| Spellings: "Education System
is Finally Working"
'Dunce' by Gil Elvgren
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has
started off her term with high visibility. Three days after bitch slapping
PBS for wasting taxpayer money on the 'Buster the Lesbian Rabbit' show,
Spellings has angered 27 percent of adult Americans by praising the results
of a study
by the Knight Foundation on teenagers and the first amendment.
The study shows that only half of high school
students believe that newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without
government approval of stories. When given the verbatim text of the First
Amendment, over one third of the students said it goes "too far" in the
rights it guarantees. (Which begs the question of just what percent
understood what they were reading in the first place).
"This is marvelous news," said Spellings,
"and it should certainly quiet those who think that our schools aren't doing
their job. Contrast this with the last study in 1997 when almost seventy
percent of teens said they believed in a free speach and you can see the
progress we've made."
Spellings
paused and looked at us intently, her cheeks reddening. Her lower
lip twitched slightly, and her eyes widened with forbidden lust. Then
she wiped that look off of her face and continued with her thoughts.
"The danger is that when people believe in a free press, there are
always a few that will actually want one. And that is where you come
into direct conflict with those who wish not to know, who feel that
knowledge is a burden and interferes with the spirituality inherent in
every day life. It's time we respected the rights of these people for a
change."
"Listen, the real job of American schools is
not teaching children how to think, it's teaching them what to think. Do you
know how many career opportunities there are for rocket scientists and brain
surgeons? Not very many. That's why it's important to teach people to fit
in, so they won't face a lifetime of disappointment. There's an old proverb
that applies. Give a child a thought, and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a
child how to think, and he'll grow up to be a trouble maker who poses a
threat to the very foundations of our society." |
