[Speed Gibson,
Monday March 26, 2007 at 7:42pm]
Schools First
Mitch Berg might have already filed his best post of 2007. He might be shorting us a little NARN air time, but he went long beautifully here.
I gave up fisking Nick Coleman over a year ago. His columns are predictable, so fisks tend to also become predictable. I blog for recreation, and this was becoming more work than play.
Here, Coleman continues in his role as DFL/EM acolyte, but by adding another layer of non-sequiturs, his column conveniently lists all of the "concerns" of the educrats over charter schools. Mitch covers it all. I especially like this translation:
I gave up fisking Nick Coleman over a year ago. His columns are predictable, so fisks tend to also become predictable. I blog for recreation, and this was becoming more work than play.
Here, Coleman continues in his role as DFL/EM acolyte, but by adding another layer of non-sequiturs, his column conveniently lists all of the "concerns" of the educrats over charter schools. Mitch covers it all. I especially like this translation:
Coleman: [Charter schools ...] have not significantly outperformed traditional public schools.It's a lengthy post by SITD standards, but well worth the time.
Translation: [The Charter Schools] did perform better!