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tchookem

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  1. Has anyone gotten an update on grave location?
  2. That's a bummer. Guess it wasn't as popular as I thought.
  3. Newseum in DC - took a group of 8th graders on a tour before it opened so not everything was available. It was still really impressive and the kids enjoyed it. That was over 10 years ago. I assume it's gotten better since. Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia - I really appreciated the whole experience. Tells the story very well as you progress through thre museum. Valley Forge NHP - They were working on the visitor center when we were there, so we missed a lot, but the replicas are great and allow for interaction for the kids (and adults) Jamestowne NHS - great reconstruction right on the water. Rangers were great story tellers. Still a working archaeology dig so that's neat to watch Very Underrated... Palo Alto Battlefield NHS in Brownsville - they do a great job interpreting a complicated topic. Battlefield is a nice walk and very informative. They do a great job despite not getting nearly the financial support that other sites get.
  4. Lynchings are tough call. 7th graders are all over ther place maturity-wise and it's possible that one kid can completely derail the conversation for 29 others (kinda like this message board). Most of the time its covered in generalities: "there was discrimination", "many faced violence and had property taken". Sometimes you have to wait and let the high school get into the brutal details.
  5. Naturally the solution is finding a private/ charter school that better matches their worldview (with accompanying voucher). I'm only half kidding when I say this is another piece in privatizing public education puzzle.
  6. It's part of my 7th grade TX History class. This year I struggled with the decision of how to cover this document over Zoom. You never know how many are giving 100% of their attention, how many are giving half their attention, and how many parents are going to walk in just in time to hear me say Africans are "an inferior and dependent race". I wasn't sure I wanted to even bother. In the end I decided to do my thing the best I could and let the chips fall where they may. How many genuinely learned anything? Who knows? But then again that was pretty much the story of this school year.
  7. You're suspicions are correct. I'd only add that it's less about the kids' comfort levels and more about the parents' comfort levels when confronted with difficult questions from their kids. Of course parents should be teaching kids HOW to have those difficult conversations, but difficult conversations are difficult. Unfortunately, it's not enough for them to avoid difficult conversations, they have to make sure EVERY kid avoids difficult conversations. Never underestimate the lengths (some) parents will go to so they can avoid parenting.
  8. No, he should do his act IN the road.
  9. The past couple years have been a windfall for funny, smart, and attractive ladies. It's a good time to be a guy.
  10. Well this is the political COVID thread. I'd say that there was a lot of mismanagement of COVID. The people managing COVID at the start were Republicans. One of the areas they mismanaged was schools. My bigger point was that poor children routinely get the screw, COVID isn't really any different, it just made issues worse. Living in Texas, the Republicans have controlled education my entire life. If someone doesn't care about how they've screwed over poor kids pre-COVID, forgive me if I don't take that person seriously when they complain about how kids stree getting screwed over now.
  11. Poor children were getting screwed long before COVID. COVID just amplified everything. Republicans decided to turn the amps up to 11.
  12. But just imagine how owned those cancel culture socialists feel right now.
  13. It also completely misses the point that they acknowledged the problem and have since fixed it. Unlike thre current issue, which apparently isn't going away.
  14. They're already refusing to play well for Texas.
  15. It's about justifying their worldview. If they can force everyone back, that means they were right, because the winners are always right. Which means that they were right all along... about everything. Everything would have been fine if the Libs hadn't made it so political.
  16. It's not enough for them to have their kids back in school, they have to force everyone's kids back in school. Owning the libs and all.
  17. More like 20 years... shit 40 years. Reagan only put a decent face on it.
  18. Probably cost more than the amount owed. That is his MO with handling lawsuits.
  19. I cannot imagine something more pathetic than a grown-ass man taking the time to create multiple accounts on a message board for the purpose of having arguments with yourself about politics. I waste a lot of my day, but if I'm ever doing that, take away my phone.
  20. Not national, but... yeah https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kxan.com/investigations/lawsuit-former-williamson-county-sheriff-robert-chody-incentivized-abuses-with-steakhouse-gift-cards/amp/ “Pisa was shocked when he was asked to resign as he believed he was going to be rewarded with a steakhouse gift card"
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