2.23.2011

Ooops, so much for our Sputnik moment

Providence faces shortfall, teachers to get dismissal notices - Projo 7 to 7 News Blog | Rhode Island news | The Providence Journal

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The school district plans to send out dismissal notices to every one of its 1,926 teachers...

Just for the record all that Sputnik moment stuff never amounted to much anyway. It wasn't high school math teachers that got us caught up to the Soviets in space—not that the didn't try—it was a bunch of German rocket scientists in Huntsville. So who needs teachers anyway? Who needs schools? More Germans is what we need.

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