Quotes That Catch My Fancy
Another Chapter In The Book Of "Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose"
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One thing that I find baffling about the voucher debates, by the way, is this. Educators often state in no uncertain terms that you can't measure the value of education solely by looking at test scores. Education is about much more than filling in the right circles on a multiple-choice math test, they say. But whenever a study comes out showing that, contrary to a lot of previous research, kids in private or charter schools don't necessarily have higher scores, some of the same people leap all over the news as proof that vouchers or charter schools are "not the answer." It's almost as if they switch their position on the validity of tests based on what's politically convenient at the time.
--Stuart Buck. And of course, it should be noted that in the latter instance, those people are often wrong.
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...why not bring them into the poorest country on the planet, where the dollars spent on construction, housing, services, and all that will be a massive economic boon to that poor location.
Too bad the UN folks don't want to give up their reserved seats at those posh midtown Manhattan restaurants...
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
--Thomas Jefferson
Will use any argument, tell any story, twist any number, to keep the oligarchy feeding at the trough of public money they control. We have allowed education in this country to become a feudal system, nearly independent of the rest of the nation. Public school districts are allowed to tax their own money, spend it as they wish, with nearly 0 accountability. They do not have to conform to other parts of the nation. They get to (re)write history as they wish. Ignore science they don't like, push politics they do like. They get to ignore educating people in favor of social missions they choose. And we are expected to simply pay more as directed.
Universities get to sit on vast endowments, never pay taxes, hire people who actively hate this country, recruit students based on race preference, even have schools devoted soley to educating one gender or race. And we are never to bother them, and to give them as much tax payer and private money as they want.
Of course the oligarchy is terribly aggravated by things like vouchers. Vouchers represent a heart wound to their hegemony.
This has got to be the quote of the week:
"And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We've proposed Venezuela." -- Hugo Chavez
Please don't let the door hit you on the way out, and if the UN needs any help packing their bags, I'll be the first in line to help.
for the entire speech:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/20/123752.shtml?s=rss