RE: NOBODY puts MY baby in a corner... OR A BOX for that matter!!
..you really don't want me to get started on the education system, especially here in the US. It's atrocious, despicable, ignorant even. I fired a guy last week. He was 24, couldn't stay off his phone for more than 5 minutes, couldn't form complete sentences, or every sentence ended in "you know what I'm saying .." The simplest things, he would just stand there and look at you funny as if his synopsis were misfiring. Really, I mean really, this kid was bragging he had an associate degree and could not even add or subtract fractions or comprehend the easiest way to divide a number in half was to fold the tape measurer in half and just look at the numbers on it. You know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying...dawg this, dawg that, you know what I'm saying, shi...t. dawg motherfucker this motherfucker that, nigga, nigga, nigga....
How in the hell did he even get out of grade school, I do not know. It wouldn't be so bad but it seems to be everywhere, every kid 20-30yrs old, the only thing they care about is facebook or what kind of name brand clothes or shoes you might be wearing. We are doomed, doomed as a nation, as a species on this planet. Perhaps the cockroachesand fire ants will have better luck with the planet once we're gone. I give up, I'm done ranting, for the moment. 😾
I have to tell a story that happened to my friend (a 30 something, very white, bald man) at the walmart just 1 mile from my house. He walked out of the store tand saw a very young, white walmart employee sitting on the hood of his new car. He walked up and said "Nice car, is that yours?" The kid says "This is piece of shit. No way." So my friend says, "I know its not yours. Its mine! Get your ass off it." This kid started calling him all sorts of names, including nigga and telling him he didn't know who he was dealing with. My friend called the walmart store a few minutes later to complain and as he was describing the incident, he heard people laughing in the background as the manager made excuses for her employees behavior! Honestly, as an educator (professor in graduate school) and parent of elementary students, what our schools are doing is horrible. The school cares more about the standardized tests and their zero tolerance policies, than anything else. By the time I see students in grad school, many cannot do simple math. Yet somehow they made it through. The truth is there is an easy way to ensure that no child is left behind: just pass them. Teaching them is apparently too hard.