Guest Post by Ron Hart
In yet another bad decision, an education administrator asked me to give a high school commencement speech. He must know that I write a column; he obviously hasn’t read it.
When I questioned his judgment, the principal said, “Just give the kids some sound graduation advice.”
I asked, “Should I tell them I hear the Monsanto plant is hiring?”
“No,” said the educrat. “Encourage them. Tell them they can do anything.”
“So I should lie? Have you seen most of these kids? They can’t do anything. Most think Shariah law is a daytime TV show hosted by a no-nonsense judge.”
That’s the problem. Kids are getting pie-in-the-sky advice and, judging by obesity rates, they are also eating the pie.
Should I turn into Maya Angelou and tell entitled kids — who graduated because of grade inflation, who think Mao Zedong is the Asian equivalent of French kissing, who don’t read newspapers and who can’t find Syria on a map — that they can do anything? Or would a healthy dose of reality be preferable?
Guess which one I am going with?
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