school boys to grow up providing “consistent, positive, and literate black role models” for the children who follow. Millennial kids will do all that, and
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