5 Reagan's stirring example is still taught in Dixon, a trim, conservative
town, with an equestrian statue of the president on its riverfront and
loudspeakers on lamp-posts that play the Carpenters and other easy-listening
classics. But many parents discourage teens from working, it is widely agreed.
Parents instead tell their children to study, take summer courses, volunteer or
practise for sports that might help them compete for college places. What is this paragraph mostly about?
