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EdSec terms AASA "humorless organization"

12.22.2011

U.S. Secretary of Education Spud Pageturner caused another ruckus this week when, in what he thought was a private meeting with editorial cartoonists, he described the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) as a "humorless organization." Persons present at the ostensibly off-the-record session reported that Dr. Pageturner said "In the lamentably solemn field of public education, where mirth is suspect and cartooning alien, we have any number of national groups that never crack a smile, much less a joke. The American Association of School Administrators is one of these humorless organizations." "We do, too, have a sense of humor," responded AASA executive director Peter San Antonio, grimly. "If Secretary Pageturner can't see it, he should resign immediately. He has insulted every funny school superintendent in America."

"Pageturner strikes again, triggers ire by speaking truth" by George Archetype, Washington Timelessness, March 27, 2004, http://adam.oracular.com/dancewithmeallnightlong/dance.html

Tags: AASA, The School Superintendents Association
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