I never thought education was that difficult. You listened, read, did problems, and answered questions, sometimes you needed a little help. I was in advanced classes all through High School. I scored a five on the Advanced Placement physics test. I took Calculus. I wrote in advanced honors and Advanced Placement English classes. I won awards in numerous competitions for my photography. I was a varsity Wrestler for two years and junior varsity for one. It was not easy to get into college. I only scored a mere and meager 960 on the SAT and I wasted not just one but TWO Saturdays taking the damn thing. I didn't want to go to college and after one full year at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst I walked away with many experiences but a stupendous double barrel of Zero point Zero cumulative GPA. I took one year off and then went back only to withdraw in the middle of my second semester and only achieving a Two point Zero my first semester back. I am well read, quite literate and still use my advanced math skills daily. I did not attend state funded pre school but rather a day care service under the guise of school in order for my Mother to be freed up to work. I have an IQ that is exceptional but standardized test scores and academic acheivement to the contrary. What went wrong? According to Rob Reiner everything. When looking at modern primary schooling and parenting practices I could not agree with him more but for very very different reasons. I am NO "Meathead"!

Mr Meathead has achieved the placement of Proposition 82 on the ballot this upcoming election here in California. It is the "Pre-School for All Initiative". It makes vomit crawl up my throat. It proposes that through a 1% tax on singles making over 400,000 a year and a 2% tax on couples making 800,000 or more a year we are going to use that mean 1.7% tax increase on the upper echelon to save the world via pre-school. Although he calls it coincidence, there have been ad campaigns drilling home into the squash some of us call brains, that with pre-school little Jenny will succeed and own everything her little heart desires including intelligence and a morally guided heart that bleeds for the underachieved and non prosperous. Aaawwww! It is so heart warming. But if little Jenny can't get pre-school she will end up a crack whore living with a wife beating pedophile in a motel six with her fifteen illegitimate children that get ass raped by her alcoholic other half who pimps her out for junk and tweek. This whole premise is really retarded (and I use that word both from it's definition and the derogatory)! Pre-school teaches us to color, say the ABC's and count as well as how to get along with others, snack, nap, roll up your nappy cot, and to play. MMMMMM? Isn't this what Mother's are supposed to do? Or even a stay at home Dad? Oh wait both of them are out  whoring themselves to dwell in the world of material madness and over inflated Jones licking that has become the modern rat race of "what I have" not "who I am". Did they go to pre-school? By Meathead's standards obviously not, and I sincerely doubt Mr. Meathead did either with Daddy Carl's money getting dumped into that fat fucks leisure activities as opposed to pre-color and counting "education". It gets worse when you think of how most of the middle class and  upper class already abandon their children off at pre-school that they pay for out of pocket. MMMMM so let's see the people that are rewarded here in California for puppy push outs are the one's who should have kept their legs closed and not become a state funded liberal zombie maker completely dependant on the state and mmmm let's see, oh yes, those tax dollar sucking societally degrading ILLEGAL immigrants. Rewards for bad decisions, how beautiful is that? Well Meathead is getting them too since his First Five Commission (which he resigned from the chairman post of just last week) which funded this initiative also raped and pillaged the cigarette tax that they got passed as Proposition 10 to fund this garbage with ads and budget embezzlement spoojed into the mouths of all his contract buddies. Can you say cahoots? What are the real reasons for all this crap? Maybe Meathead needs preschool, it looks like in 2010 when it is free for all his fat ass of cheaped out frugality and money scavenging and scoundreling will get it on the taxpayers tab, the way he thinks it should be for all!

Why would we want our money going to any public education anyway? Let's look at what it has got us in recent years and in recent weeks specifically. We'll start with English since most of our education tax dollars (significantly so here in California) go to teaching kids how to just speak it, nevermind actually be able to communicate with it effectively and proficiently. I won't even focus on the mainstream slang-ing of our lexicon to legitimately incorporate words like "gotten" into the vernacular, which is depressing and verbally suicidal at best, but lets look at standardized tests instead. The real simple graduation tests not the Grand Pubah known as the SAT. After seven years of rolled up sleeve fist fighting we, here in California and other states around the country have done the same or continue to struggle to, implemented the "graduation test". The problem of this dumbed down test, from tenth grade level reading writing and arithmetic to eighth grade level lobotomizing, is still not stupid enough for the masses and is highlighted in the case of Iris Padilla. She is a sixteen year old senior at Richmond High here in California, who has one last ditch attempt at passing her proficiency test that is finally mandatory this year. She is the Latin American culture club president, involved in other political and religious clubs and wants to be a Psychology major in college. She said to the press, "I need a diploma. I want it. I deserve it. I've been going to school and studying. I want to have a profession." The problem is that she said this all through an interpreter. She doesn't speak enough English to survive beyond the gates of her sheltered and cottled existence among the circle of friends, family and pinko socialist teachers that speak her native tongue of Spanish. She is one of 73,270 students that can not pass the tests on some level or another (that is one out of five of the statewide graduating class for 2006) and she is also one of the 40,002 students that DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH!!!!!! Is it just me or is something completely and masochistically fucked up about that? On a word identifier test she could identify shrimp but not spoon. I guess she eats cereal with her hands. On the graduation tests you can even get a glossary to help translate and the instructions can be read to you in your native tongue. Don't worry though community colleges in L.A. and San Francisco have vowed to right this unjustice by just giving them diplomas anyway without having to pass the exam as they are not in school districts that the test passing is confined to under the repeatedly dumbed down bill  started by State Superintendent Jack O'Connell (he exclaims that to award a diploma to someone who has not passed the test would be "immoral"). This is pathetic. I guess Iris "Bubba Gump" Padilla didn't go to pre-school either.

I wonder, as we move onto history, civics, and geography, if in Aurora CO the Overland High School geography "teacher" (should be tyrant applicator or maybe brainwash buffoon) Jay Bennish had attended pre-school? His in classroom (yes the classrooms we pay for the education we pay for and his salary that WE pay for) rants and ravings poised and presented as fact finally fed up one of his students, Sean Allen, who had taped one of these boisterous self righteous parade prances on his MP3 player to let us all into the world of public high schools yet again. I am sure you have heard the clips or maybe even been lucky enough to hear the whole thing (they are out there just google Jay Bennish and listen in) so I won't eat up tons of page space but I will point out two of the funnier  so called "points" that this jack ass spouted off about. He justified the chemical bombing or nuking of South Carolina tobacco fields by South Americans, Iranians, or even China by comparing it to the once mutual effort in Peru and Bolivia to eradicate Coca fields. Someone tell moody to call this guy up from the jerk store. Tobacco vs Coca it is six of one half dozen of another but you can't process Tobacco into a ten fold demon of depravity from it's already addictive pulpit like you can Coca. And last I checked Cocaine is more fun and profitable than Cigarettes. Sex on blow is fun. Ever hear of someone chainsmoking through a bang session and needing more upon climax - I think not. Anyhow the other comment made by Mr. Liberal the GEOGRAPHY teacher (lets not forget most kids can't find their ass with a road map AND directions  and maybe just maybe this is why) was that of the now infamous Bush - Hitler comparison. I will quote it here but preface it by saying in the inauguration address, which is what he is referencing, Bush does not say we should dominate the world and he only uses God twice and one of those two times is at the end in the ever popular and present inaugural closer "God Bless America". Here it goes,"He started off his speech talking about how America should be the country that dominates the world, that we have been blessed, essentially by God, to have the most civilized, most advanced, best system, and that it's our duty as American's to use the military to go out into this world and make the world like us. It sounds alot like the things that Adolf Hitler used to say." He goes onto say that they are not one in the same but that the tones are eerily familiar of each other. The student who recorded the class, and who was receiving death threats for causing the teachers suspension no doubt from the little socialist commie kids that are repeatedly walking out of class in protest of said suspension, said that the class was 20% geography and 80% ludicrous rantings of a mad man. Something about Ozzy Osbourne and diarrhea comes to mind but I digress. Did Mr. Bennish learn about Hitler in pre-school or are his communication skills and concepts of teaching what he took away form his four year old babysitting adventure?

I won't touch base on math since two and two in this case are not even close to coming out as four, however, I will kerplunk briefly into the finance end of why it all happens. To think that Governer Schwarzenner actually wanted merit pay for teachers as opposed to this tenure rubbish that will have DR. Jay the Geography God back in his class room in days. Think of all the idiots that have to do with public education, the mis guided funds, the corrupt teachers union, Christ! just think of the movie "Teachers" with Nick Nolte, Jo Beth Williams and Ralph Machio. Amongst an all star studded cast (including Judd Hirsch, Richard Mulligan, Crispin Glover, and Laura Dern) the movie tells us what education was then and what it is now and probably will be till we sink a big lead filled boot of reality up the ass of these pompous beard scratchers that are pissed that they are not College Professors, and College well that is another subject. The more I now think in my closing of that movie the more I know it is a must see and proves all points while opening many doors to the elitist few who stand outside the doors of education and still resolve it to be nothing more than a corrupt babysitter brainwashing the teachers of tomorrow!

How much are we willing to take? Probably alot since all of us grown-ups aren't in school anymore we are completely numb to the rigors, concepts, and convulusion found on the blackboard. Maybe that Chapel Hill terrorist  Mohammed Reza Taher-azar was just pissed about what he was getting for his liberal education dime and decided to use Allah as a patsy. Or maybe he is jealous of that immunity-free-ride granted Taliban spokeshole Mother Fucker that gets to go to Yale. Much like the tootsie pop licking conundrum ... the world may never know ... until Wednesday when we hump day together ...