Kids These Days

Kids these days are fucking stupid.

Yep, you heard right -- Ted Killgore's just another bitter old man who's convinced that anyone aged 10 - 25 are morons; and before you tell me how out of step with the times and how kids today are actually, on average, more intelligent than their counterparts from just 20 years ago I'd like to draw your attention to an event in the local news that only serves to reinforce my position.

You have to understand that Nebraska's economy isn't in the best of shape these days and it appears that the Douglas County School System is suffering a bit more than other agencies and organizations as a result. With budget cut-backs and decreased government spending the Douglas County High Schools are having to discontinue their after school athletic and music programs and stop funding on the school libraries.

Since I don't have kids in school I really don't give two shits if Omaha South does or doesn't have a football team or marching band this year; although I must admit that I will miss the Varsity Girls Volleyball Team, but that's another story. Still, I DO understand that the students are as pissed off about the girls volleyball (and other activities) and want to speak out about it.

Now, if these kids were as intelligent as some want me to believe they would convince their parents to flood the district superintendent with calls and letters and emails demanding that they not cut school funding. The more adventurous and politically minded of these teenage geniuses might even go so far as to stage on campus protests to assert their displeasure with the situation -- which, as it happens, is what they did -- but not quite in the way you'd expect.

The students from a number of High Schools in Douglas County decided to stage a mass walk out today, which in-and-of-itself wouldn't be so bad, but during this walk out these future captains of industry decided to set fire to cars, destroy public property and loot the Crystal Beverage Mart over on South 20th.

Great.

So these illustrious MENSA Members, in an attempt to get the state to give back the 7 million dollars to the school budgets, cost the city 10 million dollars in damages that the city is going to have to get from the state in order to make repairs.

I figure the state could easily get by with cutting the high school math programs to make up the additional 3 million, since we've got proof that the little fuckers aren't learning anything in those classes anyway.

GO BIG RED!