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Feds out of Education
- By Willence
- House Of Politics & Off-Topics
- 110 Replies
Well this is an interesting post by you. Where to begin....
First, your faith is between you and God. We all fall short of the glory of God. I suspect based on your views, you're probably one of those folks who adapts God to what suits you rather than understanding His Word is The Word whether we like it or not. That's something that's abundantly obvious through your postings.
Secondly, we all have opinions on this matter (education). Mine are based on experience, statistical factors and what we see in the world through our interaction with others. Yours are based on one person who you love and desperately need to support.
We chose to send our kids to private school when my wife was teaching public school. We wanted a faith based education. It had nothing to do with my desperate needs. You sure do seem to know an awful lot about someone you've never met.
My wife taught in Title 1 schools for 12 years. She didn't fail as a teacher but she did burn out seeing the stuff she had to see year after year. It was gutting her and we chose to move on. I don't blame the system at all. Teaching kids who come from such difficult backgrounds is brutal and those things are not the fault of the schools.
Being a teacher is a very hard job. I know because I do it too. Again, you talk out of your ass about so much and then say you have all the facts and know what you're talking about. It's unsurprising from you because you just lack intellectual honesty and courage at every turn. You're always going to flow with the water because it's easier that way. It won't matter to you how many folks are getting washed out and drowning along the way.
The last sentence is the best. You're going to call me out huh? As though you hold the keys to what's right and wrong. By any metric schools are failing and our education system is completely broken. I can spend all day citing statistics that demonstrate this. I am not here to blame teachers. They are quite frequently innocent in all that's gone wrong. We're not giving them what they need to succeed. You will look past so much in an effort preserve your comfort zone. That is despicable.
Education is there to prepare kids for life. That's not happening and there are stats everywhere to demonstrate this. Public education has failed. Colleges have failed. It's not all their fault and perhaps not even mostly their fault. But they are failing and we need major reform to meet the needs of our young people now and into the future.
But you feel free to keep your head in the sand to preserve your fake reality. We'll move on without you. Your post history reveals you end up on the incorrect side of most things.
Back before the pandemic, this is what was being said:
Why Aren't Graduates Ready For Work? They're The Least Working Generation In U.S. History
We shouldn't be surprised that today's high school and college graduates aren't well prepared for work. They are the least working generation in U.S. history.
www.forbes.com
Hint: It hasn't gotten better since.
I’m starting it now
- By TigerFlow
- House Of Politics & Off-Topics
- 65 Replies
Please tell me you don't actually think that chart is accurate, do you?
This is the problem with people just looking at a picture on Twitter and then liking it and sharing it just because it hits some confirmation bias bell they have in their brain. There is such a lack of critical thinking in our society now - and that is both the left and right. What happened to intelligence being a positive thing? We are literally living in Idiocracy now, where being a fool is lauded.
Here is an accurate version of what that inaccurate and biased chart is attempting to convey. I've added trendlines, showing the moving avg over 2 periods - standard stuff. The counts at the top of each bar are votes in millions. Lastly, and most importantly, we are at 95.9% of popular votes counted - Rs have 50.2% so far and Ds have 48.1% - I made the assumption the last 4.1% will keep that same ratio(it certainly won't, it will likely lean Democratic, so if anything, this chart is very slightly favoring Trump).
Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary here. Nothing nefarious. If anything, the takeaway should be a positive one - we have had the best voter turnout the last 2 elections we have seen since the 1960s. That's a good thing. Even still, it's only right around 60% of voting age adults in the US. We could have another 90million votes cast - that's how many eligible voters did not vote in each of the last 2 elections.
