Meanwhile, down in Massachusetts, lawmakers are trying to pass a bill that will revoke a high school student's driver's license if he or she develops a tendency to skip class. It's a noble effort to get kids in the classroom. But it's a stopgap measure to educate the youth of America because we're failing earlier in the child's life. The problem is that couples have children and don't know how to take care of them. The problem is that youths are allowed to sit home and watch television or play video games the entire afternoon and evening because some parents are too lazy to do anything about it.
Most parents do a good job.
And it's not that parents can't have lives. But what people sometimes don't realize is that, once they have children, they have to set a good example for them to live by. I sat in the Fenway Park bleachers on opening day. There was a woman in the row behind me sitting next to her two children, yelling at fans, players and anyone who got in her way, while her embarrassed husband sat several seats down, asking her to stop. It's hard to say how many beers this woman had consumed, but the number was obviously too many.