This commenter — goes by the name of Godot — appears on a thread at the Austin American newspaper.
Godot is responding to an editorial in the paper which sheds a wistful tear or two over graduation rates for baseball (37%, lowest score in the Big Ten), basketball (47%, lowest score in the Big Ten) and football (49%, lowest in the Big Twelve ‘cept fer Oklahoma) players at the University of Texas.
It’s really too bad, writes the paper, that our flagship university seems unable to graduate these people… I mean… Sure would be nice if it could and all… But… well… you know…
Godot argues that it would be honest as well as economical for Texas to acknowledge that the state doesn’t give a shit about education. Texas could be our first state, says Godot, to experiment with shutting down all schools.
UD predicts that after five or so years of no formal schooling and zero education taxes, the state of Texas will look exactly the way it looks right now. Only richer.
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Correction: GTWMA, a reader, notes that all the Big Ten stuff up there should say Big Twelve.
December 1st, 2009 at 6:58PM
Big 12, not Big 10.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:17PM
The third one was Big 12, I thought, and the other two Big Ten… I’ll check that again…
December 1st, 2009 at 8:17PM
No, ma’am, as they say in Texas. Them Longhorns are in the Big 12 in all sports. Big Ten is a paragon of virtue compared to the Big 12 and the SEC…although they are doing their damnedest to compete
http://www.seattlepi.com/scorecard/cfootballnews.asp?articleID=269741
December 1st, 2009 at 8:28PM
Thanks for the correction, GTWMA.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:21AM
There remain outposts of enlightenment in the Republic of Texas, UD. The somewhat odd part is that, near as I can tell, the University of Texas Austin has some extraordinary educational resources (faculty, programs, students, funding). Having a 2-year-old, I can say that I would not be remotely abashed if presuming I remain a citizen of the Republic 16 years from now, my child were to enter the honors program at the school.
I will, however, recommend she not try out for football.
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:41AM
I love the ending
"UD predicts that after five or so years of no formal schooling and zero education taxes, the state of Texas will look exactly the way it looks right now. Only richer."
It’s very nice.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:59AM
Thanks, orders.