Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Shocked, I Tell You

Shocked that I learned by random backchannels that Obama gave a speech on education today -- shocked not by that, but shocked that I agree with everything he said about it. Shocked that I completely agree with the president!

So I read a presumably liberal slant from the AP and for balance looked it up on Fox. The AP told it straight. Fox prefaced their story with a bunch of whining about the imploding economy.

As if an imploding economy is a bad time to talk about spending money on education. Christ, guys, an imploding economy is a pretty strong sign that we are way late on the spending!

Yay for holding teachers more accountable, paying on merit, supporting charter schools where they work, increasing funding at the early stages, and especially yay for saying,
"The bottom line is that no government policies will make any difference unless we also hold ourselves more accountable as parents."

2 comments:

Paula said...

Yes yes yes yes yes!!! Wouldn't it be fab if "scrawny" kicked butt and succeeded where "brawny" failed? Man oh man. Gotta take on the teachers' union. GOTTA. Maybe O can make the left see how they're wrecking education. It took a Nixon to go to China, etc.

Anne said...

the kool aid is delicious.
keep on listening.