This year, I only watched the last 15 minutes of the Miss America pageant. Well, that's not exactly true - I kept pausing it and reading the biographies of the contestants. Who knew there were so many musical theater and vocal performance majors that also want to be attorneys and governors and veterinarians and broadway performers? At the same time?! Yeah, I wish I was making that up.
Anyway, of the final three, Miss Georgia (a teacher who wants to eventually be an elementary school principal) gave the VERY BEST answer...by far...to an inane question that went something like "What would you do if you were President of the United States?" She answered the question succinctly, with a bit of humor, and then a nice zinger at the end re: No Child Left Behind, and how children are tested too much. Nice! The other two (Miss America and first-runner up, respectively)...were shallow, incoherent, ill-informed, and...let's just say shining examples of why the United States lags behind most industrial nations in educational achievement. Good thing Miss Oklahoma is winning that $50,000 college scholarship...
Wait, I get it, I get it!! How silly of me...Miss America is a NEED-BASED scholarship organization!!!! I wish someone had told me sooner.
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