OS evidently tweaked a few noses last week when he held forth about a little dust-up at Baylor University in Texas.
He concluded, and still does, that the administration is doing the right thing, and that the world runs better when it is run by the grown-ups.
One of OS's favorite grown-ups is Dean Dad, who administers a community college he has to keep held together with chewing gum and baling wire, because it is flooded with students and less cash arrives from the state every year to do the job.
He also balances that task with his life as a husband and father, which blessedly come first. He writes with humor and elegance about his daily journey of pragmatically addressing ReallyBigProblems with the modest resources of at hand. He's a real grown-up.
(Hopefully, if Dean Dad reads this, he won't be crying in despair that someone like OS pays him such public compliment.)
Therefore, OS scribbles this, and launches it to the digital tides, hoping that the undergrads at Baylor will pause a bit, and consider what the grownups have to do daily to keep the place running smoothly, so the undergrads can complain about just how mistreated they are. Go ahead, click that link above, and read about Dean Dad's day. OS dares you.
Damn, kids! You're at Baylor! One of the gems of Texas! Do you know how many kids at Dean Dad's college would trade body parts to have your opportunities? And how many kids who can't even make it to community college would do likewise for that opportunity? Within a ten-minute walk of your dorms in Waco, OS suspects there are students who need tutors, and public schools who would gladly welcome you in to help some eight-year-old learn how to read English and do his multiplication tables, so he can maybe, in 2021, have the opportunities you now enjoy. Maybe, just maybe, it's a better expenditure of your adolescent energies.
Grow up, and you can be a grown-up like Dean Dad one day. It's a noble goal.
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