"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids

[JODO 2]

"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids

Wed Sep 26, 2:03 PM ET

Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn."

Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the centrepiece of his education policy, as he touted a new national report card on improved test scores.

The event drew New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plus teachers and about 20 fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 76.

During his first presidential campaign, Bush -- who promised to be the "education president" -- once asked: "Is our children learning?"

On Wednesday, Bush seemed to answer his own question with the same kind of grammatical twist.

"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured," he said.

The White House opted to clean up Bush's diction in the official transcript.

Bush is no stranger to verbal gaffes. He often acknowledges he was no more than an average student in school and jokes about his habit of mangling the English language.

Just a day earlier, the White House inadvertently showed how it tries to prevent Bush from making even more slips of the tongue than he already does.

As Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, a marked-up draft of his speech briefly popped up on the U.N. Web site, complete with a phonetic pronunciation guide to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070926/od_uk_...mPLuluc0DleW7oF

Edited September 27, 2007 by JODO

[bora bora 1]

I'm cringing...

[pedroh 21]

ROTFLMAO

we is learning indeed

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

ROTFLMAO

we is learning indeed

At this point he might as well add "my precious" to the end of everything he says.

[MissStacey 1]

Yup, childrens are learning real good.

[almaty 19]

what a asshat..the leader of the free world....needs a dunce hat

[derekkj 0]

At this point he might as well add "my precious" to the end of everything he says.

That actually made me lol.

And I reiterate my point from yesterday, that this man should never be allowed to speak in public.

[rclouse 0]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

And:

Pfff! English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!

/at least he didn't forget Poland

[Sinergy 3]

my 2 yr old speaks better English grammar than ol bushy

[The_dip_sticks 0]

LOL he just of been one of the "childrens" that did not learn!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

And:

Pfff! English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!

/at least he didn't forget Poland

And its not at all like GW had a ferior education to everyone else

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The value of a good Edjmacation

[Jenn! 918]

Maybe he was speaking collectively, as in "the childrens of the world", like "the world's peoples".

[almaty 19]

yeah, he always is concerned about other countries..lol

[Jasman0717 9]

I'm cringing...

But just think how happy Dan Quayle is