Politics

Well, I hate politics in general, nothing good has come of it in years. But I think we're on an upward turn with President Obama. The thing is, politicians are full of bleep and will say anything to get elected. And some of them don't even seem that smart and refuse to listen to reason. And it seems that most of the people in charge are more into self-interest than the welfare of the nation. Also, why should the country be the rich people? They have too much power while the poor don't have enough.

Another thing, why is there still discrimination? White, black, male, female, young, old, christian, muslim, jewish, pagan. How are any of these less human or less worthy? And what about asians and hispanics and the others facing discrimination that isn't so well publicized? How can people get away with paying someone less than others based on anything but performance? How can people get away with genocide? Heck, why must there be wars based on feuds thousands of years old? Can't thesen people get over their legacy of hate and get along? What about feuds that no one even rembers how they started?

If you haven't watched the movie Bulworth, you should. If you have, you know what I'm talking about. Now, HE had some ideas. "Everybody just gotta keep fucking everybody til we're all the same color". I particularly like his Obscenity speech. My favorite part. And he is absolutely right during it.

Now let's talk about the schools. We're so interested in academia that we're not getting life skills. We need people with real world experience teaching in classrooms, not people who only know how to teach and what they're supposed to teach. My mother had a Business Writing class in a college that boasted teaching skills that could actually be used. She also was having some real world experience with business writing at the time, and she knew that using what the class taught her would be counterproductive and make her lose credibility. It's insane. And on to high schools here in Bellevue. They are so obsessed with looking good and pushing us into AP classes that they're ignoring our needs. You are expected to take hard classes, take as many AP tests as possible and go to college. What if you don't want to go to college? What if you can't handle AP? And the curriculum, it's awful! The math, it's supposed to be "real life" oriented, and the scenarios are pointless and the teaching is awful and you're expected to take a class as hard as possible. Well, some people just aren't good at math, and not every job requires math. We're supposed to be "well rounded" but we're just adding stress and frustration. And if you're failing, you're practically encouraged to drop out. The problem is that the people in charge don't understand what really needs to be taught and how to teach it. In fact, we are teaching to test. We are teaching how to take the WASL, how to take the AP exams, how to take the SAT/ACT. And teachers are paid so little! They have some of the most important jobs, and they are paid less than people who write novels. It's the non-essentials that get big bucks. Things we don't need, whereas things we DO need get cut more and more!

Ok, I'm out of writing time, so I'll stop here for now.