This is so funny and true...
Why GOP fights investigation of Jan 6th insurrection attempt.
It was amusing and disturbing how McCarthy tried to seat people on the committee who voted not certify Biden's Presidency. He definitely was trying to sabotage the proceedings.
Hopefully more great citizens like Liz Cheney will stand up for our democracy instead of playing games with it.
Less often and egregiously than Trump, but he still lies.
It is nice to not have to fact check every day. :-)
Jerry wrote this Back here.
So it is not possible for schools to be better than they are? Or one school better than another? Everything before kindergarten determines where they will end up 12 years later? So why is it that those kids who voucher out do better?
It doesn't even make sense. If the schools cannot close the achievement gap, that is, cannot help kids overcome whatever initial handicap they may have started with (and I remind you I have seen it happen time and again) then we need to let parents find a school that CAN. Even a test score "tie" with the public schools, if chosen by parents, is "Better."
But what really concerns me is that you want to concentrate on improving the "raw material" that goes into the schools-- fixing all the known social ills. My question is, WHEN are you going to start all this? Leaving aside the question of how, If the schools are creating a huge achievement gap based solely on race, which you cannot change, what will you change about the SCHOOL so it does not continue to create this gap?
I wrote this in response.
I have NO PROOF that those who voucher out do better.
And if they do, it is likely because they get moved to a school like Wayzata that has more resources, fewer special education kids, families that value academic achievement and are willing to work for it.
Of course your whole causal premise is flawed, therefore so is your proposed solution. "schools are creating a huge achievement gap based solely on race" Or are you saying that the police are responsible for arresting and killing so many black, brown, native American and poor people. Maybe we should privative the police?
So what do you think? Are the Schools and Police the CAUSE of our social problems?
As both sides move toward extremes.
The folks on the Left lead the charge?
However as I noted elsewhere, the GOP craziness and acceptance of conspiracy theories worries me more. Our country will have a hard time functioning when ~32% of the population can not accept that their unpopular candidate lost the election.
FOX of course has different perspective
Personally I am usually pretty risk averse when filing my taxes, so I am just fine with the government going after people who actively worked to game the system. And given Trump's hesitancy to share his records, his pride at paying little in taxes, etc... I hope there are more charges coming.
For the Trump supporters, would you be supporting a wealthy DEM or Independent who cheated on his taxes? Or would you want them to pay their fair share?
