This is one of the greatest stories I have ever heard. Read a little bit...
EDMOND, Okla. - Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I donÂ’t do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."
It's so nice to see someone sending a realistic message of what will happen to all these kids who choose to ruin thier lives. Atleast one parent is puting the responsibility on the girl. Most parents or the NAACP would be blaming the teachers and the school district for the child's failure. I have kids who have missed 40 days of school (they have only been in school for 2 and a half months). They are choosing their fate now.
While Henderson stood next to her daughter at the intersection, a passing motorist called police with a report of psychological abuse, and an Oklahoma City police officer took a report. Mother and daughter were asked to leave after about an hour, and no citation was issued. But the report was forwarded to the state Department of Human Services.
Of course, some bleeding heart gets mad about this public humiliation. This shows why parents can't parent anymore. You can never spank your child, never yell at them, never teach them a lesson...it might htheirhier self-esteem. Well, working for minimum wage or having 4 kids before you are 20 and having a life that sucks might hurt her self esteem too.....
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I'm sure the Left would have said this was abuse...and if that is true...that will be one more time that the Left does not like it when things actually get done...
They would want to "talk" to the girl, find out what can be done to make her go to class, meet with teachers and find out why thier classes are not fun enough...
This one's even better! And I wrote it!
Would true conservatives countenance the fiscal rape of their children and grandchildren?
One thing the Bush Administration clearly has been very good at is focusing the attention of the press (and by extension the American people) on issues that they want to highlight. This has had the effect of advancing the Bush agenda, but has had the added effect of deflecting focus away from things that the Administration does not want to highlight. One of those issues is clearly the rampant, runaway spending of your tax dollars by Bush and the Republican majority congress. At this point there can be no doubt that, as they try to focus your attention on issues like stem cells and Supreme Court nominations, Bush and the Republican Congress are spending us all into a hole from which it will take us, our children and our grandchildren years to recover.
You don’t need to take my word for this, nor the words of any democrat or Bush-hater. You need only to read what conservatives like George Will are saying, or the people at conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute recently completed a report on the spending habits of all US presidents during the last 40 years. If you’re interested in reading the report I’ve included a link at the end of this post.
If you want to continue to believe that Bush and Congressional Republicans are “on your side” or if you care only about saving stem cells and banning gay marriage perhaps you should read no further. But if you’re interested in the truth and are concerned about your financial well-being and that of your children, perhaps you should read on. Here’s some of what the Cato Institute report had to say about presidential spending over the last 40 years:
All presidents presided over net increases in spending. As it turns out George W. Bush is one of the biggest spenders of them all. In fact he is an even bigger spender than Lyndon B. Johnson in terms of discretionary spending.
The increase in discretionary spending in Bush’s first term was 48.5% in nominal terms. That’s more than twice as large as the increase in discretionary spending during Clinton’s entire 2 terms (21.6%) and higher than Lyndon B. Johnson’s entire discretionary spending spree (48.3%).
Adjusting the budget trends for inflation Bush looks even worse; his spending rate is much higher then Lyndon Johnson’s. In other words, Bush expanded federal non-entitlement programs in his first term almost twice as fast each year as Lyndon Johnson did during his entire presidency.
George W. Bush is the biggest spending president of the last 40 years in both the defense and discretionary spending categories by a long shot. He beats Johnson by almost 4% in defense spending growth and more than 3% in domestic discretionary spending growth.
And conservative columnist George Will points out that federal spending has grown twice as fast under President Bush and congressional Republicans as under President Clinton. And with respect to the argument that this profligacy is related to 9/11 and homeland security, Will and the conservative think tanks have noted that over 65 percent of the spending increase is unrelated to national security.
Will further reports that Congressional Republicans (who achieved their majority by promising fiscal discipline) have presided over an orgy of pork spending with your tax dollars the likes of which have never been seen before. In 1991, the 546 pork projects in the 13 appropriation bills cost $3.1 billion. In 2005, the 13,997 pork projects cost $27.3 billion. Does that sound like fiscal discipline to you?
You may support Bush and the congressional Republicans because of some vague promise of “progress” on social issues with which you and the Republicans agree. In that case perhaps you are entitled to refer to yourself as a “social conservative.” But nobody who calls themselves a fiscal conservative could support Bush and the Republican Congress who are spending your tax dollars in an orgy of profligacy the likes of which has not been experienced in our lifetimes. You can continue to deny yourself this truth, but be assured that true conservatives know the truth. Bush and the Republican Congress are asking you to mortgage your future and the futures of your children and grandchildren in exchange for soft “promises” on social issues. You are justifying the fiscal rape of your children and grandchildren perpetrated by your “moral leaders” in exchange for a vague promise of gains on social issues.
Do yourself and your kids a favor; look them in the eye and explain to them why you have chosen to saddle them with these financial burdens, explain to them your reasoning. Then look in the mirror and explain to yourself how you can continue to support the people who you know in your heart are screwing you and to your kids. Is that morality? Is that conservatism?
Read the whole Cato article here:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0510-26.pdf
Read the Will column here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/will/cst-edt-geo17.html
2 things....
I think Game already brought up a cross-section of spending and mentioned the same thing. Also, I remember a big thing in the news on a couple who got sick of being servants to their kids, so they went on strike. The behavior wasnt fixed overnight, but after 2 weeks of not doing anything, the TEENAGERS gave in to their parents demands. Now, my problem is that it got so far in the first place, but good for them in the end.
Phil, that's a nice post, but it's in the wrong thread that has nothing to do with the original topic, nor does it stem from the discussion...do you have a blog somewhere you could cross post it and link to? If not, I could post it on my blog with your name and e-mail, and then you'd be free to link it wherever...
That mother should be given a medal, not reported.
You're certainly right, Mark. Even though her method kinda rubs me the wrong way, I don't like it...but I like her mindset, teaching her daughter to think about the future, and the consequences of decisions. The problem with overt things like public embarassment are that it's easy for them to backfire... Not that I have a better idea in this case, but... At least it seems like an intent toward the right direction: responsibility for one's own actions
Right, I would think there were better ways from the beginning that could have worked, but the message is surely valid...and bravo for a parent actually putting blame on the child for thier own failure.
Thanks for the comment game, and the invite. I would love to see more parents at the schools I work in take some interest in their children...any kind of interest! For the most part, the parents I deal with think that their responsibility to the child's education ends the minute he/she walks into the school building, from that point, it all falls on the teachers and administrators. And I am proud to see that the mother in this picture is from Oklahoma, at least there are some in my home state taking a stand!
Parents and students need to take responsibility for their education...
I see a vast majority of teachers doing their job...it has to come from both ends...
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