Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last night on World News Tonight, Barack Obama essentially said that school choice is a bad thing.
What is school choice?
A parent’s right to choose the best school for their kids, whether it be public or private.
Simple enough.
So, what’s his hang up?
Read the transcript below:
TAPPER: You talked about the need to change the status quo in [...]
Posted in Sweet, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The Wall Street Journal has a fantastic article responding to Democrats hatred towards parents.
Parents ability to escape terrible DC public schools.
Parents ability to access a scholarship program that helps them pay for a private education, when a public one is failing and the government can’t seem to provide any other viable options.
Screw unions. Screw democrats.
Down [...]
Posted in This is bullshit!, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday, Democratic Congresswoman Norton (D.C.) said the following to the Washington Post:
We have to protect the children, who are the truly innocent victims here,” said Norton, who like many Democrats opposes vouchers as a threat to public school systems. “But I can tell you that the Democratic Congress is not about to extend this program.”
Her [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Jun 9th, 2008 6 Comments »
Recently, I was driving through a Chicago neighborhood and I found this: Stay on track…No school.
This is an example of why Chicago has a drop out problem.
What makes this worse is that parents are stuck with this type of shitty public school, Hay Elementary Community Academy.
Hay Elementary students’ can’t read or write [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Apr 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
Yesterday, non-instructional staff from Camden, NJ schools didn’t show up to work, leaving thousands of kids behind.
What is this nonsense? Is this a new tactic of the AFL-CIO, walkouts at the expense of children’s educational needs.
I tell ya, unions are evil.
The reason for the walkout:
The problem, which was not clear until the afternoon, appears to [...]
Posted in Why Timmy can't read on Apr 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thank heavens for the bureaucrats at Harris Park Elementary in Westminster, Colorado. They taught the students a valuable lesson by suspending an 8-year-old boy for three days for smelling his shirt.
The lesson? Substance abuse will not be tolerated. As it turns out, some non-toxic yet smelly sharpie got on the little [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
The government school story of the day comes from Tifton, Georgia. A teacher bites a child and is punished with a week off of work. The child’s family is outraged, yet their only recourse is to appeal to the County Board of Education. The Board says it can’t do anything. Several [...]
Posted in Shut the eff up, Why Timmy can't read on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
A voucher school did this?
Of course not. It was a government school.
A 13-year-old boy was forced to pee in a lunch box during class as his peers and teacher watched. The two heart-warming conclusions to this absurd tale: 1. the child is still forced to continue going to this school. [...]
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