Idiots Raising Children

There is a reason that so many children are growing up and doing stupid things. They are being raised by stupid people. This story is just appalling.

A woman in Ohio has been charged with child endangerment for breast feeding her child while driving a car and talking on a cell phone. Another motorist witnessed this and called police. The woman faces an $1800 fine and 180 days in jail.

This isn't some stupid teenager, this woman is 39 years old. 39! By this age, you would think a person would have a good amount of common sense. Apparently not.

Unless she is an octo-mom (sorry for the reference), how could she possibly pull this off? It takes at least one hand to hold a child and hopefully one was on the wheel. Then she has the distraction holding a cell phone and carrying on a conversation.

This is completely irresponsible. She has been quoted as saying that she "wouldn't let her child go hungry". Well then pull the car over, feed your child safely and place the child back in his/her car seat and continue driving. If she were in a wreck, the baby would have died.

Stupid people shouldn't be allowed to raise children.

4 Day School Week

Missouri is considering a measure which would allow public schools to adopt a 4 day school week. The hours of school on Monday - Thursday would be extended to 8 hours to meet the state's requirement for the amount of instruction children must receive.

There are many pros and cons to this idea.

Pros

• School Districts would spend less money on diesel and maintenance for busses
• Schools would save on power bills by only having to maintain a reasonable temperature on 4 days instead of 5
• Teachers would have a full day of planning time to grade paper and prepare for lessons.

Cons

• Maintaining focus for 8 hours a day is difficult for younger children
• High school students will have less opportunities for jobs due to a later release time
• *** The big con*** Parents who work (don't they all???) will have to find day care for their child on Fridays. Many day cares will not accept a child just one day a week.
• Most students that receive free breakfast and lunches at school might go hungry
• Some parents won't be able to afford day care for one day and will leave children unattended before they are old enough to care for themselves. Care might fall to an older sibling and children will end up roaming the streets with nothing to do. (A bad situation).

The measure will allow individual school districts the choice on the number of days of instruction. Rural schools whose busses travel thousands of miles a day will benefit the most from the reduction in gas.

However, it will be hard for children to adjust to this type of a schedule and will leave many families scrambling to find care for their children.

This measure needs to be fully considered and will have severe backlash from communities.

What do you think?

Blago on Letterman

"I didn't do some of the things they accused me of doing" - Rod Blagojevich

Enough said. Sure he'll claim that is taken out of context, but his slips say that he is guilty. His actions say he's guilty. His media blitz says he's guilty.

I agree with Letterman that the more he says he isn't guilty, the less I believe him.

What do you think?