the eyesores of Washington

If anyone hasn't taken a recent look at the departments of education's building i suggest that they keep right on not looking. the reason that i am so strongly in favor of ignoring this building is that it is just plain ugly. from behind and from the sides it appears to be your standard issue government building. Then, you reach the front. Protruding from the doors are these ugly little red "school houses". Each "school house" (they shall hereafter be referred to as the eyesores) has a sign on it saying "no child left behind". These are quite simply the ugliest things in Washington. In order to remedy the problem i suggest three easy steps-

• REVENGE. An act this heinous requires a very good punishment. a suitable punishment would be making the person responsible for the eyesores sit and look at them all day long. they should also be required to tell each passerby that they are sorry for the ugliness that they have inflicted upon the general population.

• TEAR DOWN. Tear down the eyesores and let the tastefulness of the building shine through. The tearing should be a public ceremony, preferably with apologies from the people who let this happen, there should also be celebratory music when the demolition is complete.

• LABEL SLAP. we should follow the example of whoever came up with the idea of putting up the no child left behind signs and express ourselves by slapping a label on something. only our label should say "no child left untested", and it should be slapped on the presidents forehead

one of the eyesores

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