CAT Tracks for October 17, 2013
LOW INCOME STUDENTS

Have become the majority in 17 states...

...a decade ago, it was four.

However, allegedly educated people (and the leaders of the "education reform movement") are still in denial.

Glaring example:


From the Washington Post

Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West


No, Mr. Bounds, it's not an education issue, it's an income issue!

As indicated earlier in the article:

It's time for the ostriches to pull their heads out of their, uh, the sand.

We don't have a nation of "bad teachers", we have a nation of unappreciated, unsupported, heroic teachers fighting "the unbeatable foe"...

...every damn day they go to school, and being damned for doing so.


POSTSCRIPT:

After posting this article, I ventured over to the Valerie Strauss Blog (The Answer Sheet) and found further confirmation of the existence of ostriches...freaking Democratic ostriches...


From the Washington Post

The debt deal’s gift to Teach For America (yes, TFA)


Bears repeating:

Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right...

...here am I, stuck in the middle with you.


FOOTNOTE:

And, as if clowns and jokers weren't enough...


From CNN

Stenographer snaps, rants on House floor