Quadruple teacher salaries now I say, and remove the requirement that teachers have a degree in stupidity. That takes care of the easy part within about 5 years – eliminating our idiot teacher population. The hard part will be fixing families.

Illustration of out idiot education major:

http://sherifffruitfly.googlep…..withthegre

This faction has doing everything it possibly can to weaken the US educational system — which was struggling anyway. Perhaps my standards are too high, but I’m appalled that we have children graduating from high school who can’t draw a world map, haven’t read a single work by Shakespeare, and can’t explain Newton’s Laws. (And please don’t get me started on the fiasco that is NCLB.)

Teachers (at all levels) are our defense against the darkness. We must support them. (Not that all of them are terrific, and not that all of them have the greater good at heart. But as a profession, they’re outstanding.)

From BayouBuzz:

At the time when the Jindal Administration is touting a “ethics” including a web site designed to assure accountability in government, a story has “broken” in the Advocate that indicates state-financed preferences for the Louisiana rich and the famous, including our new Governor and again, his Chief of Staff, Timmy Teepell.

Perks and Preferences: The web site might want to include the Lab School expenditures in Baton Rouge where one child of Governor Bobby Jindal and children of his Chief of Staff, Timmy Teepell, are attending while other parents cannot receive the same benefits.