hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Pretty big tribal difference here. Of course, the tribe which genuinely does see becoming an electrician as disappointing compared to the lower pink collar jobs which absorb excess college graduates controls the schools. Red tribe parents don't mind the idea, electrician and HVAC tech and plumber are ordinary jobs like teacher or accountant or cop, and income and personal behavior are what counts for success, not education.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
You could own a warship in 1790, you just couldn't use it for war.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I'm not sure how marijuana is supposed to be less harmful than alcohol? It's not like driving stoned is safer than driving drunk, and marijuana is also very bad for the teen brain.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I've been around homeschoolers a lot. Rad trads might have a slight IQ advantage over the general population, but it's not huge if it even is there to begin with, and getting away with a couple of hours every other day sounds about right.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I went to Catholic schools.
Everyone went to the same campus. Discipline was uniformly strict- although we didn't have corporal punishment at all after the sex abuse crisis and it was definitely on the way out beforehand, suspension was a real possibility that happened regularly and there was the occasional expulsion. Flip side of that, no hallpasses, and in high school you didn't even need to ask permission to go to the bathroom, because if you abused the privilege you got in trouble. There were honors and regulars classes for every core class except religious ed, with real tracking for math in the secondary grades. Starting around 10th grade finals declined in importance, I think when I graduated there was one final exam(Latin) and that's it, we had essays and projects and whatnot for everything else. It was by no means unheard of for a particular student to be on, say, the honors English/basics math track, or vice versa. Very importantly, your parents could not get you moved to a more rigorous/prestigious class, although sometimes teachers could, and you could transfer credits in from community college if you wanted. Electives existed and were unsegregated, although a few of them had pre-reqs which kept it to kids in honors in related classes. It's probably as close to what you describe as could reasonably exist.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The Supreme Court did not solve segregation, multiple presidents bringing the full force of the federal government to bear on southern states did. The supreme court merely provided political cover.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
The previous 'dogs trained to rape people' claims were 1) a canard repeated against Pinochet by actual literal communists who made up quite a lot of other things, although they probably were tortured in conventional ways and 2) the confessions of an insane serial killer who also definitely tortured and raped people but also claimed lots of other improbable falsehoods. So my priors from this are 'Israel is torturing prisoners but not with trained rape dogs'.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
And indeed, dogs trained to bite the groin are a thing that are widely used.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
You don't have to go back to Obama to find democrats making a big show of how Christian they are- Joe Biden's mass attendance was a regular slow news day story.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Well yes, differences in school performance are almost all down to what percentage of the student body's biological parents are still married to each other. This is why both the Army and the RCC run better schools than states. Any state, including Massachusetts and Mississippi. Percentage of kids living with married biological parents edges out average household income as a predictor, edges out race as a predictor, everything else.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
You will, of course, find out that everyone gets put into college tracks, because it's easier than listening to parents complain.
Technically, you can get a non-college track high school diploma in the modern US. From a public school, of course- parents that pay for private school expect as a matter of course access to college. Admins don't want to do it, of course, but you can get one.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
I mean, the supreme court also fails to stop Colorado from bringing masterpiece cakeshop in every few years. It's not a 'gun control' issue, it's a 'stopping blue states from treading on people is very hard' problem.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
This isn't really a thing the supreme court can solve. When states really want to make life harder for people, they succeed. Masterpiece cakeshop just keeps winning court cases, but it's probably cold comfort at this point.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
The soviet ability to keep up with the US technologically despite ideological suppression indicates that their education system was good, yes. But modern US leftists are already rejecting everything else about the soviet system(because the system as a whole did not work).
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Yeah, but actual communist countries have very little in common with US Marxist’s recommendations. Props to them for figuring out the Soviet system didn’t work, I guess, even if they’re wrong about the whys and wherefores.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
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fighting tards is a very bad idea, regardless of the rules in place. They’re unpredictable, have hysterical strength, etc.
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thats not how it works, your kid goes to suspension for wailing on the LCD kid
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The top 20% would be educated regardless- their parents can afford private school.
The system panics when teachers aren't going to get paid, when the free daycare isn't being provided it's a big deal, job cuts are a horrible tragedy, but when the kids don't learn it's a shrug and a demand for more money- interventions to provide school lunches during the summer, even outside of the school setting, are very welcomed by the system. Interventions to educate kids better are not.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The one time I had a plumbing issue I couldn't handle, I asked for recommendations on small businesses at a plumbing supply house. High variance, but I wouldn't use google, it would spit out the same list of home services companies that spend big on advertising.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Try feeding one of my AAQC's in. I have a few obvious tells and a few high variance tendencies.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's possible that the internet joke is, uh, false.
Having had and trained dogs before, my suspicion is that male dog on human bestiality cases involve adolescent dogs and that adult males require the stimulation of an ovulating female canine- a quick google search shows that introducing one is de rigeur for canine artificial insemination. 'Dogs trained to rape people' is a standard lefty accusation at regimes they don't like(Pinochet, Israel, etc), but as a particular torture method it seems odd that it crops up in every regime the left is mad at and only regimes the left is mad at, rather than also being eg a Cuban thing.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
JD Vance would become president.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
OK, this bears repeating, even though I thought everyone knew the point of the US public school system is not education. It has many purposes to many different people; social engineering(mainly by shifting the default choice for middle class women away from 'housewife' rather than anything to do with the students, it's not good enough at indoctrination for that- although it has been in the past), free daycare, giving older kids something to do other than being rowdy, etc. Hell some of it is just very expensive signaling. But 'actually educating kids', let alone doing so efficiently, falls very low on the list of priorities, and US school systems which prioritize it over all these other goals(creating employment demand for college educated women, warehousing teenagers where they'll be less annoying, etc) perform much better than public schools.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
As much as I despise dickens for what he did to English storytelling conventions, you really should check out the attitude he portrays the British elite holding towards their social lessers.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There will never be a covid postmortem, because a postmortem would end with ‘and the information to know that this is a terrible strategy was available in March, before we embarked on it, thé experts were often lying, thé western vaccines were delayed for no reason, and needless social damage was done despite everyone in a decision making position knowing full well there was no need for that’.
But everyone, including the PMC, earns more in purchasing power than they did in all but the very recent past. And 'recent past' here means like, 2014, not 1800. There is no downward pressure on salaries anywhere, it isn't redistribution of jobs driving salary increases- it's prosperity.
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