So… what about it, you Dads and Moms. Do you do your kid’s homework? Do you think that’s fair? I know you’re pretty smart, or you wouldn’t be reading this sophisticated blog. Do all the kids in Derek’s class have mommies and daddies who read blogs? Who deal with words? Who were pretty good at homework themselves? If your kid’s in a private school, the answer is most likely yes. They’re smart enough to care enough to send to the very best. But what about all those people you feel so sorry for, whose kids are stuck in public school and who, by the way, you don’t want to escape, what about them? Their parents don’t have what it takes to get them to a private school, whether it’s money or brains (there’s said to be some correlation), and you know what? They aren’t smart enough to help their kids with their homework. Not like you, and that’s who they’re competing against.
Don’t you have better things to do with your kid than to sit at the kitchen table after dinner trying to figure out his math problems? Why the hell doesn’t the teacher do it? If the subject is math: she can’t. Yes, I said “she.” Most of them are “she”s. If they’re “he”s, they can probably do the math. What’s she getting paid for? I’ll tell you what, to go to
Which brings me to something personal. My Father’s Day card brought on some irate moms, who thought I was belittling dads. They blame my single state and my lack of fatherhood. They want to know why I am the way I am. Well, how am I? I’m a free man, for better or worse, as they say in an important ceremony during which you relinquish that state. Do I miss having children? You gave me the answer: "You don’t know what you're missing." Right. I’m blissfully ignorant. As most men would be, if left in the natural state.
But not most women. Especially women who’ve tried everything they could to get pregnant – except having unprotected sex with someone they had the hots for. Why do you think there are so many unwed mothers? They’re not doing it with their husbands. Not that there’s anything unattractive about a husband. They’re very attractive – to other husband’s wives.
But we were talking about homework. I was saying you’ve got better things to do with your kids. Spend some quality time with them. Whatever you think is quality time, Mom, not what some other woman decides your boy should do.
The world is so big – even the inner city world – that to wallow in representations when the real thing is right outside your door (and if you don’t like it there, a car, bike or subway ride away) is a SIN. Give your kids the real thing, while it’s still here.
And what is all this homework anyway? Kids have to move. They don’t need another stint in the chair. You want to know why kids nowadays have such fat asses even the teachers are getting after them? Well how do you hatch a big, fat ass? Sit on it!
