why can Obama express approval of the firing of ALL the teachers at a high school [View All]

[Enrique]

and not fire anyone over the oil spill?

All those teachers at Central Falls high school, which Obama never went to, he was ok with the decision to fire all the teachers.

President Obama: "So, if a school is struggling, we have to work with the principal and the teachers to find a solution. We’ve got to give them a chance to make meaningful improvements. But if a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn’t show signs of improvement, then there’s got to be a sense of accountability. And that’s what happened in Rhode Island last week at a chronically troubled school, when just seven percent of eleventh graders passed state math tests. Seven percent. When a school board wasn’t able to deliver change by other means, they voted to lay off the faculty and the staff.”

How many people died at Central Falls High School? Eleven people died on Deepwater Horizon.

Yes, it's not easy to assign accountability, it's a complex thing, it's important to be fair and effective.

But it's the same with a failing school, it's not as simple as blaming the teachers, and that didn't keep Obama from being real quick with his rhetorical ax.

Teachers are real easy targets for a triangulating president. They're sitting ducks, actually.

Banksters and oil men have nothing to fear.

edit: changed title to "expressed approval". Of course Obama can't approve teachers being fired.