A major problem facing our society is the inefficient school 'system' that we've got in place. Honestly, we're failing the next generation. (truth be told my generation ain't so hot itself)
In case you're unfamiliar with the infamous "no child left behind" act in place right now I'll give you a quick breakdown:
a.) Kids go to sub-par schools with inadequate teachers in laughable conditions and take biased standardized test from the "temporary classroom" with their 34 classmates.
b.) Kids fail said standardized test, performing way below the average, and the school gets a letter saying straighten up or the government's coming to take names and kick asses.
c.) Kids continue to struggle with the material that they're never being taught, yet tested on, and continue to fail at embarrassing rates.
d.) Government steps in and takes over. Commence kicking of asses and taking of names
e.) Funding is routed away from the school, Kids continue to fail, Government Laughs.
f.) Kids make careers of Taco Bell.
The high point of the NCLB - or nickelbee as pompous idiots call it - is that the kids work at Taco Bell. So at least, at the end of the day they have warm quesadillas and challupas to take home to their families. The downside is that the kids can't count, so if the register at Taco Bell ever goes on the fritz, they'd better hope that Burger King is hiring.
In what crazy parallel universe does it make sense to take money away from kids who are doing poorly and give it to kids who are already lightyears past the mark? If the school's already the size of a small village, is there really a need for a science annex? If a kid has to walk through a trailer park styled collection of 'temps' just to find his classroom, I don't blame him for skipping school on snow days. It's school, not an arctic expedition.
Seriously, it's not rocket science. If Rickey Smiley and Bruce Bruce were standing in a room who would you give a donut to first? If you said Bruce Bruce, I'd advise you to take the nearest sharp object and jam it into your eye socket. Bruce might want the donut more than Rickey, but if Rickey doesn't eat - dude is a goner.
Seriously people, we've got to do something about the bureaucracy going on here. It doesn't take much to see that "no child left behind" is and has always been a scam. So are a bunch of other things going down right now, that we obviously aren't paying too much attention to. For the love of God wake up.... because i'm sick of this kid fucking up my change at the drive-thru!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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