And the bad ideas just keep comin'

So, we've got a superintendent in Huntsville, AL now sending kids off to the wilderness to live in teepees (with no ability to appeal) if they fight in school.
We've got Philadelphia considering not one, but TWO Broad Academy grads for their superintendent (and no, there are not three options).
The Lock Ness monster is being cited as evidence of the continued existence of the dinosaurs and thus a proof against evolution. In a science book. Being used in a publicly-funded school.
We've got Bill Gates, Stand for Children, and Washington State's own League of Education Voters* all joining forces on--you guessed it, folks--a ballot initiative (my, they are popular this year!) to increase charter schools, complete with paid signature gatherers.
And, for those of you who have missed it, the European Commission says "Science: It's a Girl Thing," whilst their video makes it very clear that they know, per Amber Dance, "nothing about science or girls."


I can do no better than to give you Molly Ivins: "Another bad idea. What are they, cheaper by the dozen?"


*Note: much like naming a street "Fox Run" after you've cut down all the trees so the foxes no longer run there, any group with a name like this is...not.