...that Jan Jarboe Russell was an acolyte of Molly Ivins:
The columnist Molly Ivins had it right: Perry is in fact Governor Good Hair, and that's what Texans want. We want the caricature who tells us how exceptional we Texans are — not the realist who tells us that just because the Texas economy has fared better than most states, thanks largely to the high price of oil, the fact that, according to CNBC, we rank 30th in the U.S. in educating our workforce should wake us from our stupor of false superiority.No doubt Russell thinks merely throwing more money at the schools and "not teaching to the TAKS test" is going to fix everything, just like Bill White does. Never mind, of course, that the TAKS test is a test of basic skills the students should be learning anyway. And never mind that Texas school districts have been shown to prefer to hire education majors (who don't know basic grammar and who took Creative Writing but don't have favorite authors because they don't like to read) as teachers as opposed to those who go through the alternate teacher certification. And never mind that the districts make such decisions on the local level, as opposed to following some sort of edict from the governor. Oh, no, it's all that EVIL BASTERD RICK PERRYS FAULT ZOMG!!!111one!!! (And yes, that misspelling and lack of apostrophe was completely intentional.) Why doesn't JJR just go ahead and blame George W. Bush while she's at it?
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