I was talking to my girlfriend Chasity the other day and she's in graduate school--she wants to be a teacher.  So she's in her "teacher trial" phase--where she is in a classroom teaching under strict supervision.  At least until she gets her license.

And let me just say that teaching ain't what it used to be--or should I say TEACHERS ain't what they used to be.  Back in the day--when we were in school--TEACHERS were TEACHERS!  I mean--these were men and women who went to school to be instructors.  That was their life's passion--now--teaching is a "fall back" career!  Like, something you do when the other $hit you planned to do don't work out like you want it.

I got a few friends that I ain't seen in a while--like ten years or so--and when I saw them, they were like "Oh girl yeah, I'm a teacher." I was like "Oh, I thought you both were going into engineering." And they both told me, "We were--but it ain't work out--so we are teaching now."  Then I ran into someone else who was going to be a computer geek--well, that ain't work now--and he's teaching. Which scares me--cause he was the resident "weed" roller and bartender for our crew in college.

All of them complained to me about the whole "No Child Left Behind" scenario--where you're supposed to make all of the kids keep up with each other educationally.

I don't need a teacher to tell me that that's absolutely impossible.   And totally unfair to the smarter students!

The chil'len who are reading and coloring inside the line in kindergarten shouldn't be held back because yo got one dumb ass kid who is eating his buggers and drinking glue.  And you know who that kid is gonna be on the first day of school cause his momma shows up to drop him off eating her buggers and drinking glue too.  You think "Oh Lord, here comes Bugger Nose Patty and her Bugger nose kid."

And the little boy is wearing cow boy boots, still sporting a diaper with a football helmet on... no pants--and a shirt! 

So you're telling me he shouldn't be left behind?  Hell, his momma was 25 years old in third grade!

That ain't right--somebody gotta be left behind--cause otherwise--the special education teacher is out of a job. If you promote everyone--then who the hell is gonna be in the "slow" class?  Is the public school system trying to downsize--and put the special ed teacher out of a job o something?

I don't believe in No Child Left Behind--if your dumb ass kid can't keep up--leave him back until he gets it. 

And that goes for my boy too. If, God forbid, he doesn't get fractions (like his momma) and he can't keep up--then he's gonna have to repeat. Ain't no summer school in his future--cause I firmly believe--if you can't get it in eight months--you ain't gonna do it in three!

I got a girlfriend whose daughter failed every subject in 7th grade--in private school no less (so she paying for her kid to be dumb)... then she paid for her to go to summer school... and lil' momma failed all those classes a second time. Clearly, she ought to be left behind--until she can "get it".  Otherwise the teachers are spending too much time explaining things... dumbing down the lesson for the kids who can't keep up. 

But is that fair for other cil'len? The students who are smarter than the average bear have to stay "preoccupied" while Patty's bugger eating kid sits in the back of the room swallowing glue by the gallon and tries to figure out which one is the color "blue".

I'm gonna get a button together and pass it out to all parents who have smart chil'len--LEAVE THAT KID BEHIND! Cause if he ain't keeping up--he's gonna make it bad for the other students--they can't move on until he keeps up.  Put a label on him, give him some Ritalin and send him down to the special education teacher--cause due to this new "rule"--she's alone in her classroom twiddling her thumbs!