The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby wrote this Op Ed: Don’t Know Much About History. The Department of Education last week released the results of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress - “the Nation’s Report Card’’ - the bottom line was depressingly predictable: Not even a quarter of American students is proficient in US history, and the percentage declines as students grow older.
Tracy Novick posted about this news item the other day, stating, who cares about dates? It’s what they mean. Well, if you don’t know the date of The Constitutional Convention, how can you know why it’s relevant in American History. Wonderland commented to that effect - it never saw daylight.
Tracy Novick, with a Master’s degree in English and a former grade school teacher, somehow doesn't understand the problem - choosing to ignore it - instead preferring the tact of the Liberal apologist. Wonder how the little Novicks did on the MCAS?
Contemplate for a minute a city of 181,000, with some of the more mediocre institutions of higher education in the state. Toss in some of the worst performing grade schools in the state. Add a smidgen of union ineptitude. A dollop of intellectual arrogance. A dysfunctional Worcester School Committee. And the result: A city of functional illiterates.
So it’s truly a wonder of wonders when one of our educationally elite bloggers consistently embarrasses himself with horrendous spelling and grammatical bloopers. Who is he? Well, he’s the archetypal graduate of Worcester’s educational system – the one child they left behind.
May we present this week’s Blogging Fool Award to William “I went to BC” Randell for his recent blooper (see pic above) about the Vancouver Candain riots. (Candain? Dude really, WTF!) And for his horrendously poor grammatical usage, composition and form, not to mention the blatant spelling errors, surpassing that of local dimwit Stephen “what’s a metaphor?” Quist, aka Q. [Editorial note. Mr. Randell is a previous recipient of the BFA: Bill Randell: Fool, Hypocrite, or Un-American?].
So Bill Randell, here’s to you, for being this week’s Blogging Fool and for proving that a college degree ain't worth the paper it’s printed on.
Can't be a Tea Partier if you don't know when Paul Revere took that midnight ride eh?
