Just when I think I've heard it all, Barry comes along to prove me wrong, every single time. So it was then that it came as no big surprise to me when I heard that Barry had uttered what has to be one of the stupidest things I think I've yet heard come from any president of the United States. It was when I heard that Barry "Almighty" had said, just yesterday, that students should take fewer standardized tests and that school performance should be measured in other ways. You know, at a time when we have the least prepared, and least informed, generation ever, now leaving our public school system, is this really the time to start relaxing our educational standards even farther? Too much testing makes education boring for kids, our “Fearless Leader” has said. "Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students," the president told students and parents at a town hall hosted by the Univision Spanish-language television network at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C. Is this idiot serious? Tests are now viewed as a punishment? I just can't help but wonder if this is all part of some grandiose scheme of Barry’s to make life just a bit easier for all of his teachers’ union buddies.
I don’t know, it just seems that our buddy Barry is pushing a little too hard for a major rewrite of the nation's education law. He would like to have it rewritten in such a way that the result would be an easing of some of its more rigid measurement tools. He said that policymakers should find a test that "everybody agrees makes sense" and administer it in less pressure-packed atmospheres, potentially every few years instead of annually. Hey Barry, here's an idea, how about we have just one test that a student would take after completing their 4 years of High School. And how about we make the passing score, say 50 percent. Barry went on to make the nutty recommendation that schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, like maybe attendance rate. As far as I'm concerned there should be one and one criteria by which schools and teachers should be judged. That being the quality of the product that they turn out. Which is something I think we can all agree has been steadily on the decline with each passing year for quite some time.
"One thing I never want to see happen is schools that are just teaching the test because then you're not learning about the world, you're not learning about different cultures, you're not learning about science, you're not learning about math," the president said. The primary culture that students should be learning about is ours, and they need to be learning about our history. Barry went on, "All you're learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that's not going to make education interesting." If Barry were truly interested in making school less boring and more interesting, he would implement a plan that would reduce the level of indoctrination that is presently going on and return schools to doing what it is they are supposed to do, the teaching of "The 3 R's." If we could ever get to the point where we have teachers that are more interested in teaching our kids instead of indoctrinating them, and doing more than simply collecting a pay check so that they can then pay their union dues, that would be a big step in the right direction.
"And young people do well in stuff that they're interested in," Barry said. "They're not going to do as well if it's boring." Barry, that’s my point exactly. Let's get back to teaching the things that we're supposed to be teaching and that ours kids need to be learning. Let’s get away from teaching such things as "Benefits of the gay lifestyle." Hey, what a concept! Barry, who has been pushing his education agenda all month, has expressed concern that far too many schools will be unable to meet annual proficiency standards under the No Child Left Behind law this year. The standards are aimed at getting 100 percent of students proficient in math, reading and science by 2014, a goal now widely seen as unrealistic. Maybe if we focused our efforts more on limiting the power of these corrupt teachers unions, while making sure those teaching our kids are actually qualified to do so, that goal might not seem to be so unrealistic. The Barry administration has proposed replacing those standards with a loftier yet less prescriptive requirement that by 2020 all students graduating from high school should be ready for college or a career.
Barry wants Congress to send him a rewrite of the 2001 law before the start of a new school year this fall. Although his education secretary, Arne Duncan, has been working hard with lawmakers of both parties, the deadline may be unrealistic with Congress focused on the budget and the economy. Congressional Republicans also look to be unwilling to sign off on Barry's plans to increase spending on education. What we don't need to be doing is to throw more money at this supposed crisis in education. What we need to start doing is to weed out the far too many crappy teachers that are currently in the system. And we need to bring out of control unions under control, telling them to go piss up a rope. As we heard not all that long ago from the NEA General Counsel say that children are not their priority. As he freely admitted in this speech to teachers, the NEA’s aim is to acquire power, and to advance its ultra-left agenda including advocating for special homosexual rights. We need to strip them of their ability to that. We need teachers who will put our kids above the dictates of their unions. If Barry was serious, this would be the priority of his Education Department.
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