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- cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Hey, with partners like a Saudi Prince and Michael Milken, how can you go wrong?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13downat:
>It is nice to see someone care enough to force those teaching the future of this country to be held accountable.
Yeah, those darn overpaid, unaccountable, ivory tower teachers are finally being held to high standards, by a president who believes that evolution didn't happen, that climatology is the same as weather prediction, that blown budgets are good for the country, and that stem cells are one celled human beings.
Accountability. Funny how that phrase is subjective based on who we're claiming should be accountable. - jshapiro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Watch what you say... That's a future president you are talking about!
- kalte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It's good to be the (brother of the) king
- happyMac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11God Damn it! NEVER EVER use a TRIPLE negative or fruity language when cursing the Lord. It makes you look like a dumbass from the conventional media which we are here to over throw not compete with!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4lol he calls them cows..
more like cash cows.
and this has been in the news before, his mother donated money to katrina victims but earmarked it to go through neils educations - Meadow113, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Foley thought that bill said, "leave no child's behind"
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Must have been educated in Texas when Bush was govenor.
- migs87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Everyday I read the news and go throw DIGG and find something on Bush that makes me go "WTF?" and today is no different than any other day! Thank GWB for making everyday the same, with curruption. I can't remember if the Clinton Admin was this F#$@ed up. I am sure someone under this paragraph will remind me though!
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2or to put it concisely
"GWB makes John Stewart's job easy" - placebofx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least someone is benefiting from the "No Child Left Behind" Act. From the last statistics I saw, American children were not leading in any area. Unless you are willing to count school shootings.
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"No Bush Left Behind"
At least they didn't leave one of those stupid designs or a "landing strip." God I hate those. Oh wait...nevermind. - willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12 words - "Billy Beer"
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If schools are not failing you can't sell more products. So we better make sure they fail more! Tests are just the first product to sell now come all the other things that can be sold to make up for what the test told us we need to fix.
- got-haggis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the 'no child left behind' act is total bs. It completely gets rid of creative thinking
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What is even sicker than this is th "Cost plus" contracts that haliburton got.
IF you owned a groccery store and the gov said we need water for our troops and we will pay you "cost" plus 20% proffit
would you give them the 89cent gallons of water, or the $2 liter of aquafina... now lets say you could set the cost by adding secuirity fees and delivery fees, the higher you can get the cost up, the more your 20% proffit will be reguardless of how many troops you feed.
The fist thing i would do differently in IRAQ, is give the jobs to the iraqis, It would get them off the streets, you work them long enough hours and they will be too tired to be an insurgent, and besides it is easier to recruit insurgences when you are destitute. - Meadow113, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let's Test GW!
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since when has "critical thinking" been part of the public school system?
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Neil Bush is perhaps a bigger douche than his brother.
- FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Neil was making ill-gotten money long before GWB took office. Remember Silverado and the Savings&Loan scandal when Daddy Bush was President?
- JamesK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The title is misleading but Neil, when he's not whoring with Thai hookers, made a ton of cash off his brother being President.
Why is it when this administration appears that they are doing something good for the whole of society, it is a select few who gain the most? - ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, why don't we just cut to the chase and establish primogeniture as our system of government. The way the Bush's breed (like trailer trash) the clan shall rule us forever!
- jarvelated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Iraq has us beat in that, but we are close.
- ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This technology is a direct rip-off of eInstruction's CPS system (owned by Goldman Sachs and Chicago Growth). Little Bush is gonna get sued for infringing on their proprietary rights...
- icehog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01 Trillion? Get real.
Neil Bush just happend to be a director of one particular S&L (Silverado) in the wrong place at the wrong time. S&Ls were failing all over the country. Bush didn't have much, if anything, to do with it...certainly not at a national level.
The inflated estimated cost of Silverado was only around 1 billion. Not 1 trillion. If that's any indication of how bad people are with math, it's no wonder many S&Ls failed. - JimNtexas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There is no indication in the article that N. Bush's company has made any profit at all. Certainly nothing to compare with the Haliburton contracts awarded during the Clinton Administration.
And of course when you sell pardons from the White House, there is no overhead at all, its 100% profit.
Buried as inaccurate. - deesnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1When it comes to Republicans, it's more like "no behind left behind".
Republicans are truly screwing this nation (and young pages for that matter).
http://www.democratgiftshop.com/cgi-bin/store/store.cgi/1585028665/left/1148325 - Maaarrrk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Remember Neil Bush was in with Howard Keating in making 1 trillion dollars of taxpayer money disappear in the Savings & Loan scandal back in the 1980's.
The Saving & Loan ripoff was probably what inspired Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and Tom DeLay to hatch the moral majoriity ripoff scheme that stole money from millions of Christians to fund their on enrichment.
Lots of evil con-artists are out there - Myrddnn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Education today has become a mess simply because of the interferance of the federal government. Education should never be an entitlement; education is a product of value and only a free market can determine it's content or price. While I love the idea of free education for all, it is the responsibility of local communities to see to it that THEIR children are educated, to the degree that THEY can afford.
Federal interferance has created a monster that has many heads. All forms of federal testing are a waste of time; it it is system itself that limits and confines educational institutions. Those colleges that have been truly sucessful are those who drew students through the schools own excelence. The same can be done for primary and secondary education at the local and state levels.
We have forgoten that education is something each of us have to earn; it cannot be forced upon the unwilling. Standardized testing expects each student to follow a certain guided form of development. Any deviation from this "norm" is considered an aberation requiring some kind of corrective action. WRONG! Each student is an individual and while a good portion of them may conform to this "norm", a significant portion will not.
The standartized system leaves far too many children behind and is unfair and biased. A free market education system could and would be open to education that is tailored to the needs of the parents and students themselves. No child needs to be left behind; all it takes is getting the federal government to quit interfering with what should be local business. - icehog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hardly. Compare the two technologies and you'll find they aren't even in the same ballpark.
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And let's not forget that GWB himself made his millions by being the president's son, and thus getting wealth funneled through his relatively small stake in the Texas Rangers.
We didn't even have to *pay* for Clinton's hummers... - LlFT, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Potatoes?
- mofochief, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2no bush left behind? i know i never leave any bush behind. ;)
- downat420, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4I cant find anything inherently wrong with his business model. He saw a niche to fill. It is what entrepreneurs do. Without people out there taking risks we would have no economy. And how is the reform causing "teaching to the test". Teachers are just being held more accountable and there is nothing wrong with that. The teachers who feel like they have to teach to the test are the teachers that should quit do to incompetence. I found very few teachers or professors that were worth my time. It is nice to see someone care enough to force those teaching the future of this country to be held accountable.
- benmoreassynt, on 10/12/2007, -22/+11Gosh darn it. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER say "off of". You mean "makes huge profit FROM education reform".
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