Self-Reliance? What’s that?

There are so many things wrong with this article, I don’t even know where to begin. But let’s start with the fact that if you can’t afford things, you can’t have them. This innercity LA school had mass layoffs due to budget cuts, and now a revolving door of substitute teachers in some of the classrooms. Now, I’m the first one to say, that sucks. Absolutely stinks, and it’s not fair to the kids. But California has played roulette with their economy, hoping every time they spin the wheel, the little ball won’t land on their number, and they can continue to spend blindly without anyone noticing. Alas, no more.

Which means, guess what? Kids suffer. No! The ACLU will not have this. This is unfair. These needy kids need teachers, so they’re going to file a suit to stop the layoffs. I’m sorry, ACLU, exactly where do you expect the school district, AKA the state, to get the money to pay for the salaries? With fairy dust? No one wants to fire these teachers. No one wants to hurt these kids. The ACLU is acting as though everyone just wants to ruin these kids’ educations. No, it has to do with having a checkbook that is so severely overdrawn, California may never see black numbers again. THAT’s why the teachers were laid off. What lawsuit is going to change that?!

No one was worried about their kids’ future when California was spending like an Orange County housewife w/ a brand new platinum Amex. No, they were focused on what they wanted, what kind of habitats baby turtles needed, and how to tax their citizens until they bled green. Now they’re in such a bind, the tax rate has sky-rocketed, and in some areas, the unemployment rate is over 40%. Good God Almighty. And the ACLU is shocked and appalled that the state can’t afford to pay these teachers? Wake up and smell the overspending, you morons.

Beyond that issue, look at the last line: “And Reed [student] realizes that she is working with a disadvantage: ‘I don’t have the right teachers’.” Okay, let’s think about this poor kid’s statement. Raise your hand if you had a sucky teacher while in high school. Okay, now raise your hand if MOST of your teachers stunk, because you want to crappy schools. Or perhaps, your teachers stunk because you weren’t a cool kid, and they played favorites at your school. Whatever the situation may be, we’ve all survived sucky teachers. Some of us even went onto additional education. Most of us have managed to get jobs or learn a trade, and make a living.

This kid thinks that having the right teachers is going to make a difference?! How about teaching yourself? How about sitting down with your text books, and learning what you’ve been assigned, regardless of the teaching method? Instead, these kids have been taught to rely on papa California and mama federal government for all their needs. And this is what we are left with: kids that throw their hands up in defeat because they don’t have the perfect environment for learning. Imagine our forefathers, when they literally walked to school in bare feet through snow and uphill. When education was secondary to survival. When an 8th grade education might be as good as it gets. Yet this country flourished into the most blessed nation on earth, with freedom unknown to any other country.

Somehow, I’m not thinking it had anything to do with one missing teacher.

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