Today, MEA Break, & Lousy Public Education

I worked at the same location today. I didn't get done, but I got mighty close. I actually think that I got more done on my own than I did with another tech helping me, though that may have been because I got into the rhythm today, not sure. Sometimes we have really productive days, and sometimes we deal with delays and problems. In any case, the work will be complete tomorrow. Basically all that is left is audit, accounting, and the compliance checks. I have to leave earlier tomorrow, but hope to get home at a more reasonable time. I didn't get home until 9 tonight.

Dave was at the house and dropped Josh off while he went to look at another rental up near his future territory. The MEA weekend is going on. It is so nice to see the teachers having workshops during the school year, when academic achievement stinks more with each passing year. Why don't the teachers interrupt their summer vacation for three weeks of workshops, instead of interrupting the school year for three lousy days of training?

Ultimately, the Minnesota Education Association and the teachers' union agenda of incremental moral relativism only affects this household in a "public policy" sort of way, though there are obviously direct effects from second-hand exposure to public school's implicit encouragement of ethical standards in decline. Heather and I are completely in agreement. Our children will never attend a public school, no way, especially with the indoctrination agenda that is incrementally getting more extreme. Speaking of that, I see that in one school district in Washington, the school board voted to authorize the nurses to administer and make available birth control pills and other forms of birth control to the students. Okay, the real problem here is that a student is not allowed to even have an aspirin in their locker, and yet, the nurses are allowed to give the students birth control. The biggest problem of all here is that this is an explicit school district endorsement of irresponsible behavior among children. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders ARE CHILDREN, and they do not know what is best for themselves, least of all irresponsible sexual behavior. Most important of all, dealing with this is neither the right, nor the business of the schools. The parents should make those decisions, and the schools should butt out, and should try to ensure that American students graduating from high school have the same quality education as middle schoolers do in more than 30 other nations. Hey, now, to be fair, that would be an improvement for American students.