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globalvillage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-05 08:09 PM
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How many children left behind? A Standardized Test
In Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars...", he estimates 1,642,857 children left behind due to Title One cuts, 138,000 by freezing spending for homeless children's education support program, and 9,936,000 due to cuts in teacher training. That's almost 12 million of the 72 million children in the US (assuming no overlap, but the numbers are staggering nonetheless).

Al presents these stats in the form of a standardized test.

Here's the last question in Al's No Child Left Behind Standardized Test:

Correct the punctuation in the following sentence:
"George W. Bush is the President who, in Gods name, will protect our children."

I think we can all get this one right.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.
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