DISQUS

Stephen · 10 months ago

Could mediocrity could be the Obama goal. Why else approve a UN resolution on children that will be ignored if not laughed at by the rest of world.

mnphysicist · 10 months ago

I know that mediocrity is a common outcome from Washington, but underneath it all, I would like to think individuals for the most part have the best interest of the child in mind, not so much organizations per se. I guess a good measure of it, will be to see what happens to the mediocrity builder known as NCLB. Some of it has the potential to foster excellence, most of it sadly is focused on achieving the lowest level of learning across the widest group of children, ie mediocrity.

As far as UN resolutions, there are tons of them, which one are you specifically referring to? Obviously the UN is high on idealism, and less so on implementation, but overall, many initiatives tend to be at a higher level, or perhaps too high than mediocre.