Education is awesome, and having it certainly helps us achieve our career goals. But how much of it do we really need?
The Texas public school system is in financial meltdown. Just recently, a judge declared the way our system funds itself unconstitutional and gave lawmakers a year to fix it or else!
Basically, independent school districts levy property taxes. Those with a lot of value in their borders have to share some of their money with poorer districts. Hence the “Robin Hood” nickname of our system. It’s in an attempt to be equitable, but it just sucks the big donkey. Especially those taxpayers who pay large amounts of tax, a lot of it funding education far far away.
I have a fool-proof solution ...
Rather than come up with more ways to screw taxpayers out of more money, let’s just slash education spending. In fact, let’s cut it down to zippo. Nada. Nothing. Who, after all, really needs it?
History is a wash because we seem to make the same mistakes over and over, collectively and individually.
Math isn’t all that necessary because we’ve got computers and calculators to do the math for us.
Reading is only necessary to learn history and math. And with all the words already put to paper, why teach kids to write more of the same?
Art is fun to look at, but it smells awfully extracurricular to me. Without reading and writing, surely we won’t have to deal with art, either.
P.E.? Well, just look around. How many of us actually use what we learned in physcial education later in life? All that wasted time jumping rope and dodging red rubber balls ... such a shame.
Let’s just teach the basic necessities required to survive on our modern Planet Earth. Here’s the New Curriculum:
• Mastering the TV Remote
• Learning How to Surf the Internet
• Scratching Places That Itch
• Breathing In and Out Repeatedly
• Stuffing Your Face with Food
• Pooping and Urination: It’s a Process of Elimination
• Fashion is for Suckers: How to live in T-shirts and underwear
• Finding a Job that Won’t Kill You
Most of the rest of life can be learned “on the job” as it were. Why spend money on that? Let wolves raise our children. Seems like in some ways we’re already letting that happen, what with all the freaks in churches and schools caught red-handed with their hands in forbidden pants.
It's time for a common-sense answer to some pretty dumb questions. Who's with me?
You are a revolutionary, sire.
acquisition of knowledge should be on a voluntary basis. those who acquire the most win. Win what? You got me.
Except for learning to read and count to 10, I can't say I am using anything else I learned in school. hee hee.
...and I'm certainly NOT using Elementary Analysis or Calculus sitting here writing in a bloody blog.
Nor am I using my Film degree from the University of Maryland.
OK. I'm hip to this new curriculum.
I dunno..I probably wouldn't be the successful big city lawyer I am now, if it hadn't been for the readin' and writin' and cipherin' I learned in the bayou as a child.