My middle daughter graduated high school in 2000, and we went through all of the mindless graduation rigmarole, including a breakfast where the class valedictorian spoke. Such events are showcases, and also serve to remind the parents of ordinary kids that their kids are ordinary.
But this talk we heard, by a young lady, was deplorable. It was a Catholic school, I should add, but for ten minutes this kid did nothing but regurgitate her lessons and speak Christian mush. She presented not one original thought. She reflected back on her teachers so well that she got straight A’s.
My daughter, an ordinary student, later caught fire, getting a good liberal arts background in college. With that in place, she then got career training and now works for a ‘respected’ corporation in Portland doing respectable work in exchange for a respectable salary. I have told her that her job will pay her bills, but her English degree, which did nothing more than to teach her how to think and to broaden her horizons, will make her life full and rich.
Had she absorbed everything that Billings Central Catholic High School was teaching, she might now, like the class valedictorian, be boring. She’s anything but.
Piece of Mindful 
Too bad her father never received a good liberal arts education. If he had, he would see the absurdity of his thinking in the context of Western European and North American history.
Anyway, I think you have been really dishonest in your comments about me over at Montana Cowgirl. You know damn well that you have been deleting my comments on this blog because you simply cannot refute the facts and logic I advance to counter your crazy ideas. Saying that you “banned” me because I wrote too many comments is a barefaced lie.
Man up, Trotsky, and maybe I will start calling you Mark again.
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Call me anything you want. I don’t delete your comments. They go straight to SPAM without any effort on my part. “Deleting” implies action on my part.
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