Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Oh Yeah, This Idiot Would Make A Good President

I changed my major for the last time just a school quarter from graduating from university. How the hell is a 9th grader capable of choosing a vocation?
For his last education initiative as governor, Jeb Bush wants every Florida high school student to pick a major.

Bush visited a South Florida high school on Monday to sign into law public school reforms known as the "A-Plus-Plus Plan."

The law requires high school students to choose a "major area of interest" and take four, yearlong courses in the subject starting with students who begin ninth grade in fall 2007.

A major could include math or history, a foreign language or a field such as automotive repair or culinary arts.

Just to stick it to Jeb. He said this. Emphasis mine.
"Frankly, there are a lot of kids that need relevance and some structure in their high school education that they lose little by little when they leave elementary school," he said.

People aren't "thats". People are "whos". So it should be.
"Frankly, there are a lot of kids that who need relevance and some structure in their high school education that they lose little by little when they leave elementary school," he said.

While I'm in the "that" neighborhood. It's a word that is rarely needed. Its amazing how often "that" appears when omitting it works just fine.

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