We now have the answer to "Is our children learning?"

[Texrat]

That answer, apparenty, is:

"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids. (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2623880720070926)



NEW YORK (Reuters) - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn."


Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the centerpiece of his education policy, as he touted a new national report card on improved test scores.


I am suffering irony overload. :XD:

[n00b1n8R]

Remind me how this guy became president of the most powerfull country in the world?

[SMASH]

Remind me how this guy became president of the most powerfull country in the world?

Says the person who for gets the y in powerfully. Every one just has to let slip ups go. I mean, I slip up talking all the time. I think once in a while isn't bad.

[Bodzilla]

powerfully???

wtf u smoking boy. n00b got it right first time.

also more irony right there.O_O

[n00b1n8R]

"the most powerfully country"
am I the only one who doesn't think that sounds right >___>

[Tweek]

lmfao smash, i'm not sure if i should +rep or -rep for that :smith:

[Phobias]

I say we bring back public stonings.

Wait, thats off topic.

but, yeah, bush isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

[rossmum]

Who in their right fucking minds, aside from moronic parents who don't care about their kids' education so long as they graduate, would want to reinstate that 'No Child Left Behind' bullshit? It's dragging everyone down, not up...

[Con]

Oh Bush :-3 You make us lulz with your funnies :awesome:

[dg]

Meh, people slip up, although it is pretty ironic that he did it then. In my opinion, whoever gets the presidency next should remove this whole "No Child Left Behind" act. In my school, there used to be an option to take "Automotive Mechanics" and "Electrician Training." We also had a a program where you could go to a vocational school and learn more about these things. These classes were taken out two or three years ago because "they didn't meet the proper criteria" when the national board of education sent someone here. Thus, the option to go a vocational school was removed.

Now, I'm all for having kids pass classes and such. Don't get me wrong, education is a very important thing to have a high standard with, but taking away certain classes/opportunities is not the best course of action. Some kids are not "made" for a purely academic career path. The vocational school was there to help kids who didn't do so well in school and was helping them to prepare for life after high school, be it college or not. I honestly believe that by eliminating this option, the school is being "dragged down" by it's own stupidity.

[Kornman00]

Says the person who for gets the y in powerfully.
says the person who forgets :rolleyes:

[CN3089]

Says the person who for gets the y in powerfully.

Actually he put an extra l in powerful http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-eng101.gif

[Dr Nick]

"...our breast and out brightest"

That is all I'm going to say.

[Texrat]

I believe that childrens is our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way...

[MNC]

Somehow you just knew this topic had to be about bush.
But we should all keep in mind that human and fish must coexist.

[Pooky]

Says the person who for gets the y in powerfully. Every one just has to let slip ups go. I mean, I slip up talking all the time. I think once in a while isn't bad.
That has absolutely no bearing on what he said.

[Emmzee]

Who in their right fucking minds, aside from moronic parents who don't care about their kids' education so long as they graduate, would want to reinstate that 'No Child Left Behind' bullshit? It's dragging everyone down, not up...
Tell me about it. We have two schools in my city in danger of being shut down, and where are those kids going to go? That's right, to my school, and bring down the averages.

You can move the kid somewhere else, but that doesn't fix the problem.

[DOMINATOR]

Tell me about it. We have two schools in my city in danger of being shut down, and where are those kids going to go? That's right, to my school, and bring down the averages.
the averages won't go down but your education will.

[ExAm]

"the most powerfully country"
am I the only one who doesn't think that sounds right >___>You're BOTH wrong. Powerful only has one L.

[Emmzee]

the averages won't go down but your education will.
No. These kids are mostly "drop-ins", too young to drop out, so they show up every now and then and make really bad grades.

[DOMINATOR]

No. These kids are mostly "drop-ins", too young to drop out, so they show up every now and then and make really bad grades.
i know... but the no child left behind basically just re-adjusts or curves the averages to look normal but it robs you of learning more, thus lower education.
they make the state tests easier which makes the teachers teach less.

[DaneO'Roo]

Says the person who for gets the y in powerfully. Every one just has to let slip ups go. I mean, I slip up talking all the time. I think once in a while isn't bad.

oh shit, this thread became an irony lasagne.


Rofl smash

[Emmzee]

oh shit, this thread became an irony lasagne.


Rofl smash
Lasagna* :eng101:

Looking up "lasagne" on Wikipedia redirects to "Lasagna."

[Bad Waffle]

I swear to fucking god, the next person to grammatically correct a TYPO is going to get banned. Just you watch.

[Random]

I swear to fucking god, the next person to grammatically correct a typo is going to get banned. Just you watch.

ftfy, you must have hit caps lock for a few seconds and didn't notice it.

[n00b1n8R]

for those of us who arn't farmilier with american politics, what exactly is the "no child left behind" act?

I gather it's fail but I'm curios what it is.

[rossmum]

for those of us who arn't farmilier with american politics, what exactly is the "no child left behind" act?

I gather it's fail but I'm curios what it is.
They're not allowed to fail a kid or make them repeat like they would here. The child MUST graduate up to the next level of schooling (or from the school, for their final year), regardless of marks. As a result, it drags the smart kids down and the ones doing the dragging end up worse-off than they were when they started.

[n00b1n8R]

>_____>

[CN3089]

They're not allowed to fail a kid or make them repeat like they would here. The child MUST graduate up to the next level of schooling (or from the school, for their final year), regardless of marks

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-what.gif


That's not what it does at all.

[rossmum]

Oh, my bad. That's what I'd heard it did, probably would've been an idea to check first. :downs:

[ExAm]

Oh, my bad. That's what I'd heard it did, probably would've been an idea to check first. :downs:I've had two friends repeat grades recently, and some of them failed a few classes :/

[n00b1n8R]

then they need to put more effort in :|

[jahrain]

The childrens of the internets are the deciders.

[ExAm]

then they need to put more effort in :|I know. I was giving an example of how NCLB doesn't force a passing grade.

[Mass]

Haha, no child left behind, even those four words are ironic; much like this topic. I mean this topic is unbelievably ironic, its TOO ironic, like a republican family-values-promoting senator soliticing for gay anonymous bathroom sex or something, but that kind of shit just doesn't happen though. :rolleyes:

But seriously its all bullshit, my school is a "No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School" and four of my classes lack enough textbooks, not to mention 2 or 3 schools are closing within CPS.

Also for the person asking how bush got elected, that would be the evangelical shadow lobbyists/big business/every president since 1980/the supreme court.

The united states has a definate liberal majority values wise.