Forget learning how to balance a checkbook . . . you’re going to memorize those effing 10 commandments, or else!

Photo above - congress debating why America has a $34 trillion national debt. "Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie"

Memorize the 10 commandments! Sez who? Or what?

Apparently, your diploma might be at risk. Louisiana’s Christian Governor Jeff Landry has made it clear that he expects “strict compliance” with the new ten commandments classroom rule. Because it’s an 11th commandment straight from the mouth of politicians.

This will be astonishing, if Landry makes good on his threat. Right now – in almost every school district – you can get a diploma without knowing ANYTHING. Covid 19 proved this. For several years no students were held back for any reason. Offerings of 1 hour a day of online instruction were ignored. Those free PCs were evidently pawned, vandalized, or used for online gaming. Here’s your diploma. Good luck getting a job. Amazon always needs more pickers.

What do most schools NOT have? Any requirement for financial literacy. When was the last time you heard a kid complaining “Oh geeze, I forgot to do my checkbook balancing homework”. Or asking mom for help? (“Go ask your father. Math is hard.”)

If you don’t think ignorance of addition and subtraction is a risk, I can give you 34 trillion reasons why you’re wrong. Each year hundreds of bills are proposed in congress, with no idea how much they will cost, or how they will be paid for.

There USED to be courses in how to make change from a dollar. Store checkouts are now mostly card readers. And shoppers barely glance at the bottom line, since they don’t have to pay with actual money - just plastic. “How to make change” was replaced with “how to comply with police during arrest and detainment” in some schools. Which brought howls of outrage from some parents, and sighs of relief from others, because their kid will explicitly have been told not brandish that replica pistol at police and curse. Like the kid in New York who did last week, and was shot immediately. Maybe he was absent from school that day, or it they didn’t get to it during 1 hour a day of internet instruction?

Here's another effect of American schools refusal to teach financial literacy : the Student Loan Crisis. Couldn’t there be just ONE SEMESTER of loan basics in the senior year? “If you borrow $90,000, your monthly payment will be $500 a month for 40 years.” We don’t let kids drink liquor or sign up for credit cards at age 18, but they can commit themselves to a lifetime of student loan debt. It’s at $2 Trillion now, and growing.

Some parents are already suing over the 10 commandments law. Evidently jews/ Parents filed at least 3 lawsuits last week in Louisiana alone. Will America's Muslims join this suit, or oppose it because it was launched by Zionists? And if Muslims get control of some school system, will they pass an order requiring the posting of Quranic verses like: “Men are the maintainers of women . . .good women are therefore obedient . . . if you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them. Surely Allah is Great.” What would Buddhists require kids to memorize? Possibly their famous aphorism “Pain is inevitable”?

But that’s the future. Today, in Louisiana, and probably some other states soon, you will have to be able to know what “Thou shalt not bear false witness” means. Which actually might be a good idea, if you’re a politician running for office, or participating in a televised debate.

I’m just sayin’ . ..