getting pissed'er

Quick note here about what I heard today on the wonderful and enlightened network of MSNBC. The conversation was about education. The host was talking about SAT scores and how they differed among the races. As usual it boiled down to white privilege and that meant Blacks and Latinos were being discriminated against in this area. So the host visited several different notions of how study with high priced tutors helped the Whites immensely and since the minorities are always pitted against the rich whites in any discussion of education we always end up with household income due to white privilege is the only reason minorities can't achieve like Whites.

I suggest this is not the correct measure to use in judging this particular problem. There are many things involved in high SAT scores and good grades in school and nothing matters any more than the individuals own aptitude and their desire to succeed. That must go hand in hand with parental involvement but we must never overlook the fact that personal responsibility is still the key to greater success in education. The host and guests used every excuse imaginable to deny the real reasons why some of these kids aren't doing as well. Rather than making up all the excuses why not get on the parents ass to make their child behave while in school. Rather than bouncing around in the halls and raising all manners of hell have them act civilized and that  means all of them Black, White, and Brown.

But oh no we don't want to hold kids to that one thing that actually matters and what is it? Common sense respect is the key but instead we make excuses for them and they take advantage of it. We want to give more money, fancy schoolrooms, the latest high tech tools and toys, and of course feed them, clothe them, bus them to school and them home, buy their books, doctor them and then baby them and let the kids express themselves  (Code for run wild.) A lot of damn good all that does. Why not try taking a look around and see where that has gotten us to today. None of the things we see taking place in classrooms today would ever have happened in those classrooms from the 1900's on up through the 50's. Most all this crap started taking place in the 60's. We let our hair down back then and began the free love and drugs gone wild and abortion and quickie divorces with no responsibility. The excuses will never stop as long as we have a liberal train of thought rather than a view on life that says kids mind and adults rule. How about bringing God back into the picture?  A moral point of view would go far in fixing the problems we face today. That won't happen because the liberals don't want God even in the public and especially not anywhere near the classroom.