Mmm, mmm, mmm: NJ shuts down Barack Obama Elementary School

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 17, 2011 02:14 PM

How fitting that a school named after our profligate, post-achievement president is shutting down thanks to fiscal mismanagement and non-achievement.

R.I.P., Barack Obama Elementary School (hat tip: reader Peter):

The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1.

Students next year will go to the district’s two other more modern elementary schools — Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side.

Bruce Rodman, the monitor, made the decision after the school board in recent weeks failed to support a plan by Schools Superintendent Denise Lowe to reconfigure elementary grades to create early childhood learning centers in the district, a plan which would have kept the Obama school open.

Officially renamed early in 2010 after the president, the building was known as the Bangs Avenue School since it was built a century ago. The state School Development Authority had planned to build a new school to replace the historic building, but has pulled back and Lowe said recently the state would not build a new school.

Reader Peter adds: “Asbury Park’s school system was taken over by the state of New Jersey a few years back (along with those of other underachieving municipalities) for gross managerial incompetence. The state has, in the meantime, poured beaucoups bucks into the district. According to Education.com, the district spends nearly $36,000 per student but pulls in the lowest test rating the site offers.”

Yes they can?

Not any more.

Sing it with me: “Mmm, mmm, mmm…”

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  1. #101
    On March 17th, 2011 at 5:29 pm, madshark said:

    On March 17th, 2011 at 4:47 pm, Hangfire said:
    Do you think that a USS Barack Hussein Obama might not make it past the harbor buoy before sinking?

    The USS BH Obama would somehow find a way to sink in dry dock.

  2. #102
    On March 17th, 2011 at 5:35 pm, spaceycakes said:

    It is Lá Fhéile Pádraig
    I’m just gonna sit in the sibín tonight & tip a few for my Celtic ancestors who decided to say feck all to the potato blight.

  3. #103
    On March 17th, 2011 at 7:03 pm, OK_Loyalist said:
  4. #104
    On March 17th, 2011 at 7:40 pm, Bigfoot said:

    I like this version of the Mmm Mmm Mmm song.

    Top o’ the evening to everyone.

  5. #105
    On March 17th, 2011 at 8:11 pm, Barred said:

    semper fi #72 My congressman,Rob Woodall, was one of the republicans who voted no on the bill. He also voted for the continuing CR. Just sent him a blasting e-mail. He just took over for John Linder (who retired) and is a big advocate for the Fair Tax so I’m not understanding his votes. I am soooo mad!

  6. #106
    On March 17th, 2011 at 8:28 pm, Barred said:

    semper fi # 72
    the other six were Gibson, Hanna, Latourette, Reichert, Tiberi, and Sean Huffy

  7. #107
    On March 17th, 2011 at 9:15 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Barred,

    I have a friend in Lawrenceville that was in Linder’s district. He’s not going to be happy with the way the new guy is turning out.
    Weird thing is my rep, Eric Cantor was a pretty good conservative, until he got into leadership. He has become a NotTheDemocrat over the past several years.
    NotTheDemocrats want just as much spending and control, they just want to be in charge of the spending and control.
    I counted 54 that voted against the CR.

    Nucleus of a new party?

  8. #108
    On March 18th, 2011 at 2:54 am, tbear44 said:

    On March 17th, 2011 at 4:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:
    Any news that makes Obama look stupid is good news.

    That’s a very long list. Too bad most of it never gets reported.

  9. #109
    On March 18th, 2011 at 7:13 am, Dandapani said:

    Symbolic of the entire BO presidency.

  10. #110
    On March 18th, 2011 at 9:37 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 17th, 2011 at 3:41 pm, Hangfire said:

    On March 17th, 2011 at 3:38 pm, Flyoverman said:
    No problem. He reverts to being a black president on Friday.

    {AFLAC duck}: “Half-Black!!”

    Hangfire, you have forever changed how I hear the AFLAC duck!

  11. #111
    On March 18th, 2011 at 9:40 am, rightisright said:

    the picture of the thread is so apprapo as it represents the entire Onobama administration and every effort they have made to destroy this once greatest countries of all.

  12. #112
    On March 18th, 2011 at 9:46 am, rightisright said:

    Boehner, Cantor, McCarty the young guns shooting blanks…get rid of them, this is coming up to our last politically stand in 2012. We true Americans will never quit nor will we submit to the radical Marxists or mooslimbs.

  13. #113
    On March 18th, 2011 at 10:41 am, cabrerski said:

    On March 17th, 2011 at 5:29 pm, madshark said:
    The USS BH Obama would somehow find a way to sink in dry dock.

    Reporter: “The new DHS-sponsored program allowing illegal Mexican workers to build American warships reached a new milestone today as the submarine USS BH Obama sank within minutes of launching.
    The foreman, Jose Martinez, was asked about it through an interpreter. Translated, he replied ‘I was surprised the adobe skin held up past the design review.’
    And now the harbor is blocked to all traffic. It will take tens of millions of stimulus dollars to dredge this harbor.”

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