Justin Webb's America

Small change

• Justin Webb
• 3 Dec 07, 09:18 AM GMT

Thanks to those who contributed amusingly to my post on the subject of the plane trip back to the UK - now I have two further thoughts as I arrive back in DC. First the immigration officer asks me my job title (North America Editor) and mutters, "sounds expensive," when I tell him. Not so, of course: UK broadcasters are paid small change in comparison to our US friends. I probably earn less than Katie Couric's driver, which actually I think is a good thing. Keeps us honest, as Anderson Cooper didn’t say.

But here is a more serious cultural divide issue: I read in the English paper on the way home that a new compulsory curriculum is to be introduced for all British preschoolers - yes compulsory even for private schools. Introduce that here in the US and it would send all Americans into the arms of Ron Paul - but even left-wing Democrats would be worried about the idea of the government mandating an entire curriculum surely?

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