Surrender to the enemy? It was a civil war! You ought to know Mr. Secede from the Union RedStater.

(Yes I know that was an old quote, but I wanted to say it anyway).

Here’s a hint, cool guy: When the people getting all riled up about Lowery’s eeeeevil tongue are the citizens of ClownHall, the Krazy Korner Klowns, Glenn Reynolds, Gateway Doofus, and your butt buddy Bob “Cornfed Wank me” Owens, there’s a good chance that you aren’t getting a skidmark’s worth of traction with this. I mean, there’s you a veritable Who’s Who of Who Gives A Fuck. You really expect to not get your ass kicked in 2012 with this weak shit?

The left’s electoral triumph may not be permanent, yes, but you being a penis-envy douchenozzle certainly is. Fuck off, loser.

Curse Jarvis; when he was diagnosed with AIDS (not that I’d wish that on anyone) it suddenly wasn’t a “gay disease” any more.

Prop 13 really needs to be revisited. Yes, it rescued homeowners who were being priced out of their homes by rising property taxes, especially the elderly, but it was all those little extra clauses regarding what qualifies as a classroom space that have crippled school districts across the state. Classroom space is defined under Prop 13 to include areas such as covered outdoor eating areas, covered hallways, the janitor’s closet, the school office, not to mention cafeterias and school libraries. If your school is one of the older ones with some of these features it is penalized for them when the money is being allotted.

their Valedictorian gave his speech, pulled out a gun and committed suicide.

Holy shit – right there on stage? That’s world-class dramatic.

And I answer YES! even though the LA school district is a shitty mess.

But I’d also be a classroom volunteer and I’d be kicking asses the whole time, which is the way I conducted myself when my kids were in the public schools in Riverside; my whtie kids went to schools where they were in the minority, and not just by a little bit. RUSD, can’t remember how they did it but our school wasn’t a magnet school, packed our elementary school with up to 70% minorities, but it turned out that the minority kids were rarely a problem.

Nothing gets fixed until the parents get involved, at least that was my experience, and there were some serious problems. I discovered a core group of parents who volunteered in the classes and in PTA. I was PTA president for two years for the elementary school, and I learned a lot from the other parents. We did battle with the school district several times, and I heard one of the most stirring speeches of my life given by another president welcoming any immigrant children in their school (Mexican, El Salvador, Romania, Vietnam, Nicaragua, we had all of those and more, some of them political refugees, some illegal), when another group of parents announced that they didn’t want so many.
By the time my son was graduating from HS, his mostly minority school had the best GPA in the county (some really rich neighborhoods in that county) and least racial tension, and the most dignified graduation ceremonies in town (6 high schools). The “most desirable”, mostly white HS had a racial problems and some really bad drug problems that year, a teacher/student pregnancyscandal, a rowdy, out-ofl control graduation, and to cap it off their Valedictorian gave his speech, pulled out a gun and committed suicide. And to think I was asked by my horror-stricken friends if I was really going to send my kids to that other high school.

P.S. I’m a short, unimposing white woman of 58. I drive through Compton every now and then on my way to take my husband to lunch. I know it has rough areas. It had rough areas when my dad was a teenager, and he’s 90.

Would YOU send your kids to a L.A. Public School?

I love reading this blog.

Hey, they have blue collar workers, too, they’re just called “ouvriers”.

F-n Gary, cheese-eating outsourcer doesn’t realize the plane was built in France.

Word press seems to be eating my AHREF tags!