Higher Education (or in my case, the Seventh Grade)

Hello, people! You may have noticed that I no longer refer to you as random people who stumbled across this blog while surfing the web, and that's because YOU NO LONGER ARE! I HAVE FOUR FOLLOWERS!!!!!! Speaking of which, I need you to start leaving comments. I'M SO LONELY!!!

Sniff.

Anyway, I'm having a bad week, and it's only Monday. My annoying teachers have assigned homework that consists of drawing all the continents freehand. Big whoop. Just to show them up, I grabbed a piece of paper and drew all the continents, borders, countries, lakes, etc, etc, etc.

Have we really reached this point in time? Some people in my class don't know where Iraq is. I'm not saying everyone is like this, but is our actual expectation to have us know what shape AFRICA is in by the SEVENTH GRADE???? It shouldn't be. There are ADULTS who don't know were Iraq is. How can you be so entirely out of it? It's impossible. Or, at least, it should be.

There's a foundation in Colorado or someplace whose goal is to get kids reading by the third grade. OH MY GOD. This is SAD. If you can't read by the third grade, really, seek help. I was reading before I even started kindergarden. Wait... I didn't even go to preschool. I was homeschooled. Does this mean that a school in Colorado has lower expectations than a homeschooling?

It gets worse. A Texas school board has voted to keep Thomas Jefferson out of their textbooks. And because there is such a high demand for books in Texas, the company who is making those books is basing an entire regional shipment of books on that vote. Oh, yay. Now here in California, I'm gonna get books with a footnote that says "Tough luck, Tommy! Guess you should'a spent less time writing the Declaration and more time being truly American. 'Cause the Texas school board thinks you're a COMMIE!"

Oh, there goes my blood pressure beeper. Time to change topics.

It needs to be said, so I'll say it right now: Glenn Beck is an incredible asshole. I swear, it must take some sort of mental incapacitation to be as insanely stupid as he is. He thinks that we will truly believe that HIS speech on the Lincoln Memorial steps was not intended to be set on the exact date and location of MLK's IHADS (or Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech). He went on FOX the other day and said that he had no idea that he had randomly picked out of a hat those exact co-ordinates. SON OF A ****!!!!! Does he think all of America is as insanely demented as his followers? Maybe he does. Maybe we are. BUT I'M NOT!!! As far as I'm concerned, Beckie can go to hell.

There's the beeper again. I don't think that helped.

So, in conclusion, I am completely PO'd at everything and everyone around me.

Have a nice day!