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I don't very often get calls for encores, but when I read the poem of an Idaho school official a while back, I got a flutter request to repeat it so, encore. Today I'm going to bring you The Superintendent's Dilemma. I'll be right back.
 
Sometimes I sit and ponder long<BR />
&emsp;About my work and life.<BR />
And wonder why in school nowdays<BR />
&emsp;There's so much stress and strife.<BR />

And then I realize the job<BR />
&emsp;Is not like yesterdays-<BR />
I'm simply flunky now for guys<BR />
&emsp;With the "innovation" craze.<BR />

There's Federal projects, grants and gifts.<BR />
&emsp;And piece-meal funding, too.<BR />
It leaves no time to teach the kids<BR />
&emsp;And things that I should do.<BR />

I try to walk the tightrope<BR />
&emsp;Betwixt the courts of law<BR />
And not get tangled up with rights<BR />
&emsp;Of Junior, Pa and Ma.<BR />

Some will tell you this will work.<BR />
&emsp;And others say It won't;<BR />
Truth is, you'll get h—— If you do.<BR />
&emsp;And twice h—— if you don't.<BR />

Operations in the schools<BR />
&emsp;Must pass the acid test<BR />
Of OSHA, HEW and C.L.U.<BR />
&emsp;And all the pesky rest.<BR />

There's Civil Rights and Human Rights,<BR />
&emsp;And Women's Rights galore;<BR />
I wonder what uncertainties<BR />
&emsp;The future holds in store?<BR />

Boys and girls dress alike.<BR />
&emsp;You can't tell one from t'other.<BR />
If you should need to know the sex<BR />
&emsp;You'd have to ask its mother.<BR />

In clothes and jobs and hair and such.<BR />
&emsp;You can't discriminate.<BR />
It makes you wonder how a boy<BR />
&emsp;Knows just which one to date.<BR />

The high court Judges see no "diff"<BR />
&emsp;Between a her and him.<BR />
Methinks their years are catching up-<BR />
&emsp;Their sight has grown too dim.<BR />

Give me the good old-fashioned days<BR />
&emsp;When gals were gals-not men.<BR />
For all that femininity<BR />
&emsp;I kinda get a yen.<BR />

The liberals say, "Don't frustrate the child<BR />
&emsp;With disciplined control.<BR />
Just let him loose to do his thing<BR />
&emsp;And play his chosen role."<BR />

But he'll waste time and life and limb<BR />
&emsp;And ruin others' lot.<BR />
And think he's having lots of fun<BR />
&emsp;On drugs and "grass" and "pot".<BR />

His right to freedom, speech and work<BR />
&emsp;He'll take or leave at will.<BR />
And little care for public folks<BR />
&emsp;Who have to pay the bill.<BR />

The federal "help" I get from Unc(le)—<BR />
&emsp;I Just can't stand much more.<BR />
With tax, red tape and interest rates.<BR />
&emsp;I'm getting too dang poor.<BR />

If you should try the federal way<BR />
&emsp;Of deficits and debt.<BR />
You'd find an I.R.S. man<BR />
&emsp;A looking down your neck.<BR />

I'm somewhat like the school Supt.<BR />
&emsp;Who tried without success<BR />
To stem the tide of "Fed" control,<BR />
&emsp;And all that meddling mess.<BR />

They'd told him how to cook the lunch.<BR />
&emsp;And how to run the school.<BR />
And threatened to withhold his funds<BR />
&emsp;If he should break the rule.<BR />

He finally threw his hands up<BR />
&emsp;And said. "I'm sick and tired<BR />
Of all this ruckus, do's and don'ts—<BR />
&emsp;I'll quit before I'm fired."<BR />

And so he got a HUD house<BR />
&emsp;With little rent to pay,<BR />
And lived on welfare's "easy street"<BR />
&emsp;The Socialistic way.<BR />

The moral of this story is:<BR />
&emsp;If you can't buck the tide<BR />
Crawl on the craft of "easy life"<BR />
&emsp;And take a leisure ride.<BR />

When the public folks have had enough<BR />
&emsp;Of all this liberal rot,<BR />
They'll start to call a spade a spade<BR />
&emsp;And things will really "pop".<BR />

Well that's our encore. The reading once again of the poem The Superintendent's Dilemma, that was written by an Idaho school official and he really knew what he was talking about. Maybe the rest of us should pay attention because we could each have a poem too.

This is Ronald Reagan. 

Thanks for listening.

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