Aug. 13, 2008 - Cox looks to Africa for help
Tim Darnell
August 13, 2008
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State School Superintendent Kathy Cox is apparently so desperate for help that she’s looking to
Africa for guidance.
Unbelievable.
If you remember, Cox’s first task she undertook when she was first elected to the job – that of removing the word “evolution” from school textbooks – subjected her to national ridicule. I guess her plummeting reputation hasn’t made it to the shores of Africa yet, which is probably why she likely received a warm reception. It can’t be very often that the head of a major American educational agency seeks advice and counsel from such a faraway locale.
Still reeling from the results of low test scores by Georgia's tens of thousands of sixth- and seventh-graders on this year's mandatory social studies test, Cox reportedly pleaded for input from authorities on Africa attending the Teach Africa program at the Southern Center for International Studies back in June.
Cox threw out the results of the social studies portion of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test once she learned that 70 to 80 percent of the sixth- and seventh-graders had failed the exam. Hey, if you don’t like the results, just toss ‘em out. I’ll have to remember that one as my five-year-old makes his way through our public educational system.
Don’t get me wrong. While I know next to nothing about Teach Africa, I’m sure it’s a valuable and worthwhile endeavor. There can be nothing, absolutely nothing, bad about any educational endeavor whose goal is to expand the most priceless of gifts our Creator has given us, the human mind.
But as state school superintendent, Cox has repeatedly proven herself to be inept, incompetent and burgeoning with misplaced priorities. The only reason she still has a job is because her own party, as well as Georgia Democrats, have been utterly unable to field a more qualified candidate.
That’s even more shameful than Cox’s performance on the job.
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