I've been working like a white mouth gubmint mule lately, hence the lack of entertainment for you rubes. Along with the heavier work load, no Seacrest, I've also been on video game crack. Weed will rob you of your ambition, add PS3 to the mix and it's a wonder I ever get out of my chair. There's something disheartening about a 6 year old kid talking smack in what sounds like French in a squeaky cartoonish voice, while stomping the shit out of you in Red Dead Redemption. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Red Dead is an old west cowboy type version of Grand Theft Auto. I'm always a little late to the technology trough, I only recently stopped making mix tapes on cassette. I stopped short of getting one of those headsets to talk shit back to the little pukes who keep shooting my horse out from under me, not because I can't talk shit, I can, but I'm afraid I'll get arrested for threatening the life of some random kid in Belgium, video controller in one hand, while he eats Gummi Bears in his Underoos. So I'm stepping away from the PS3 long enough to grind out a few posts to get you people to stop emailing me asking if my Parole has been violated. It hasn't, yet, but it might be if I ever get my hands on the little prick who keeps shooting Ol Blue the Wonder Horse out from under me.
Speaking of young Pricks, can someone explain to me why no Arson charges have been filed in the near daily fires being set inside Southwest High School? They don't call it a high school nowadays, it's a college readiness, Afrikaan centered, preparatory academy or some such bullshit. Here in the soup sandwich of a school district that is the KCSD, fancy school names and drum circles seem to have taken the place of readin, rightin, and rithmetikin. For those of you fortunate enough to live outside the Kansas City area, let me bring you up to snuff, so this shit doesn't sound like the disjointed ramblings of a middle age pot head. Kansas City has had a Guinness book of records number of Superintendents in the last couple of decades. If I recall correctly, more than 20 in 20 years, or some crazy stats to that effect. White folks have fled the area like someone set their collective ass on fire. The black folks who could leave, have probably left as well. Who can blame them? After years of backroom deals, palm greasing, special interests, and apathy, the current school system in Kansas City seems to excel only in dropout rates, ill educated students, and general madness and mayhem reign supreme in the once hallowed halls of most of the schools. In recent weeks some little shit heel or heels have been setting fires inside Southwest. The situation has gotten so out of hand that the Teachers Union has filed a grievance demanding that the district do something to make the school more like a school and less like Thunderdome.
I know what some of you might be thinking, " M M is being a little flippant about such a serious issue". Look, in the last few years there have been riots in the hallways of Kansas City schools, videos posted on You tube proved as much. Last year a kid was hit by glass after a stray bullet came through a classroom window. I know of one young lady who received serious back and neck injuries after some punk hit her with a chair in a classroom. I could go on forever, but I won't. The point is , the district has by and large done little to make Kansas City schools safe and productive. Sure they fancy up the names, call the students scholars, make empty promises to change things for the better. In the end it's the same ol same. The district and now the Teachers union have been content to blame the kids, a few bad apples. Bullshit. Kansas City schools are in the dire straits they are in due to complacency. If this craziness took place in a JoCo school, the parents would march on the school like one of those mob scenes from an early Frankenstein flick. There would be facebook/twitter protests. There would be people getting fired. The bullshit would end. At the end of the day, the Parents of KCSD students share in as much blame as the district officials who have turned a blind eye to the years long madness and mayhem within the halls of it's schools.
So forgive me for failing to muster up the proper amount of hand wringing and moral outrage. This shit is nothing new, and the complacency of the parents of students in the district has played a large part in the current situation. Parents should be enraged, and maybe they are. Sadly, they haven't bothered to get that point across to the officials responsible for the care, education, and safety of their children. So you get what you got. Somebody wake me up when the protests start, until then, I'm going back to the plains to find the kid who keeps popping a cap in my trusty steads ass. ( no Seacrest)
