That's the Arne Duncan we know and don't love at all
02/26/09
Over at National Review, Jonah Goldberg has completely captured the essence of the man who formerly stood watch over the rickety assembly line that is Chicago Public Schools - a performance so pitiful it earned him a promotion to Secretary of Education in the Obama Administration.
Although, in all fairness, it was also greatly because Arne regularly hoops it up with President Cool. I'm sure while they face down each other in a game of HORSE, they have deep discussions on educational philosophy and how to best shuffle children through the factories that pass as educational institutions on their way to minimum paying jobs where their highest duty will be to ask the question, "Would you like something to brink with the DigMac?"
But I digress...
Goldberg on Duncan:
On the domestic front, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has decided that Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind Act should be retained and moderately reformed. His boldest suggestion so far? “Let’s rebrand it. Give it a new name.” Now that’s change even cynics can believe in.
Ladies and gentlemen: the Left's approach to education in America. It's a federal cookie-cutter designed for the benefit of people like Arne Duncan and the other troglodytes that administrate the bureaucratic monolith that is public education, all while forsaking the children they are supposed to be educating and imparting to skills like how to learn, how to think and how to succeed in the real world.
I guess this is where that "hope" part comes in. "Hope" is all the victims of CPS and people like Arne Duncan have.