Been a long time... this may be the last.

I know I haven't posted since August. I haven't seen the point. It seems things are starting to turn around a little in education, though, in New Jersey, the governor is still trying to push through reforms that studies show will be detrimental to public school students. Will they pass? Does it matter? No one seems to care. I know teachers who have come up with new, innovative techniques to involve their students and expand those students' learning and have been told, "no," they can't teach that way. Why? Because it might become a trend and we can't have everything changing without approval of people who have never set foot in an academic classroom. Education has always been ruled over by those who have little to no experience in the classroom or even with children in any setting other than a home. So why bother trying to innovate based on actual academic research? No one like the truth of it.

So this may be my last post and I dedicate it to a more national, political thought: with all these religious right candidates in the Republican race for the presidential candidate and all these ultra-right wing, ultra-rich people saying we're not running the country correctly, so they vote for the Tea Party candidates because those people want fewer restrictions too, has any of them actually read the New Testament and words they so highly praise?

Didn't Jesus say it is easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than a rich man through the gates of Heaven?

Wasn't Jesus an advocate for the poor, old and sick and felt they deserved better treatment?

Didn't Jesus point out that we should take care of our children because they are our future?

Oh yeah, and in BOTH Testaments, isn't there a golden rule of some sort that goes sort of like "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE DONE UNTO YOU"?

Okay, ultra-conservative, right-wing, Bible-thumping, candidates and supporters of those candidates, explain that one. Do I need to actually go and quote chapter and verse of Jesus healing the leper, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the Sermon on the Mount?

I'm not even a Christian and I know these things. Why don't the Bible literalists? Oh, right, because it all goes against the way they live their lives. I'm so fed up with stupid, hypocritical people, I think I'm done. What does it matter anyway?