CT Gay Marriage Codified

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jzpRwGCQ-cTsE0JSAGf3COH_csWgD97NUA700

Connecticut finalizes and codifies gay marriage by healthy margins.  I will argue that this is a healthy and appropriate turn of events.  Gladly, compassion and justice have won out.

Raise the Drop Out Age?!

http://nhregister.com/articles/2009/04/30/news/doc49f9da2e8648d307766500.txt

If you don't work in or around a high school, this might sound like a good idea.  Keep the kids in school and they just might learn something.

This is, in fact, a TERRIBLE idea.  There is a small number of students who are little other than distractions and even dangers in the halls of a high school.  They are either completely disrespectful and consciously disruptive of the learning process or they engage in behavior that endangers other students either directly or through negative influence.  

Oftentimes, the only way to get these students back into the learning process is to allow them to leave it, discover the difficulties that creates, and then come back.

Raising the age to 18 only forces schools to keep students longer who are likely only detrimental to what the school is achieving with the rest of the student population.  Call your representatives.  This might be good politics, but it is a lousy practical solution to the challenge of uncooperative students.