The Campaign Spot

Obama’s Department of Education Declares Capitalization, Grammar Rules Optional

I’m sure the Obama administration will assure us that his national address to the nation’s schoolchildren is meant as a genuine educational opportunity, and is not, in any way, shape, or form, some hastily thrown-together effort at indoctrinating children with propaganda from a president with sinking poll numbers.

Indeed, it’s quite reassuring to read the Department of Education’s preparatory materials sent to schools, as long as you overlook all of the typographical errors:

No hyphen for school-wide, and apparently we’re now German and capitalizing nouns, no matter where they are in a sentence.

But apparently not “congress,” even when referring to the U.S. Congress:

Reassuring to know these are the folks in charge of educating our children. Well done, Obama administration. Well done.

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