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Truth, Lies, and My Opinion

Hello. As you can see, I have gritted my teeth and decided to update this wonderful page once agian.

No new personal updates of any great public importance. However, the final year of college for your estudious narrator starts on August 28. Hopefully I will be registered for classes by August 29th... But we shall see.

Oh, by the way....I mean, I guess this part is important...I have won the lottery, inhereted most of the western world through some weird loophole in Bill Gates will even though he is not dead yet, and have been voted the most influential and greatest human being in the universe.

Nahh, just kidding.

As for my opinion, I have given you a repreave over the past two weeks, but the vacation can't last forever. On that note, this week's little editorial is about education.

Have you ever noticed that, on the average, the United States is getting more moronic? Some people blame the television, some people blame the government, but I prefer to blame two other sources--namely schools and corporations. I attend the College of St. Rose, where there are hordes of elementary and secondary education majors, just foaming at the mouth to get out into the "real world". Now, perhaps it doesn't bother you, but it frightens me just a tad to imagine these people that I have seen in bars or at parties passed out in their own vomit as the educators of our children. And if that's not enough to make you go "hmm...", then consider that instead of increasing the demands on teachers and expecting more from our children, the state responds by (a) increasing the amounts of standardized testing, and (b) making those tests easier to make up for the lack of education. Now, its not that I blame teachers on the whole. No...the system is virtually handing them a stacked deck and expecting them to win. The other people that fall prey to the blame are faceless at best, but ruthless the preponderance of the time. They are the government and corporations. And the reason these phony bastards are to blame is simple. The government misappropriates tax payer money to less-than-convincing or ethical recipients. And corporations are to blame because they have effectively eliminated thousands of American jobs, forced down the standard of living, crushed the middle class, and caused an increase in the amount of poor and destitute in the nation. And since school districts are based on property value....well, you can see the result.