Education Celebration

[Townhallsavoy]

Roman history.  Read it.  We're accelerating rapidly through their pattern of societal decline. 

Romans got to be too good/educated/smart to do the work. 

The whole liberal/socialist agenda of "everybody should have the same" went on there.  Instead of money, it was grain. 

Everything that has happened will happen again.  I hope our kids realize that and drag us out of this mess.  We aren't smart enough.  I don't think they are either.

We ensured they wouldn't be smart enough when we sat down our lowest denominator (special ed) in the general ed classroom. 

And then told everyone else in the room to get the fuck over it but the least restrictive learning environment would be only available for those with an IEP. 

[Kaos]

Breads and circuses. 

The economy is in the shitter, the government is 390 quintillion dollars in debt and the president is a clueless fuck.

HEY! Did you hear Chastity Bono is going to be on Dancing With The Stars!!!!  OMG!!! 

It's GAME WEEK, bitches!!!1!



I was watching that NatGeo special on Saddam Hussein's reign of terror in Iraq and it struck me how easy we have it and how soft we are. 

Casey Anthony may or may not have killed her kid.  And she's the worst person EVAR!! (I'm guilty, too).

The US Army can't bomb a desert camp because a satellite photo shows what appears to be a tricycle outside one of them.  We can't take a chance on killing a child. 
 
Here was Saddam videotaping torture and showing it on the nightly news so people wouldn't mistake his intentions. Here he was dropping nerve gas on women and children, bodies piling up in the streets.  Digging mile long trenches to pile hundreds of thousands of bodies in.  His soldiers razing entire towns, knocking every building to the ground, separating parents from children, fucking the kids to death and just shooting the parents for sport. 

That is the enemy.  Can you imagine what they would do if they ever hit the ground here en masse?  Can you fathom you children being ripped away from you and knowng that the girls would be raped and tortured and the boys hacked to death with machetes? 

I'm on a tangent now, but Rome was overrrun by barbarians.  They were destroyed because they lost the ability and inclination to fight because they had grown complacent.  Life was too easy. 

The Muslim extremists are the barbarians.  They want to bring the dark ages to us.  And we don't care.  We'd rather not offend them.  *sigh*

It frightens me.  I worry for my kids. 

[Townhallsavoy]

I don't know if we're Rome in that regard.  While 9/11 was horrific and detrimental to our state of well being, it's the only true Muslim attack we've had on our soil. 

But like you said, we're open to a group attacking America.  Maybe not physically, but intellectually.  Our kids are stupid.  I mean.  Stupid.  S. T.  U.  P.  I.  D. 

And I've observed the trend everyone was screaming about when I first got into teaching.  The old fogies said, "The kids are so much worse off than when you were in high school four years ago.  No Child Left Behind and these parents have ruined everything!"

I scoffed.  Thought they were a bunch of grey haired, prude bitches who had given up on life. 

I'm starting to see what they were talking about.  I worried about the kids I taught my first year.  They were low.  Real low especially considering where the curriculum said they should be. 

My kids this year?  Ten times worse than the kids from four years ago. 

Seriously. 

Here's a few quotes that happened just today:

"I wish I'd get pregnant. I'd love to be on MTV."

"Snookie is my idol and I want to be just like her when I graduate from high school."  (Not the first person to say this in the past two years)

Spelling errors I've seen just this week off the top of my head:

Peepel
Storrie (singular)
dhis
cuhsin (he explained that "cuh" is what he uses for "cuz" which is meant to be a shortened "cousin") 
frend
hi (high)
rilly (really)

Some of these kids drive.

Oh, and I don't ever report the mistakes of my special ed kids unless it's behavior related.  These are kids who supposedly are perfectly fine in the brain. 

Sad sad sad.