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Michael Moore’s “Idiot Nation” has some intriguing ideas and concepts. Though no matter how much I want to, I can not say I agree with them as a whole. I really find most of them to be the just ramblings of a burned out student, who is making excuses for his failures. Furthermore, I feel he should stop complaining and go back to college. There are; however, three statements I do, at least partially, agree with. I do agree that teachers are under appreciated, that schools are in pathetic shape and that I was ahead of my class intellectually wise for most of my school. Who is at fault here? As much as Moore wants to blame it on the school or the system, it is not there fault. Moore has no one to blame but himself. School is not hell, it is not torture and in most of the cases it is necessary. Moore said and I quote, “Do this, don’t do that, tuck your shirt in, wipe that smile off your face, where’s your hall pass, THAT’S THE WRONG HALL PASS! YOU - DETENTION!!”. Well with all but one of those I see no problem. Honestly Moore tucking your shirt in won’t kill you so shut …show more content…
My mother has spent the last 35 years getting her PhD in education and what does she get for it? She gets every parent in our parish mad at her because “she closed the school down” but really the parish couldn’t afford to stay afloat so they merged with the other local school. Then at the new school she works at what does she get. She gets loads of threats, lawsuits and alleged terrorist acts to deal with. All of this on a regular basis and she gets paid an average of $65,000 annually. The most upsetting part to me is not that the congressmen get paid more as Moore was bashing but I hate that professional baseball players get paid more. Why, all I need is one good reason, should we pay more to people whom didn’t go to school because all they wanted to do was hit a ball and run a diamond then those who are teaching the youth, also known as the future of our
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