high time we started to use a little common sense here. If you want to smoke pot (or do any other ellicit drugs for that manner) and be lazy, go ahead. But accept the consequences. I'm tired of handing over my paycheck to help the hopeless. Reform education. Start marking children who show drive, determination, and intelligence. Separate them out. Send them to college. Let them reap the rewards of their efforts. All the others can go to a suitable trade school after the 8th grade. There is no point in wasting time/money on kids who aren't going to achieve more than parts sorter/burger flipper/stay-at-home mommy. It makes NO SENSE and is a huge drain on our society to prop these kids up and waste time and money on crap like "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND". What a load of shit. Most people don't even learn suitable skills like reading a micrometer/calipers, filling out/understanding parts inspection forms, etc. in school -- you know, REAL LIFE APPLICATIONS. Why do we waste our time with "life skills" that teach kids how to balance checkbooks when they are too undisciplined to ever save enough money to keep a bank account with any money in it anyway? If a child has crappy low-life parents -- REMOVE THEM FROM THE HOME. My significant other heads up a small government agency aimed at saving money for the tax payers. It's callled Home Detention. The greatest problem I have with this is the fact the the government works