Is our children learning?

Via Joanne Jacobs comes this story from an Oregon school: children were separated into groups to eat either a full meal at a prepared table or a small bowl of rice on the floor. This little lesson in political correctness concluded when the “rich” countries shared their food with the “poor” countries – and everybody got lasagna.

It would have been so much more realistic if a warlord came jumping out of a closet and seized the food in transit from the “rich” kids to the “poor” kids.

On a related note: a group called the Diploma Project has concluded that a high school diploma is nearly useless in the real world.

The report charges that employers and postsecondary institutions "all but ignore the diploma, knowing that it often serves as little more than a certificate of attendance," because "what it takes to earn one is disconnected from what it takes for graduates to compete successfully beyond high school."

Dumb, yet full of self-esteem!