More Goverenment School Insanity

If you are an uneducated dumb ass, I suggest that you stop reading right now, because what I have to say is going to offend you. Actually, I don’t believe that many readers who visit my blog are uneducated dumb asses and I didn’t mean to imply any such thing. If you are a parent of school aged children you definitely want to keep reading.

My keyword here is “uneducated,” because being born a dumb ass is not a crime, we are all born that way. I certainly was, but I had a capacity to learn and I’ve used it with various levels of success in the past forty-five years.

If you are uneducated and over the age of thirty-five, your condition is most likely your own fault (with all due respect to learning disabled individuals) because until the late 1970’s or early 1980’s, successfully attending the minimum of 12 years of our government schools (our so called free public education) was more than adequate to prepare you for employment and dealing with life’s experiences. In addition, attending a quality four-year college or university certainly served to help matters

If you are between twenty-five and thirty-five years old and only attended the first 12 years of government schooling, you might be experiencing some trouble with advancing your career beyond the point of asking “you want to super size that?” I’m not saying this is true of everyone, but there are a lot of people out there that have been severely let down by government schools and I, as a property tax payer, feel like I haven’t gotten my money’s worth as property taxes provide most of the funds used by government schools.

Who I’m really concerned about are our current high school graduates and the kids in their young twenties that are duped into borrowing money to attend all of these “diploma mills” disguised as private colleges and the Internet schools promising a four-year education in two and one-half years. What do they do, a Vulcan “mind meld’ and transfer a proficiency in the subject matter directly into your cerebral cortex? This is complete and total BS in most cases, resulting in the liberals in government demanding a raise in the minimum wage since the education standards basically suck and they think that the only way to get earning up is to legislate wages.

Adding to the Federal Government’s farcical “no child left behind” program, there is this Sacramento Bee story about California lawmakers limiting the size of textbooks:

“Lawmakers voted Thursday to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages.

The bill, believed to be the first of its kind nationwide, was hailed by supporters as a way to revolutionize education.

Critics lambasted Assembly Bill 756 as silly.

"This bill is really the epitome of micromanagement," said Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Northridge. "(It's) absolutely ridiculous." ...

But Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Democrat who chairs the Assembly Education Committee, said critics are thinking too narrowly…

"Our problem in California is not the size of textbooks, it's that we have large achievement gaps that need to be closed," he said.”

Huummmmm…“Large achievement gaps”--must be the textbooks are too big...

It seems to me that the solution isn’t that they need smaller textbooks, they need to teach more of what is in the big fat textbooks that they already have.

Only in California…