Amazing Analogy

This is great:

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Schools Out

Check out this news item out of Asbury Park:

The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1.


The one issue school officials are struggling with: what are they going to do with all of those extra Teleprompters in the supply room?

A Tie Goes To....

Every year there are teams that get left out of the NCAA Tournament.  That's the way the ball bounces.  This year, Harvard was one school that had a legitimate claim to the dance, but instead were left outside the club hoping that the bouncer would let them in-but it never happened.

Let's examine Harvard's credentials.  They had their best record in more than a half century.  They had an amazing conference record.  Their RPI and strength of schedule were top-notch.

So why didn't they make it?  Well the truth was it came down to Harvard and one other school.  They were absolutely deadlocked when the committee put Harvard and the other school into the computer. With that being the case, the committee had to use  one last little- known tie breaker: has the school allowed the military on campus in the last 40 years?

And now you know why Harvard didn't make it.

He's The One

Roman Catholic Canon Law requires bishops to submit their resignation to the pope once they reach age 75. The pope is free to accept or reject the resignation. When the great Cardinal O'Connor reached 75, he submitted his resignation to John Paul II. John Paul was asked if he would accept the resignation. The pope replied that he would never dream of replacing O'Connor-he wished he could appoint a John O'Connor in every Catholic Church throughout the world.

What John Paul felt about O'Connor is how Baldman feels about NJ governor Chris Christie: I wish we had a Chris Christie representing us in every elected office throughout this country.

Finally.

Finally we have a politician who gets it. A man who understands that taxes and unions are out of control. That the spending has to stop. That you can't cut deals with liberals. That you fight-cause the fight is worth it. That you govern to do the right thing for the people. That you don't make nice with the liberal media-they are rats, and he knows it, so he brings his message directly to the people.

He is laying it all on the line in his fight with the Teacher's Union in New Jersey, and his message is resonating throughout the land.

He leads with his chin and his heart-and will not back down.

Check out how he breaks down the Teacher's Union & lets us know what they are really about: the accumulation of raw, unchecked power:

Will Nails It

The George Will piece below is a must-read on the power the Teachers Union has over the U.S. Congress. The libs want to send $23 billion of our tax dollars to the states to ensure that teachers don't EVER get laid off in this historically bad economy. Liberal rat politicians are owned by the Teachers Union, and the end result is: (1) teachers can't be fired; (2) teachers can't be laid off; (3) teachers can't be held accountable for their performance; (4) teachers can't receive pay cuts-regardless of the economy; (5) teachers don't have to pay a dime for for their health care plans and (6) teachers get to retire young with full benefits-all on the public dime.

This has to stop or we are doomed.

George Will

The Union's Puppet

A long -running theme on the Stoop has been the monopoly that the Teacher's Union has over public education.


What happened the other day tells you all you need to know about how the libs are controlled by these hacks. The Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came to NYC to visit a charter school & a public school. The union did not like the public school he picked to visit-because it was one of the rare schools where the principal was permitted to fire an incompetent teacher. So the union head called up their houseboy Duncan, and made him add a union -approved school to his itinerary.


The New York Slimes says it here:


When word circulated that Mr. Duncan planned to visit Kings Collegiate Charter School in Brownsville and Public School 65 in East New York, Randi Weingarten, the former head of the city’s teachers union, who is now president of the American Federation of Teachers, called him to express her disapproval. The principal of P.S. 65, Daysi Garcia, is one of only a few principals who have managed to have a teacher fired for incompetence. Several teachers have left since she took over several years ago, in part, union officials said, because they felt Ms. Garcia had treated them disrespectfully.


So at the union’s request, Mr. Duncan’s aides added a third school, Public School 241 in Crown Heights, to his itinerary.

Imagine that. They call him up and presto-he changes his schedule to meet the union's needs. Weingarten-who has done more to ruin public education than anyone in memory- should have gone all out: had Duncan wash her car; take lunch orders for union officials etc. We all know he would have done it.

Lesson: as long as the union literally controls what the Secretary of Education does, there will not be educational choice in America.

How Liberal Law Professors Make Their Students Make Hostage Tapes

My pal Drew saw the questions that they asked the Miss USA contestants and it reminded him of the questions that radical liberal law professors would make their students answer. This is awesome-check it out:

I just happened to tune into the Miss USA pageant as Miss Oklahoma was being asked the illegal immigration question and, when she was giving her answer, I got a flashback to a question about abortion rights in my constitutional law final exam. The constitutional law question called for an opinion about how the Supreme Court should rule on a future abortion issue. At that moment, I knew that I was being used as a lab rat and that my grade was dependent on an answer that provided an outright embrace of the far-left "I love Roe v. Wade" dogma. If I didn't give the penumbra of privacy snow job, I knew my grade would suffer because the professor -a person high-up in the ACLU- would hate it. If my grade suffers, I don't get a good job. So I did a horrible thing. I compromised my beliefs. I now have a very good job, however, and get to thumb my nose at my upper west side neighbors.

So when Ms. Oklahoma was asked a highly charged political question about whether Arizona was engaging in racial profiling, I knew she had to say how horrible Arizona is because, implicit in the question, it was obvious the Judge was a flaming liberal. Unfortunately for Miss Oklahoma, she stuck to her true beliefs and gave an answer that 3/4 of all Americans agree with. As a result, Miss Oklahoma became runner up and Miss Michigan, who gave a PC answer to a softball question about whether insurance should pay for birth control, won the contest. Do we have any doubt that the Judge gave Miss Oklahoma a bad grade because she did not agree with his point of view. (Note, if you do have a doubt, see Carrie Prejean).

The moral of the story is that the liberals are the ones who always happen to the "Judges". When they are judging you, you can either be true to your beliefs and suffer the short-term consequences or bow down to their agenda in order to be ordained.

4 out of 1,400

From the Daily News:

The Education Department overhauled its method for rating principals last year - and still only found four in the whole system who failed to meet standards.

Only four. And there are 1,400 principals in the system. And this is after the city implemented reforms in how it rates principals. How do you like that for accountability? What exactly do you have to do to get a bad rating as a principal in New York? You probably have to do something crazy to get on that list, like wear a "Sarah Palin in 2012" button. That certainly would create a hostile learning environment.

Hello Inmates, Go Run The Asylum

Remember those H & R Block commercials where they would say "Here is reason # 1245 why you should use H & R Block? The same concept can be used to show how our public school systems are harmful for children, and exist not to educate children, but to provide union jobs.

Here is reason # 3,245:

New York City is looking to layoff 6,000 teachers. Like any other entity, you would think they would actually be able to choose who they want to layoff, right? And that criteria would consist of keeping the best teachers, and laying off the worst.

You would think.

But in the madness that is the public school system, you would be wrong. Check this out from the NYT's:

This month city officials persuaded lawmakers in Albany to introduce a bill that would allow the city to decide which teachers to let go, although its chances of passing are slim.

The union decides who gets laid off. The union decides who stays. And they say last ones hired, first ones laid off.

You could be the greatest teacher in New York City, and it would not matter. If you have been in the system a short time-you will be gone. Conversely, you could be the worst teacher, someone who should not be allowed anywhere near a classroom-and you are protected.

There is no individual assessment. None.

That's the way it is with the Teacher's Union. There is no accountability to the parents. No accountability to their employer-NYC.

And if that does not tell you that the public school system exists SOLELY to provide union jobs for adults, you must be pretty fucking stupid.

If you had to start from scratch, and your goal was to come up with an educational system that would be the most harmful for children, all you would need to do is take the collective bargaining agreement between the Teacher's Union & the City of New York.

Give the parents a choice to get their kids out of these hellholes.

Money For Nothing

As we wrote last week, with the closing of the rubber rooms, the city is sending a lot of these "teachers" back into the schools to do administrative work while their cases are pending. But I had a question regarding what are they doing with the teachers that are accused of sexual or violent misconduct. What's the plan for them? I found out my answer. Under the agreement between the city and the Teacher's Union, they get to go home. And collect their checks. For years and years, while their cases wind there way through the system, they will do nothing. And get paid for it. All on the taxpayers tit. As for the ones that win their cases, but the city feels they are too dangerous to be with school children-they get to go home and collect their checks indefinitely.

Can you imagine what it must have been like in the rubber room when their union delegate came in and announced they don't have to report there anymore- they can just stay home and collect their salaries? Happy days were here again for the incompetent and/or dangerous teachers who have no business being anywhere near a classroom.

But its a good thing that the rubber rooms are closing down, right?

It Changes Nothing

The City of New York & the Teachers Union have reached an agreement regarding the elimination of "rubber rooms". From the NYT:

Under the agreement, teachers the city is trying to fire will no longer be sent to the rubber rooms, known as reassignment centers, where the teachers show up every school day, sometimes for years, doing no work and drawing full salaries. Instead, these teachers will be assigned to administrative work or duties outside classrooms in their schools while their cases are pending.

Some points:

1) The parties came together and reached this agreement because they were both severely embarrassed by the recent media coverage of the rubber rooms. Steven Brill's piece in the New Yorker led the way in putting a spotlight on this shameful & wasteful practice.

2) Reassigning these incompetent teachers to perform clerical duties in schools instead of reporting to the rubber rooms does nothing to solve the core issue here. While their cases chug along through the arbitration process, these teachers still will be getting a paycheck to do essentially nothing. Therefore, while the actual rubber rooms will be eliminated, they will live on in spirit as its members will be spread throughout the system.

3) A lot of these teachers that currently report to the rubber rooms have sexual misconduct allegations against them. Is the city going to let these people around school children?

4) Some of the rubber room teachers have drug and or alcohol abuse cases pending. Again, where is the city going to put them?

5) Please give the parents vouchers so that they don't have to be caught between the city and a labor union.

Nothing To Celebrate

From yesterday's NYT:

For the fifth year in a row, New York City students’ on-time graduation rates have increased, showing small but steady gains, rising to 59 percent last year from 46.5 for the class of 2005, according to figures that state and city education officials released on Tuesday.

A couple of thoughts:

1) NYC public schools engage in social promotion. Which means if Johnny can't read, he still is going on to the next grade.

2) Because of social promotion, 74% of kids that graduate from NYC public schools that go on to attend City College (CUNY) have to take remedial classes in math, reading or writing.

3) OK class, let's do the math together: 4 out of 1o don't graduate high school on time or at all, and 3 out of 4 that do graduate and enroll in a local public college cannot read, write or count at the minimum college level.

4) These numbers scream of the abysmal failure that is the NYC public school system.

5) Incredibly, Mayor Bloomberg is bursting with pride over these numbers, and calls it progress.

6) If Bloomberg's own business produced these same results, he would jump out the window from shame and horror.

7) If you are a parent, and you have no choice but to send your kid to these schools, these numbers can break your heart.

8) Give the parents choices.

9) TEAR DOWN THESE SCHOOLS

Three Is The Tragic Number

From today's NYT:

The Bloomberg administration has made getting rid of inadequate teachers a linchpin of its efforts to improve city schools. But in the two years since the Education Department began an intensive effort to root out such teachers from the more than 55,000 who have tenure, officials have managed to fire only three for incompetence.

If you ever doubted that the public education system is more rigged than a Vince McMahon promoted wrestling match, then just look at the statistic cited above.

Bloomberg has only been able to fire three teachers for incompetence. In two years. And this is after making it a priority. Three is the tragic number.

Tragic for the kids trapped in these educational hell holes. Tragic for their parents who are powerless against an unrelenting bureaucracy & an all powerful Teacher's Union.

You know what that number three means? It means that the public education system's primary purpose is to provide citizens with JOBS FOR LIFE. Jobs where there is no accountability. Jobs where being incompetent means you get to collect a check for life, and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

You can be drunk and not get fired. You can molest kids and not get fired. You can know less about teaching than Plaxico Burress knows about handgun safety & not get fired.

Union rules protect all of the above & more.

It's easier to remove a pope than to fire a public school teacher.

Collective bargaining agreements between NYC & the Teacher's Union have for GENERATIONS sold our kids down the river.

Once the city identifies an incompetent teacher and targets them for removal, that's when the fun begins. The teacher gets a union lawyer. And an arbitration hearing. These hearing drag on longer than the OJ trial. They go on for years. And years. Tragically, I'm not even slightly exaggerating. All during that time, the teacher is still on the public payroll. While the case is dragging on, the teacher reports to the "Rubber Room". They stay in the Rubber Room all day, hanging out, reading the newspaper, playing cards etc. All on the public tit.

As for the arbitrators, lets face it: they won't be in the arbitration business for long if they constantly rule against the Union. So they "split the baby". Moreover, the longer the arbitration process, the more the arbitrator gets paid.

Recently,we all saw the horrible effects of the earthquake in Haiti. Images of people buried under the rubble are seared into our collective memory.

But everyday, we have kids here that are being crushed underneath an unrelenting, unaccountable public education system.

They don't need charity telethons, "We Are The World" remakes, or Anderson Cooper reporting from the carnage.

But what they do need is a way out. And that way out is a school voucher or a charter school.

The time has come.

Brainwashing 101

If you ever attended college, or grad school, then you know what passes for higher learning these days is just mindless, dopey liberalism. The progressive elites think holding an academic conference where the topic is Dick Cheney: Should He Be Jailed For Life Or Executed As A War Criminal is an example of everyone having a chance to express their opinion. Its a surreal place where the Boy Scouts are vilified, NAMBLA is embraced, and the military is not allowed on campus. Its a place where watching a Mel Gibson movie is hate crime, but Roman Polanski has his own film festival. Its a place where convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal can give graduation commencement speeches from his death row cell. (After shelling out tuition for four years, how would you like to be the proud parent who puts on the suit & tie, gets to your kid's graduation, and you find out you have to sit there & listen to that guy dole out his pearls of wisdom?) It's a place where the only religion is atheism, and the faculty are the high priests. (By "high", I mean stoned. On drugs.)

To see how jacked up our colleges truly are, you have to read the post below from mindingthecampus.com. They obtained a copy of a sociology test that was given at an eastern college. After reading it, I was surprised the professor did not give the "students" extra credit for wearing the Che beret. Check it out:


Hate-America Sociology

Posted by Candace de Russy


Recently, a colleague forwarded to me a copy of an exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at a public college in the east. It was graded 100%. The exam deserves to be quoted at length, as parts of it are virtually indistinguishable from the old Soviet agitprop of the Fifties:


Question: How does the United States "steal" the resources of other (third world) [sic] countries?


Answer: We steal through exploitation. Our multinationals are aware that indigenous people in developing nations have been coaxed off their plots and forced into slums. Because it is lucrative, our multinationals offer them extremely low wage labor (sic) that cannot be turned down.


Question: Why is the U.S. on shaky moral ground when it comes to preventing illegal immigration?


Answer: Some say that it is wrong of the United States to prevent illegal immigration because the same people we are denying entry to, (sic) we have exploited for the purpose of keeping the American wheel spinning.


Question: Why is it necessary to examine the theory of cumulative advantage when it comes to affirmative action?


Answer: Because it is unfair to discredit the many members of minority groups that have (sic) been offered more life chances through the program.


Question: What is the interactionist approach to gender?


Answer: The majority of multi-gender encounters are male-dominated. for (sic) example, while involved in conversation, the male is much more likely to interrupt. Most likely because the male believes the female's expressed thoughts are inferior to his own.


Question: Please briefly explain the matrix of domination.


Answer: the (sic) belief that domination has more than one dimension. For example, Males (sic) are dominant over females, whites over blacks, and affluent over impoverished.


This exam was part of the curriculum in a for-credit class at an accredited degree-granting institution. Introductory sociology courses like this one are frequently required, even for non-majors. A student who matriculates in this field of study will have nothing in the way of useful skills, but will be convinced that his country is rotten to the core, and that whites and males are evil.


China encourages its brightest students to study mathematics and engineering. India has become known as a hotbed of tech-savvy computer programmers. Meanwhile, the U.S. spends billions to teach postmodern, left-wing misinformation as objective "fact."

Setting Them Up For Failure

Obama has proposed changes to the No Child Left Behind law. Check this out from the NYT:


The proposals for changes in the No Child law, the main statute governing the role of the federal government in public schools, would eliminate or rework many of the provisions that teachers’ unions, associations of principals, school boards and other groups have found most objectionable.

Do you see parents/children and their concerns being addressed above? Neither do I. It's always about the Teacher's Union. Always. The Stoop has a crazy philosophy about schools: they exist to educate children. The best interest of the child always trumps the interests of the unionized worker-who works only 8 months a year.

The bill will deemphasize the use of test scores in evaluating schools. How does that help children? When you apply to college & grad school, aren't your test scores vital? Baldman always advises kids that test scores are like tattoos: they are permanent & stay with you. And the last thing you want to be stuck with is a bad tattoo. But the Obama administration wants to hide that truth from parents & kids. Here is the Progressive Plan for public education: First, the kids are not passing tests. So the tests must be the problem. So let's make the passing grade lower so more kids pass the tests. When that doesn't work, oh well, just say the tests really don't matter in the first place. But above all else, WE MUST run everything by the Teacher's Union for approval.

But the main problem with the bill is that there is NOTHING in there that would help parents get their kids out of FAILING public schools. Simply put, there is no education vouchers in the bill.

Listen up, and I say it over and over: the lack of educational choices in urban America is a moral offense. Liberals citizens and liberal politicians have locked far too many generations of children into schools that we all know should be closed.They have chosen time and again to stand with the Teacher's Union and against parents and their children.

And the Obama Administration,which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Teacher's Union, continues and even escalates this downward spiral.

Progressives always yap that they are into choice, but they write the rules & control the money that mandates that poor kids MUST ATTEND horrible schools.

No one has been able to explain to me why at age 18 you have private student loans, federal grants, state grants, federal loans, in-state tuition reduction work-study programs and you can apply to any school in the nation without any government interference, but at age 17 you have to attend Thomas Jefferson High School, JUST BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT SAYS SO? Why at 18 is education portable, you take your aid wherever you go, but at 17, you are stuck with no choices?

You see, progressives always knows what's best for you and your kids. And if you had school choice, that power would be taken away from them, and given to the parents-where it belongs.

They trap kids in horrible schools,and lock the doors behind them.

And Obama is spending billions- pouring bad money after bad money- to continue this cycle of failure.

We have all the data we need to indicate that too many schools in urban America remain open WHEN WE KNOW THEY ARE NOT PROVIDING OUR KIDS WITH AN ADEQUATE EDUCATION.

Why not give single parent households & families making below 50k a voucher check that can be used to send their kids to schools that will provide their children with the education they need to get ahead in American society?

How can anyone in their right mind be against that?

It Don't Add Up

SHOCK: 90% of City University students in NY can't do basic algebra...

Check out the Daily News story above if you would like. When interviewed, one CUNY student said we should look at the bright side: "At least that means that 3 out of 10 of us can do basic algebra."

Mr. Bloomberg- tear down these schools.

A Disgrace

Don't forget the Motor City-Laura Nyro & Labelle

To say Detroit has been devastated would be an understatement. Unemployment is at 28%, houses are worth nothing, and the education system is in shambles.

But a couple of years ago, a philanthropist wanted to do right by Detroit in a big way. He wanted to donate $200 million dollars to build 15 charter high schools. To give parents choices they so desperately need.

Sounds like a great idea, right? Detroit's tax base has been eroding for a long time, and $200 million and 15 charter schools could make a real difference.

So how in the hell was this proposal rejected by a city desperate for funds?

What happened was the UFT did not want charter schools. They see it as an invasion of their turf. They staged a walkout on a school day and used their power to get the city/state government to REJECT the proposal.

Listen up, and I say it over and over: the lack of educational choices in urban America is a moral offense. Liberals citizens and liberal politicians have locked far too many generations of children into schools that we all know should be closed.

They have chosen time and again to stand with the Teacher's Union and against parents and their children.

So please, do not ever let liberals tell you that they want to help people when in truth they have kept millions of American kids in education hell holes.

Below is a statement from Robert Thompson, the man who wanted to put the $200 million up to build the charter schools:

“I am disappointed and saddened by the anger and hostility that has greeted our proposal. Because of these contentious conditions, we are not going to move forward with our planned charter high schools,” said Thompson. “Our proposal to build a number of new very small charter high schools in Detroit was intended to increase options for Detroit parents and children. The proposal was meant to be for kids and not against anyone or any institution.”

Hard to be Worse Than Amherst

The universities are in favor of diversity in everything- except ideas.-Justice Scalia

Its no secret that I have found the people with the most open minds, by in large, are people I have met on the stoop.

In my experience, in the so- called halls of higher learning, as far as diversity of political opinion goes, the full spectrum of opinion included only these two positions: the far left & the extreme left. I'm serious. That's it. Sure they stage debates. But the debate topics go something like this: "Fidel Castro: Is His Greatness Limited To Cuba Or Does It Extend To All Of Latin America?"

It all flows from the faculty. Try finding a registered Republican with tenure at your typical university. Governor Patterson will ace an eye chart test and Yankee fans will admit that Derek Jeter has no range at shortstop before colleges start employing conservative professors.

And these professors do not hesitate to pass big cups of lefty dogma Kool-Aid to their far to eager to please students.

Justice Scalia knows all about the closing of the college mind.

A couple of years back, Justice Scalia gave a speech at Amherst College. Its the school where he sent his daughter Meg. What a great score for Amherst, right? For a university to get a sitting Supreme Court Justice to appear and give a speech on campus, what school would not welcome that?

Well, Amherst did not welcome him. Why do I say that? Most of the faculty boycotted his speech! What bird brains. These professors didn't like Scalia's opinions (although I am sure most of them haven't read any) so they decided to boycott his speech.

What losers. How can you call yourself a teacher of higher learning when you close your mind to opinions you do not agree with? A professor who boycotts someone because of their ideas is like a medical surgeon who freaks out at the sight of blood. Both are in the wrong profession.

Any professor worth his salt would hear Scalia's speech, and challenge him with questions afterward.

I mentioned that Amherst was where Scalia's daughter Meg graduated. Meg, to her credit, did not take kindly to the cowardly professors at Amherst. Below is the letter she wrote to the school. All I can say is that there is more than one great writer in the Scalia family.

Meg Scalia's Letter

When I first heard that a group of professors was boycotting Justice Scalia's speech, I was disappointed and embarrassed by my college. I don't know when it became acceptable to refuse to listen to another's viewpoints. Isn't this the very type of behavior that open-minded liberals abhor? No matter how vehemently we disagree with another person, it is never a waste of time or effort to listen to him. I am proud of Amherst students for realizing this and picking up where their professors faltered.

Especially shocking is that many of the professors who chose to "stay away" teach courses in the law, jurisprudence and social thought department. Shouldn't they, of all people, want to hear a talk given by a member (yes, any member) of the Supreme Court? However, I respect those people who confronted him. They showed bravery and conviction. I see this as a testament to the student body of Amherst College. Their intellectual curiosity has surpassed that of some of their professors.

The professors explained their absence by saying they refused to offer a "tacit endorsement of this man's presence on campus." They continued, saying they "will neither ask questions nor debate Justice Scalia" because he does not subscribe to the "liberal ideals of constructive disagreement." They acknowledged that "there are many who would argue that such a course is contrary to the democratic exchange of ideas." There are also many who would argue that this is the adult version of covering your ears and yelling, "I'm not listening! I'm not listening!"

Let us consider the professors' accusations against Scalia. Are the "democratic exchange of ideas, the respect for differences of opinion and the need to maintain some distinction between private preferences and public debate" concepts that are lost on Justice Scalia? In answer to that question, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Meg Scalia and I graduated from Amherst College in 2002.

My father, who is one of the most conservative figures in government, chose to send me to Amherst to be taught by some of the greatest minds in the country. I took classes with four of the protesting professors. Would a man who is opposed to the "liberal ideals of constructive disagreement and debate" send his daughter to a school well known for its liberal leanings? Absolutely not. My parents encouraged me to go to Amherst, where I would be challenged academically, and where my conservative views would also be challenged. It is a shame that when my father came to our campus he was unable to enjoy an intellectual debate with the very people he respected enough to teach his own daughter.

The Nightmare Continues....

Now everythings a little upside down,
as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
Whats good is bad, whats bad is good,
youll find out when you reach the top
Youre on the bottom- Dylan "Idiot Wind"

It's the beginning of the school year, so I want to ask a question. What do you do with a teacher who found out about a a underage student being sexually molested by an adult, and instead of complying with state law by contacting the proper authorities, this teacher told the kid "I hope you know how to use a condom."

If you want my answer, I would do my best to see that such a teacher is never sees the inside of a classroom again.

But the President of the United States answered that question in a different way.

You see, the President as named this teacher the "school security czar" for the whole nation.

I literally cannot believe I wrote the last sentence. But it is true.

The man in charge of keeping the nation's children safe in school is the same guy who told an underage male student to use a condom when he has sex with men he meets in public bathrooms.

Check it out: EDITORIAL: At the president's pleasure - Washington Times

I know, to the victor, goes the spoils. And I know each Administration is free to appoint anyone they want to a non-cabinet position.

But honestly, did anyone sign on for this? Did you think it would come to this?

Hey. Mr. President, what happened, Roman Polanski turned you down and you gave this guy the job?

Who are your child safety advisers Mr. President,Woody Allen and R. Kelly?

2012 hurry up.

A Disgrace To The Profession

I know the videos of public schools having kids literally sing the praises of Obama is making the rounds.

But those videos don't have nothing on the one below. It was filmed during the 2008 campaign. A teacher asks the little kids who they support for president.

When only one kid says McCain, watch how that kid is treated by this (hopefully former) teacher:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8