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In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there a
I'd say most teachers are fairly compensated for their job description, but woefully undercompensated for the reality of their job every day. Too much unpaid overtime and way too much physical and emotional suffering compared to a teacher even 20 years ago. The variance between districts is also quite extreme. Some places that start teachers out at $15/hr are willfully and intentionally torpedoing their future, but I think those are outliers.
Schools invariably have too many administrators who spend too much time cooking the books and making excuses instead of delivering hard truths to parents and supporting their front-liners.
This is going to get so, so, so much worse as we learn how much damage is being done by raising babies with tablets and letting young kids spend all their time being entertained by TikTok and YouTube.
We're graduating adults from high school who cannot sign their own name. By 2020, only a third of all graduates in the US were proficient at reading and writing. Only a quarter were proficient at math.
Foreign teachers who have moved to the United States and stayed in the profession will tell you all day long that 80% of the kids they're teaching now wouldn't have been allowed into their class back home.
The chronic absenteeism rate for Milwaukee Public Schools in 2024 was 58%. It's hard enough to educate a child who doesn't want to be taught, but if they aren't even in the building, you have no shot whatsoever.
Why is this guy so cringe? lol
For every Trisha Hope, there's a counterpart who walks around in a "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO" shirt.Then you've got checkisdraw up here with his revisionist history about the online donation campaign race-battle. The first mover on that was the black kid who killed the white kid over a seating dispute at a high school sporting event being given hundreds of thousands of dollars
This would imply democrats would have elected , twice, a character like trump.
What are your comparable example of such individual that democrats would put as a president ?
If it’s really comparable you know ?
Contrary to you I believe there is a limit democrats wouldn’t cross while republicans would , and did, but maybe I’m wrong ….
For every Trisha Hope, there's a counterpart who walks around in a "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO" shirt.Then you've got checkisdraw up here with his revisionist history about the online donation campaign race-battle. The first mover on that was the black kid who killed the white kid over a seating dispute at a high school sporting event being given hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Meet the new extremist rightwing party Sanseito (=Do It Yourself) in Japan which runs on a platform against wheat (purportedly, western poison introduced to weaken the japanese master race), among other conspiracies promoted
https://x.com/Nihonpolitics/status/19431...
They have elections (upper house) 10 days from now.
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They oppose globalisation, LGBTQ rights, women's right to work (Kamiya said during an election rally that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of pursuing a career, describing gender equality policies as “misleading”😉, immigration and nuclear energy, and call for agricultural self-sufficiency.
I mean, that's a factor for sure but I'm not sure I agree with everything here.I think it's worth our money to do everything we can to lift up children. Even if it means one out of every 100. If we can break the cycle that pays off generationally. It's super expensive but it seems to me that if we put enough resources into it, the costs go down over time.I just think educati
But it would cost almost no money to make schools like they were 20+ years ago.
The main thing it would take is a complete ban on children phones on school property. It would almost certainly result in a large increase in l learning as well as in mental health.
I've been reading the book "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt with my book club; it's quite illuminating of the subject.
But it would cost almost no money to make schools like they were 20+ years ago.The main thing it would take is a complete ban on children phones on school property. It would almost certainly result in a large increase in l learning as well as in mental health.I've been reading the book "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt with my book club; it's quite illuminating of th
I would support that.
But it would cost almost no money to make schools like they were 20+ years ago.The main thing it would take is a complete ban on children phones on school property. It would almost certainly result in a large increase in l learning as well as in mental health.I've been reading the book "The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt with my book club; it's quite illuminating of th
Then you get a school shooting episode and parents go completly crazy because the kids can't tell them they are alive immediatly and they get the cellphones back. As they say, "you can't put the djinn back in the bottle".
What you can try is a very strict policy of no cellphone in the classroom during lesson, but not allowing cellphones in backpacks isn't going to pass
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Public school spending doesn’t have much to do with degreesBut yeah, spending money on students isn’t going to want to make them learn. If they aren’t instilled with a curiosity at home most people won’t learn it at school.We’ve basically removed all burden of parenting from the parents, blame our teachers and our school systems, then harp on parents rights like these pieces of
this so much
plus most of that money goes to facilities and athletic fields
Then you get a school shooting episode and parents go completly crazy because the kids can't tell them they are alive immediatly and they get the cellphones back. As they say, "you can't put the djinn back in the bottle".
What you can try is a very strict policy of no cellphone in the classroom during lesson, but not allowing cellphones in backpacks isn't going to pass
Yeah, many parents are crazy that way. But I don't think it's impossible at all. It is impossible for teachers to do their primary job of teaching while also effectively policing rules against taking a phone out of your pocket or backpack.
I'm closely following the issue because I just read a book on the subject and the governor of Oregon is currently pushing for a policy of no phones in schools for the entire state.
It may be out of desperation as Oregon has one of the highest spending on public schools in the country, but are near the bottom on test performance. But I sure hope it goes through and we can find out what happens.
Then you get a school shooting episode and parents go completly crazy because the kids can't tell them they are alive immediatly and they get the cellphones back. As they say, "you can't put the djinn back in the bottle".
What you can try is a very strict policy of no cellphone in the classroom during lesson, but not allowing cellphones in backpacks isn't going to pass
lol you are so disingenuous. I made this same objection about outlier cases about immigration and you called me a soy boy/woman. you just say whatever is convenient to you at the time.
lol you are so disingenuous. I made this same objection about outlier cases about immigration and you called me a soy boy/woman. you just say whatever is convenient to you at the time.
? some political stuff work like that I mentioned airplanes, regulations are 500x what they should be because people are crazy about them, obsessed by plane crashes.
these days the same would be true if they can't hear from their kids for 9-10 hours during an emergency.
I also said democrats are right to try the emotional line, only reason it can't work is trump has 3.5 years yet and can't run again so he won't care even if polls move against him on deportations
lol, he was a US high school student who was born in Uganda. This is ****ing dumb even by your normal standards.
is Elon Musk African American?
look, obv Mamdani was possibly very slightly shady as a 17 year old. but hes no Elizabeth Warren.
If Elon musk classified himself as African American at 21 it would have made sense.
There is a reason we use black for everything now
no it wouldnt have made sense. African American or black has certain connotations in the USA.
but that a 17 year old may have been slightly disingenuous on a lol college application possibly with the intention to give himself an advantage is the least deplorable part of this story.
i mean, it's a really dumb "scandal" considering that he didn't even get in, even though his dad was a prof there or whatever. but conservatives are the kings or really dumb manufactured fake scandals...
i mean, it's a really dumb "scandal" considering that he didn't even get in, even though his dad was a prof there or whatever. but conservatives are the kings or really dumb manufactured fake scandals...
its insanely dumb esp considering the way prospective college students are coached to embellish their accomplishments and all that.
and one interesting part is the NYT using leaked hacked data from a race scientist liar (redundant?) to go after Mamdani.
and it wouldnt be a news story without liberals getting it wrong and being ****ing annoying about it ofc. like herp derp hes from Uganda so hes technically African American jfc.
as usual everyone sucks and you can cue the Norm Mcdonald clip.
? some political stuff work like that I mentioned airplanes, regulations are 500x what they should be because people are crazy about them, obsessed by plane crashes.
You'll be (slightly) happy to know that starting next week, people boarding domestic flights in the US no longer have to remove their shoes while going through security.
The end to 24 years of foot oppression!
