Our state board of education director: "What good does it do to put a Chinese story in an English book? That's not going to help you master ... English. So you really don't want Chinese books with a bunch of crazy Chinese words in them. Why should you take a child's time trying to learn a word that they'll never use again?"
I actually think this is a great argument - if you're a student. How many times have you heard a high school student bitch about have to learn trigonometry, because they'll never use it again? I'm a lawyer; I never use trigonometry. Think of all that time I wasted learning! Or history - The Executive apparently doesn't need to learn from it; why should we? Who needs spelling tests when our computers have spell-check? And "Science." Really. Who needs science? After the rapture, none of us are going to have to worry about biography or oceanography or kinesiology or astronomy or anthropology or any of that crap.
We just needs to learn how to pump gas and point guns so that America can be free.
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