it is hard to tell society to wake up when lawyers and politicians hand out excuses like wet naps at an all you can eat BBQ.
goverment is more involved in the lives of children today than any previous generation. look at all the censorship and how hypocritical it is. show gunshto victims laying in a pool of blood on the news and then tell me that a cigarette commercial will lead me to a life of cancer and evil. how does that add up?
look at our schools, teachers can back me up on this one. school curriculums are set by school board politicians, not the teachers who know what is available and the ability levels of their own students. what sense does that make when my friend from work gets all good marks on her report card and then gets to take "geusstimating" in math class? i understand that there is possibly a kid or two in the class that needs that type of support structure, but to teach an entire grade level of children to try to geuss close for an answer when the problem is simple addition is insane. [pause rant]
sorry taht i go off about this stuff. but as a youth group leader and having friends in education i have trouble comprehending why and when "close enough" became good enough for american society. we used to set teh standard for technology and development for the whole world. we are slipping to the poitn where we hardly hold that torch for north america.(damn canadians :finger
