Because my point isn’t about pot being good or bad, my point is it isn’t government’s business. Period, the end, done. Good, fine, bad, I don’t care not my concern. The government simply has no constitutional authority to make a plant illegal.

“While there are many, many, crappy teachers and especially administrators, what about all the shitty parents who use the public school system as free daycare, and don’t give to shits about what or how their child is learning?”

It is a problem indeed but it has nothing to do with shitty teachers and a completely out of date and defunct system. I also severely object to calling kids with shitty parents “worthless little shits”. Some of them don’t have shitty parents and are not worthless and are labeled that way simply because this shitty school system is wrong for them and said parents won’t dope them up with fing meth!

My parents were non involved, one was a dope head the other a workaholic. I am sure I drove school teachers mad, I am sure parents of nice little kids thought I was trouble and disruptive and likely a “worthless little shit”. What I was actually amounted to being quite a bit more intelligent than the average person around me (including many teachers) and bored as shit with the nonsense and sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day to learn what I could learn by reading the entire book in the first two weeks, which I often did.

I was disruptive in physics class when I questioned the theories we were taught and proposed my own, asked to just be quiet. Funny that while I don’t have the math skills to prove out such things much of what I was suggesting in the 80s is now basically what is proposed by physicists today. I also now know I had what used to be called “Aspergers” and now is simply lumped into the broader term “autism spectrum disorder” (ASD), which is another shitty thing to do with kids. People with autism need developmental help, people with Asperger’s need to have you get out of their fing way and be permitted to self direct their learning.

Children with Asperger’s need help in understanding things like that they have hurt another’s feelings, they lack some empathy. Well that is what scientists say, we don’t, we lack the perception that we have hurt your feelings and don’t realize that we have. Since we are highly functional and highly intelligent most are never diagnosed (which based on current shitty treatment is likely for the best). We say things people find mean, we simply find them true and since we don’t look you in the eye we don’t see that you are hurt and move on with other things.

We don’t like to have our work interrupted, we move at a very fast intellectual pace and find a manic brilliance as we build momentum. Stopping our work pulls us out of what athletes call “the zone” and we might on that one line of thought never get back into it. We don’t take notes and yet have an almost identical memory if and only IF we give a shit about what you are saying. If we don’t care, we won’t remember it in 5 minutes. If you want us to give a shit you better explain why and you better be able to make the case fast, we don’t blindly accept “because I said so” or “you will need to know this some day” or “because it will be on the test”. The last one is the weakest.

Most aspies don’t really give a shit what you think of them, this is partly why we are supposedly lacking empathy. It is also why we don’t really care about a grade unless we actually were interested in the subject in the first place. Oh, I got a D in Algebra, cool, so I am done with that shit now and won’t have to take it again right? Since we don’t care what you think, we wonder why you seem to value our opinion of yourself enough to be harmed by our thoughts. Today many of us are not even labeled ASD instead we are labeled ADD or ADHD, which is often bullshit but for the few that really are ADD and Aspergers are a night and day of difference. Give an aspie meth (which drugs like Ritalin are) or worse call them depressed and give them an SRI and you destroy what makes them special and brilliant.

Other then explaining and teaching a person with my background a bit about understanding the feelings of others, not much needs to be done other than, give them very basic foundational knowledge and let them learn and pursue. Shitty parent or not it works. The child with ADD or ADHD or Aspergers should not be forced to conform to a shitty, outdated, school model that isn’t about real education in the first place. They system needs to evolve and even the good teachers and good admins are defending an OUT DATED AND DYING SYSTEM. It isn’t the child labeled ASD or ADHD that have a problem or is flawed, the system you are trying to pound them into like a proverbial square peg is.

Do you not get that? Do you not realize that a system of education that has been basically the same since 1880 is outdated, archaic and fundamentally flawed in 2014? The reason that so many teachers suck is they are in a broken system, a completely outdated and fundamentally flawed system. One so disconnected from reality that most teachers are not in touch with reality.

In school conformity pays off, in the real world rebellion pays off. How many biographies are written about conformists? Names like Gates, Jobs, Cuban, real self made billionaires, were never conformists.

In school abuse is acceptable. Kids are told to try to fit in and make friends with others who abuse them. In the real world abusers are fired or sent to a place we call jail. Defending yourself is also perfectly acceptable in the real world.

In school you are told what to do every minute of every day. In the real world if you need this type of supervision you will be nothing more than at best a person that answers a phone and reads a script and India is taking most of those jobs. So that will leave you to pack boxes, well robots are doing that mostly now even where it is needed domestically. I guess you can be a janitor or may be a garbageman with that level of self direction.

In school questioning conclusions is frowned upon. In the real world questioning conclusions is what leads innovations and those who do it are highly recruited by employers for top level jobs. Those that don’t question conclusions are mid level corporate drones and work for people who do. They never rise above low to mid level management and think it is unfair and they are getting screwed. Well they got screwed alright by not by their employer, they got screwed by the promise of “if you work hard and if you behave” things will be great. Their “graduations hang on the wall but never really help them at all”.

The only thing modern school can say for itself is it does a reasonable job of teaching people to read and write and gives them a very basic understanding of science and history. 13 years to do that with a failure rate as high as 50% in many districts is not a viable model. Period. The entire system is a failure. No private industry could survive with this track record and failure rate.

I’ll get off teachers backs when they stop defending a flawed, outdated and failing system due to their own self interest and start innovating a new adaptable system, you know like you have to do in any industry in the real world.

Well Jefferson and Washington did both grow hemp and wrote letters to one another about the qualities of it both as rope and as a drug. Sooooooo….

Actually one of the most cited examples of abuse over the colonies was the tax on tea and the forced buying of the kings tea. Sooooooo…

Next, when the most basic freedoms are attacked, the freedom to grow and possess a fing plant for example, all freedoms are at risk. The marijuana debate isn’t about getting stoned or medicine to me, it is about an extremely basic freedom. Frankly I don’t want pot made legal, that is just a start, what I really want is the legislation of who can grow what made unconstitutional. Not really made, declared, as it already is unconstitutional.

Lastly this is about one of one thousand topics I often cite about the taking of liberty so this appears like a pretty straw man style objection to me.