Friday, January 27, 2012

10 days without news

Sorry for the lack of posting. Here are some links you might find of interest.

Public schools collecting data on students
Student suspended for taking picture of sleeping teacher
US deploys 15,000 troops to Kuwait
Animal euthanasia down to 4 million a year from 20

One more story of interest - that being Obama's request that government draft laws requiring people to stay in school till they are 18. I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day. Except..totally opposite of Obama. We need less "public school" not more. I want to see public school end at 15. At that point a kid can choose to attend a junior college or university if he/she/it is ready or get a job/take on an apprenticeship, join the military whatever. Junior and Senior years of high school are culturally decadent and often times scholastically unnecessary since they just get repeated in the first 2 years of college.

We were a better culture when a boy became a man at a job around adults rather than the festering social decadence that is the education system these days.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What an interesting comment about public school education. Where do you fit in all of this commentary?
When are you going to be that man?

Quotes

At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

-James Bolivar DiGriz