IS THIS BULLSHIT OR APPROPRIATE?

[cannongal]

Well, the schools that receive funding based on test scores thank your children for not getting their school more dough.

When the school stops spending money on shit like paving a dirt overflow parking lot and building a brick walkway to nowhere, and starts spending money on education, music and art, maybe I'll think about telling the one that's still in school to try harder. Until then, Standardized tests are utter bullshit.

I saw this in the news this morning.

A New Jersey police department is asking parents to stop threatening their kids that they'll be arrested if they are bad, reports CBS New York.

Wildwood Police Chief Robert Regalbuto said officers do not want children to be scared of police when they need help.

"Over the course of a season, we hear hundreds of parents tell their children, 'Don't do anything bad or he (the officer) is going to arrest you,'" Regalbuto said. "We don't want children to be fearful of police officers. We want them to know that police officers are their friends and are there to help them."

Setting up police as the bad guys in kids' minds is shortsighted. We already have enough problems with police/community relations without ingraining that message. I hope parents stop using police officers in that capacity.

I had a cousin that used to tell his kids that all the time. Used to piss me off when he did it. He's a friggin asshole anyway.