Crippled by Compassion: Greetings from the Public School Trenches
Friday, March 12th, 2010
By ROBERT LUTZ
I just couldn’t stand it any longer. Adults petrified at best, incompetent and apathetic at worst. Unskilled, socially inept, entitled kids in charge. A state and federal government growing by the hour, disturbing patterns and obvious correlations emerging…
What started out as a logical part-time gig (I tutored peers at 15) to support an acting/screenwriting habit has become a desperate crusade to save this country. If that sounds hyperbolic, refer to the tired cliché about our kids being the future. Granted, I’m perhaps more jaded than most, having spent ten years in the second worst district in the nation. But given the likelihood the same atrocities display themselves in and around every major city, infecting once safe neighboring suburbs; we’re raising a generation of youth widely suited for lower-rung jobs and incarceration.
If they land in the private sector, many will be forced to compete in a highly saturated labor market, where wages have been severely compromised due to our fear of being called racist. Never mind the fear of yet higher taxes and more crippling regulation stifling any economic rebound. And how much bigger can the pubic sector get? The latter has grown exponentially, such that the numerator is crushing the taxpaying denominator, scoring a burden ratio that will flatten us in “X” number of election cycles.
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