Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Public Enemy Wanna-Be

My love of the M-F Empire and dr. deegan are well documented on this page. There is another wanna-be player in this game. She's like the kid on the side of playground jumping up and down to be picked. Meet Sen. Abbie Cornett. Last year, she tried to be sneaky and slide in a bill to steal two Papio schools for Bellevue. Now, she's trying to write school curriculum. She wants to make sure that students get to see original historical documents and teach more Americanism. Since when is Americanism a class? It's a state of mind. You don't teach someone how to act out of book. I don't take classes on how to be polite to others. You do it by showing, not telling. If you have to have a class on how to be an American, then you need to take a look at yourself.
Secondly, where do you get off thinking you can start writing curriculum? You are a senator, not a teacher. Maybe you were before you started this illustrious career of yours, but those days are over. Nobody who spends their days outside of a school should be allowed to say what goes on inside of a school. I don't tell you how to spend your day, so don't tell me how to spend mine. If teachers are such great role models, won't they be teaching Americanism every day from K-12?
Maybe we need to give state senators coloring books so they aren't so bored. Whenever they are bored, they decide they need to stick their noses in someone else's business. Leave us alone!

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