Welcome to the Nanny State Nation:
Coming from Liberty is for me…, we get the state of the Texas public education system and, as usual, her thoughtful analysis:
Texans have paid $2.4 million dollars for shitty bureaucrats, Superintendents, to leave the school system.
A $2.4 million dollar buyout — paid by, of course, taxpayers — in order to do something that in any other circumstance would require none. And that’s only since July of 2005.
Which reminds me of an excellent video I saw recently…
On par with John Stossel’s now classic 20/20 special “Stupid in America”, reason.tv brings Unlocked: Education wars in Watts:
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The entire video is amazing but my favorite part has to be the following narration and quote…
But when Wells continued to push reform, he ran into what he calls a brick wall. “I began to require teachers to bring lesson plans to school every week because I wanted to see their lesson. The teacher’s union filed a grievance against me, tried to stop me from requiring teachers to come to school prepared to teach kids.”
…juxtaposed with video of UTLA, the local teacher’s union, chanting, “Pay us now! Pay us now!”
It’s definitely taken out-of-context but, oh so good and — if you ask me — oh so deserving and oh so reflective of what is really going on. See for yourself.
