This is an event designed for charity, where students placed boxes of donated cereal as if they were dominoes. Apparently, schools all over the United States participated.
Racine, Wisconsin’s Red Apple Elementary placed 7,000 boxes of cereal. Here is the story behind it:
Glad to see that property tax money is being spent so efficiently. See, the taxpayers of Racine Wisconsin are paying these schools to educate children and have every expectation that their money isn’t being wasted. Instead of learning, these kids are playing dominos, meanwhile the students at this school are only score 26% at or above proficiency in math compared to the Wisconsin state average of 40% to 55%. In reading, 38% proficient, with a state average as high as 53%, Science they scored 44% proficient, compared to the state average of 53%, and social studies saw them 50% proficient with a state average of 63%.
Other schools that participated in this are no better. Watervliet Elementary School in Watervliet, New York, should be more concerned that 33% of students are proficient in math, 33% in reading, and 28% in science.
In fact, our schools are a total waste of time and money. We are pouring money down a black hole, and have turned schools from a place of education into a taxpayer funded daycare center. Schools need to get back on task and stop wasting time and money on this shit.
The state AVERAGE is only about half of students know how to read, write, and perform arithmetic, and these schools can’t even manage that anemic standard.
It’s not just teachers. There are teachers who care and are quite good at what they do. Then there are the parents who just don’t give a shit. Students who tell teachers (quite literally) to go fuck themselves, and administrators who do absolutely nothing about it. Truancy laws are generally ignored, with about 22% of all students being chronically absent (meaning absent more than 10% of the time). In urban schools (which are overwhelmingly black), that number rises to more than 30% of students being chronically absent.
When the kids DO come to school, they spend their time playing dominos with cereal boxes instead of learning.
11 Comments
Elrod · October 10, 2026 at 11:47 am
Our country’s founders make a huge mistake by not including a mandate in the Constitution that “no government money shall be expended on education.”
Just like with an annual ~$6 trillion federal expenditure there’s so much money sloshing around in D.C. it attracts everyone who wants to grap a piece of it as it rolls by, the millions (billions?) of government money spent on education attracts everyone who wants their share of it, earned or not.
Were all education financing to come solely from the pockets of those using it, certainly fewer would participate (based on what’s coming out of elementary and secondary education – not to mention what’s claimed to be “higher ed” – these days, that would not be a significantly different result) and those who did would demand performance and results for their money.
Not too late for an amendment to correct the problem.
Fido · October 10, 2026 at 2:35 pm
No mistake: They absolutely *did* include exactly that mandate. The 10th ammendment, added *before* they would ratify it.
The constitution is *not* the problem: If people don’t care about it enough to even *read* it, then it’s just ink on paper. People are the problem, and the problem isn’t going away any time soon.
Cut yourself out of the herd *before* it goes over the cliff and drags you with it.
Grumpy51 · October 10, 2026 at 1:19 pm
I’m not sure our Founding Father’s could’ve predicted the stupidity and evil that this country would drop into. And we allowed Amendments above the limiting one (10th Amendment) on federal reach. WE own this, NOT our Founding Fathers…….
TRX · October 12, 2026 at 11:03 am
The Founding Fathers were not the good guys. They were a clique trying for an outright power grab. Take a look at some of the early versions of the Constitution sometime.
The only parts of the Constitution most Americans can recognize are the first ten amendments, which were the work of the Anti-Federalists, who opposed the Constitution that the Convention was drafting. The Anti-Federalists managed to delay ratification for a long time, but they weren’t organized like the Federalists, and eventually ran out of money and enthusiasm. The Founders bought them off with ten amendments, now collectively known as the Bill of Rights, which they promptly started violating as soon as the Constitution was ratified.
pcb_duffer · October 10, 2026 at 2:48 pm
I’ve got no problem if the State of … wants to fund their schools with taxpayer dollars, and even if that State wants to promote cereal box dominoes rather than actual Science, Math, & English. But as Grumpy51 indicates, the 10th Amendment clearly prohibits Uncle Sam from funding the schools. Alas, that Amendment seems to have evaporated from the minds of our jurists and law school professors.
Tom235 · October 11, 2026 at 7:22 am
One small step: Perhaps if the teachers themselves had a dress code requiring “professional” attire … Look professional, be professional.
Joe Blow · October 11, 2026 at 8:08 am
My youngest graduated HS last year. 11 years ago we moved our family 800 miles into the bible-belt in-part to finish their schooling. My grandkids will be home-schooled by my wife and I, if we are at all able to. The things that are being ‘normalized’ by public education aught to be criminal.
SmileyFtW · October 11, 2026 at 8:34 am
“…students at this school [are] only score 26% at or above proficiency in math…
[I]n reading, 38% proficient… science they scored 44% proficient…”
How does it work that the can’t do math (26%) yet are (supposedly) 44% proficient in science?
Divemedic · October 11, 2026 at 8:45 am
In elementary and middle school, there isn’t much math involved. It’s things like Earth/Space science in middle school.
TRX · October 12, 2026 at 11:09 am
In the 1970s when I was in high school they had a separate, parallel set of “remedial” classes, which was basically just make-work for the kids who were never going to learn it anyway, and some third-grade-level classes that had no official name, but were generally called “the football track.” The “athletes” had to have at least a 3.0 grade average, but most of them were dumb as rocks, so they got special classes that didn’t interfere with ball practice and were limited to things they could understand.
An A in Remedial Science (“This is a cloud. Clouds are light and fluffy. Which of the pictures shows a cloud?”) or Football Math (“This is a pocket calculator. It has buttons. You can push the buttons!”) counted the same as an A in Calculus 2 or Advanced English.
You can guess what track the valedictorian was on.
EC · October 14, 2026 at 5:52 pm
Stalin says: “When i come back, no more Mr. Nice Guy”
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