Bush blasts 'bigotry of low expectations'

[Khephra]

Bush visited an inner-city Nashville school Monday to face down new criticism of his No Child Left Behind law, assailing "the soft bigotry of low expectations" that he said must be challenged for all children to succeed.

The President's visit to Tennessee came four days after the state released its first report cards under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), setting off a wave of criticism from many educators, parents and policy-makers at the many schools that didn't meet standards.

That was particularly true in Memphis, where 149 of the 185 city schools, or 80 percent, were on the various lists for not meeting federal and state standards. Statewide, 47 percent of public schools failed to meet NCLB's benchmarks in every category.

The two-year-old federal law uses existing state measurements of student performance. But for the first time, it requires schools to meet the proficiency benchmarks for each of nine subgroups of students: five racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, English language learners, economically disadvantaged students and the school as a whole. Most criticism has focused on requiring the same proficiency levels for special-education students and English learners as others.

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http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/nation_and_world/article/0,1426,MCA_454_2244435,00.html

[JohnKleeb]

1. Could it be Dubya that your education plan is fucked

:shrug: by the way calm down you stupid wannabe cowboy
Gee someone get this guy a brain
:)

[TheYellowDog]

16. ?

n/t

[loudnclear]

20. Condi gave him a new phrase, so he is using it.

Sorta like: "the world's most dangerous leaders with the world's most dangerous weapons" or the "mushroom cloud" statement. She's the one who makes up these phrases and the idiot-king repeats them.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. "Soft bigotry"

Lord knows that Bush and his conservative inside group know a thing or two about "soft bigotry." Love the term. It's so, euphemistic and oxymoronic at the same time.

[WindRavenX]

14. He butchers the English language like none other

Seriously, "soft bigotry"??
Dear god, Pickles, enroll your dumb husband in a remedial English class. He's embaressing us all.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Interesting

"Low Expectations" is a form of bigotry.

Thinly-veiled hatred toward blacks, gays, hispanics, women, and anyone who God didn't make in the image of George Bush is NOT a form of bigotry.

War is Peace.

Freedom in Slavery.

We is Fucked.

--bkl

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

9. whats the deal with MS banner???

Inquiring minds want to know??

[Kolesar]

4. The "Least Communicator" is trying to coin a meme

The world saw you on TV Sunday night. The whole world knows you are a double-talking idiot.

[puddinhead]

5. Wonder who wrote the phrase for him

As a puddinhead myself I know damn well that the Puddinhead in Chief (aka PuddinheadOTUS) could never come up with sumthin' that polysyllabic by his lonesome.
Its a stretch tryin to get the guy to master words like "eeeee-vil" and "nuke-yoo-ler".

[Paschall]

6. He's been using it since...

...at least the 2000 campaign. I also would like to know which think tank he lifted it from.

[TahitiNut]

10. I'd bet it came from Peggy Noonan.

It stinks mightily of her disgustingly corrupt rhetoric.

[Gman]

7. They always lower expectations for this guy

[SpiralHawk]

8. But read *s own assessment of himself:

"I'm the master of low expectations."
- George W. Bush, Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

[gratuitous]

11. Wow Georgie, biting the hand that feeds you?

He must really be under a strain if he's upset about low expectations. His entire life has been the triumph over one low hurdle after another. I'd like to return to a president who actually succeeded at one or two things in life before his dad and cronies bought him the Oval Office, please.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Look Who's Talking

Georgie would understand low expectations. That's all people have had for him, his entire life.

What an idiot!
The Professor

[Aristus]

13. So says the Chimp who has benefitted from low expectations

all his life. People say he's an idiot, then when the debates come on TV, and he's not up there drooling and shitting himself, no-brainers think he must have something going on upstairs.

[Character Assassin]

15. Yes, it's something he's suffered under his whole life....

Poor little bugger, what a tough, lonely road.

[radfringe]

17. whistleass has exceeded my expectations

he's done WORSE than I expected...

:evilgrin:

[0007]

18. LOL!!

using the "soft bigotry" phrase six times in his 15-minute speech at Kirkpatrick Elementary School

I'd say junior is a little pissed.

[coda]

19. " NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE (stroke) ! " :-)

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

-- Adlai Stevenson

[Enraged_Ape]

21. I prefer the hard bigotry of calling an AWOL dumbfuck...

an AWOL dumbfuck.

[meow2u3]

22. The real reason Bush blasts the "soft bigotry of low expectations"

So he can smear anyone who doesn't like him as a bigot because the media whores and presstitutes have such low expectations of him that no one is allowed to expect any more of him than they do.

In other words, if we expect him to act like a president and a representative of the people instead of Big Bucks, we're the bigots. Understand now?

[John_H]

23. He always tries to appropriate the language of civil rights

and then twist it to fit his bullshit agenda--"affirmative access" "bigotry of low expectations" What a dick.

[Merlin]

24. It's a neocon code phrase for "they don't need any help"

It says it's bigotry to want a social safety net for those the system and society's prejudices force into poverty and hopelessness.