All the talk is about Sarah Palin. But this is (largely) an education-related blog, and the Republican who spoke last night most fervently about education was Mike Huckabee (scroll forward to 10:20 in the video), who elocuted about a teacher in Little Rock who, on the first day of school, removed from her classroom all the desks and then made her students guess why. "You get a desk in my classroom," Huckabee said the teacher said, "when you tell me how you earn it." (Umm, our parents pay taxes?) By day's end, news cameras were arranged outside and no student had yet correctly picked out how they could retrieve their classroom furniture. Then... through the door walked 20 veterans, each carrying a desk which he quietly restored to its original position. "You don't have to earn your desk," the teacher reportedly??told her students, "'cus these guys--they already did."??As??his four-minute story drew to a close, Huckabee??solemnly said,??"John McCain helped me have a schooldesk."
So, there. And some of you thought the Ed in '08 campaign was wasting millions of dollars. (By the way, didn't Mike once endorse Huckabee for U.S. Secretary of Education???Might the Arkansan try to take this??Ozark deskectomy reform nationwide?)