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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Picture of the Day - George W. Bush Elementary School




Irony,

You are Queen for a Day.



(President George W. Bush (L) greets students at an elementary school named after him in Stockton, California October 3, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young)

(It was named before he left office? I'm sure there's no possibility he could embarass himself in the next two years.)

Each class day will begin with seven ceremonial minutes of sitting and doing nothing. There are no science classes, and every C student gets into Yale.

It's an open mike, fire away.

posted by mikevotes at 7:04 AM

8 Comments:

  • I feel sorry for these kids. Might has well named it Big Dumb Ass Elementary School.

    Image the ribbing their going to get for the kid at MKL and JFK elementary school. You know, schools named after actual patriots and leaders who actually moved America forward, not backward.

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:37 PM  

  • As a parallel,

    There is in fact a Richard M. Nixon Elementary School, but it appears to have been named in the early-mid 60's well before his 68 run for the presidency.


    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:48 PM  

  • He really shouldn't be touching those children...it could come back to haunt him...if you know what I mean.

    By Blogger sumo, at 1:45 AM  

  • And so begins Bush's march into lame duck irrelevancy. Handing out plastic flags made in China to children indifferent about being used as a photo op for a man who wouldn't care for them if they were attending MLK elementary...

    By Blogger Lew Scannon, at 5:34 AM  

  • It's probably a 'charter school' which is just a fancy way of saying. "We've cherry picked the best kids in the area and our test scores are going to shine because, well any freaking idiot can teach the smart kids". It's a bummer teaching the marginal and struggling students. That doesn't pad out your test scores. The 'teaching' part comes with the hard students and that takes a dedicated professional with adequate resources and support.

    The last part is something the GOP never allows either the military or education to have.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:57 AM  

  • Sumo, I get the joke, but have you ever noticed how uncomfortable he is around children. It always seems so forced. Almost like he was absent somehow (cough drugs) when his own children were small.

    Lew, I dunno. again, in my searching for parallel, the people who went to Nixon elementary seemed to gain quite a bit of humor from it.

    Matt, actually, I think it may be a charter school. And, you're right about the priority.

    That's the greater issue with "school choice." What happens to the kids who don't have the means to "choose" to travel 45 minutes each way to the school in the suburbs. They're left to rot.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:02 AM  

  • OMG. I had to right-click that picture Mike. If my kids were there, I'd be paying whatever tuition I had to just to send them to another school. And I'm serious.

    By Blogger Chuck, at 4:24 PM  

  • Yeah, but it's not on a diploma or job application so they can hide their shame in later life.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:28 PM  

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