The CotoBuzz Journal, Community Journalism

September 2008 ISSUE

We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!

The Mirror on the Wall and Betsy the Cow Syndrome

August 18, 2008

"MANY of us send our children to study, with dreams that they come back with topnotch degrees. And the good news is: Most of them do.
The bad news, however, is that that's not the only thing that they return with. They often come back with values that we find difficult to accept, views that we consider hard to swallow and a culture that we deem, at best, alien." Reads an op-ed piece published today, inviting parents to be held accountable for their child's actions.

The editorial then expands on an apparent typical environment faced by school children; "..we send our kids to schools where teenage pregnancy is commonplace, drug and alcohol menace is rife and deadly shootings in the campus make headlines every now and then", and concludes with references to Texas' school district Harrold Independent School District's decision to allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed weapons: "However, it's one thing for a Texas-born kid to walk into his classroom knowing that his teacher is armed with a gun just in case but quite another for our kids, who have not gone much beyond handling a butter knife, to get admitted to schools where crime and violence have reached such dizzying proportions that teachers have to carry guns -- not roses!"

The op-ed piece titled Class apart: It's Wild, Wild West out there by Shafquat Ali I (shafquat.ali@arabnews.com ) was published Monday 18 August 2008 (17 Sha`ban 1429) by Arab News.

No doubt the criticism is valid. Wondering which analogy is better, the old Mirror mirror on the wall, the SNL Ugly Girl, or Betsy the Cow Syndrome. Has anybody seen the mentally disabled lads with the remote-controlled explosives' vest?

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