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A night with the NY Young Republicans opens eyes about the cartel-style rigged education system
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...and of course they provided alcohol later to help drown our sorrows about the whole mess. Woot! \m/ .jpg)
At yesterday’s New York Young Republican Club’s monthly meeting, Bob Bowdon was the guest speaker of the night - a man who has enjoyed success as a reporter and anchor on various media networks. His most notable work has been as an anchor/reporter for Bloomberg Television and recently as a reporter named Brian Scott on The Onion News Network. Plug: He’s a highly effective and hilarious speaker even as he tells us things we should cry about....
Bob has done some great investigative journalism work for his new feature documentary film, The Cartel, about the mishandling of our education system (New Jersey in particular), which will be premiering at The Hoboken International Film Festival in New Jersey on May 30th at 2 pm.
[Please note that his premier is not actually in Hoboken, it’s in Teaneck, and Bob has stressed that Teaneck is much easier to get to than Staten Island...which actually holds no relevance to the film festival but would be a funny mention had you been at this awesome meeting...just saying...]
It is highly recommended that you visit the film’s website, or even better, visit, purchase tickets, and then take a haul out to Teaneck, NJ next weekend to see The Cartel for yourself. Some very interesting points of discussion in Bob’s film are summarized as follows...with some sensationalist modifications of course...perhaps to peak your interest? Yes, the evil plot unfolds:
- America ranks last in educational effectiveness (or for a positive spin, #1 in Suck-y-ness) among the world’s industrialized countries, and first in amount of money spent per student in the world.* [Read: modified GIGO effect - gold in, garbage out]
- 15 year olds in the United States have worse math skills than kids in Azerbaijan.* Pop quiz: Do you know where Azerbaijan is? [No, sorry - Borat was from Kazakhstan...]
- Some Jersey superintendents in poor districts make some serious bling. I’m talking presidential salaries folks.*
- There should be a show called “I Dream of Janitors”...or their salaries that is. For cleaning duties not to exceed 4 feet above the ground, you just might bring home a whopping $100k a year as a janitor in a Jersey public school.* Now if only they required a degree in waste management for it, they could be Stafford slaves like the rest of us over-achievers.
And there’s more where that came from! Be there for the premiere on May 30th at 2 pm in Teaneck, NJ. If you don’t, the forces of good in the world will unite and....in spirit of the United Nations...send you a letter**...telling you just how angry they are about it. Maybe.
* Based on information provided at http://www.thecartelmovie.com and by Bob Bowdon at this meeting.
** Link has explicit language used.
More Info:
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Meeting details which this article refers to:
Location: Women’s Republican Club in NYC, 3 51st St., between 5th and 6th (by a camera shop FYI)
Date: May 21, 2009 (Thursday)
