June 5, 2019 Randy Schultz The Sun Sentinel RE: “The hobgoblin of small minds” from today’s Sun Sentinel

June 5, 2019

Randy Schultz

The Sun Sentinel

RE: “The hobgoblin of small minds” from today’s Sun Sentinel – Some comments on your Chapter 643 or is it Chapter 1643, there is no difference since the ending is always, always the same, of the perpetual Modern American Liberal Jeremiad on all that public education needs for it to fart gloriously through silk is, and I guessed it, more money.

Yo, Randy!

I wish I could say that Sisyphus finally got that effin’ stone up the hill. I wish I could say that I found a new episode of The Honeymooners. I wish I could say that rain water was beer. I can’t.

On October 4, 1957, the old USSR launched Sputnik. By October 7, incidentally my birthday and the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, another Texas-sized ass whupping of radical Islamic terrorists by the good guys, the United States decided that we had to get real smart in math and science real quick. We did. We bitch slapped gravity, got to the moon, walked around, picked up some recuerdos, and came home safe and sound. Also, let the record show that the Interstate Highway system was begun and that a Republican President sent the Screaming Eagles to North Central High School because the Democratic Governor did not want to let Black boys go to school with White girls. But at the end of the day the Interstate Highway system is the main reason we only have 12 years to live, TV is a “wasteland”, and Johnny still can’t read.

Herewith a plan, one that is whetted and honed by Ockham’s Razor. Listen up. There will be a test.

#1 – Do away with tenure. If it is so God Damn good why not have it have it for coaches? Jet pilots? Thoracic surgeons? Bar tenders? Defense lawyers? Dry wall hangers? Short order cooks? Coffee traders? Blood test readers? Mohels? If you can’t punish failure you can’t reward success. Plus, it enshrines mediocrity.

#2 – Hazard pay for special schools. You know where “they” are.

#3 – Treat the English teacher with the same respect you treat the football coach.

#4 – The children of Executive branch officials must attend public schools, just like Amy Carter and the Bush twins did.

#5 – Random defenestration of school administrators like they were Helots.

#6 – Find out why Achilles stayed in his tent.

#7 – Antigone/Creon. Pick one. Why?

Kevin Smith

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