public schools make good

A new study found that, adjusted for background, children in public elementary schools generally outperformed those in private ones. Good news for America, but somehow bad news for President Bush. Funny how that works.

The study was released on Friday by the Education Secretary without any announcement or fanfare. According to the article, the American Federation of Teachers predicted two weeks ago that "the report would be released on a Friday, suggesting that the Bush administration saw it as 'bad news to be buried at the bottom of the news cycle.'" Nice to know that our president wants government services to do badly.

Additionally encouraging was news that conservative Christian academies fared worst of all private schools, especially in math. Perhaps they teach them that math is just a theory and hasn't been proven to work. Everyone knows that this whole "multiplication" thing is all a crock of crap anyway.