“Stoopid” is as Stupid Does Moment in Education

There is no shame in failing a grade in school. It happens. Failure is always a part of life. It teaches us and motivates us.  Failure in school doesn’t necessarily mean a student is “Stoopid”.  It does mean that the student -for whatever reason- is not prepared for graduating into more advanced educational studies. Yet in our current politically motivated and PC world, some public servants in our public school systems continue to push students through the system improperly prepared for each new level of education.  In one case as reported by Walt Buteau; a school Principal in Central Falls, R.I. in a “Stoopid is as Stoopid Does Educational Moment“, stated that – Grades of ‘F’ in four core subjects at Central Falls’ Calcutt Middle School are not enough to hold students back, according to teachers who claim they were ordered to pass the failing students onto high school. Huh! After reading the article and the public comments that followed the story – I am not sure where the decision was political, personal or simply PC motivated nonsense. I do know it is not fair to the students, the parents, fellow students and even the teachers expected to fix the problems encountered when a student is being asked to perform more advanced levels of course he has already been struggling with. I have known students and even adults whom were either being or were pushed through the system by school officials. The public education system failed those people by not failing them at lower levels and forcing them into advanced studies they were not ready for.  It is stories like the R.I. One that continue to prove to me, that if we truly want to improve our public schools we need to go to school voucher system. That way parents can choose to send their kids to a competing private or public school that will serve the educational needs of the students and their parents, instead of the whims of educational officials. The competition will help clear out the weeds choking out the educational gardens designed to nurture our children’s education.

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• Chicago Teachers Union Demands 30 Percent Pay Raise (heritage.org)
• National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing (educationclearinghouse.wordpress.com)
• In Romney’s Voucher Education Policy, a Return to G.O.P. Roots (nytimes.com)
• Obama’s report card on education (politico.com)

Another Stupid is – as Stupid does – Union Moment

A long time ago in a Galaxy no very far away, there was a time when Unions provided an essential benefit to society. My personal opinion – is that they still could be an essential part of society.  But first they need to take a soul-searching look into the festering wounds that are eating away at the spirit of life that sustains the body. Somewhere along the way Union members have carnally infected the Union body by consummating relations with various Typhoid Mary organizations such as Organized Crime, Socialists and Communists. And what were once organizations designed to fight corruption in business and government, have allowed infectious diseases from outside sources to evolve  Union Organizations, that are as corrupt as those systems they were formed to fight. In some events Union members were caught on camera attacking Tea Party members at Obamacare townhall meetings and  menacing children at the homes of individuals the Union leadership were seeking to intimidate.  And yet, many Union members wonder why more and more individuals,  (many like myself, whom come from Union member households) have become disenchanted with Big Union and its membership.  In yet another  recent Stupid is – as Stupid Does – Union moment;  public workers Unions are busy circling the Union Labeled wagons and financially supporting a bigotry spewing Brooklyn candidate described in one article as “a candidate who has allied himself with despots like Muammar Qaddafi and Robert Mugabe, while calling Israel “the biggest terrorist in the world.” The Union Body continues to demonstrate that their infected spirits are busy spreading the very same disease of terror they were created to oppose.

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• Zimbabwe President Mugabe reportedly asked to be UN ‘leader for tourism’ (foxnews.com)
• Robert Mugabe’s motorcade runs over homeless man (guardian.co.uk)
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• It’s Time To Get Unions Out Of The Government! – Tea Party Nation (gds44.wordpress.com)
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• Canada withdraws from UN World Tourism Office over recognition of Mugabe (news.nationalpost.com)

Pay to Play

I was reading a couple of stories recently where the law practices conflicting comportment concerning  similar circumstances. And while I choose to believe both sets of  individuals facing the legal system made choices that I consider -stupid is as stupid does- questionable behavior –> one practice is actually illegal while a similar practice is not. My question becomes – in the eyes of the legal system, why is one behavior legal and the other not?

In the first case a Utah man -Kody Brown- has been facing charges of bigamy after TLC made a popular television show called Sister Wives, surrounding his polygamous marriage lifestyle with four wives. The family  also has 17 children. With four wives and 17 children  – I would need a large supply of pharmaceuticals including Aspirin, Viagra and some sort of happy pill just to survive.  I wouldn’t even want to think about how I could financially pay for the living arrangement- much less four women cursing at me for leaving the toilet seat up, hanging the toilet paper the wrong direction as well as my large collection of Moline Dispatch editions for reading material kept in the bathroom. (In my childhood days the newspaper would also have joined the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs in serving the extra duty of replacing toilet paper in the out house.) Fortunately for the family in question legal proceedings of bigamy by Utah authorities have been dropped.

In the similar yet different case (legally) another man -Desmond Hatchett-  whom  has fathered 30 children with eleven different women, does not have to worry about polygamy charges, as he has not bothered to marry any of the children’s mothers.  Yet he has faced legal problems for several years; due to the fact that he is incapable of keeping up with child support payments, for so many children. No doubt that is a problem. Payments of child support for 30 children would probably send Bill Gates into the poorhouse. The man is now seeking financial help from the government to meet his child support.

The conundrum for a poor simple hillbilly like me is – why does the law look at the man with four wives and seventeen children as a bigamist criminal, yet the man with thirty kids from eleven different mothers, is only a criminal when he can’t pay his child support. Now I don’t  personally care how many wives or children a man has or doesn’t have. I have been a lifelong bachelor my whole 29+ years on this planet. (Maybe it’s the toilet seat issue?) And one wife sounds  like more than I could handle at this stage. I do believe that if you are going to take the time and effort to make babies – you are personally financially responsible for them. Yet I do question a law that punishes one person while another skates on a technicality. Perhaps it is time to dump the bigamy laws. Or better yet, perhaps it is time to get government out of the marriage business altogether and leave it up to the churches and religious institutions that created it. The governments time concerning marriage is better off spent chasing down deadbeat dads and moms whom don’t like to pay to play.

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