Saw GWB (“our President”) on CSPAN yesterday speaking (or rather, reading) to I think it was an Urban League conference, talking about education. Seeing him always disturbs me, but when he talks about education, my blood begins to boil. Here’s a man who can’t put a coherent sentence together if he’s not reading it off a teleprompter, addressing the nation on how public education should be conducted in this country.
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” -George W. Bush, Feb. 2, 2001
I guess I don’t have that much new to say on this topic, other than to repeat my old chestnut: It’s disturbing that our President is an idiot. But what’s even more disturbing is that it doesn’t seem to matter.
Like the only purpose of learning to read is to pass a literacy test?