Mongoose Publishing and Twilight 2000

[Eddie]

Originally Posted by Raellus

Wow. As someone who's taken offense at digs against the U.S. military made on this forum, I'm surprised to see you taking pot shots at another honorable and patriotic but often misunderstood and sometimes thankless profession. The system aint all that great, but most of us do the best with what we're given. In my experience, the issue is not so much with the public education system as it is with parents and the media teaching kids that they don't have to take responsibility for their own futures. Hey, who needs to try to get a good education when they can become a successful rapper or reality TV "personality"? We're all victims, anyway, right? Public education is a convenient scapegoat for the nation's ills. Why blame absentee parents and a souless entertainment industry when we've got public school teachers to kick around?

Yuck. Phew. Pfft.

Those are some yucky words you're putting in my mouth, Rae.

Before I go any further, I just want to go on record as stating that my wife and I are not absentee parents. My wife drives my oldest son to school every day so he can go to tutoring early morning and then gets tutoring in the evening. She or I sit with our 8-year-old daughter and help her with her homework every day. My middle child is pretty smart and we never have any troubles with him. We maintain close contact with all of their teachers and my wife goes so far as to sit and make them do any assignment that they "forget about" and turn it in for even a marginal grade. I've gone so far as to shadow my son throughout the day to make sure that he wasn't goofing off and not doing his homework. So yeah, I have a right to talk about the system. Nevermind the fact that I pay my taxes which gives me a right.

I didn't say anything about teachers. I said the system is screwed. Funding priorities in the government are all kinds of messed up. Fuel costs are mandating that districts are charging bus fees. How many school systems are going bankrupt? How poorly are teachers paid? How many school districts have furlough Fridays (or the like)? I said that I know that Web is a teacher and that I hope he fights the system. I meant in the respect that he does the best he can. Not that he's lazy and not doing anything. But I don't know the man. Maybe he is. Maybe you are. But I DID NOT SAY THAT.

Contrary to what you and about five other core members of this board think, I'm not always out to say that you guys suck, my shit doesn't stink, and you are all retarded for not liking 2013. You guys don't like me? That's fine. Don't assume that I'm just trying to argue and accuse everyone else of everything.

You guys have a nice night.