Choice is for killing children, not for educating them. Understand that and you understand this present administration.
President Obama has initiated a national education competition open to all schools. Oh wait. All government run schools, that is. Catholic schools need not apply.
And wait until you hear what the winner gets.
Fox News reports:
Earlier this month, President Obama challenged high schools across the county to compete against each other in the second annual “Race to the Top” educational success program for the chance to have him give the commencement address at their graduation. Not included in the contest, though, are the more than 2 million students in America’s Catholic schools.
The last thing this anti-voucher administration would want is for a Catholic school to win the national contest, right? These lunatics want to fund Planned Parenthood with hundreds of millions of your dollars but can’t bear the thought of one cent going to parents to choose where they send their child to school.
Let’s face it, the last thing they want is to give publicity to the wonderful job so many Catholic schools are doing all across this country. It might give people ideas that there are better options out there.
If they could participate, the nation’s parochial schools would be fearsome competitors. A 2009 comparison between public and Catholic school SAT scores show that public school students had an overall average of 496 points on the critical reading portion of the test while Catholic school students scored 533 points on the same portion. Catholic school students outscored their public school counterparts by an average of 23 points.
But what about this prize? Can you imagine initiating a competition and the winner gets to hear YOU speak for an hour? That’s a bit of an ego trip, isn’t it?
Anyway, I’m not really too upset that Catholic schools aren’t allowed in the competition mainly because I’d hope that even if a Catholic school won they wouldn’t allow radically pro-abortion Obama to give the commencement address.
February 9, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Aww, he just did that because if you let the Catholic schools compete, they'd kick everyone else's ass. Sour grapes, is all.
February 9, 2011 at 6:00 pm
So the winner gets to have B.O. speak at the school. Would the institute at the very bottom of the list have him speak there twice?
Just wondering.
February 9, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Even messier…can you imagine a homeschooled student winning? Studies show they outperform them all on the SATs. I'm thinking B.O. should be the one listening to the winning student/s tell *him* what works in education! Now *that* might actually be productive.
February 9, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Let me guess … this is a punishment for the USCCB's opposition, right? O my aching backside, it hurts from the spanking.
February 9, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Hee hee…"and the prize is – wait for it – an hour of B.O." What school wouldn't want that?
February 9, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Ha!
February 10, 2011 at 5:05 am
Now, if they were offering a Commencement address by either George Bush, Clarence Thomas, or various others, THAT might be worth competing for….
February 10, 2011 at 3:11 pm
sounds like a win-win situation, except for the kids in public schools.
February 10, 2011 at 7:08 pm
What about private Christian, but non-Catholic, schools? Can they participate?
The last thing we want is government money to go to Catholic schools. It would give the government control over those schools, which would do anything before losing funds.
February 10, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I would be willing to bet that the reason the Catholic Schools are exempt is to prevent another embarrassing controversy like the Notre Dame debacle. Couldn't have a Catholic School win and then refuse to let him speak. Who needs more of them anyway?