Friday, April 02, 2004
OK, BACK TO NORMAL
Well, now that the dust-up over the "filling in for the Rush Limbaugh program" joke is over, it's time to employ a little of the same critical thinking it required to figure out what was happening - to the local news of the day:
School-choice study called flawed, biased - Post and Courier story on April 1
First of all, you have to read the article several times to find any kind of refutation of the actual results of the study. I read it three times and still couldn't find anything other than a simple statement by John Butzon of the Charleston Education Network:
But critics called the findings flawed, biased and intentionally complex.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S.," Jon Butzon, executive director of The Charleston Education Network
And just what B.S. is that? Well...again, I've read it three times and can't find any specific opposing statistic. The last line of the story says simply that the School Board Association and Administrators plan their own study to come out in three weeks or so.
But the best line in the whole story is the following:
Jim Foster, spokesman for the state Education Department. "South Carolina taxpayers won't have a clue how their tax dollars are being spent, and that's a recipe for disaster."
Not quite where you got your education Jim, but these are TAX CREDITS and we already don't have a clue how our tax dollars are being spent - ON EDUCATION. And thanks to idiots like you, Public Education isn't just a recipe for disaster...it's a fully cooked 4 course meal about to get cold from sitting too long. That's the problem, you dope.
And don't you just love these people still thinking that it's their money? Quick, name the time the government made sure you were spending the $1,000 tax credit you got for each of your children on something that's okay with them...
Lesson #2 is now complete...you can open your books and read chapter 3 for Monday's pop quiz.
Well, now that the dust-up over the "filling in for the Rush Limbaugh program" joke is over, it's time to employ a little of the same critical thinking it required to figure out what was happening - to the local news of the day:
School-choice study called flawed, biased - Post and Courier story on April 1
First of all, you have to read the article several times to find any kind of refutation of the actual results of the study. I read it three times and still couldn't find anything other than a simple statement by John Butzon of the Charleston Education Network:
But critics called the findings flawed, biased and intentionally complex.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S.," Jon Butzon, executive director of The Charleston Education Network
And just what B.S. is that? Well...again, I've read it three times and can't find any specific opposing statistic. The last line of the story says simply that the School Board Association and Administrators plan their own study to come out in three weeks or so.
But the best line in the whole story is the following:
Jim Foster, spokesman for the state Education Department. "South Carolina taxpayers won't have a clue how their tax dollars are being spent, and that's a recipe for disaster."
Not quite where you got your education Jim, but these are TAX CREDITS and we already don't have a clue how our tax dollars are being spent - ON EDUCATION. And thanks to idiots like you, Public Education isn't just a recipe for disaster...it's a fully cooked 4 course meal about to get cold from sitting too long. That's the problem, you dope.
And don't you just love these people still thinking that it's their money? Quick, name the time the government made sure you were spending the $1,000 tax credit you got for each of your children on something that's okay with them...
Lesson #2 is now complete...you can open your books and read chapter 3 for Monday's pop quiz.
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