Michelle and Marion: True Love?
by teachbad
’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t give a crap.’ Don’t get me wrong. Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don’t know how to read, I don’t care how creative you are. You’re not doing your job.
–Founder/CEO of Students First and former DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee on teachers, Time Magazine cover story, November 8, 2008.
I don’t know what it is about young boys that they love to throw rocks. It happens more in low-income communities…where there are a significant number of young people who are home after school and don’t have recreation facilities.
–Former Mayor, convicted felon and current Ward 8 DC Councilman Marion Barry on possible service cuts due to frequent attacks on city buses in his ward, Washington Post, October 28, 2012.
By most accounts, Marion Barry and Michelle Rhee can’t stand each other and disagree on almost everything. Yet