“I can’t wait until we give a free college education to every scumbag who wants one, then whine while we wonder who is going to fix our plumbing because everybody has a degree in criminal justice and there’s nobody to do the work. But I wonder what we’re going to do with all those urban shoe shine kits that will be idle and surplus.”

As harsh as it may sound, it is very true. There are different levels of intelligence. We can’t teach to the lowest level without pulling the higher level down. As a teacher I tried very hard to give my upper level kids plenty of challenging opportunities for them to grow and develop. If we focus all of our time and money on the lowest level everyone will end up down at that level. Then we will have a pretty useless society. Competition promotes growth and it is necessary. Kids need to learn that they have to work hard to attain success. It doesn’t do them any good to bail them out of every failure.