Saturday, October 07, 2006

Why Stop Dumbing Down Now? It's Working So Well In Kentucky

If liberal education bureaucrats were merely stupid, the law of averages dictates some of their policies would actually help kids who need help.

What, you may wonder, has me so worked up as to be paraphrasing Joe McCarthy? It was a morning jolt of irony from the pages of the Lexington Herald-Leader. On the editorial page, a retired liberal professor from the University of Kentucky bemoans higher standards for schoolchildren and actually says "Kentucky must redefine "proficient" to a more reasonable level."

The ironic part is the news story in the same paper pointing out that over half of Kentucky high school graduates who go to college aren't ready for college work.

They include a map that tells the story.