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

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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The USS BH Obama would somehow find a way to sink in dry dock.
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.
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm
I like this version of the Mmm Mmm Mmm song.
Top o’ the evening to everyone.
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!
semper fi # 72
the other six were Gibson, Hanna, Latourette, Reichert, Tiberi, and Sean Huffy
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?
That’s a very long list. Too bad most of it never gets reported.
Symbolic of the entire BO presidency.
Hangfire, you have forever changed how I hear the AFLAC duck!
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.
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.
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.”