Keep calm and do your homework

     So I'm reading an article today about cities all over America pushing to ban homework, the basic argument being that there's no evidence that homework below the high school level does any good. The article stated that homework causes frustration, exhaustion and even kills a child's passion for learning.
    Just listen to how that sounds. If a child's frustrated by homework....isn't that a reflection of a lack of understanding of the material? Isn't that why he or she should be doing MORE homework. And what about the parents responsibility? If a child's frustrated by homework, Shouldn't the parents be doing more to help? If they can't help, shouldn't they be bringing it to the teachers attention; maybe hiring a tutor! Ya know...being a parent? Sure, not everybody will have the resources to do that but without homework, how will parents measure how well their kids are grasping material before tests or report cards? I guess each parent could hold weekly parent/teacher conferences. That's much more convenient! And when did we become a society that decides that anything frustrating is wrong? I'll bet it was pretty frustrating trying to put a man on the moon, I guess we should have given up on the whole thing the second we realized that the moon was soooooooooo far away.
    And exhaustion? Really? You know who's kids are exhausted? China's. They assign three times the homework as us and that's why our kids look like glue eaters by comparison. They regularly outscore our kids in Science, Reading and Math. (I read somewhere that all three of those were pretty important) Maybe our kids are just lazy. Maybe the feeling of entitlement among our precious babies is so crippling that we're coddling them right out of a good education.
    The knowledge that you're receiving an education that billions of children around the world would give anything to attain should create all the passion a child needs to push through a few take home modules each night. But I understand that a third grader doesn't think that way; and so here again I blame the parents.....and the teachers. A parents role is to maintain that passion. Create that passion if necessary. And teachers, well it's their JOB to create that passion!
    We have to to get over this increasingly American notion that things should be easy and that anything not easy is not worth it. That is such a backwards view of how to achieve success. As a society, we have to push our kids. To have to dispel with this notion ( Thanks for the line Rubio) that  frustration and exhaustion are signs of failure. They're the signs of future success! That frustration will give way to epiphany. That exhaustion will pay off with rewarding career. Keep calm kids....and do your homework.

Wow at the hypocracy!

I simply cannot believe the hypocracy of the democratic party. How can you possibly railroad Joe Wilson into the ground for yelling out "You lie" to the President (for lying by the way), and give this blowhard, Alan "I didn't get enough hugs as a child" Grayson the royal treatment. Seriously, who acts like that. Republicans want people to die? Holocaust in America? Did this guy win most likely to dramatize a hangnail in his yearbook? If a Republican got on the floor of the house and claimed that the democrat's plan to fix the deficit was to confiscate all private property and empty all savings accounts into the treasury (which is probably true), heads would roll; and the pass the Obama cheerleading squad media is giving this clown is jaw droppig. Do you remember the schilacking Joe Wilson got? The hypocracy has got to stop.

Wow at the hypocracy!

I simply cannot believe the hypocracy of the democratic party. How can you possibly railroad Joe Wilson into the ground for yelling out "You lie" to the President (for lying by the way), and give this blowhard, Alan "I didn't get enough hugs as a child" Grayson the royal treatment. Seriously, who acts like that. Republicans want people to die? Holocaust in America? Did this guy win most likely to dramatize a hangnail in his yearbook? If a Republican got on the floor of the house and claimed that the democrat's plan to fix the deficit was to confiscate all private property and empty all savings accounts into the treasury (which is probably true), heads would roll; and the pass the Obama cheerleading squad media is giving this clown is jaw droppig. Do you remember the schilacking Joe Wilson got? The hypocracy has got to stop.

Christianity singled out again

A WWI fallen veterans memorial in the Mojave National Preserve, CA, is under attack by the ACLU. A former Preserve employee says it discriminates against veterans of other religions. He points to the rejection of a Budhist memorial as an example. Now, I'm a defender of all religions that share the principles and morals of the Founding Fathers, but I can't help but feel like this is a thinly veiled attack on Christianity.

I wonder how many Jewish, Muslim or even Budhist WWI veterans there were. I wonder if the rejected Budhist memorial even had anything to do with fallen vets, probably not. The point is that this is a predominantly Christian nation and the overwhelming majority of Vets in this country are Christians. How dare the ACLU or anyone else who has never done anything to serve this country tell those men that they can't be represented because the half dozen Muslim vets of WWI aren't represented as well. This is nothing more than an outright assault on the dominant religion of this country, nothing more. No one can point out real discrimination against any religion other than Christianity in America. Even at Arlington, individual religions are represented on headstones and the same would be the case and the Mojave Preserve if a legitimate Muslim/Jewish vets group pushed for a memorial but they aren't. A disgruntled, likely atheist is simply extorting minority religions in order to bumrush a Christian memorial.

Now,Lets turn it around and see what would happen if a Muslim memorial came under attack because there wasn't a Christian memorial right beside it. Oh wait, that would never happen! Not in this increasingly politically correct, Jesus bashing society. I've said it before and I'll say it again, We're politically correcting ourselves right out of recoginition as the country our Founding Fathers established.

Wow at the hypocracy!

I simply cannot believe the hypocracy of the democratic party. How can you possibly railroad Joe Wilson into the ground for yelling out "You lie" to the President (for lying by the way), and give this blowhard, Alan "I didn't get enough hugs as a child" Grayson the royal treatment. Seriously, who acts like that. Republicans want people to die? Holocaust in America? Did this guy win most likely to dramatize a hangnail in his yearbook? If a Republican got on the floor of the house and claimed that the democrat's plan to fix the deficit was to confiscate all private property and empty all savings accounts into the treasury (which is probably true), heads would roll; and the pass the Obama cheerleading squad media is giving this clown is jaw droppig. Do you remember the schilacking Joe Wilson got? The hypocracy has got to stop.