The Plumping of Failed Institutions

Why put more money into an already failing institution?--Paraphrasing Michael Medved First, by way of disclosure, I am a product of public schooling. However, when I went to public school, common sense reigned and no one need tell teachers how to deal with profanity, drugs or bullying. For the most part teachers, because they had the morality of such issues clear in their minds, knew how to deal with such problems utilising "common sense" unclouded by moral relativism. Common sense, however, is dead. That leaves us with the current state of the public school. A state of abject failure. So how do we address that failed upon failed institution, well we plump it up with more money, and even worse, more control over our children's lives. Even though, the school day has gotten steadily longer with each new legislative year, schools continue to decline. Even though each school year has been lengthened with each new legislative year, schools decline. Even though the amount of homework has increased exponentially, student achievement declines. Wake up and smell the coffee! This is a trend that must be reversed, but the answer does not lie with the public school, it lies with the parents and the pubic schools need to get out of the way. Note: The more time kids spend in school the less time they spend with their parents. Duh! While the schools, disingenuously, decry having to parent children, they have in fact grabbed more parenting by law since the 1940's as educators convinced themselves and lawmakers that educators knew better than the parents what was best for the children. The steady decline of this society is proof of how well that has worked. The best thing that we can do for both society and public school is to retrench. We need to stop pouring additional money and time in plumping up a failed institution. We need support strong families by allowing and expecting parents to be the primary educators in children's lives with the public schools serving a supporting role. Next: Public Schools and Childhood Obesity

Redistribute the Wealth, its only FAIR

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.--Ayn Rand

After a lifetime of resistance, I am finally caving to the left. I have seen the light and I am ready to embrace the idea of redistributing the wealth. Don’t be shocked. After listening to a recent diatribe by a caller to a conservative talk show, whose most persuasive argument was, “because, that’s why,” I decided that she was right. It is only fair, in the full 5th grade playground meaning of the word fair, to take money from those who have earned it and give it to those whose greatest exertions in life get them from the bedroom to the couch. Not only do I embrace this concept, but I have the perfect plan for implementation.

Step 1: Get up off the couch.
Step 2: Provide a service or product that people are willing to pay you for.
Step 3: Follow through with that service or product and collect your fair and equitable pay.

There you have it; wealth redistribution in three easy steps. I think I will call my plan CAPITALISM!