Clearly The Problem Is Not Spending Enough Money on Education

An interesting report out of Illinois.

In over 30 public schools, none, as in not one, zero, not a single kid, is reading at their appropriate grade level.

Note that the per pupil spending ranges in these 30 schools from an outlying low of $8,861 up to an astonishing $56,311, with an average of $21,000 per student among the 30 schools and this is the result you get. That kind of spending is on par with private school tuition at some of the best private schools -with unquestionably far worse results.

Similarly, in all of Maryland Public Schools, half of all the third graders were not reading at grade level.

In Detroit Public Schools, 88% of third graders were under grade level in reading.

It's as if public schools were not there to educate but instead fund the Teacher's and Administrator's Unions to funnel money back to the Democrats in return for more public money for higher salaries and benefits and then rinse and repeat.

Stupid Criminal of the Day

And today's award goes to Theresa Jefferson of Maryland.

Findlaw: Walmart Bleach Fight Sends 19 to Hospital

Police have arrested Theresa Jefferson, 33, in connection with a Walmart bleach fight over the weekend.

Jefferson reportedly targeted her intended victim, and followed her into a Baltimore-area Walmart. Once inside, she attacked the woman with bleach, Pine-Sol and ammonia.

The chemicals mixed, creating a toxic gas. Hazmat crews were called, and nineteen people were sent to the hospital for eye and respiratory injuries.

Didn't her parents ever warn her never to mix ammonia and bleach? Certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed as her actions and picture seem to confirm.

Of course, its likely she's from a single parent (if any) family given the apparent reason for her attack:

It appears as though the Walmart bleach fight was part of an ongoing dispute between the two women. The unnamed victim is dating Jefferson's baby daddy, according to the Baltimore Sun.

When did "baby daddy" enter the lexicon of acceptable usage?

I realize "baby daddy" is a convenient short form for "someone Jefferson hooked up with, and got pregnant by, out of wedlock and probably then went right onto welfare", but really.

The term not only makes it acceptable for a man to forgo his responsibilities after fathering a child, but also condones this very destructive behavior of casual and unthinking reproduction and creates a continuing cycle of dependency and reinforcement of a series of poor decisions.

Some people suffer from extremely poor impulse control in many areas of their lives.

In addition to the assault charge, I'm surprised the prosecutor didn't up the ante and charge her with creation and use of a weapon of mass destruction because of the toxic gas she created.