115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

[joecct]

Hagia Sophia

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Right after the Ottoman Empire surrendered, a group of Greek military personnel, including a Chaplin, went to Hagia Sophia and celebrated the Divine Liturgy.

The locals were not amused.

[joecct]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Getting back on track ..

Read the editorial (it's a good one) and then at the bottom read the author's credentials.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...ally-work.html

[GrinCDXX]

Getting back on track ..

Read the editorial (it's a good one) and then at the bottom read the author's credentials.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/...ally-work.html

Yeah, pretty good piece, which is shocking.

[joecct]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

A cautionary note from PJB...

http://buchanan.org/blog/no-party-fo...ite-men-129547

[mookie1995]

A cautionary note from PJB...

http://buchanan.org/blog/no-party-fo...ite-men-129547

Don’t really get the free college thingy. High school is already free. That can be reshuffled to teach life skills needed in society and the workforce.

Let college be an extra layer now as it is, but not needed for a large percent of the population.

Languages should be taught early. Pretty sure it’s known smaller children are more adapt to learn these than later on in life. English Spanish European Asian.... minimum of 3 in grades 2-5. Then middle school can start literature in a number of native languages.

1/2 split in language/literature, and 1/2 in math and science.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Don’t really get the free college thingy. High school is already free. That can be reshuffled to teach life skills needed in society and the workforce.

Let college be an extra layer now as it is, but not needed for a large percent of the population.

Languages should be taught early. Pretty sure it’s known smaller children are more adapt to learn these than later on in life. English Spanish European Asian.... minimum of 3 in grades 2-5. Then middle school can start literature in a number of native languages.

1/2 split in language/literature, and 1/2 in math and science.

I do. The first two years tech, or community college should be mandatory and free. After that you're on your own. Right now High School prepares you for nothing but a huge debt.

[joecct]

I do. The first two years tech, or community college should be mandatory and free. After that you're on your own. Right now High School prepares you for nothing but a huge debt.

What about trades? Include them in CC?

[Spartanforlife4]

What about trades? Include them in CC?

Definitely. Don't quite a few trades already go through CC?

[ScoobyDoo]

What about trades? Include them in CC?

Absolutely.

[joecct]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

CC also has to cull the herd. If you want to be an engineer and flub the courses, you have to be directed somewhere else.

Way way back when, there was this thing called the Kuder Aptitude Test that was given in HS. For me, it was dead on.

Trouble was I went with choice #4 (Math) instead of #2 (Accounting).

Give that to HS students and save everyone a lot of grief and wasted time and $$

[BassAle]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

I do. The first two years tech, or community college should be mandatory and free. After that you're on your own. Right now High School prepares you for nothing but a huge debt.

trade school or 2 year community college should be part of "free" public education.

[St. Clown]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

trade school or 2 year community college should be part of "free" public education.

My high school would allow students to take college courses at a local public college or university if they signed up for it. Very few people ever did that, but the majority were the guys who went to the local tech college, getting a free head start on the automotive repair courses. I can only recall two people who went to local colleges/universities for classical liberal arts education. Students at that time were limited to two courses per term.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

CC also has to cull the herd. If you want to be an engineer and flub the courses, you have to be directed somewhere else.

Way way back when, there was this thing called the Kuder Aptitude Test that was given in HS. For me, it was dead on.

Trouble was I went with choice #4 (Math) instead of #2 (Accounting).

Give that to HS students and save everyone a lot of grief and wasted time and $$

I couldn't agree more.

[SJHovey]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

My high school would allow students to take college courses at a local public college or university if they signed up for it. Very few people ever did that, but the majority were the guys who went to the local tech college, getting a free head start on the automotive repair courses. I can only recall two people who went to local colleges/universities for classical liberal arts education. Students at that time were limited to two courses per term.

Exactly. By the time each of our three girls enrolled at the U of M, they already had at least 1.5 years worth of college credits completed, free of charge, all courtesy of the local high school program coupled with the local community college. That was a lot of money that we saved.

[burd]

Re: 115th Congress - Fantastik! Try to remember we vote in November.

Exactly. By the time each of our three girls enrolled at the U of M, they already had at least 1.5 years worth of college credits completed, free of charge, all courtesy of the local high school program coupled with the local community college. That was a lot of money that we saved.

I have three girls also who spent a good deal of their last HS years at a local junior college. They were not able to transfer many credits to the colleges they attended (just as they were able to claim only a few AP credits), but it was still very good for them. The junior college classes weren't rigorous, but it got them into a different environment and I think it significantly reduced senioritis for them.