If It Is About the Students, Why Insult Them?
In her recent ad campaign linking failing education to a flabby American Olympian, Michelle Rhee insults American students everywhere, which is, of course, ironic for an organization known as Students First.
The more I watched the ad, the more angry it made me. I'm sick and tired of these broad brush strokes about the state of American education anyway. But her ad was an appalling misstep and an insult to our students (and our Olympians, frankly.) The ad implies that our students are like clumsy, middle aged, overweight and inept athletes competing in the global economy. And it comes at the moment when the best of our young people are about to compete in the Olympics. To say the ad is tasteless and tactless is an understatement.
Even though some of our students are in situations where they aren't getting the best education