Survey Story

 Look, I've tried to make sense out of this story from Minnesota that came out yesterday.  The basic situation is that a teacher (unnamed so far) handed out a survey to fourth-grade kids.  Topic of the survey?  Equity.  Yes, posed to mostly ten-year old kids.  

So the chief question....what gender do you identify as?  

Kids sat there in the class....confused.  So they asked if it were OK to ask their parents for help in answering the survey.  'No' was the response from the teacher.

It wasn't just one of the questions....various questions were not understood by the fourth-grade crowd.

Naturally, this has gotten a lot of parents upset.

So I pondered upon this.

Most fourth-grade boys are mostly into Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, or Space Ghost.  

Most fourth-grade girls are mostly into Barbie, Backstreet Boys, or Taylor Swift.

Out of a 25-student class....there might be one intellectual kid who knows about equity and gender-garbage, and might be answering the questions of the survey.  In the 1970s....you (the whole class itself) would have latched onto 'Marvin' (class genius)....got his input of the answer, and just copied it.

Another student of the 1970s class....'Woody', would have gone home....typed up the survey in a whole fashion....asking if the teacher were to be graded as a Nazi or Fascist.....how do you rate them from one to ten?   He would have handed this in, and that night at home....Teacher Wanda would have read the piece and just freaked out that some kid considered her a '9' as a Nazi.

The question here....exactly what of value are you teaching in school, and would you just be better off with a home-school situation?

As for the answer to the gender question....just always answer that you felt feelings of being a 'Walrus', and would like body/gender modification surgical business to convert over.  Be insistent though....you only want to be a male Walrus, and you want the name Odysseus.   

The Letter Story

 I sat and read this story several times....from over at Hot Air's site.

So this is the way it goes.

There's this 'letter' that went out from a group called Dallas Justice Now....to a number of parents in a particular white neighborhood in the vicinity of Dallas.  Based on the description....it sounds like it's upscale, and the type of neighborhood where folks drive BMWs, own $100k RVs, and send their kids off to Harvard or Georgetown for college.

The letter goes into detail, but it basically wants these mostly all white parents to STOP sending their kids to high-end or Ivy League colleges.  

Chief reason?  To help support Black Lives Matter.  The logic here is that if the rich white kids don't show up....the Ivy League school would be 'forced' to accept black kids.

So I sat pondering over this.

First, is this a legit letter?  No one much has ever heard of this Dallas Justice Now group.  

Second, if you approached a hundred rich and upper-scale families with this type of scenario....they'd ask you how they could do this and ensure that 'Johnny Jr' or 'Wanda Jean' could get ahead in life without the Georgetown or Princeton diploma?

Third, even if they did this......wouldn't the second tier white families....the ones making $75k a year on salary simply take up the space vacated by the ultra rich families?   Or maybe the ultra rich Latino families would do this?

Fourth, where the hell did the Dallas Justice Now group get the mailing addresses from?

Fifth and final.....if this letter came to your house, and Wanda Jean (being 16 and all hyped-up to attend Harvard in two years) stood there listening to your acceptance of this idea.....just how peeved would Wanda Jean get?  

Personally, I think the letter is a hoax deal, and probably written by some Republican guy in the same neighborhood.  This is probably the same guy who gives the fake-support hype each week at the local golf club and seems overly supportive of BLM.  

Now, if you asked me....out of a hundred families who might get the letter...how many will react?  I'd say between one and zero.  There's probably some wife now trying to convince Johnny Jr.....that attending North Dakota State University isn't such a bad thing.