The Real Mitt Romney

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Ibby

I could keep going for an hour ....

Not only could I spend a full hour listing bullet points - i could write for an hour each about each of them. Why can't that ever be something I do?

Here's something I posted on my tumblr as a slightly but only slightly tongue-in-cheek post at 3:30 in the morning, when i should be sleeping so I can do my homework in the morning but instead I'm drinking a tripel ale and tequila. and smoking up. My middle school ex I've been skypefucking with the last few weeks is texting flirtily with me again but very slowly while she writes her thoreau essay due tomorrow and, well, i'm not going to sleep until I know if she's gonna take a study break.

So, instead, I'm listening to the first four Ramones albums [Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin] in chronological order and indulging vices - i think im going to have a cigar in a minute - and #nightblogging on tumblr.

Originally Posted by Ibby

the vast majority of jobs worked by American workers are jobs that don’t “come home” with you.
When your shift or your day or your hours finish, you clock out and go home. Or, you get salary plus overtime, and you get paid extra in bonuses or manager’s raises or OT or whatever for time you spend outside of work doing work-related things, or your salary reflects your complicated and demanding schedule.

Why are the only major, inevitable exceptions to this…. Teaching and being a student?

Students do homework. Teachers spend time out of class grading and preparing and everything else. Arguably teachers SHOULD BE and in theory (but not practice) ARE paid a salary that takes out-of-class time into account.

Why are students, for 12-16-20+ years, educated in a way that assumes so much extra time outside of class - especially in high school/college/beyond - writing essays and doing homework, when that is NOT at ALL a skill applicable to working life in general, and not useful to the vast majority of the potential workforce, leaving especially those who can’t afford higher education in a situation where public education yet again fails to adequately prepare them for working life, reenforcing systemic patterns of disadvantage that add to the problem of vast numbers of people being unemployed and underemployed while major corporations sit on vast reserves of money?

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#[ibby] really really does not like doing her homework #[ibby] would rather rant about our education/employment problem than actually do homework #this is nearly a standard 250-word page long thats a LOT for a 3:30am post #imagine if i cared even half as much about doing homework as about ranting on tumblr #nightblogging