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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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15 minutes ago, DanRydell said:
My girlfriend's department lost 10 out of 21 teachers (at a "destination" suburban district) after last year. 9 of those 10 left education altogether while the 10th moved out of the area to another school due a spouse's job change.
This is all by design. The students are the ones paying the price for the greed of the Boomer generation who cannot keep their hand out of the financial cookie jar.
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On 7/2/2022 at 2:11 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:
For most districts, I believe that is under a different revenue stream than say funding teacher positions. Most buildings are built through bonds.
Bond elections decide most of these stadiums. The implication and appearance of having these absolutely worthless monoliths to go and worship teenagers is that states like Texas put a high premium on sports and not education. Try and tell someone a school district in Texas spent 60 million on a football stadium and wait for the incredulous look you’ll get.
We are dumbing down an entire generation across the country with the lack of funding for public school education. Charter schools are only exacerbating this crisis. If you are associated with a charter or send your child to one shame on you for being part of the greatest monetary scam in the history of education in our country. You are putting money in the pockets of people who want to completely destroy public schools beyond repair.
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On 7/5/2022 at 12:38 PM, wreckatx said:LOL...that's the talking point. The point is to give tax dollars back to the rich white people who contribute to Republicans and already have their children in religious private schools. That is the origin of "school choice."
This right here. This is what “charter schools” are all about. They are taking our tax dollars while completely undereducating children on purpose.
I am going to give a specific example. This past year I did Teach for America. I imagine that many here are familiar with this organization and others like it. I was placed in a 4th grade charter school classroom as the special education teacher. FIFTEEN of the TWENTY-FIVE kids in that class in Washington Heights read at a first grade level. There was exactly one that read above grade level. Most of them could not legibly write or do simple math equations. The social studies curriculum was made up on the fly by one of the teachers because there was none. To say I was incensed at what I walked into and witnessed is an understatement. Instead of focusing on better ways to reach the kids socially and emotionally to help bridge this massive education divide we had pointless meeting after pointless meeting that was an apropos of nothing. I lack the ability to hide what I think and I asked the principal a question I knew the answer to. I knew it would lead to me leaving. I asked her “Who was responsible for passing these kids each year when they clearly were learning nothing? She said “I make the final decision to pass them” I told her “Exactly. You failed these students educationally and it is on you that they are so far behind. You cannot blame COVID for something from 2018 and 2019.”
I left and have since decided that the best way I ca help these children is through finishing a degree in Clinical and Mental Health. I discovered I could connect with them through SEL learning sessions. The school bully went from walking in and ignoring me and doing whatever he wanted to within three months he came in everyday and gave me a hug and wanted to sit and do math with me as much as he could.
I say all of that to say that these children are capable of learning and one day overhauling a system designed to fail them. We all have to do what we can to aid them in whatever way we can. The priority should be pushing back on charters and getting more funding back to public schools as a starting point.
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It bears mentioning again that our education system in the public sector is absolutely designed to fail. While the machine was put in motion long before Betsy DeVos was destroying it in the storefront window, seeing her killing public schools should’ve been a wake up call for all of us to do something. I include myself in the group that has not and did not do enough to stop the spread of charter/money grab clownshow that these schools are.
We are underfunding and undereducating millions of our youth and it is on purpose. The tool that should be the most important thing every child has is a stellar education. We should collectively be ashamed that we are giving them something that resembles a 3rd World education.
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18 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
So much this. I just...god dammit. All the talk on this thread of how he keeps his cool and is able to complete a rational message despite being interviewed by a pot of soup just doesn't matter.
Being upset about it probably accomplishes little. You just do what you can in your own life to change things and that’s it. We all get one shot at life. I have no desire to argue with these folks or put them down. If they want to live a life filled with hatred for others and be miserable then by all means let ‘em have at it. When you feel angry and upset about things done by these folks it just pulls you into their world where they feel comfort in a really disastrous construct.
I am still glad though that there are decent human beings like Buttigieg out there. He is using the platform he has to do as much good as possible and in most cases his work is helping those who hate him whether they realize it or not. That’s a true public servant in my opinion.
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7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:
When he first came on the scene, I read a story about him. His parents were both Professors at Notre Dame. His father is from Malta. He was known to speak several languages; a half-dozen by some accounts.
So, here's the story. A prominent South Bend newspaperwoman was having lunch with a friend in a South Bend restaurant. Mayor Pete happened to walk by their table and stopped to say hello. He was, of course, acquainted with the newswoman. She says hello, and introduces her friend, her old college roomie, who was from Norway. Pete immediately starts chatting up the roomie in Norwegian.
The newswoman, who knew Pete's background well, basically says "motherfucker, you have no connection whatsoever to Norway, how do you speak the language?"
Pete explains that he came upon a great book from a Norwegian author, and he enjoyed it so much he sought out more works from the same guy. But, he found that only the book he had already read had been translated into English. So, he fucking learned a new, exotic language so he could read a few books.
Our last president could not read the literary works of Dr. Seuss.
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4 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:
he's also a smart motherfucker.
Oh exceptionally intelligent. The person that can make their point without having to yell at the top of their lungs is the person I would like to see lead this country.
I have a boss right now that is just awesome. I was talking to a co-worker and the way I described our boss was he never has to tell you he’s in charge. He’s confident in who he is as a person and that rubs off on people. I see the same qualities in Buttigieg. He can lead and set the example and do so while being mild-mannered throughout.
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51 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
It’s what we in the business call “executive presence”.
Remember he went to a finishing school (McK).
He’s what I would call a very empathetic human being that genuinely cares about the job he has. That is extremely rare to see someone in politics actually take it seriously and be a public servant.
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14 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Well he’s not wrong. The teams paying a tax should be the ones intentionally losing year after year and not the ones trying to field a good or even great team year after year.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
I love Harden quitting on two teams within 18 months, being on the wrong side of 30, playing like shit for an entire season, then talking up how he's going to sign a team-friendly deal with the 6ers before inking 2 years $68 million. Like anyone in their right mind thinks that you're worth more than $34M per at this point.
Yesterday I mistakenly made a friendly bet with a longtime friend that Harden would finally make an unselfish decision. I owned up to being wrong and gotta do some push-ups…lol. I’ll do more push-ups to pay up on this bet than Harden has done in the last five years.
The Sixers are not serious about winning if you give that player that amount of money when he is, at best, your 3rd best player. It’s not even a given that he is that on a nightly basis since he flat out refuses to give even the bare minimum effort on the defensive end.
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55 minutes ago, kibbles said:
what is his ceiling? sec of state?
I won’t put a ceiling on him. So much of his future in the political realm will be determined in the next 5-7 years though. If he were married to a woman he would have a cakewalk to the presidency. If society ever moves past that ridiculous hang-up about who he loves then the top office in the land is within his reach. It’s sad that that still can determine his future and the impact he can make on this country.
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2 hours ago, Gap03 said:
Jesus Christ, Texas ... so many fucking embarassments.
I have stopped telling people I grew up in Texas. That right there is a good reason why.
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I have a friend at work that is making plans to possibly leave for the UK if the 2024 election has Trump elected again. One of his sons just graduated from the Royal Conservatory in Scotland this summer and now lives in London. He said if there were a way to go now he would. We have talked at length and the amount of crazy is not worth dealing with for him and his family.
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2 hours ago, Helobious said:
I think it is probably time to waive Gallo. He has turned into Chris Davis at the plate. Putting him in the lineup hurts the offense. Kinda similar to having to watch Higashioka bat as well. Find a good backup catcher to replace him at the deadline.
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1 hour ago, Helobious said:
Jesus, Chris Sale just got completely fucked by a line drive. Looked ugly. Dude can’t catch a break at all anymore.
Aww man that just sucks for him. You never want to see guys get injuries. I am sure Hicks, of all people, can greatly empathize with injuries derailing a season.
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9 hours ago, Helobious said:
Funny thing to post on a night they won 14-1.
Yankee Stadium is a perfect place for Carpenter to play. To go from the couch to the best team in baseball and being a big contributor is pretty cool, especially after how his tenure in St. Louis ended.
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Just to clarify here. Mexicans are evil and many should be sent back to Mexico because, reasons, but the second a comparison is made to the best breakfast food ever invented now they are people and deserve respect from what was, by all accounts, a positive statement. Do I have that correct?
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1 hour ago, Bullneck said:
Oh unknown, huh? Let’s take three guesses on who ordered the text message sent and the first three don’t count.
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Just now, Mdhorn said:
and Mitch, who appointed them.
Go after him too. He shares responsibility for the destabilization of our government. He put it right there in the storefront window by lying to a camera. I would have those justices removed and replaced and who cares what a single cult member thinks. It is going to take some drastic action that President Biden is not interested in.
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7 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:
Trump also left the march to the capitol portion out of his written draft and added it during the speech, even though pillow guy and others knew it was coming. The fear was that it would mobilize others to shut it down.
If Trump has any evidence of fraud, now might be the time to come out with it. At this point, he can't continue beating that drum without proof. He built a whole case without any evidence, creating a riot where lives were lost. He's destabilizing elections going forward and raising campaign money on the lie, but surely his followers would require something? Are they that damn brain dead that they blindly follow a fat fuck that doesn't even lead--just points to a cliff.
It’s a cult. Had two guests at work yesterday that said it pretty distinctly. Everyone here knows it is a cult, but the people in it don’t know until it is too late.
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27 minutes ago, immamac said:
If the DOJ doesn't indict after all this stuff then America is fucked and the people who can do something about it are choosing not to do anything about it.
DOJ should prosecute under the fullest extent of the law and let the Supreme Court get exposed, don't just refuse because you know that the SC will toss it.
The excuse that is routinely given is we all need to come together as a country. In this case that doesn’t fly, at all. Every single person involved needs the book thrown at them.
As far as the Supreme Court, we’ll, they are a lost cause. Justices lie under oath with no consequences. The Democrats need to find a firebrand that’ll go after those justices.
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7 hours ago, CooterBrown said:
Everyone is crazy. This was solid. Thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. There were a few cringy things like Bao or the head and foot god but those were few and far between.
I really enjoyed it. If you go see a movie directed by Taika Waititi you should expect the movie to be funny and silly. He’s a grown up kid living out his dreams. These movies are not just made for the adults and I think that is where there is a disconnect. This movie was as much for kids as the adults. I left the movie happy and in a great mood because it was uplifting and positive.
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I think that most of the reasons stated here that didn’t come from Qanon sites or Fox News have merit. The social safety net will collapse sooner rather than later and when that happens good luck to any country that is standing on that bridge when it blows up.

The destruction of America's public education system
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I do not think that any of these zealot Christian school prayer warriors realize that they have opened schools to EVERY religion to try and do the same thing in schools. Unintended consequences and whatnot. I hope I see Rainn Wilson standing in front of a school in some rural East Texas school district promoting the Baha’i faith.