Governor Rick Perry has been talking about education.
Well, there is a lot of fat to cut from our public schools, especially those in our biggest urban areas like Houston and Dallas. I am concerned that some the highly diverse Magnet public schools in this city are becoming hotbeds for liberalism. Do we really need free school bus service, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, ESL, special needs and enrichment programs like music, art or math Olympiad? I think we should get back to the basics of the three Rs, reading writing and arithmetic. I mean when is the last time a 6th grade science fair project yielded a cure for a disease?
There are strange, wild, guttural sounds spilling from my lips right now; I dare not transcribe them here lest innocents repeat them, summoning vindictive elder gods to rend their sanity. I'm a trained professional in coping with madness, others may not be.
In this same talk, he also babbles about making private Christian schools more affordable. Kill public education, promote religion instead. That's his position.
When's the insurrection? Or at least the repeal? Don't Texans have any self-respect?
I have been snared by Poe's law! All I can say in defense is that I was only caught because it's a hair's breadth from reality.