We had just finished a session of the state testing and we were all feeling foolish. For some reason that history does not record I started singing as I walked down the hall, “I feel pretty, oh, so pretty...” One of the girls squealed, “Oh, that is from a movie.” I was impressed until she opened her mouth again, “The movie ‘Anger Management’.”
I tried to explain that it was from a musical called “West Side Story.” She was having none of it. For the rest of her life she will think that “I Feel Pretty” is from a video she saw at school. I keep trying to tell these kids that someday their ignorance will keep them from getting a job or a promotion. They don’t believe me. I hope she can manage her anger when things are not pretty.
Ignorance grows exponentially.
homo unius libri
It's so very sad.
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