Promoting Florida’s “cocktail” of education reforms at a D.C. education summit, former Gov. Jeb Bush said education should be more like milk, reports the St. Pete Times.
“You can get flavored milk — chocolate, strawberry or vanilla — that doesn’t even taste like milk,” he said. “Most of the time, there is a whole other refrigerator case dedicated to milk alternatives — like soy milk, almond milk and rice milk. They even make milk for people who can’t drink milk.”
“Who would have ever thought you could improve upon milk? Yet, freedom, innovation and competition found a way.”
Indiana and Arizona may emulate Florida policies such as grading schools’ effectiveness, reports the Times.
Update: Jeb Bush praised Obama (and Duncan) as “on the right track.”
His definition of “improve” must be different than mine.
He could have also pointed out that milk is more expensive then it needs to be due to government price supports. At least though when you pay for a gallon of milk you actually get a gallon of milk. Not necessarily the case when you pay for a gallon of education.
I’m surprised that no one is howling about how chocolate milk is “a major contributor to childhood obesity!!!” or some such.
Mike: “His definition of “improve” must be different than mine.”
Well, my definition of “improve” is clearly different than yours, then. What privileges your (or, quelle horreur, the government’s) opinion of what is “best”? Why should I be forced to buy the product that you like?
“One size fits all” is indistinguishable from “One size fits none”.
I wonder if he would hold all of the improvements to the same standards and use just one test to measure them all.
Jeb missed organic milk – which costs about twice as much as nonorganic. Would that make organic milk the private option?
He has an interesting way with words, that one does.
Jeb Bush needs to learn the distinction between “Improved” and “Enhanced”. He wants education to be more like milk: harvested through tubes in factories from cattle that have been genetically altered, pumped up on steroids and kept artifically pregnant until they are slaughtered and ground up into a hamburger. Thats freedom, innovation and competition.