The Onion has the latest on the depredations of No Child Left Behind: "teachers at Washington Street Elementary School were scrambling Monday to deal with a new round of budget cuts that slashed funding for the pipe cleaners and googly eyes they say are the cornerstone of a humanities-based education."
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Think of the Children
13 Aug 2007 09:28 am
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I don't know if the Onion has gone downhill, or the real news has gone too crazy for satire, but I just don't enjoy much anymore.
I don't know if the Onion has gone downhill, or the real news has gone too crazy for satire, but I just don't enjoy it much anymore.
I don't know if the Onion has gone downhill, or the real news has gone too crazy for satire, but I just don't enjoy it much anymore.
You may be right, but I really don't know how I used to live without the editorial cartoons. They're so incredible.
I love those editorial cartoons too. What would be even funnier, though, is if the Onion just ran "Day By Day" in the space instead. Context is everything.
What would be even funnier, though, is if the Onion just ran "Day By Day" in the space instead.
HaHaHa! Democrats don't know what their favorite color is! Or... something...
You rightly decry "respectable" groupthink in foreign policy but practically cheer it on in education policy thinking. Maybe you ought to read a little less (proportionately) of what the DC-based centrist education think tanks put out and a little more of what the academy puts out on testing and curricular issues, if only to correct for the narrow assumptions of your preferred frame of reference.
Now , Jason , Matthew is a youngster with no childern and no interest in education. However, when WWIII starts he is prime cannon fodder, given his age and general usefulness to society. After all he's a blogger, it's not like he was a senator's son.
Schools cut funding for that stuff years ago. Hate to be a killjoy, but I always thought satire had to be based in fact.
Oh, and Bergen County doesn't have a superintendant.
Schools cut funding for that stuff years ago. Hate to be a killjoy, but I always thought satire had to be based in fact.
Oh, and Bergen County doesn't have a superintendant.
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Heads in the Sand
I know it's a joke, and I'm sure I'll catch hell for this, but this again leaves me wondering what precisely the logic is behind defunding the schools that need the most improvement. Seems a little backwards.
Of course, if your real goal is to damage public education to the point where parents simply have to support vouchers, it makes perfect sense. Of course, MY is already on record as regarding that thinking as a mere conspiracy theory....
Posted by Freddie | August 13, 2007 10:24 AM