Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 05/19/18> We interrupt our normally scheduled daily dose…

How many times have we heard the words, “we interrupt our normally scheduled program for this breaking news” ? Plenty of times is right, actually way too many, and luckily for me I never heard it once on Friday. Santa Fe, Texas is just the latest on the list of school shootings and it won’t be the last. It could be, but it won’t be and I say that with complete certainty on both parts of that statement.

It won’t be the last because we continue to have a bunch of kids who seem to not be able to cope with their situations and they only know how to get even with people by blowing them away with a firearm. I wonder if all the video games with all the killing on those might have been able to have desensitized these kids just a touch. As long as we keep reproducing and raising them like we have been we can rest assured that the next school shooting is just around the corner in time.

This school shooting didn’t interrupt any television program for me, but it did interrupt my regularly scheduled Daily Dose column for Saturday. Normally for the last few weeks I have been doing a combination Daily Dose that combined Shoutout Saturday with Comedy Open Mic contests and I also managed to give away some steembasicincome in there as well. This Daily Dose just isn’t going to cut it as I am not in a humorous mood, besides, the people over at comedy open mic are good people, but I don’t think they quite get this old man’s humor.

So that leaves me with some shout outs and some basic giving away of steembasicincome.

Steembasicincome is designed for people who actually post material on here and not really for people who browse and comment so when I started looking through my mental notebook of deserving people I also wanted to keep in mind people who have the ability to produce and post material so they will actually get some benefit from it.

First on list this week is @amariespeaks , she is a nice young lady who is all about helping newbies on here and also she runs a bait shop that is only open on Monday’s, I think the name of it is Minnow Monday’s or something like that. She does have some good bait over there, you won’t be catching any whales with it, but those minnows can grow. I have caught a couple little ones myself over there and am waiting for them to grow up.

Next we have @magicalmoonlight and she is into the crystals, chakras, inspiration and she has something to do with #beyondtheveil which is just a little past where I venture right now. Her writings are always interesting and she knows how to tell a good story. Like most folks on here, her work is usually under monetized so be sure and go by and throw a few votes her way.

@cecicastor is my final selection for this week. When she writes her stories draw you right in and then start squeezing you. When I first discovered her it was on chapter eight of an ongoing project, which I then read going backwards from there. Then I turned right around and read the whole thing from page one up to the current. She has her hands full right now with a little civil unrest in her country but she has been real good about keeping us up to date on her family’s safety and what is taking place down there in general in Nicaragua.

So congratulations to all my selections for this week, it is my pleasure to give you this little gift that should keep on giving.

I mentioned that this shooting in Texas on Friday could be the last school shooting and I believe it could be if the people running the education system would get their heads out of the 1700’s and join us here in 2018. “What do I mean by that?”, you ask. I’ll tell you right now.

For some reason we still think we need to drag all the young kids to the school house for them to get an education and that just isn’t the case anymore. With computers and internet there no longer is a need to put these kids in school house buildings. Every school district could provide a computer and wireless card that would connect the computer to the school district system. The teachers could teach from home, or from an office building. All assignments can be submitted electronically, all tests could be done the same way as well.

The costs of the computers and wireless would be offset by the savings in buses, food service, utilities and reduced staffs in the school districts. When we started having to have school districts with their own police forces that should have been a clue right there that the system needed an overhaul.

This will never happen though, because schools haven’t been about education since the late 70’s, the schools have become day care facilities so that both parents and single parents can work and have a place to keep an eye on their kids. I know it may sound crazy, but I think that crazy is sending your kid to a school that could be a death trap, that is a whole lot more crazy than my idea.

The government says the school districts must provide a free public education; tell me where my idea doesn’t provide that? Don’t try to tell me that the kids needs social interaction with each other, even when they are sitting at the same table they are texting each other instead of just talking to each other. I see it all the time in restaurants when I travel, after a few minutes of texting back and forth, one will pop their head up long enough to look across the table and exclaim “seriously!!!’ as the other one nods their head. Then they both go back to texting each other.

The shock value of school shootings has worn off, it is becoming common place, and we will continue to have unproductive town hall meetings and protests. I have given the solution to the problem; we just need some school officials to start thinking about what is really best for the kids.

Until next time,
@sultnpapper

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