As usual, Doonesbury is interesting and entertaining. What is most interesting today is that as of 8:30 AM EST there are only three comments prior to mine.
@AZKTRYG The audience here isn’t so apt to comment when GT makes a semi-political comment that doesn’t strictly toe the hard-liberal line.
It’s greatly to his credit that he did it anyway. Sadly, it was a lot more likely to happen decades ago than now. I think he knows on which side his bread is buttered.
Speaking of social experiments, here in Wisconsin our former governor, Tommy Thompson, decided to put the claims of school-voucher advocates to the test. He initiated an “experimental” program in Milwaukee designed to test the proposition that kids would do much better in private schools that their parents chose for them. Fully funded it for 5 years, with a team of educational researchers from UW-Milwaukee contracted to compare the voucher-school kids with matched counterparts attending the public schools. Great idea, carried out rigorously and thoroly.
The 5 years were up, the researchers turned in their findings, and there was no statistically significant difference in educational outcomes. The governor thanked them, dismissed them, and expanded the voucher program without that troublesome evaluation component.
Reality had failed to match dogma, you see, so it was the reality that needed to be jettisoned. Little did we suspect at the time that it was a harbinger of a national trend which has since become epidemic.
Interesting article about this study and even GB Trudeau’s role in making it publicly known: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con
Your anecdote combines well with today’s comic arc to emphasize – on both sides of the political abyss – the Irish adage: " Never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! "
If the facts don’t suit your plan…throw ’em out and create new one ! First rule of Trumpian governance.
The question so beautifully expressed by the reporter in panel three — dear heaven, are there five people left on this planet who can so cogently express a thought, much less conceive one?
jcole998 The attendance is much better at the charter school, so is discipline, because the kids who don’t cooperate are encouraged to leave. The rules are that kids can’t be dismissed, but you can devise ways to annoy a parent enough that they go back to the public school, where they can’t be turned away no matter what they do.
BE THIS GUY over 6 years ago
I wish Rick had remembered his own words when he and Joanie raised Jeff.
Linguist over 6 years ago
This is California, after all… Everyone gets a trophy for something.
azktryg over 6 years ago
As usual, Doonesbury is interesting and entertaining. What is most interesting today is that as of 8:30 AM EST there are only three comments prior to mine.
jeffiekins over 6 years ago
@AZKTRYG The audience here isn’t so apt to comment when GT makes a semi-political comment that doesn’t strictly toe the hard-liberal line.
It’s greatly to his credit that he did it anyway. Sadly, it was a lot more likely to happen decades ago than now. I think he knows on which side his bread is buttered.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 6 years ago
Speaking of social experiments, here in Wisconsin our former governor, Tommy Thompson, decided to put the claims of school-voucher advocates to the test. He initiated an “experimental” program in Milwaukee designed to test the proposition that kids would do much better in private schools that their parents chose for them. Fully funded it for 5 years, with a team of educational researchers from UW-Milwaukee contracted to compare the voucher-school kids with matched counterparts attending the public schools. Great idea, carried out rigorously and thoroly.
The 5 years were up, the researchers turned in their findings, and there was no statistically significant difference in educational outcomes. The governor thanked them, dismissed them, and expanded the voucher program without that troublesome evaluation component.
Reality had failed to match dogma, you see, so it was the reality that needed to be jettisoned. Little did we suspect at the time that it was a harbinger of a national trend which has since become epidemic.
chfabbro over 6 years ago
Interesting article about this study and even GB Trudeau’s role in making it publicly known: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/quasi-religious-great-self-esteem-con
Linguist over 6 years ago
@Richard S Russell ,
Your anecdote combines well with today’s comic arc to emphasize – on both sides of the political abyss – the Irish adage: " Never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! "
If the facts don’t suit your plan…throw ’em out and create new one ! First rule of Trumpian governance.
dogday Premium Member over 6 years ago
The question so beautifully expressed by the reporter in panel three — dear heaven, are there five people left on this planet who can so cogently express a thought, much less conceive one?
Diane Lee Premium Member over 6 years ago
jcole998 The attendance is much better at the charter school, so is discipline, because the kids who don’t cooperate are encouraged to leave. The rules are that kids can’t be dismissed, but you can devise ways to annoy a parent enough that they go back to the public school, where they can’t be turned away no matter what they do.