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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

From BSKY and the WPO

we all know if the results and trends had been exactly reversed that Trump would have called Harris that night and practically disappear a week later. Right?

My daughter is almost done with college. We only qualified for vouchers her senior year of HS. We paid 8K out of pocket each year for HS and $3500 when she was K-8. My son is in HS and we only pay 2K out of pocket w/voucher covering the rest. We also offer a 403B plan. It used to be for college only, now you can apply it to K-12. We saved like crazy when the kids were young to pay for tuition. I don't think we ate out for six years straight at one point.

Private schools should pull themselves up by thier bootstraps and get their money the real american way, by hard work, not by mooching off the public and accepting handouts from the government. Have some bake sales and make the kids go door to door begging for money. Maybe sell some T shirts or Entertainment Books for 50% off a pizza when you buy another pizza at menu price.

Define public in your world. Full transparency, my grandson goes to a parochial school. His parents are fine with paying tuition (we really don't discuss it). It's their choice, I'm fine with it. I also don't live in their community

Vouchers are working great in Indiana and growing. We don't have many charter schools here 98% are religious shools most offering PK-12.

Yup. Slowly adding people, and I’m hoping more join soon. Remember when everyone tried Hive after Elmo bought Twitter? That didn’t last. Bluesky seems like the best alternative so far.

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.

What, no Baseball Crank??

I do not see the Tigers spending $20-$30 million on any one player. That is not their style. No Bregman.. No Santander. No Walker. However, their are still some options out there.

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

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

I don’t know … weren’t most of those firings and resignations due to gross competency? Who’s going to qualify on those grounds in this regime?

X is state run media now. Telsavda.

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.

I doubt it, but I don't know. I preferred to vote for the candidates (lumping in VPs as well) with some actual redeeming characteristics about them that I might not agree with on certain policies as opposed to a candidate with no redeeming qualities that I might agree with on a few policies.

Oh, bloody heck, I forgot this was a tourney match. Looks like Wikipedia doesn't even want to acknowledge as such since the image isn't coming through.

Hes terrible but terrible within the normal range of terrible

They have thrown money at the system for years, but they don't spend it wisely. They have turned education into an assembly line instead of a job shop. Too many kids are shoved into a position to fail, not succeed. If you see it up close and personal it is heartbreaking. That's the system they have built and it's shameful.

Instead we will get handouts to elon musk

Out of sight, out of mind…. they can have a clean conscience. Vouchers are a scam. Taxes aren’t linked to people. If it were the DoD wouldn’t have a budget.

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

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.