Last week the Senate approved Bryan H. Samuels to be Barack Obama's Commissioner of the Administration on Children. Samuels is a perfect fit for Obama's racket. Bringing in Samuels allows Obama to promote another old Chicago boy and reward spectacular failure, both at the same time.
Samuels comes from the Chicago Public School system where he was chief of staff. There, Samuels worked under Arne Duncan, who Obama would later elevate to be Secretary of Education. Samuels, like so many of Obama's friends, was appointed by disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich. Even though many in the Chicago Public Schools considered him incompetent and inexperienced, he was still eventually promoted to be Duncan's chief of staff.
You have to try really hard to be considered incompetent and inexperienced in the Chicago Public Schools. They're rated abysmally, 49th out of 50th according to state-by-state ratings. Barack Obama haughtily refused to send his daughters to CPS, instead enrolling them at a nearby private school. Arne Duncan was known to give out jobs as patronage to his friends. Instead of worrying about teaching kids, Duncan larded up the CPS with as many worthless "administrative positions" as possible.
So the Chicago Public Schools are so failing and corrupt that Obama sends his own daughters elsewhere. But he will promote two of CPS' highest-level administrators to the Department of Education. When will the patronage end?
No comments:
Post a Comment