Daily Gut: Obama’s School Plan

Now if you’re like me, you know children are evil. They’re thieving, selfish creatures whose primary agenda includes spreading germs and smearing mucous on your belongings. So naturally you’d think I`d be in favor of President Obama`s plan for longer school days and shorter summer vacations. After all, that means less brats on the streets, defacing my tree fort made from discarded copies of Oui.

But on the contrary – I think Obama is off base, for three reasons:

First: When it comes to education, more doesn’t mean better. When something blows – ordering more of it doesn`t solve the problem. Fact is, we don`t need more school, we need better schools. Sadly, teachers unions have created a lock on jobs for even the most moronically incompetent – and the only way for a teacher to lose a job these days is if she gives one to a student. Worse – for a lot of kids, sending them back for three more hours of daily schooling in places like Chicago or Baltimore is like an academic version of stop-loss. They learn more about running for their lives than reading for enjoyment. (more…)

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Posted Sep 29th 2009 at 1:24 pm in Daily Gut | 237382151 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/09/29/daily-gut-obamas-school-plan/Daily+Gut%3A+Obama%27s+School+Plan2009-09-29+20%3A24%3A38Greg+Gutfeld

Daily Gut: Kids and Competition

So in Australia, which is a country, a swimming school operator plans to stage a symbolic protest against what she calls the “sanitization” of kids’ sports, by holding a “swimming carnival.”

I have no idea how she’s getting the Ferris Wheel into the pool, but screw the details: Julie Stevens says that while competition often puts pressure on children, the kids actually crave the stress. The 300 or so tykes that have signed up so far apparently like being part of a team, and having the opportunity to shine before their peers and parents. You can’t do that without competition, the potential for winning (and losing) and stylish swim trunks.

Trophies for Everyone!

Of course, Stevens admits this is unpopular with folks concerned with children’s self-esteem. But most of those folks are idiots. We’ve learned that removing objective measures for achievement does nothing but create what I call “success socialism,” where it becomes pointless to build character when there’s nowhere to express it. (more…)

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Posted Aug 6th 2009 at 1:40 pm in Culture, Daily Gut | 201222119 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/08/06/daily-gut-kids-and-competition/Daily+Gut%3A+Kids+and+Competition2009-08-06+20%3A40%3A29Greg+Gutfeld

Lonewolf Diaries: “Violence Doesn’t Solve Problems…”

… Bull Crap. Listen, violence freed the slaves, took down the axis of evil and still manages to fix every remote control that I’ve ever owned. More recently, the use of force quickly brought an end to the escapades of a few Somali jackasses. Three shots fired, three men dead… And there was much rejoicing. To those of you still teaching the “violence doesn’t solve problems” myth to your kids… What are you thinking? Does anyone out there truly believe this insane rhetoric?

I find it funny that Hollywood leftists are the ones who’ve been pushing this ideal down our throats with one hand, while simultaneously producing the most brutally vile, “creative content” with the other. Libs love to paint Middle American conservatives as “Gun toting Neo-Cons with a thirst for violence,” yet more often than not, it’s those people who boycott their gratuitous, self-indulgent, crap-fests that they call films. Does anyone here honestly think that “Seung-Hi Choi” went on his Virginia-Tech shooting spree after getting fired up at an NRA rally? His pre-massacre phone-pictures showed him mimicking poses that he’d seen in “Tomb Raider” for crying out loud. Only in the United States could an entity such as Hollywood coin the term “Torture-Porn” for their content one moment, only to condemn a righteous war the next. (more…)

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Posted Apr 14th 2009 at 6:09 pm in Lone Wolf Diaries | 1060704 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/04/14/lonewolf-diaries-violence-doesnt-solve-problems/Lonewolf+Diaries%3A+%22Violence+Doesn%27t+Solve+Problems...%222009-04-15+01%3A09%3A14Steven+Crowder