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Reuters - Sep 26, 2007
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"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids


NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 centerpiece 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.
]