But, then Valerie bounced back today with "The Sequel"...aka "PS".

Today's post is even shorter and even weaker in my humble opinion.

However, my always shifty CAT eyes did stray...to the comments.

One of the comments made reference to a take on education reform by "The Onion"...a publication that for years has presented it's own peculiar sarcastic view of current events.

(WARNING, WARNING, WARNING...some of the Google links cautioned that if you are the sort who is offended by "F-Bombs" and other "blue language"...well, this video is NOT for you. I've watched it...indeed, they do NOT delete the expletives.

Okay, with that parental advisory...

The particular piece referenced was a video (Broadband Alert!) entitled "Are Standardized Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give a Sh..?"

If you are not into PG-13 videos, below is Valerie's sequel on "missed opportunities"...

From the Washington Post

Link to Original Story

The Answer Sheet
By Valerie Strauss

P.S.: Steven Colbert blew it on schools, too

I wrote yesterday about how Lewis Black, on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” on Tuesday night, missed a great opportunity to use humor to skewer the nonsense that is today’s school reform movement. Steven Colbert did the same thing on his “The Colbert Report” last night.

Black did a bit on school reform, referring to the new education film "Waiting for Superman" uncritically and actually mischaracterizing charter schools.

Then, last night, Colbert had as a guest Davis Guggenheim, the man behind “Waiting for Superman,” which portrays a false image of the crisis in public schools.

Instead of challenging Guggenheim’s assumptions, which would have made for a really funny bit, Colbert accepted them as truth.

He also allowed Guggenheim to present himself as more even-handed in assessing blame for public school woes than he does in his movie, which bashes teachers and blames teachers unions. On Colbert, Guggenheim blamed “all of us” for the crisis in public education. In the movie, Guggenheim leaves the impression that charter schools are the way out of the crisis; on Colbert, he concedes that charters can't be the answer.

As I wrote yesterday, I don’t get why Stewart and Colbert, who relish exposing hypocrisy and nuttiness in other arenas, haven’t taken a real shot at education reform.

They’d be doing a real public service, but more important for them, they’d get a lot of laughs.

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

My own P.S.:

Just in case you overlooked it, here is a "heads-up" from a retired CAT who constantly rubs it in your face that "Everyday is Saturday!"

Tomorrow is 10-10-10...should be a purrfect day!

An additional P.S.:

Tell me...just out of curiosity...what day of the week is this???

Hmmm...