Scout's starting kindergarten Tuesday, and I got an automated call from the Chicago Public Schools telling me, among other things, that this year's CPS slogan is "Just Go to School and Become …"
This sounded too inane even for educators, assuming I'd misheard, or had hung up too quickly to hear the end of the slogan.
A key message in this year's back-to-school campaign is "Just Go to School and Become …", CPS officials told the interfaith group. The idea behind the message is the key to achieving dreams, [chief education officer Barbara] Eason-Watkins said.
"Education prepares you to become a doctor, a scientist, an entrepreneur, a teacher," she said. "You can become whatever you want to become if you go to school, study, focus and work hard … and become."
Oh, so it actually isn't enough to "Just Go to School." Ya gotta study, focus and work hard too.
As Eddie would say, "I knew it didn't work."
Education may not be the scene of the worst writing in the world. But educators are the softest thinkers, most shameless liars and smilingest bullshitters in all the world.
Amen, brother!
And they probably paid some marketing firm a lot of money to come up with that, too.
Our school district slogan is “Whatever it takes….” Stealing, cheating, drugs. Yeah, that kind of stuff too?
@Glynn, you know of what you speak.
@Eileen: That’s hilariously close (for a school district) to the old Oakland Raiders slogan, “Just Win, Baby.”
I had to stop reading their discipline policy because of the errors in word usage and subject/verb agreement. Oy! And this came from the district office, you know, the ones who are “better” than the teachers. Not a good sign.
This reminds me of a slogan that we had when I was in high school: “Together we will.”
The students kept saying “Together we will what?”
Children, and their simpleminded insistence on meaning in language ….
If you believe the right wingers, you can finish the sentence:
“Just Go To School And Become Indoctrinated Into Comrade Obama’s Socialist Agenda!”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ha ah ah ahhhah ah ah ah aah ah
Steve C.
If you believe the right wingers, you can finish the sentence:
“Just Go To School And Become Indoctrinated Into Comrade Obama’s Socialist Agenda!”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ha ah ah ahhhah ah ah ah aah ah
Steve C.