QOTD
"Complete crap"
- Washington DC school czar, Michelle Rhee, to those who say inner-city minority kids can't achieve in school
Michelle Rhee (over there to the right) is a hero (and pretty hot too), and someone who's efforts I really admire. She is trying to fix the Washington DC public school system... firing bad principals and teachers, fighting the teacher's union, and battling the feds and, well, seemingly everyone.

And maybe the most unique thing of all about Michelle Rhee... she actually sends her kids to school in the system she's trying to fix. Someone asked President-elect Obama where his kids would be going to school in DC... cha, not the public school system to which he is so fond of sending other people's kids.

This is a good WSJ story on her today: DC School Chief Scores Gains, Ruffles Feathers

QOTD2
"Only about 6% of the sophomores can read or do math on grade level"
- Washington DC high school performance (from above WSJ story)
6 percent performing at grade level! 6 percent!!!
Can you give me a fucking break and round that to zero?!?!

Of course, if you gave parents $10K to spend on any school they wanted, then you wouldn't need heroics. The problem of poor education (and violence) in our cities would be gone in a generation. It's called competition. It's called personal freedom and responsibility.
amen... yow, bill

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