Any animal is most vicious when it is wounded...so lookout for his lame-duck attacks.
FLASHBACK: (Big Government, December 31, 2009) Democrats Officially Kill Successful DC Voucher Program
so are your numbers ^%($#
This from the jerk who killed school choice in D.C.
He blows.
FYI Mark...
I saw interviews with tearful black mothers saying "This is my baby's only hope! He can't go back to the public schools! He can't! He's doing really well at this private school, but I can't afford to send him there if I don't have this voucher!"
Obama is a hateful, hateful man.
Some animals are more equal than others.
SO LET’S GIVE THEM MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the way to fix that isn’t to fire Michelle Rhee, it’s to CLONE her.
It is STUNNING he went down this road...especially now.
His complete disconnect with the country is amazing.
(I know, I know...I should be used to it by now...)
“Waiting for Superman” is being released. When this film hits, the NEA and Democrats will be embarrassed even further.
Dems will never figure out that you cannot just throw money at a problem and hope it fixes itself. Without engaged parents and dedicated teachers that money is just wasted.
What Obama really is saying, ‘we’re going to keep you people on the welfare plantation so you are obligated to vote for your meager increases in handouts. We cannot afford to give your children a quality education because they would possibly realize what we are doing in Washington’.
Replace the word “struggling” with “run by commielib social engineers who desire the destruction of Western Civilization” and you will have properly defined the problem.
Is he the mayor of DC now? I don’t pay property taxes there so I don’t want to support DC schools! Raise the rich politicians property taxes to support their school district, don’t pass it on to the rest of the country!
Ouch..that's gotta hurt there DC teachers union folk. Got more money for him and that hopey changy stuff?
What does Obama really know about the public DC schools? His daughters sure have never been in one. Not that I blame him - I wouldn’t let my kids go to any of them either.
Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor of Washington, D.C.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, under whom the murder rate has gone down and the school children's test scores have gone up, was resoundingly defeated for re-election.
Nor was Mayor Fenty simply a passive beneficiary of the rising test scores and falling murder rates. He appointed Michelle Rhee as head of the school system and backed her as she fought the teachers' union and fired large numbers of ineffective teachers-- something considered impossible in most cities across the country.
Mayor Fenty also appointed the city's chief of police, Cathy Lanier, who has cracked down on hoodlumism, as well as crime.
Either one of these achievements would made mayors local heroes in most other cities. Why then was he clobbered in the election? ~snip~
In short, the mayor appointed the best people he could find, instead of running a racial patronage system, as a black mayor of a city with a black majority is apparently expected to. He also didn't spend as much time schmoozing with the folks as was expected. ~snip~
How did we reach the point where a city is so polarized that an overwhelming majority of the white vote goes to one candidate and the overwhelming majority of the black vote goes to the opposing candidate?
How did we reach the point where black voters put racial patronage and racial symbolism above the education of their children and the safety of everyone?
There are many reasons but the trend is ominous. One key factor was the creation, back in the 1960s, of a whole government-supported industry of race hustling.
President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty"-- a war that we have lost, by the way-- bankrolled all kinds of local "leaders" and organizations with the taxpayers' money, in the name of community "participation" in shaping the policies of government.
These "leaders" and community activists have had every reason to hype racial resentments and to make issues "us" against "them."
Cognitive dissonance is a fascinating thing...
DC had a mayor who supported all the right policies for the children. They have a school chancellor who is very effective in cleaning the mess of the DC school system and who the mayor supports.
So, what did the DC voters do? They kicked the mayor out and voted in a teacher’s union hack. This could also mean that chancellor Michele Rhee will be replaced when the hack takes office.
Same here in New York’s 30th Congressional District. Parents have been clamoring FOR Charter Schools after a study showed kids in charter schools perform better by a statistically significant margin than union controlled schools. Who was against more charter schools ? Bill Perkins ( Dem candidate for State Senate ). His opponent, Basil Smirkle was FOR charter schools.
Guess who won in the primaries ? Bill Perkins !!
The voters clamor for charter schools, yet when push comes to shove, they vote in the man who fought against it and allied himself with the teacher’s union.
GO FIGURE !!
If children won’t get motivated to be educated, no amount of money spent on schools will succeed.
And for a teacher to be judged on how well an unmotivated student does on a test will also not succeed.