Richter, Please Fasten Your Seatbelt and Observe the No-Smoking Signs.

[Doktor Howl]

We're protected only by the United Nations in that aspect. There is no US Constitutional right to an education. But there should be.

This is correct.  Spending for education is constitutional (Article I, sec 8, clause 1), but not required.  It should be.  Thomas Jefferson thought so, too, but nobody ever listens to that old hippie anymore.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I am unable to comment because every time I try I start foaming at the mouth and fall on the floor.

Suffice it to say public education in this country is terrible.  I hate hate hate public schooling.

I love the concept of public schooling.  What I hate, is politicians that underfund it and then claim that it never worked, and the hordes of dittoheads that go along with it.  The ultimate goal, of course, is the creation - or rather the formalization - of a permanent educated aristocratic class, and an uneducated peonry. 

I love the concept, it's the way it's executed that sucks great big gigantic elephant balls!

We're protected only by the United Nations in that aspect. There is no US Constitutional right to an education. But there should be.

This is correct.  Spending for education is constitutional (Article I, sec 8, clause 1), but not required.  It should be.  Thomas Jefferson thought so, too, but nobody ever listens to that old hippie anymore.

And in not listening we are sending out into the world some of the least educated young adults in the world.....  How fucked up is that?

[Doktor Howl]

I love the concept, it's the way it's executed that sucks great big gigantic elephant balls!

That's not by accident or incompetence.

And in not listening we are sending out into the world some of the least educated young adults in the world.....  How fucked up is that?

Depends.  If you're the HR manager at WalMart, it's pretty damn cool.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I love the concept, it's the way it's executed that sucks great big gigantic elephant balls!

That's not by accident or incompetence.

And in not listening we are sending out into the world some of the least educated young adults in the world.....  How fucked up is that?

Depends.  If you're the HR manager at WalMart, it's pretty damn cool.

Do I need to lower my expectations even further?  Because if they were a limbo bar lemme tell ya.....

[Doktor Howl]

I love the concept, it's the way it's executed that sucks great big gigantic elephant balls!

That's not by accident or incompetence.

And in not listening we are sending out into the world some of the least educated young adults in the world.....  How fucked up is that?

Depends.  If you're the HR manager at WalMart, it's pretty damn cool.

Do I need to lower my expectations even further?  Because if they were a limbo bar lemme tell ya.....

See, this is exactly why I consistently target Libertarians and Teabaggers.  If I can't change things, at least I can get revenge.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I love the concept, it's the way it's executed that sucks great big gigantic elephant balls!

That's not by accident or incompetence.

And in not listening we are sending out into the world some of the least educated young adults in the world.....  How fucked up is that?

Depends.  If you're the HR manager at WalMart, it's pretty damn cool.

Do I need to lower my expectations even further?  Because if they were a limbo bar lemme tell ya.....

See, this is exactly why I consistently target Libertarians and Teabaggers.  If I can't change things, at least I can get revenge.

But I want to change things.... wait, no I don't, I mean yes I do, I mean..... WTF? 

Seriously, I understand what you mean.  I just think it's too late to fix things on a wide scale basis. 

I also think St. Louis is too large of a battlefield for me to stand alone on.  I need a smaller place where I can not only make a stand but fucking stir everything from the bottom up!!!  Or else a following that mindlessly obeys me.  That would work!

In the meantime, it's shit like this that has my kids in the Charter system.  Well that plus they offer year round school which has improved the boys GPA's incredibly!  And they are accredited and our public school system isn't.  How sad is that? 

[Requia ☣]

I wouldn't put too much faith in accreditation.  My high school lost it temporarily while I was there.  Not because there were too few teachers or that half the guidance counselors couldn't have found their own asshole*.  No, they lost accreditation because the school had been spending too much on education and not enough on administration.  They had to hire extra vice principals to make the powers that be happy.

*I still want to punch the woman who couldn't understand I already had technology credits and didn't need a typing class.  And a friend of mine ended up not graduating because of a mistake his made.

[Triple Zero]

So, they start up with the individual speakers while the groups are caucusing. I'm nervous, sweating bullets each time they call out a name, hoping and fearing at the same time that it'll be me. I noticed that most of the people going up didn't say too many really... Enticing things. It was all very neutrally said, very wishy-washy. I also noticed that a lot of the people who went up, the school board recognized, and was friendly with. I didn't think about any of this until the head of the school board said "Okay... And that's all the general speakers, let's move onto the caucus'."

Wait a minute. I hadn't been called up. What the fuck?

Why didn't you speak up?

"HEY! Excuse me!!, I submitted a Request to Speak AND I'm a general speaker!"

Maybe I have the wrong impression of the situation, though.