Reply #21: That's what we had.

[Jakes Progress]

The best system in the world. Then ronnie and his ed guy, bennet, told everyone that schools were failing. A huge lie. It took a while, but with the help of MSM and a gullible public, they decided that the school system that was the envy of the world, was failing. Then the corporate neo cons developed crap tests that were designed to show failure and never attempt to measure anything meaningful. Again the gullible public ate it up. Must be those nasty teachers that used to catch me in the bathroom smoking. Gotta fire them. First we narrow curriculum to nothing but the test. Then we bust up the unions that would keep us from firing teachers who wanted to teach rather than do test prep. And here we are. Now we have a Democratic president who has fallen for the sales job of a neo con in Chicago clothing. So we have Race to the Bottom, the end of public education, brought to you courtesy of the Democratic party.

People like to say that if you are upset with Obama, you have to imagine how bad it would be under mccain. Trouble is, if mccain had tried this crap, the Democrats would have stopped it dead. Without Obama, ronald reagan's dream, grover norquist's scheme, and bill bennet's scam wouldn't have worked.