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42 minutes ago, NWBuck said:

Wanna bet this motherfucker thought it was spelled "golf" and was excited to go out and play 18?

 

hes played 9 times in 19 days. spent half his time in mir a lago 

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12 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Look for recently pardoned former NYC mayor, Eric Adams, to be nominated for some ambassadorship/post.  Trump spits in the face of justice and loves de-flowered Democrats who gladly cross over to the dark side.

He just wants to normalize corruption. 

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19 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

This fucktard is a reflection of what this country has become: a fucking cesspool of willfully ignorant shit heads.

This is really a poetic phrase. 

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I guess this goes here.  Big shock to me here is that Kid Rock is only 54?  He looks like hammered shit:

Page Six spies spotted Kid Rock and Rep. Lauren Boebert getting into a cab together in Washington, DC, at 2:30 a.m. as the parties celebrating the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term wound down.

https://pagesix.com/2025/02/11/celebrity-news/rep-lauren-boebert-spotted-getting-into-cab-with-kid-rock-at-2-30-a-m/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=pagesix

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45 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Big shock to me here is that Kid Rock is only 54?  He looks like hammered shit:

You’re actually surprised that Kid Rock hasn’t aged well? Did the “Kid” throw you off?

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9 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

Trump’s fractious relationship with the NFL predates the anthem controversy. Long a frustrated wannabe team owner, he made a failed attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014 in what turned into a fierce rivalry with a bid spearheaded by Jon Bon Jovi. And as the owner of the New Jersey Generals, a team in the defunct United States Football League, he led an ill-fated anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL in 1986 with the aim of forcing a merger. But he was feted by fans on a visit to a Pittsburgh Steelers game last October, while in his previous term as president he named the co-owner of the New York Jets, Woody Johnson, as ambassador to the UK.

The Republican wrote on Friday that it “WILL BE A GREAT GAME!!!” However, the state of relative calm between Trump and the NFL might be contingent on the musical entertainment and whether the Chiefs win their third successive title. The half-time show is not usually overtly political but this year it is headlined by the rapper Kendrick Lamar, whose 2015 track Alright was adopted by Black Lives Matter demonstrators. In 2017 he rapped: “Donald Trump is a chump”.

Trump, meanwhile, hailed the Chiefs on social media after their AFC Championship Game victory over the Bills a fortnight ago: “Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. What a GREAT Team, Coach, Quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic FANS, that voted for me (MAGA!) in record numbers.”

He also praised the Bills. But there was no mention of the Eagles thrashing the Washington Commanders earlier in the day. Philadelphia won the Super Bowl in 2018. That year Trump scrapped their invitation to the White House - an honor habitually afforded to the victorious team - after it became clear that almost none of the players or staff were willing to attend as a result of his divisive conduct. Last year Trump depicted the heavily-Democratic city as a crime-ravaged dystopia. Another Philadelphia victory might re-ignite hostilities and explode what appears to be an uneasy truce – or else offer more evidence that the sporting climate has shifted from resistance to acceptance.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/08/super-bowl-trump-end-racism-politics

I have hated the eagles since vermeil, carmichael & jaws

they are now my 2nd favorite team

There’s only one thing the Eagles need to do now, throw a victory party at 4 Seasons Landscaping

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1 minute ago, 'stache said:

Hahaha! When you’re too maga for the Governor of Oklahoma you might have over maga’d.

 

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What’s the straight story here? What did they do to warrant the firing?

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Just now, troph said:

What’s the straight story here? What did they do to warrant the firing?

As far as I’ve heard it started because the state education department media person’s press releases were all just maga nonsense. His broader statement mentions business so running theory is that business folks finally told him unequivocally that treating education like a texags politics board was bad for business especially since he campaigned on bringing new business to the state. Nobody wants to fucking move here with that bullshit and many of us are looking to leave.

 

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9 minutes ago, troph said:

What’s the straight story here? What did they do to warrant the firing?

 

Walters has done so many stupid ass things in his brief time in the spotlight that even the GOP House and Senate are tried of his shit, and have told Stitt it's far past time to rein him in.  So.....Stitt fired 3 of the board members (that Stitt appointed some time back) and is going to replace them with 3 new board members who aren't as....amendable to Walters.

Since the board has 5 members, you now have 3 who are anti-Walters.  Sure, they are MAGA as fuck, but this is going to hopefully curtail a lot of the stupid grandstanding shit Walters has done.

Oh, and Walters spokesman at the Department of Education was fired yesterday.  He's a piece of shit.

This is also getting in front of 2026; Stitt is term-limited, and although Walters hasn't announced, speculation was he may have ran for Governor.  

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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Walters has done so many stupid ass things in his brief time in the spotlight that even the GOP House and Senate are tried of his shit, and have told Stitt it's far past time to rein him in.  So.....Stitt fired 3 of the board members (that Stitt appointed some time back) and is going to replace them with 3 new board members who aren't as....amendable to Walters.

Since the board has 5 members, you now have 3 who are anti-Walters.  Sure, they are MAGA as fuck, but this is going to hopefully curtail a lot of the stupid grandstanding shit Walters has done.

Oh, and Walters spokesman at the Department of Education was fired yesterday.  He's a piece of shit.

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Thanks for the responses… good info to know.

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16 minutes ago, 'stache said:

For the record we’ve not always sucked at education. Last time we had a democrat as governor we were fucking 17th. I didn’t know the fall was all under that cunt Mattress Mary Fallin.

 

 

Fixt.

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16 hours ago, gernblansten said:

I can be pretty critical of TV shows, so it seemed like I should check out Lioness when I was told attractive ladies seem to start kissing out of nowhere and Zoe Saldana gets naked to make sure it was a well written, intellectual, factually accurate, true to life series. 

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When I was in high school in the 80s (Austin High, fuck Westlake), I felt like I had a very strong education. When I go back to schools to give talks, I feel like the quality has dropped like 75%. I'm not even sure they offer half the classes I had.

If course Mark White and Anne Richards were on office then. Since then we've had 3 jackasses...

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52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Hahaha! When you’re too maga for the Governor of Oklahoma you might have over maga’d.

 

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42 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Walters has done so many stupid ass things in his brief time in the spotlight that even the GOP House and Senate are tried of his shit, and have told Stitt it's far past time to rein him in.  So.....Stitt fired 3 of the board members (that Stitt appointed some time back) and is going to replace them with 3 new board members who aren't as....amendable to Walters.

Since the board has 5 members, you now have 3 who are anti-Walters.  Sure, they are MAGA as fuck, but this is going to hopefully curtail a lot of the stupid grandstanding shit Walters has done.

Oh, and Walters spokesman at the Department of Education was fired yesterday.  He's a piece of shit.

This is also getting in front of 2026; Stitt is term-limited, and although Walters hasn't announced, speculation was he may have ran for Governor.  

Francisco beat me to it...Stitt may be term limited, but the end result will be that he Under-MAGA'd, not over-MAGA'd. 

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5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

 

Francisco beat me to it...Stitt may be term limited, but the end result will be that he Under-MAGA'd, not over-MAGA'd. 

Another theory is that he wants the OSU president job since Kayse Shrum suddenly resigned last week under strange circumstances. He has the regents in the bag but might be trying to head off an all out revolt and exodus from the faculty. I would literally puke and support letting the faculty burn the fucking place to the ground if that happens.

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30 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:

When I was in high school in the 80s (Austin High, fuck Westlake), I felt like I had a very strong education. When I go back to schools to give talks, I feel like the quality has dropped like 75%. I'm not even sure they offer half the classes I had.

My daughter is in high school atm and has many more and higher quality options for course work that I had available to me in the 1990's in AISD. I am sure that it varies substantially by school district though. 

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3 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I guess this goes here.  Big shock to me here is that Kid Rock is only 54?  He looks like hammered shit:

Page Six spies spotted Kid Rock and Rep. Lauren Boebert getting into a cab together in Washington, DC, at 2:30 a.m. as the parties celebrating the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term wound down.

https://pagesix.com/2025/02/11/celebrity-news/rep-lauren-boebert-spotted-getting-into-cab-with-kid-rock-at-2-30-a-m/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=pagesix

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In other Kid Rock news (yes, I know we have a thread about him somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up):

Kid Rock Throws Tantrum Because No One Clapped for Him During Guest Appearance: ‘F–k Y’all’
The singer appeared during Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan’s birthday celebration in Nashville over the weekend, but didn’t warm to the crowd’s reception

At 54 years old, Kid Rock has not yet outgrown the tantrum-throwing evident in young children who don’t understand that other people’s celebrations aren’t about them. On Saturday evening, the musician stormed offstage at JBJ’s Nashville, where he made a special appearance during Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan’s birthday jam session.

“Fuck them,” Rock said about the audience as he abruptly cut the band off. “If you ain’t gonna clap, we ain’t gonna sing. That’s how it’s gonna go.” The set continued from there, but only for a moment. Rock didn’t seem to be warming to the crowd’s lackluster reception. “You know what, fuck y’all,” he said. “You ain’t gonna clap, I’m gone.”

Bryan continued to play with the rest of the band following Rock’s departure, and the festivities went on as planned.

Rock has rarely shied away from throwing a fit. In fact, he embraces it, particularly when it comes to politics. “I’m part of the problem,” he told Rolling Stone last year. “I’m one of the polarizing people, no question. Sometimes I bitch about other people, then I look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, why don’t you shut the fuck up too?’”

When asked if this attitude is a product of a broader impulse-control problem, he replied: “It’s a rich-guy issue. No fucks left. I’m not going to get it right every time, but I know my heart’s right.”

Rock will embark on the traveling festival Rock the Country with Nickelback in 11 cities across America between April and July.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

What’s the straight story here? What did they do to warrant the firing?

walters is your run of the mill maga dipshit but his dipshittery was actually impacting the school system in oklahoma. he wanted bible verses on the wall of every classroom and he was withholding school security funds and shit like inhalers for the schools that were congressionally directed. he got investigated by the state a.g. and a bunch of congressional committees raked his ass for. the a.g. even called him out for spending $6 million on trump bibles but not actually using the appropriated $250k for inhalers that the legislature directed.

https://kfor.com/news/local/drummond-sends-walters-scathing-letter-criticizing-year-long-delay-in-supplying-schools-life-saving-inhalers/

here's some more:

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/oklahoma-ag-orders-state-superintendent-to-release-school-security-funds/160955/

https://www.okappleseed.org/ryan-walters-gross-misconduct

it is a classic case of these highly charged maga dipshits being placed in roles they have absolutely no business being associated with and incompetently executing not their duties.

he also made a video after the new orleans terror attack on 1/1 saying that public teachers were partially to blame for the attack. he's a lunatic.

 

57 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:

When I was in high school in the 80s (Austin High, fuck Westlake), I felt like I had a very strong education. When I go back to schools to give talks, I feel like the quality has dropped like 75%. I'm not even sure they offer half the classes I had.

If course Mark White and Anne Richards were on office then. Since then we've had 3 jackasses...

 

25 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

My daughter is in high school atm and has many more and higher quality options for course work that I had available to me in the 1990's in AISD. I am sure that it varies substantially by school district though. 

anastasis with the defense of strides made in public education was not on my bingo card this morning. bozo casanova having fucking terrible aesthetic taste in yet another medium (e.g. utter trash tv for simps by taylor sheridan) to go along with everything else he has terrible taste in certainly was.

it's obviously a mixed bag on changes in education and that is predictably dependent on community. perhaps you should reevaluate your hostility to westlake. my older kid is in middle school in eanes and we just registered her classes for next year and the options were utterly astounding to me relative to my options in east texas in the mid to late 90's. she is 12 and doing robotics, programming web design, and an engineering and philosophy class. at my high school it was auto tech, woodshop, and ag (also valuable in their own ways obviously) and in middle school, it was p.e. and...nothing. she will take calculus her sophomore year and my high school did not even offer calculus at any grade. that said, eanes, like every other district on the fucking planet, cannot escape the inevitability of having shit-for-brains coaches teaching social studies and history classes which is frustrating. perhaps a contributor to our current predicaments.

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1 minute ago, sidis said:

walters is your run of the mill maga dipshit but his dipshittery was actually impacting the school system in oklahoma. he wanted bible verses on the wall of every classroom and he was withholding school security funds and shit like inhalers for the schools that were congressionally directed. he got investigated by the state a.g. and a bunch of congressional committees raked his ass for. the a.g. even called him out for spending $6 million on trump bibles but not actually using the appropriated $250k for inhalers that the legislature directed.

https://kfor.com/news/local/drummond-sends-walters-scathing-letter-criticizing-year-long-delay-in-supplying-schools-life-saving-inhalers/

here's some more:

https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/oklahoma-ag-orders-state-superintendent-to-release-school-security-funds/160955/

https://www.okappleseed.org/ryan-walters-gross-misconduct

it is a classic case of these highly charged maga dipshits being placed in roles they have absolutely no business being associated with and incompetently executing not their duties.

he also made a video after the new orleans terror attack on 1/1 saying that public teachers were partially to blame for the attack. he's a lunatic.

He never got the money for the trump bibles but is still trying. He didn't follow any rules over covid funds and is constantly under investigation. He attacks teachers and calls them terrorists and its hitting a point where schools literally can't hire enough teachers to replace those who leave. Again, all bad for business, especially for a governor who claims his goal is to make oklahoma a "top 10 business state" (he's had six fucking years and we haven't move up in anything good). The worst part is that he's not just some asshole appointed by another asshole, he was fucking elected to that position by the people. It's no secret that the majority of the republican legislature hates his ass but they are republicans and therefore too dickless to do anything about it, and they are the only ones who can remove him. No recall petitions are available under state law and even the governor can't fire him. 

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Just now, 'stache said:

He never got the money for the trump bibles but is still trying. He didn't follow any rules over covid funds and is constantly under investigation. He attacks teachers and calls them terrorists and its hitting a point where schools literally can't hire enough teachers to replace those who leave. Again, all bad for business, especially for a governor who claims his goal is to make oklahoma a "top 10 business state" (he's had six fucking years and we haven't move up in anything good). The worst part is that he's not just some asshole appointed by another asshole, he was fucking elected to that position by the people. It's no secret that the majority of the republican legislature hates his ass but they are republicans and therefore too dickless to do anything about it, and they are the only ones who can remove him. No recall petitions are available under state law and even the governor can't fire him. 

a worthwhile clarification. my post should have said the a.g. called him out for attempting to spend $6 million on trump bibles but not actually using the appropriated $250k for inhalers the legislature directed.

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8 minutes ago, 'stache said:

He never got the money for the trump bibles but is still trying. He didn't follow any rules over covid funds and is constantly under investigation. He attacks teachers and calls them terrorists and its hitting a point where schools literally can't hire enough teachers to replace those who leave. Again, all bad for business, especially for a governor who claims his goal is to make oklahoma a "top 10 business state" (he's had six fucking years and we haven't move up in anything good). The worst part is that he's not just some asshole appointed by another asshole, he was fucking elected to that position by the people. It's no secret that the majority of the republican legislature hates his ass but they are republicans and therefore too dickless to do anything about it, and they are the only ones who can remove him. No recall petitions are available under state law and even the governor can't fire him. 

And the worst part is that there is a >0% chance that Walters is the next governor.

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42 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Rock will embark on the traveling festival Rock the Country with Nickelback in 11 cities across America between April and July.

More frightening words have never been uttered.

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1 minute ago, G650 said:

More frightening words have never been uttered.

i am not generally one for eugenics or ethnic cleansing or anything like that but if we could slip some sort of reproductive blockers into all the coors lights and white claws for all of those shows, i feel like we could achieve some sort of smaller scale antithesis of the prologue scene of "idiocracy."

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Walters went so hard extra maga trying to get Trump to appoint him to something and failed. He is very much a mini-Trump. Not very smart and gets by due to ignorant voters who don't care that any real issue is never addressed beyond him saying something convoluted that includes deep state, woke, fake news, liberal, porn in school. And don't forget, no matter how often you lose, never admit you lost. For example:

 

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After more than an hour of private discussions behind U.S. District Judge Bernard Jones’ courtroom, attorneys for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters and KFOR struck an agreement this morning to settle a lawsuit alleging that Walters violated First Amendment protections by singling out and prohibiting Channel 4 journalists from accessing public meetings and press conferences.

As part of the settlement, the Oklahoma State Department of Education must pay $17.91 in damages to KFOR — a numerical reference to 1791, the year the Bill of Rights and its First Amendment were ratified in America.

“This is a huge victory for journalism,” Institute for Free Speech attorney Charles Miller told reporters outside the courthouse. “What happened today is the state school board superintendent decided that rather than go to trial and face that, they would grant KFOR everything that it was asking for in the case. It’s very clear that the defendants all along admitted it that they were doing this because they did not like what KFOR was reporting.”

According to the agreed final judgment and permanent injunction, Walters and Isett must:

Grant access for KFOR to all OSDE board meetings, press conferences, gaggles or other meetings held in which other news media are given nonexclusive access;

Grant KFOR’s access to the RSVP notices OSDE sends to journalists prior to each meeting;

Grant KFOR inclusion on the email distribution list for all OSDE press releases and notifications related to OSDE activities, following a meeting between KFOR’s news director and Isett at KFOR studios;

Grant KFOR’s access to all OSDE “statements” issued to members of the general press in response to daily press inquiries; and

Re-establish the media line outside State Board of Education meetings for journalists wishing to attend those meetings, “subject to security concerns that may arise.”

Don't allow press that calls you out on your bullshit, you just remove them right? That sounds familiar. Of course, Walters and his mouthpiece have other thoughts on the result:

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Walters, whose formal request for a jury trial was denied by Jones, declined to discuss the KFOR lawsuit as he and Isett exited the courthouse Wednesday.

“Nope,” Walters said. “No comment.”

Later Wednesday, Brown tweeted, “We did it!!” Isett responded by claiming, “KFOR got nothing of what their lawsuit asked for,” and he alleged that Brown “lied in his deposition.” Further bickering ensued.

Shortly before 3 p.m., Walters tweeted a screenshot of a KFOR headline claiming the TV station “wins” the lawsuit.

“The Oklahoma news media and @kfor won the fake news award,” Walters said. “They lie to the public, lie to themselves, and as the leading liberal media outlet in our state they will continually be held accountable.”

https://nondoc.com/2024/12/11/kfor-lawsuit-settlement-prohibits-ryan-walters-from-blocking-journalist-access/

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1 minute ago, sidis said:

it's obviously a mixed bag on changes in education and that is predictably dependent on community. perhaps you should reevaluate your hostility to westlake. my older kid is in middle school in eanes and we just registered her classes for next year and the options were utterly astounding to me relative to my options in east texas in the mid to late 90's. she is 12 and doing robotics, programming web design, and an engineering and philosophy class. at my high school it was auto tech, woodshop, and ag (also valuable in their own ways obviously) and in middle school, it was p.e. and...nothing. she will take calculus her sophomore year and my high school did not even offer calculus at any grade. that said, eanes, like every other district on the fucking planet, cannot escape the inevitability of having shit-for-brains coaches teaching social studies and history classes which is frustrating. perhaps a contributor to our current predicaments.

Agree with all of that. The offerings are all there for the taking. At least in places like LTISD and Eanes. My perception of the problems with our educational system is that they have in many cases becomes administratively bloated indoctrination camps. Not indoctrination camps into any of the stupid culture war bullshit people focus on, but indoctrination into formulaic thinking and writing processes, memorization and regurgitation exercises that feed the appetite of the standardized testing mafia. Really deeply engaged and independent critical thinking and contextualization of the various data points they cram into their heads is relatively rare. When it does come together it happens because, at least based on what I have seen, there is a unique connection between an exceptionally driven student and an exceptionally compelling individual educator. That's not a swipe at the vast majority of educators, it's a swipe at the system that they are forced to operate in. That's just my take based on what I have seen as a parent. 

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Oh hmm, I wonder how we can get more exceptionally compelling individual educators in our public schools???

It's a mystery for sure.

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14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Agree with all of that. The offerings are all there for the taking. At least in places like LTISD and Eanes. My perception of the problems with our educational system is that they have in many cases becomes administratively bloated indoctrination camps. Not indoctrination camps into any of the stupid culture war bullshit people focus on, but indoctrination into formulaic thinking and writing processes, memorization and regurgitation exercises that feed the appetite of the standardized testing mafia. Really deeply engaged and independent critical thinking and contextualization of the various data points they cram into their heads is relatively rare. When it does come together it happens because, at least based on what I have seen, there is a unique connection between an exceptionally driven student and an exceptionally compelling individual educator. That's not a swipe at the vast majority of educators, it's a swipe at the system that they are forced to operate in. That's just my take based on what I have seen as a parent. 

The right calls critical thinking woke. Critical thinking can result in complex world views which the right calls indoctrination. The right is who made test scores the end all be all. But you knew that you fucking tool.

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21 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

but indoctrination into formulaic thinking and writing processes, memorization and regurgitation exercises that feed the appetite of the standardized testing mafia. Really deeply engaged and independent critical thinking and contextualization of the various data points they cram into their heads is relatively rare. When it does come together it happens because, at least based on what I have seen, there is a unique connection between an exceptionally driven student and an exceptionally compelling individual educator. That's not a swipe at the vast majority of educators, it's a swipe at the system that they are forced to operate in. That's just my take based on what I have seen as a parent. 

And...who drove that "SCHOOL AND TEACHER ACCOUNTABILITY!" bus over the last few decades that led to exactly that sort of system?

Your heroes on the right....who now want to destroy public education altogether, because the shit machine they built doesn't work well, which is therefore proof that public education is bad.  Step 1 -- take power.  Step 2 -- break the fuck out of something.  Step 3 -- move to abolish/eliminate that something, because it's broken, and hey, we should get rid of things that don't work.

Step 4 -- repeat, as to literally fucking everything.

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20 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Agree with all of that. The offerings are all there for the taking. At least in places like LTISD and Eanes. My perception of the problems with our educational system is that they have in many cases becomes administratively bloated indoctrination camps. Not indoctrination camps into any of the stupid culture war bullshit people focus on, but indoctrination into formulaic thinking and writing processes, memorization and regurgitation exercises that feed the appetite of the standardized testing mafia. Really deeply engaged and independent critical thinking and contextualization of the various data points they cram into their heads is relatively rare. When it does come together it happens because, at least based on what I have seen, there is a unique connection between an exceptionally driven student and an exceptionally compelling individual educator. That's not a swipe at the vast majority of educators, it's a swipe at the system that they are forced to operate in. That's just my take based on what I have seen as a parent. 

I generally agree with the content of what you wrote.  Teachers are generally excellent, in the job for the right reasons, and willing to go beyond their job description for students who show promise or who the system is failing.  When Leander ISD was denying our kids special-ed services to comply with TEA's caps on the number of students receiving special ed, their teachers went far beyond what they were required to do to help our kids as much as they could.  It was the policies from the TEA and implementation under the direction of the school district's administration that failed us.  They are not in it for the right reasons.

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I wonder how schools became such victims of political footballs, but I just can't quite place my finger on it.  I mean i vote for people who say we need to defund the schools, break up education, who ignore their own guidelines over class room sizes, who try to break teacher unions, and siphon money from blue districts to feed red districts because no one wants to live there.  I mean I have no fucking clue how this could have happened?   

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Just now, Nivek said:

I wonder how schools became such victims of political footballs, but I just can't quite place my finger on it.  I mean i vote for people who say we need to defund the schools, break up education, who ignore their own guidelines over class room sizes, who try to break teacher unions, and siphon money from blue districts to feed red districts because no one wants to live there.  I mean I have no fucking clue how this could have happened?   

I think something happened in 1954.

 

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

In other Kid Rock news (yes, I know we have a thread about him somewhere but I'm too lazy to look it up):

Kid Rock Throws Tantrum Because No One Clapped for Him During Guest Appearance: ‘F–k Y’all’
The singer appeared during Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan’s birthday celebration in Nashville over the weekend, but didn’t warm to the crowd’s reception

At 54 years old, Kid Rock has not yet outgrown the tantrum-throwing evident in young children who don’t understand that other people’s celebrations aren’t about them. On Saturday evening, the musician stormed offstage at JBJ’s Nashville, where he made a special appearance during Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan’s birthday jam session.

“Fuck them,” Rock said about the audience as he abruptly cut the band off. “If you ain’t gonna clap, we ain’t gonna sing. That’s how it’s gonna go.” The set continued from there, but only for a moment. Rock didn’t seem to be warming to the crowd’s lackluster reception. “You know what, fuck y’all,” he said. “You ain’t gonna clap, I’m gone.”

Bryan continued to play with the rest of the band following Rock’s departure, and the festivities went on as planned.

Rock has rarely shied away from throwing a fit. In fact, he embraces it, particularly when it comes to politics. “I’m part of the problem,” he told Rolling Stone last year. “I’m one of the polarizing people, no question. Sometimes I bitch about other people, then I look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, why don’t you shut the fuck up too?’”

When asked if this attitude is a product of a broader impulse-control problem, he replied: “It’s a rich-guy issue. No fucks left. I’m not going to get it right every time, but I know my heart’s right.”

Rock will embark on the traveling festival Rock the Country with Nickelback in 11 cities across America between April and July.

Epitome of an "alpha" male who calls himself an alpha male.  

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1 minute ago, Goredho said:

I generally agree with the content of what you wrote.  Teachers are generally excellent, in the job for the right reasons, and willing to go beyond their job description for students who show promise or who the system is failing.  When Leander ISD was denying our kids special-ed services to comply with TEA's caps on the number of students receiving special ed, their teachers went far beyond what they were required to do to help our kids as much as they could.  It was the policies from the TEA and implementation under the direction of the school district's administration that failed us.  They are not in it for the right reasons.

This can get real complicated really fast.   Not having properly trained staff is one way to fuck around with it.  The schools also get a choice on how to spend the money, and if in the case of HISD, they are doing it outside of the direction of Mike Miles, they get canned.  No matter the performance of the school or the students.   So the old excuse this was about improving education was as always with these clowns, a lie.  

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17 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I wonder how schools became such victims of political footballs, but I just can't quite place my finger on it.  I mean i vote for people who say we need to defund the schools, break up education, who ignore their own guidelines over class room sizes, who try to break teacher unions, and siphon money from blue districts to feed red districts because no one wants to live there.  I mean I have no fucking clue how this could have happened?   

Everything is a political football now, by design. They have us fighting over the name of a fucking body of water. 

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12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Tulsi confirmed and this. Putin is laughing his dick off right now

 

Got that Gulf of America thing done though, am I right?

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Agree with all of that. The offerings are all there for the taking. At least in places like LTISD and Eanes. My perception of the problems with our educational system is that they have in many cases becomes administratively bloated indoctrination camps. Not indoctrination camps into any of the stupid culture war bullshit people focus on, but indoctrination into formulaic thinking and writing processes, memorization and regurgitation exercises that feed the appetite of the standardized testing mafia. Really deeply engaged and independent critical thinking and contextualization of the various data points they cram into their heads is relatively rare. When it does come together it happens because, at least based on what I have seen, there is a unique connection between an exceptionally driven student and an exceptionally compelling individual educator. That's not a swipe at the vast majority of educators, it's a swipe at the system that they are forced to operate in. That's just my take based on what I have seen as a parent. 

i have a lot of thoughts on this as the son of a public school teacher and a private school principal, along with the husband to an public school elementary school reading specialist for kids with learning disabilities or dyslexia. i am not going to do a "Surly Hijack™®" on the Trump's America thread with a full exploration, i'll just quickly note that while there is obviously nothing objectionable about your post in concept, it ignores both the reality of what primary education's mission capabilities are in terms of arming as wide a swath of children as possible with fundamental building blocks to begin the process of critical thinking (arithmetic, fundamental science concepts, reading, etc...), as well as the unfortunate reality of what would happen if one attempted to impose the school of athens on the wider population of children and not self-segregated smaller communities of predisposed children that have both the contextual privilege (economically, family) and the innate desire to be exceptionally driven.

it is, of course, what we all want and strive for but it betrays a lack of experience in both sides of the primary education machinations to believe that the reason "the system" is not ideal has nothing to do with being forced to integrate accommodation for an extreme breadth of circumstances in the human condition including the fact that not all students are exceptional and some students are there and the school is simply trying to ensure their literal survival...and everything in between. the system has evolved to what it is as a reflection of the human condition because we made a decision as a society some time back that all kids need to be educated...not just the ones that are privileged enough to be economically positioned to or that are elevated thinkers. it is easy to run the school of athens when your pupils are plato, aristotle, thomas aquinas, kant, copernicus, galileo, hume, newton, tesla, lao tzu, and descartes. the system (and unfortunately the outcomes) is going to be impacted by having to also deal with the broader spectrum. (hence the disingenuous nature of the state's voucher bullshit/welfare for the upper middle class)

i don't share any hostility towards your thoughts here and i don't disagree that we have unfortunate consequences of having to force a more normally distributed system on a non-normally distributed population in primary education but it is a bit fantastical to espouse these idealized learning proposals without acknowledging the vast array of realities that undermine their effectuation and prospect of broader success.

and of course, none of that is to say anything about the hostility towards public education and the lack of valuing teachers altogether in a way that inspires more exceptional people to take that path. imagine being a high quality teacher in oklahoma and the superintendent of schools shoots a dumbass phone video in his car in which he ties the new orleans terrorist attack to you.

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17 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

This is the authoritarian playbook.  Surround yourself with corrupt cronies who can always be arm-twisted and removed for any reason. They will owe you everything and can be cast aside at any moment. You don’t even have to lie. 
 

Putin, Orban, Fico, Aliyev, Karimov.  The admin is following the post-Soviet authoritarian cookbook. 

That was my first thought. Did he actually pardon him or did he just instruct the justice department to stop pursuing it? Because if it’s only the latter, then he can hold that over Adams’ head for as long as needed to ensure absolute loyalty. 



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