What Do You Do If Your Kid Gets A ‘D’ In Science?

If you are Ed Secretary Margaret Spellings, curiously and affectionately known in these parts as Earth Mother, you throw on your SLG’s (sexy librarian glasses) and high-tail it down to your daughter’s school to, in her words, “tackle the problem head on.” Lo and behold, her daughter got an A in science the next grading period!!! This according to Spellings’ speech to the National Council of La Raza, which can be found here.

All kidding aside, this and other kinds of meaningful parental involvement seem to be exactly what is needed in our nation’s schools, which was sort of the point she was making.

— Joe Williams