All the news that is fit to print...or not

No more McClellan. Bush's Press Secretary "voluntarily" resigned this morning clearing the way for another stooge to come in and not answer tough questions. I kid you not, there are rumors that they are actually considering a FoxNews reporter as his replacement - Tony Snow. Well, he's got a lot of practice making shit up in favor of bush anyways, so he might as well take the promotion. Yes, there are others being considered, but just the fact that this idea is out there is absolutely pathetic.

Schools are cheaters. Let me be very clear here: schools are not cheaters. People around the country are up in arms over the AP report that schools are allowed to leave out the test scores of certain groups of students if there are not many of those students that attend the school. The AP story uses the example of an African-American student whose scores are not counted in the No Child Left Behind scores for the primarily white high school she attends. Guess what? It happens. When your school has 17 Mexican kids, their scores are not reported because that's not a large enough number to be representative. These scores are statistics, and how accurate are statistics based on a minority population of 17 in a school of 3,000? So I am arguing that this study is misleading. How misleading? Here is a link to the scores my school got on the most recent CST testing. Notice how we tested 2468 students and we have only 86 African-American students and only 81 white students. At about 3% each, these groups are not really statistically significant. So yes, we left out the white and black kids. Also check out this link, which is the scores that are used for NCLB (aka AYP). So, really, schools are not cheating anything. The real cheater is the federal government for spreading this type of shit about schools and saying that our schools are failing even though they really don't help us.

May 1. So I guess there is going to be some kind of boycott on May 1st to show the economic power of immigrants. This is another stupid idea hatched by leaders that seem to have no clue how to get real response. So on that day, Mexican immigrants will not spend money. How is this supposed to be effective? Guess what? I didn't spend money yesterday. Yeah, I'm a crazy political activist. What would have happened if King led a one-day boycott on the buses in Montgomery for just one day? You would have had a lot of black people walking. Instead, they did it for more than 2 weeks, showing not only their persistence, but their economic power. One day? I go 1 day without buying something all the time. If this movement is successful, and I hope that it can be, they need to get some new leadership that has a clue.

That's all for today. They're shutting me out at 4:00 for repairs, so I better post and get some school work done.