When Barack Obama chose as his Education secretary the man who had led the school system in his hometown…

Before heading to Washington, he vowed to take action.

“Any founded allegation where an adult is hitting a child, hitting a student – they’re going to be gone,” Duncan said.

But that’s not what happened under Duncan’s watch. Of the 568 verified cases, only 24 led to termination. Records show one teacher who quote “battered students for several years” was simply given a “warning” by the Board of Education.

And another student was given “100 licks with a belt.” The abuse was substantiated, but the records show the teacher was not terminated.

http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Painful.Lessons.Abuse.2.931134.html

When an electorate is as dumbed down as our has been for the last 30 years, it is much easier for a poseur like Obama to get elected. The almost illiterate electorati exclaim…”He’s a rock star, a “clean” (Joe Biden says) black man, let’s vote for him!” is the clarion call. Don’t expect that Obama would ever appoint someone sincerely committed to actually educate the greatly moronic masses. Educated, they’d vote the bum out.

http://www.svgop.com/press/index.cfm/ID/12.htm

A sample-

This budget leaves a razor-thin reserve of just $216,703, or $1,204 per pupil, which can pay for necessities like paper, pencils, personal computers and extra-curricular travel. After all, what’s the point of taking four years of French if you can’t see Paris in the spring?

The school I have just described is the school we’re paying for. Maybe it’s time to ask why it’s not the school we’re getting.

Even among those who graduate, it says, skills are poor: An analysis of students entering the Chicago City Colleges in fall 2006 showed that 69% were not prepared for college-level reading, 79% were not prepared for writing, and 95% were not prepared for math.

And I use to think Kalifornia stats were bad for entering college freshmen.

Kudos to the 52% for helping flush our kids futures down the pooper.

This is the guy with the crappy track record that Obama put in charge of educating indoctrinating our kids.

Arnie isn’t exactly Mr. Education – he’s a fix-it guy where, in Chicago parlance, “fix it” means “get it off the front and editorial pages of the newspapers”….

Mew

Where are Obama’s college grades anyway? Where is anything about his acedemic career beyond the “absent” editorial experience at HLR? Why the secrecy? Come on Barry, you’re the genius, so let’s see the goods.
marklmail on July 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM

Stupid question.

The universities knew from the beginning that Ogabe was so smart, so utterly and completely intelligent in a way that put to shame the likes of Einstein and Hawkins, that they decided to forego grades and simply pass him on everything. It’s not as if they would have understood his stunningly intelligent assignments anyway.

Grades are for stupid, white-trash hillbillies from Wasilla, not exalted black guys from Chic…er…Keny…er…Indones…er…from somewhere.

Patrick S on July 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM

This would actually work. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

AZCoyote on July 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM

I hadn’t heard about the Juneteenth celebrations, though I had read about the absence of reading programs. From what I read last August and September, much of the money was paid to useless third-party organizations to develop useless community-organizing organizations to develop even more useless community-organizing training programs.

Excellent summary of the effect of Obama’s leadership in Chicago public education. Sadly, the media was too busy trying to determine the paternity of Trig Palin.