Pay no attention to the man behind the screen

Thank Goodness for Tom Tomorrow!!

We have reached a point of national nervous breakdown... It's as if the U.S. Public were the students at a terribly dysfunctional school, with a principal, vice-principal, school-nurse and an entire administration run amok in the hallways. Frightened by the deranged behavior of the front office, the kids run to the teacher's lounge and beg for help. "Please, you have to get rid of these crazy people, before they destroy our school." Yet the teachers are afraid to take decisive action, telling the kids "we know it's scary, but we can't do our jobs properly with the terrible distractions of firing and replacing our administration." At this, the kids throw up their hands in frustration: "Do your jobs?!? What are talking about? Right now, the principal has locked up all the desks, books, and classrooms-- he refuses to release them to us until you teachers agree to help him set fire to the police station! Your contract tells you that with an administration that blocks our learning, your duty is to remove this obstruction and restore an environment conducive to peaceful study."

Well, we're all tempted to stay in the teacher's lounge and hope that our students go home for summer vacation and leave us alone. That's not going to happen... sooner or later the school board is going to have to make a ruling. Even if they let the administrators remain, the disciplinary hearing reassures the kids that gross incompetence, pathological dishonesty, and insatiable avarice aren't rewarded with uncritical acceptance.