Education Follies Number MMXXX

Not only are Obama's education policies like Bush's, but they are actually far, far worse. Bush merely laid out the groundwork, but Obama, a "Democrat," using a dipshit whose only qualification is he played basketball with him, has gone places no Republican would dare go.

Obama continues to piss off groups which had supported him earlier, including civil rights groups and teachers' "unions":

Stunned, Obama's erstwhile allies have begun to push back. On July 26, a coalition of civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the National Urban League, called for an end to "federally prescribed methodologies that have little or no evidentiary support" and that use minority communities as "testing grounds."

The next day, the American Federation of Teachers issued a statement saying the administration was encouraging "bad teacher evaluation systems." And the day after that, a coalition of community organizing groups scolded the administration for continuing "rigid, top-down solutions that are not supported by research."

Privately, Obama's one-time friends are far more caustic. They talk of an "elitist" and "arrogant" administration embracing an education policy produced by the Center for American Progress with too little regard for what happens in practice.

Obama thinks Ivy League types who have no concept of anything and who have never worked as teachers know more than those who actually deal with education on a day-to-day basis.