People who know me are most likely aware that one my idols is George Carlin. I really think he's the great philosopher of our time. The man was a genius. In his HBO special Complaints and Grievances, one of his bits was just a list of people who he though aught to be killed. The list included people who read self help books, people with bumper stickers that advertise their honour student, people who carry their baby around in front packs, and self important techno-dicks with hands-free phone headsets. Well, since George died in June 2008, he won't be able to expand that list anymore, but I think I found some people who would definitely make the cut. It's a little more specific than the items on his list, but I think he would approve

Parents who don't allow their children's school to assign homework.

It's true. They're out there. Check this out. They signed what's being called a differentiated homework plan that allows for their kids to not have to have homework sent home. It's a contract saying that their kids can't have homework. No matter how many times I read it, it still makes no sense. Apparently these parents thought their kids (who are in grade 5 and 7) were too overloaded with homework and it "kept [the] children from improving their weak areas". Like what? Sitting on their ass playing guitar hero? Learning to masturbate quietly when people were home? I know that's what I focused on. I realize that these weak areas being referred to are their weak subjects, but I'm sorry, their weak areas aren't going to improve. However they will eventually become quite skilled in sitting in their underwear, eating cereal, and watching games hows all day.

This half-wit parent says that it's useless for the kids to be getting marked on their homework, because the older siblings and parents are the ones doing the homework for them. Well here's an idea bruno: maybe make your kids do their own homework and they might have a chance at not growing up to be a complete fucking imbecile like their parents.

What the hell is going to happen to these kids? Homework is a part of growing up and going to elementary and high school, and eventually university (if you go that road). When these kids grow up - or just age, because growing up implies that their will be some kind of maturing happening - are their parents going to try sign a no speeding ticket contract with the city police? Will they stand in court arguing that their kids don't deserve the ticket because it their too overloaded with parking tickets? They need to focus on not parking illegally because it's one of their weak areas.

Carlin said that today's kids are way too soft, and the fault lays on the parents. They want to protect their kids from everything. As Carlin said "these soft fruity baby boomers are raising an entire generation of soft fruity kids." But maybe Carlin would agree with it on some level. Maybe one day these kids won't have chemistry homework assigned to them, so they won't know to not drink the red stuff that only looks like Kool-Aid. Carlin called it passive eugenics. Maybe he was onto something.

I don't doubt that these parents aren't trying to help their kids. I'm sure they think that they're doing the right thing. But, to quote George one last time: "If you wanna know how to help your children? Leave them the fuck alone!"