California educators, as stupid as they come

Education officials from nine California school districts are lobbying the US Department of Education this week in Washington, DC for waivers to the “No Child Left Behind” Act. Max Pringle reports from Sacramento. The superintendents represent a good chunk of the state’s population. They’re making the case that the “No Child Left Behind Act’s” focus on boosting test scores leaves instructors too little time to teach skills that students will need later in life. Troy Flint is with the Oakland Unified School District. VPR

This report reveals two points. Education administrators in California are deliberately stupid, and medical administrators in California are deliberately stupid. It is the Whocuddaknown syndrome.

I do not know about college educated school administrators, but a little long division (math anyone) reveals that these school administrators were short some eight Senators when Obamacare and NCLB were designed, so there is no way these folks could have figured out the problems before hand.

Here is another bit of stupidity at its worst:

Ironically, despite all the criticism leveled at for-profit colleges, only three are in this Top Ten lobbying list. Moreover, as recently as 2009, there was not one for-profit university listed in the Top Ten. The ten biggest university lobbyists for 2009 were: State University of New York, California State University, University of Texas, Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado, Boston University, University of Southern California, Texas A&M, University of California and University of Washington. These ten institutions spent more than $10 million to lobby the government on their behalf.
But why are they spending this money?

"This is to make sure the university has a voice," said Gary Falle, an associate vice president of federal government relations for the University of California (UC) system. . "We liaison with the government on several different levels; after all, there is a huge partnership between the federal government and the University of California." Main Street

Now, I dunno about UC professors, but it is clear to me that the greatest federal impact on UC students is NCLB, the edcation system designed by the 60 small state senators.  How is it that UC hired a bonehead that cannot even get the connection between NCLB and UC?


So, why do they always miss the problem of undemocracy here in California? They are simply stupid idiots and parents should wonder out loud. I mean, it does not take a whole lot of brains to realize that California is not the same economy as the 30 small states that control the Senate. So, in all of these large programs from DC, a little trade theory applied to the disparates sizes of the states would reveal a problem. Did these idiots even make an attempt to understand the problem? How did California school administrators select 60 small state senators to design the California education system? Any answers? Easy, we have a bunch of clearly idiotic legislators who prefer the oligarch of a Senate to their own intelligence, perhaps with good reason.

Suggestion to educators in California. Rather than reveal your own stupidity, I suggest you concentrate on why the California political establishment is so intent on having this huge economy ruled by 30 small states.  Do that and educators might find some real stupidity to correct.