My New Hero

In the face of all the Kristoffs and Obamas and Rhees and Kleins and everyone else telling us that it's all the teachers' fault when kids don't perform, there emerges a voice of reason: Jack Cafferty. Here's what he recently said about education, and kids in general.

I don't know the status of parenting in America. But I know a little about the status of education in America. Parents' growing inability to impose manners and limits on their kids when the kids are in school is reflected in record dropout rates, as well as teen drug and alcohol abuse, teen sex, and unwed pregnancies. Maybe it's parenting that's on the decline, more than the schools.

And:

Some parents still have this attitude that their kids are too special to be burdened by discipline. And the rest of us are supposed to put up with their little mutants. That attitude really pisses me off.

My hat's off to you, Jack Cafferty. Finally, someone who talks common sense and not the latest educational gobbledegook.

Dropout Rate Rises

Another one bites the dust. The Post and the Times are reporting that Caroline Kennedy is dropping out of the contest for US senator from NY. Considering that Ms. Kennedy could not even make a clear statement on whether she would support the abolition of tenure, I have to say I'm relieved.

One less Bloomberg crony in office is always good news.