It’s Funny, Until it’s Not

January 25, 2010

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When I first saw this photo over at JammieWearingFools, I thought it was funny as SNAP! I mean SERIOUSLY? The President of the United States needs a teleprompter to give a 5 minute speech to a bunch of 6th graders? Hahahahaha!

But then I got to thinking, why was our President addressing said 6th graders?

I found the answer over at Riehl Worldview buried in the comments. Rio Grande Valley Girl says:

“What is even more disturbing than the need to whip TOTUS out to talk to school kids is the purpose of Obama’s visit to that school. He was announcing his desire to put billions more into his program “Race to the Top” (RttT in Obamaland cutespeak) and also create a means for school districts to bypass the authority of their State Boards of Education in order to apply for federal RttT funds. What is so disturbing about this? One of the requirements of winning this federal grant money is that local school districts must contractually agree to adopt federal curriculum guidelines, even those that have not yet been defined by the Obama Administration. Yup….the federal core curriculum issue rears its ugly head again.

Obama created the local school district bypass to these federal dollars in response to Rick Perry’s decision for Texas to opt out. Obama can’t stand Perry and the State of Texas….and was not about yield the chess board.”

So I did a little looking around and found out that my girl in the Rio Grande Valley knows what she’s talking about. Once again the Obama administration has rushed a bill forward and required desperate school districts to sign up for all this “free money” without providing any pesky details about what will be required of these schools or how much they will get. But you can bet your last #2 pencil there will be lots of regulations and the local school districts will end up even more broke than before. And from what mayonaise jar buried in the back yard are they finding this $700 million dollars in extra funding? I know, I know….it’s forthechildren and therefore you’re not supposed to ask those questions.

So glad Texas opted out of this mess. We will be better of for it. And if any school districts decide to go around the Governor and take the funds and get screwed in the process, I say the rest of the property owners in Texas not send one dime to bail them out.

Ask the banks who paid back their bailout loans (with interest) but are still under attack by the libs–this is a bad deal.

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