From Down Under:

THE head of one of the nation’s elite private schools has questioned whether English should be compulsory for the senior years, saying the courses being taught are beyond the intellectual ability of most students.

Elite? Given their stated lack of ability to comprehend their (arguably) native language, perhaps they aren’t sure what “elite” means.

If the elite private school kids can’t understand English, their public school counterparts are probably just above helmet-wearing shit and drool factories.

But they’re all probably still better than D.C. schools.

Speaking of our nation’s worst school system, D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is trying to take away the vouchers that actually let D.C. kids escape the festering pit that is District public education.

For those of you unfamiliar with the would-be Congresswoman from D.C., here are a couple clips from her first appearance with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report:

This is the woman deciding the fate of D.C.’s kids. They’re screwed.

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