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  • #286
    Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

    Originally posted by burd View Post
    Well, at least little donnie is good enough for her to call it sex. I'll bet she hesitated when answering that one.
    Isn't today the youngest dump's birthday?

    Good timing for this report.

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    • #287
      Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
      A Teacher reaction to Trump and Betsy Devos' idea of education (reacting to Devos 60 Minutes interview). Hammers it home. Teacher really understands the plutocracy and why they "pretend" that we don't know how to teach kids and what needs to be done to accomplish that. About time. Wish there was a lot more of this on the air.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dTotMaQGIo

      Very worth a watch/listen.
      Good for her! She mentioned the now legal white flight from challenging schools- that's been documented here in Michigan pretty clearly. Instead of having to move to get your kids to a school you want, you just drive them there.

      School of choice sounds like a good idea, but when you realize that it can ONLY work when you are ABLE to make the choice, then it's pretty clear that it will never work for everyone. And we are left with kids just as described by the teacher- smart, creative, and hard working, but in a school system that does not have the resources to teach them.

      Charter schools- if people want to spend their money on a high end private school for their kids, fine. But I don't want my tax dollars going to a company who's #1 issue is making money when they should be teaching kids. It's a terrible idea.

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      • #288
        Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

        Originally posted by alfablue View Post
        Good for her! She mentioned the now legal white flight from challenging schools- that's been documented here in Michigan pretty clearly. Instead of having to move to get your kids to a school you want, you just drive them there.
        This problem is solved if we just make school funding state rather than local. Let the whites run away from The Element. As long as the tax dollars are spread evenly among the schools it doesn't matter.
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        • #289
          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          This problem is solved if we just make school funding state rather than local. Let the whites run away from The Element. As long as the tax dollars are spread evenly among the schools it doesn't matter.
          Good luck with that. We passed a law in the 1990s that the state had to pay at least 55% of school cost. It has never even gotten to 50% and is usually closer to 45. The legislature and governor don't seem to care what voters say. We legalized weed, expanded Medicare, passed bonds for things like infrastructure and got Ranked Choice Voting through by a good margin and it has all been ignored.

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          • #290
            Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

            Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
            Good luck with that. We passed a law in the 1990s that the state had to pay at least 55% of school cost. It has never even gotten to 50% and is usually closer to 45. The legislature and governor don't seem to care what voters say. We legalized weed, expanded Medicare, passed bonds for things like infrastructure and got Ranked Choice Voting through by a good margin and it has all been ignored.
            Feds are the same way. Feds mandated special education and they won't pay for it. I don't understand why it doesn't work that whatever level passes the mandate funds the mandate.

            On average, most states estimate that special education monies from the federal government make up less than 15%. This leaves the local school districts scrambling to fund the remaining costs of mandated special education services.
            http://www.understandingspecialeduca...n-funding.html

            Makes no sense. Special Education drain kills public schools ability to compete with charter/private.
            **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

            Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
            Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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            • #291
              Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

              Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
              Good luck with that. We passed a law in the 1990s that the state had to pay at least 55% of school cost. It has never even gotten to 50% and is usually closer to 45. The legislature and governor don't seem to care what voters say. We legalized weed, expanded Medicare, passed bonds for things like infrastructure and got Ranked Choice Voting through by a good margin and it has all been ignored.
              the sad thing is they don't meet the 55% funding requirement even though the state school funding formula is very low. I know our town spends far more than the state-mandated school funding amount, so even if they fulfilled their 55% funding level, it woudln't be close to 55% of our school budget because we choose to spend extra. In Maine, if you let the state fund 55% of your school budget, you'll end up with an underfunded school.

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              • #292
                Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                That is just all sorts of awesome.
                Fox News' actual headline: "John Oliver slammed for 'controversial and partisan' mockery of Pence family bunny"

                No. No he wasn't.

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                • #293
                  Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                  Originally posted by unofan View Post
                  Fox News' actual headline: "John Oliver slammed for 'controversial and partisan' mockery of Pence family bunny"

                  No. No he wasn't.
                  It's like banging an empty drum except in a large, empty gymnasium.

                  To borrow a metaphor...
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                  Originally posted by SanTropez
                  May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                  Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                  I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                  Originally posted by Kepler
                  When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                  He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                  • #294
                    Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                    Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                    It's like banging an empty drum except in a large, empty gymnasium.

                    To borrow a metaphor...
                    Not empty. 33% of the US Population is in that very gymnasium.
                    **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                    Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                    Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                    • #295
                      Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                      Not empty. 33% of the US Population is in that very gymnasium.
                      ...

                      Maybe I was being too subtle. I was borrowing John Kelly's "empty drum" metaphor and dropping it in an echo chamber (the gym).
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                      Originally posted by SanTropez
                      May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                      Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                      I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                      Originally posted by Kepler
                      When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                      He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                      • #296
                        Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                        Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                        Feds are the same way. Feds mandated special education and they won't pay for it. I don't understand why it doesn't work that whatever level passes the mandate funds the mandate.



                        http://www.understandingspecialeduca...n-funding.html

                        Makes no sense. Special Education drain kills public schools ability to compete with charter/private.
                        What's confusing you here? There's a party that won't force the private entities providing publicly-funded education to adhere to the standard of service forced upon the publicly operated entities.

                        What are you missing here?
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                        • #297
                          Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                          Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                          What's confusing you here? There's a party that won't force the private entities providing publicly-funded education to adhere to the standard of service forced upon the publicly operated entities.

                          What are you missing here?
                          Yeah, I get that. Kudos. Well put.
                          **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                          Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                          Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                          • #298
                            Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."


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                            • #299
                              Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                              Originally posted by Handyman View Post

                              Why am I not surprised? At all.
                              **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                              Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                              Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                              • #300
                                Re: POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

                                They seem perfect for each other: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...-report-2018-3

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