Paying for Grades

The latest gimmick for duping black people into a handout mentality, further undermining our genuine brilliance and drive, is to pay for better grades. This is a farce, and it will not work. As long as education is not pursued for the sake of building basic learning skills, satisfying wonder, and gaining the immense self-confidence that comes from completing an ardous task, there is no reward.

There are many reasons why a public education should stay "free." Compensating children now will undermine their ambition, not increase it. And if you think there is a bullying problem in public schools now...Wait until the science nerd starts hauling in a bigger "pay check" than the woodshop student.

Then again, spending a few million dollars paying the children of the poor for a marginal improvement on their report cards, could muzzle the cry for spending hundreds of millions on job creation for their parents...Hmmmmmm?

National Art Gallery

Last week I visited the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. for the first time. It certainly will not be the last. Infact, one visit was not enough time to see it all. Nevertheless, the gallery was magnificent. On display were some presentations that will make an art enthusiast stop and marvel.

Rededication

Tonight, I informed my "friends" that I was going on hiatus from my Facebook activity. I do not have much liesure time, and what down time I do have I found that I was spending it "keeping in touch" on FB, and not updating my own blog. FB is a very user-friendly platform -- to their credit -- but it was becoming habit forming. Infact, I have yet to finish a draft on education that I started close to a month ago. So, here I go, back to my own blog where I hope to attract dialogue over subjects of greater interest to me. Let's face it, FB has not been found to be a magnet for weighty interests. I have not abandoned FB altogether, however...Just going on hiatus.

I am perplexed over how to garner more attention for my site, so if any of you happenstance readers have worthy tips for me, I am all eyes. I am going to try more pictures with captions, and even some video commentary. Stay tuned. Or perhaps I should say, tune in!