That's it! We are turning the car around!

That's it! We are turning the car around!

written by Betty, Cedric, Elaine, Rebecca, Ruth, Wally, Ava and C.I. 

Poor sport and loser Riley Gaines took her foot stomping whine fest to the Senate on Wednesday.  She wants the world to know that she is just suffering so and her life might be different if she had a scholarship and, boo-hoo, life was never fair to her (those who've seen her face would agree).  It's this, it's that.  It's a never-ending whine that goes on for years and years and years about how this could have happened or that could have happened.  By golly, she could have been somebody!

Yes, Riley, and if every other US swimmer dropped dead tomorrow,  you might have a shot at making it to the Olympics.  

Well . . . 

At warming a bench at the Olympics while others compete. 

Her poor sport and cry baby attitude requires that we review a few basics -- warning, we have our parent faces on -- our serious parent faces on.  Go ahead, gather round.

Public school, K-12: you are not promised anything with regards to sports and school and if sports at public schools are going to be this divisive then federal funds do not have to go to your athletics.

Taxpayers do not have to pay for your sports.

We have to pay for a child's education -- and should -- but we do  not have to pay for sports.  "B-b-b-but physical education?"  P.E. can be done with jazzercise or with kickball games or by walking laps around a track or by any other number of ways.  There is no guarantee that you will go to school and play on a team or do a solo competitive sport.

Riley Gaines does not want to share.  It is invading her space, she whines in that annoying and insufferable voice.  

Fine.

Then let's just pull it all, pull all the damn funding.

If you  see your kids griping and yelling at each other over some game or toy, what do you do?  You pull it from them and tell them if they cannot play nice, they do not have to play at all.

If it is just too much for Riley Gaines and other crybabies to  handle and they refuse to conduct themselves appropriately, pull sports funding.

They can do p.e. activities.  

Then what happens?  

If you have sports, then you privatize youth sports.

This would mean females would suffer, yes.  You better believe that communities will pony up private funds and donations to have a boys'  football team.  After that, in the United States, every other sport is at risk.    Are you behaving this way because that's what you want?  Because that's what you could get.  

Leave it up to local communities on whether they want to fund raise for/dig into their own pockets to have this sport or that sport.

If you cannot play nice, you do not deserve to have America pay for you to play at all.  

Again, people can walk for a P.E. course, they can lift weights for P.E., they can play kick ball -- there are any number of activities that they can do.  And should do if all they are going to do is whine and, worse, act entitled.  

For the record, no one ever said  you deserved -- or were owed or promised -- a scholarship to an educational institution.  Do you not grasp that?  It is nowhere to be found in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution. 

 College is an educational institution.  

"B-b-b-but, no fair, I worked so hard!"

No, you didn't.  You played a game or swam or did some activity that you liked.  That really is not "hard work"  in terms of an education.  

You are not owed anything and this misguided belief that your are is really out of control.

So the answer may be:  No taxpayer money for public school sports.  None.  Zero.   If groups want to have sports, they can fund raise for them and, since they are the ones doing the fundraising, they can do whatever they want.  

"What will we do?"

You will get P.E. classes and that is it.  A robust public education does not require any sports teams.

It only takes one bad apple, as the saying goes.  That would be Riley Gaines.  She does not want to play nice.  We do not want to be extorted. 

She has done real damage with her 'testimony' -- including 'testifying'  about things she was not present for but 'knows' happened.  

Maybe she spent too much on sports when she should have focused on learning?

She didn't 'testify.'  The word for what she offered was -- see if you can get it right --  hearsay.  It's not a new word.  It's not a new application of the word.   

In the future, it would be good if Congressional committees would remind witnesses to confine themselves to sharing what they actually saw or, you know, witnessed -- hence the term "witness."

Riley has portrayed adult women as ready-to-grasp-the-vapors over a glimpse of genitalia -- as being weaker than ten Lindsay Graham's combined.  Ten!  Riley's convinced that men are going to pretend to be trans women so that they can sneak some peaks and maybe get a little locker room action.  We think she's seen too many AMERICAN PIE movies.  

If she is right and women are as damn weak and pathetic as she portrays them to be, guess that means all Seth MacFarlane's insulting remarks about women's sports (especially basketball) in one episode after another of FAMILY GUY must be true.

We didn't realize that those competing in sports were so delicate and fragile.  Now that we do realize it, thanks to Riley Gaines, the best thing to do would really be: Zero out funding for sports.  Again, phy ed  is a requirement of any solid education program.  And walking, kickball and assorted other activities can be utilized with no cost to taxpayers -- and without upsetting Riley Gaines.  She never need again worry again that she might have almost won.  

She wants to play the victim so let's let her.  And, who knows, maybe someone will fund a team sport for The Victim Olympis in her own community and she can finally be crowned by something other than the equivalent of a participation trophy.

We do know we're getting damn tired of money going to sports with no appreciation and no proof that lessons to be a good sport took and sunk in.   

Now that's it.  Get to bed.  No dessert for misbehaving children, go on, brush your teeth and get to bed right now.  Tomorrow, after you've slept on it, we'll address this again to see if you've found a little more gratitude, a little less greed  and a lot more common sense.