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Schools that get to select their students do well. one reason public schools always score worse than private is because they have to take every student. Many students have disabilities across the board along with language barriers and horrible home lives. Many are homeless. It might surprise you to find out they don’t do as well. They also cost more to take care of. So when you callously speak about bloated budgets you should understand what much of that money goes to. It’s not an apples to apples comparison. 60-70 years ago these kids were discarded and thrown into institutions and forgotten about. You know…back in the “good old days”. It takes a special kind of cruelty to ignore our most vulnerable kids and citizens but with today’s GOP that’s ultimately the point isn’t it?

You actually did by voting for Trump.

Sweet identity politics

How do people not understand this?

I have no problems with the school. My GS is doing quite well and is the star of the school's Quiz Team (he's in 7th grade). From the way my son talks they are paying full tuition.

The AL Central says all your awards are belong to us.

It’s really going to be ok. Give it a chance instead of all the sky is falling fear mongering we see here. We have almost made it through the term of one of the worst POTUS ever. Trump and his administration are planning to do a lot to make the country and the world a safer place and put more money in the pockets of Americans. He is not going to outlaw or do anything to abortion. He’s actually going to help women by eliminating men competing in women’s sports at all levels. The only thing the far left has to legitimately complain about at this time is there will not be elimination of free speech and nothing is going to be cancelled because someone’s feeling are hurt. These are traits of facism the left have embraced so well. On January 20 you might have something to complain about but until then enjoy life. The country is going to be so much better and safer.

He'd be hard at work trying to nullify American votes. Just like last time

earch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/most-americans-think-us-k-12-stem-education-isnt-above-average-but-test-results-paint-a-mixed-picture/#:~:text=By Brian Kennedy,pupils in these other countries. I have a theory about why the US lags in math. I think it's because elementary school teachers in general tend to be people who do not have strong math skills - if they did the general employment and economic realities push them into other fields. But all those wonderful liberal arts teachers then subliminally inculcate that lack of confidence in the ability of any ordinary person to understand mathematics into their students. kidding - well maybe half kidding.....

I have a niece who teaches in one of the poorest counties in Virginia (Westmoreland County), the area is fairly similar to Michigan's Thumb region above Bay City. There is one private school about 30 miles away. She has stories to tell about some of their kids and backgrounds that break your heart. What do you tell them? One of the problems is not just funding or underfunding a school system, but making sure parents are also equipped to handle the situations. Many of these folks have no clue on parenting because they were never taught. It takes more than money and the states and Feds have never addressed the problem efficiently.

Just joined blue sky as I wean myself off of state media

I've noticed most of the Tigers set worth following has been migrating over, so I'll be shortly

Nope gotta be a Trump hotel

Yeah, I hate Trump. He is completely unfit and unqualified for office. I don't agree with everything under the D umbrella, nor did I think voting third party was wise. I voted for Harris as the best option.

This is the crux of the issue. America forgave the unforgiveable.

I'm kinda liking BS, and I'm calling posts on there BS's...

Seems like theres worse poop in the outhouse he could have selected

Ignorance, selfishness, hate, narcissism, privilege, lack of empathy.

Ah so we are back to borrowing money from China to subsidize farmers not selling to China. One of my favorite eras of the first time trump was presidon't

I had to give both credit since the Bluesky folks linked to the Post.

I just got a follow from “c span caller”, and I’m like “that has to be pfife” lol

LOL Huckabee is on record saying the West Bank belongs to Israel. Good work, Rashida Tlaib and Dearborn mayor.

From BSKY and the WPO

Michigan has vouchers and I would move back in a heartbeat.... I just don't think it's good policy and, contrary to what you are saying, there are clear winners and losers. It's benefits are not universal.

2024 Kentucky Amendment 2 Vouchers were on the ballot in Kentucky last week.... same ballot as Donald Trump. Result: 65-35% against, losing every county in Kentucky, all but one county a double digit margin.

wasting time on Soto seems like a waste of time

Conversely, what do you say to the kids who live in places like I grew up in (rural, 30 miles from the nearest city of significance, school district one of the largest employers in town) where voucher dollars suck money out of the local school systems and subsequently lower the quality for everyone not lucky enough to have the opportunity to get into a charter school? I understand the pros of vouchers, but let's not pretend that their impacts play out as a net plus for everyone in society.

What, no Baseball Crank??

I don't know that it's a question of style as much as it's a question of timing. Is this the right time to spend $30 million on a player? Are we at the point where the roster as currently constructed can be expected to get into the playoffs, and a $30 million guy is what we need to go deep into October?

I'm surprised she had a shot for Homeland Security considering she's been dogging it as Governor this past year.

Man, we can’t get a pass even when there’s no actual advertising to show.

They did the same thing with Trubisky. It’s the 3rd QB in a row they did this to.

I meant more so the impact on the city. Just like how 770,000 people attended the draft, I think you’re looking at hundreds of thousands flooding New Orleans to be a part of the action, even if they’re not going to the game.

If you look at the way Harris ended up at the top of the D ticket, it does raise questions about the expectations of success. She was the first out in the 2020 primary. She wasn’t moving the needle at all and wisely dropped out. She was hand picked because of her gender and color to be the 2020 VP. And lastly, Harris was literally handed the top of the ticket to defend in the general election. She was never “elected” for anything after leaving the senate. Yes, she was elected with Biden in 2020, if that’s any consolation. In my opinion the Biden administration never gave her any real responsibilities that would allow her to pad her resume. Being serious, this jumps out at me. I wonder if this combination of circumstances had ever occurred in a presidential race before. I would doubt it.

A stout OL and a between the tackles RB are much more important weapons for a young QB’s than having stud WR’s and TE’s. That OL is atrocious yet Poles chose to waste the 9th pick on another WR and a 4th round on a punter.

Rich

https://go.bsky.app/SddPqdZ Detroit Tigers starter pack on bsky.

you may need to study the rules of the SEC for how to resolve a 7 way tie

Instead we will get handouts to elon musk

Barring something unforeseen he'll almost certainly be at the top of the list before he's done here.

Since I love my country, I don't move on from coup attempts.

most likely outcome is the one many people are betting on: Trump will claim he solved any problem totally and strongly, his supporters will agree, and little of substance will actually get done

the approach was mostly wrong. If you want to slow the flow, the people coming need to understand they can't stay, not that it's harder to get across - there will always be ways to get across. And in fact we have little problem interdicting people who do cross, it has been that the process after they are interdicted is broken. The dems sort of went along with theoretical discussion that border 'security' was the problem because they didn't want to face changing the asylum system because it's a progressive marker. If you could close the border tight enough, you wouldn't have to face that the asylum system was broken. But 'sealing' the border is an illusion. You can't apprehend a crosser until they are in the US and as soon as they cross the line they can avoid being returned. That is where the bigger part of the problem has been for a long time now. And this doesn't even touch on the fact that small business owners (largely GOP) don't want stricter employment enforcement either. A dirty little economic secret is that the large number of undocumenteds in the workforce creates a constant downward pressure on entry level wages across the economy and that's just peachy with the Chamber of Commerce.

Balance is not needed, a 'balanced budget' straight jacket would leave the government unable to do counter cyclical spending in the face of recession, in fact it would cause recessions to bottom much deeper than they other might. The Covid economic crash would have been twice the disaster if the Fed had not been able to open the taps. The problem with Federal spending in recent years is that a 'good' economy is never 'good enough' anymore. If you look at the State of Michigan, they put money in a 'rainy day' fund when the economy is good, spend it when it's bad. It is not possible for the Federal government to actually save money, its ledger can never go all the way to positive. it has to act on the below zero/debt side - spend a little more when things are down. spend less and let the debt close when times are good. But it's all been on one side for too long. For instance the last 3 yrs of Obama's admin the economy was good enough they should have been paying down, but they didn't. The economy is good enough now we should be paying down - we aren't. But another reason it doesn't happen is the GOP's "starve the government and drown in the bathtub" philosophy because that depends on pushing a constant debt crisis, which means they will never agree to raise taxes as part of a balanced plan to close the debt when the economy is good enough to support it.

Christianity is a bogus religion because the Catholic Church covered up sexual abuse and we constantly see cases where pastors commit sexual crimes. do I have that logic right? How is it different?

I understand you're ignoring what I said, and that's fine, but for anyone else who cares, you might want check into whether your online brokerage allows different ways to sell than just FIFO. With Schwab, for instance, when you get to the sell screen, you will see this: Click the First in first out link below the sale, and you get these options: As you can see there is a wide range of flexibility available to how you want to see your stocks, including specific lots in the middle of your holding.