September 4, 2004

A New Civil Right

Jessa Crispin apparently has been reading the Republican platform (94 pages). To be honest I haven't read a party platform in years and, while I suspect that there is a tremendous amount of bloggable material in each parties platform, I don't plan to start now. In a nutshell, they are laundry lists of things the federal government shouldn't be involved in at all.

However, I agree with both Jessa and Jaquandor that this item from page 56 is strangely put:

Our Party believes, as does the President, that reading is the new civil right.
The new civil right? Puzzling to say the least.

Now the goal they set in the next sentence seems reasonable on the surface:

Every child must be able to read by the end of the third grade.
But I am sure that there are some children who, though capable of reading, just will not progress that fast.

Posted by Steve on September 4, 2004
Comments

Odd how this "new civil right" instantly transmutes into some bizarre civic duty. What if a kid can't read on schedule? Internment? Did Malkin have a hand in this?

Posted by rorschach at September 7, 2004 11:52 AM
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