CHRISTMAS STOCKING Time Boots

You wake up Christmas morning and find a pair of Winged Time-Travel boots in your stocking.

You wing your way back in time and settle in the Austrian village where lil’ Adolf Hitler is growing up (no, don’t ask me why you’d do this, just listen for a minute).

Soon you learn that little Dolfie is getting special help in school. The little girls sitting around him, however, are not.

As a citizen of Dolfie’s town, what do you do about this?

(a) Vote to give the little girls, too, the special help they need – molded around their special, particular and unique characteristics as little girls?

(b) Vote to keep the status quo. (After all, little girls can’t help the town, country or world when they grow up, so why waste the money?)

As we saw yesterday, Bush has slashed American education to the bone. Not surprisingly, then, NO ONE has been getting extra help in schools – for up to six years, now. The result: boys are failing miserably.

But now that sanity’s returning to government, should we go back to giving special attention to boys only? Why not give equal money to helping girls, too, based on their particular special needs as girls? After all, I think most of us agree – men and women alike -- that it’s likely women who will lead us out of the quagmire the world’s in at present. Let’s give our little girls extra help now, so they can pull us out of the quicksand tomorrow.
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thnx to bjearwicke for the foto