Warning:  I wrote this before I had coffee and after a night of stress dreams.

• Your business is none of my business until you start making me pay for your business.  At that point, it is most certainly my business.
  • Corollary – If you stop making your business my business, I will be happy to go back to minding my own business.
• Standardized testing at the end of the school year seems unfair to the teacher if it’s to be used to decide if they’re doing their job.
  • I mean, what if the students were woefully ignorant of the subject on day 1?
  • How about this:  Do standardized tests at the beginning of the year, then give the same test at the end.  Evaluate the teacher’s performance based on the difference between the two tests.
  • I know, there I go again, thinking it’s a good idea to see if the billions we dump into the public education system are actually going toward educating students.
• Another way to say “America First” is “What’s in it for us?”, and I’m perfectly OK with that.  If we can’t articulate what the United States is getting out of any relationship or commitment, be it tangible or intangible, then why are we doing it?
• One thing that I think is missing from the way we educate people is that we don’t tell folks that while they are still being educated and trained, their opinion on all but an exceedingly small number of subjects is most likely worthless.
  • For a lot of folks, this condition does not change after their period of education and training is over.
  • At the moment, I may or may not be part of that group.  I’m gonna go make coffee.