You have to love an old geezer that says ‘Fuck you’ to the corporate powers of the District. Even if it did cost him a couple of million. Austin L. Spriggs is my new hero. He’s probably a couple of slices short of a whole pizza but that’s ok. What ever his reasons were for not selling out and giving up a fortune in the process, I love his attitude. He may be a rotten evil bastard, but for today he’s my hero.

One of the reasons THE WOMAN and I pulled pitch and moved out here two years ago (other than my orders to that affect) was the shitty shape of the Memphis schools. Hell, half the schools there were on the ‘Every Child Left Behind’ program. Now it seems that Memphis is not the only town growing illiterate kids by the handfuls. Pretty much the entire nation is sucking ass on geography. I get it that kids don’t know where some Euro-trash nations are, but how the hell can they not find the state that hosts Mardi Gras?

And when a principal points out simple statistics to make a point she’s forced to resign? And to resign from a school that parents fight to get kids into? That really sucks. For the record, when someone tells you that a certain thing was not part of their thought process for leaving a job you can bet your sweet ass it was the main reason for leaving the job.

I really doubt that the problem is isolated in the Asian kids at the school, in fact I’d go as far as saying it’s probably the white kids cheating and stealing. They’re setting the Asian kids up as patsies.

Maybe because the Asian kids were getting better scores, and could, you know, like find cool shit on the maps and stuff, you know like that.

Whatever.