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Do you know the difference?

Know what difference?



Heh... That is a moot question because we are not a Democracy and we are not a Constitutional Republic! Our country does not have any borders, our elections are stolen and all our money goes to Ukraine where it disappears into thin air. So, we are not even a Banana Republic.

This is like asking what is the difference between zero and zero?

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/breaking-the-mancubs-activism-as

anything would be better and a free market would be MUCH better. fund every kid. make the schools compete for them by offering good product not this “take or pay” dumpster fire that forces contribution even if you want to opt out.

no other rules. no “certification,” no credentialing, no approved lists or mandated curricula. just choice. free, unfettered, self-adapting choice.

we must tolerate bad choices or choices we disagree with to ensure that the truly good choices are free to emerge. the speed with which this will lift all boats and take us to levels dizzyingly above those of today will be so stark as to be unmissable. it’s why the teachers unions will do anything and everything to prevent it. they are 100% cognizant of the fact that the garbage they peddle cannot survive competition.

and make no mistake, “garbage” is likely charitable as a descriptor.

this is a bar so low you could trip over it in the dark. and the arguments about “well we need rules and accreditation or some kid might learn some dumb thing i don’t like” fall awfully flat in the face of what the kids ARE learning now. maybe you cannot “save” everyone, but there is no way we cannot do 10 times better than this.

there is no way the current school system is more useful or better suited than a choice based system would be. the germans have, to great success, replaced many high schools with vocational tracks to become skilled technicians, plumbers, electricians, repairers of engines and operators of equipment. and the US has shortages of all these things and great career prospects within them. and not every kids wants a “liberal arts” education. so offer the option, see what happens.

By definition male is the sex that produces the smaller gametes and female is the sex that produces larger gametes. I learned this when I was wondering how they can say that the male sea horse gets "pregnant".

I am currently live outside of the United States, but I am wondering if any of you have met people who use this kind of virtue signaling language instead of regular English words whose meaning has been well defined for hundreds of years. What do you do then? Do you confront them? Do you end the conversation and leave? Do you conform for fear of repercussions?

My mother has told me that at work, in a mental health facility, when talking about men who think they are women and naturally calling them "he", her colleagues interrupt and insist that she say "she".

Patrick says

there is no way the current school system is more useful or better suited than a choice based system would be.

Proof of that is how the limo-libs send their own kids to private schools despite forcing public schools on the masses.

We're likely going to send our daughter to Catholic high school. Arizona apparently expanded their school choice program to every kid in the state, and standard assistance is $7,000. How's that for choice!

NuttBoxer says

We're likely going to send our daughter to Catholic high school. Arizona apparently expanded their school choice program to every kid in the state, and standard assistance is $7,000. How's that for choice!

That's the way it ought to be... convert the per pupil spending to a voucher.

AmericanKulak says

That's the way it ought to be... convert the per pupil spending to a voucher.

Hopefully this will not cause the private school tuition to increase by the amount of the voucher.

Adapted from a post on patriots.win:

My 6-year-old just came up to me, tears in his eyes, and said "Mommy, why do the evil Republicans want to take away my gay porn books?"

I - I have no words.

They have sex ed coming up, looked of the curriculum, and they talk about gender identity, and I assume un-natural forms of sex, as well as child trafficking. Now you all know I take pedophilia very seriously, but that doesn't mean my 13 year old daughter needs to know about that right now. So yeah, she won't be attending.

Got our grant approval for Arizona next year, $1,900 a quarter to not attend public school. All they require is your proof of your Arizona address, and your kid is over over five years old, that's fuckin it.

NuttBoxer says

Got our grant approval for Arizona next year, $1,900 a quarter to not attend public school. All they require is your proof of your Arizona address, and your kid is over over five years old, that's fuckin it.

Awesome.

NuttBoxer says

Got our grant approval for Arizona next year, $1,900 a quarter to not attend public school. All they require is your proof of your Arizona address, and your kid is over over five years old, that's fuckin it.

No receipt for private school tuition? How do they stop people from collecting $1,900 a quarter just to keep their kids at home?

The money goes into some virtual "wallet", and payments have to go from there directly to an approved institution of activity. The one other requirement, you CANNOT enroll in public school. They are paying you what it costs them to educate your kid in the federal system, so no double dipping.

NuttBoxer says

The money goes into some virtual "wallet", and payments have to go from there directly to an approved institution of activity.

It seems private schools may be soon filled to capacity and will just up the tuition by $1900 per quarter and have the same students they had before. Do the parents whose kids do stay in public schools get a choice of which public school?

If you go to a charter, you get a choice, but otherwise, no, have to go to the one in your district. There's only one large private school in Yuma, they haven't raised tuition, and they are already full. The other two are quite small, also haven't changed their tuition, neither is full, or seems like it will fill up.

NuttBoxer says

If you go to a charter, you get a choice, but otherwise, no, have to go to the one in your district. There's only one large private school in Yuma, they haven't raised tuition, and they are already full. The other two are quite small, also haven't changed their tuition, neither is full, or seems like it will fill up.

So, it seems most people prefer their local public school?

HeadSet says

So, it seems most people prefer their local public school?

Yuma is made up mostly of migrants, snow-birds, and military. It's a pretty specialized case, you if you want to know what most people do, better look to Phoenix. The one school everyone knows about is completely full. The other two have class sizes of 20 per grade, and 20 for all of high school. I had to really search to find them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059347/Parents-suing-LGBTQ-club-claims-regarding-teachers-daughters.html

https://notthebee.com/article/based-parents-file-police-report-on-teacher-who-offered-lgbt-themed-books-for-kids

This Illinois teacher tried to recommend books with gay themes to kids in order to indoctrinate them into the modern leftist religion and the media treats her like she's a hero.

And this isn't just a book that has some gay characters in it, that would be bad enough. She recommended the book called "This Book is Gay," which is an extremely graphic book describing homosexual sex acts to kids.

One of those books was Juno Dawson's "This Book is Gay." It's a bestselling nonfiction book that's billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative "instruction manual" for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans.

"By Wednesday, I received notice that parents had gotten a hold of pictures from that book that their child had taken in class," Bonner says. "By Friday, I was told that parents had filed a police report against me for child endangerment."

She hasn't been back to school since because SHE feels unsafe.

Sure, she's handing out gay porn books to kids, but SHE's the one who feels endangered.

The book she tried to push on students includes graphic descriptions of sex and encourages children to explore their sexuality and join homosexual dating apps like Grindr.

A perfectly reasonable excuse to contact the cops.

This teacher is a groomer.

Hopefully, the child endangerment charges stick.

Teachers need to know that sexualizing children and grooming them into the LGBT lifestyle is completely unacceptable.

Teacher is a pedo groomer.

https://notthebee.com/article/based-pastor-embarrasses-school-board-by-reading-pornographic-book-available-in-school-library

Based pastor embarrasses school board by reading pornographic book available in school library

https://www.yaf.org/news/msu-professor-forces-students-to-purchase-annual-subscription-to-her-own-website-claims-proceeds-will-be-donated-to-planned-parenthood/

MSU Professor Forces Students to Purchase Annual Subscription to Her Own Website; Claims Proceeds Will Be Donated to Planned Parenthood

Amy Wisner, a professor at Michigan State University, is on temporary leave after requiring students enrolled in her Marketing Communications course to purchase annually renewing subscriptions to her personal “Patriarchy Rebellion Community” website.



The leftist professor, who has taught in the business school at MSU since 2011, included the $99 membership requirement in the course’s syllabus.

A landing page from which students were required to purchase platform access describes the website as a “virtual community” that “exists far, far away from the internet bullies and trolls.” Wisner offered a more frank description of her “community” in a now-deleted June Facebook post, writing, “The Rebellion community is a safe place to coordinate our efforts to burn everything to the fucking ground.” She added that “100% of membership fees are donated to Planned Parenthood.”



Behind the paywall, she posted PDF files and YouTube videos that promoted her social justice agenda rather than anything remotely relevant to the subject matter of the business course.

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1657021799652024324?ref_src=patrick.net



ALL of these people should go to prison for crimes against humanity.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/parents-to-boycott-gay-pride-day-at-los-angeles-elementary-school-declare-theyll-keep-their-children-home-and-innocent-instead

A group of parents are saying they'll boycott a Los Angeles elementary school's gay pride day set for next Friday and will keep their children "home and innocent" instead.

What are the details?
An Instagram page — Saticoy Elementary Parents — went up about a week ago in opposition to planned gay pride activities at Saticoy Elementary in North Hollywood, which includes kindergarteners through fifth-graders, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“Keep your kids home and innocent,” a flier created by the parents group reads, the Times said. “Videos will be shown to the students including one where it says, ‘some kids have 2 mommies, some have 2 daddies.' This has caused outrage among parents.”

I have a cousin in Olympia who is seriously ill with the woke disease.

On May 17, the Oakland, California, teachers union ended a two-week strike—the union’s third strike in five years. The district offered a substantial salary increase for teachers before the strike even began, but negotiations remained deadlocked for days over the union’s other demands. The Oakland Education Association (OEA) put forward several “common good” proposals that included drought-resistant shrubs, a Climate Justice Day, reparations for Black students, and converting unused school and office buildings into housing for homeless kids and their families.

Most of these “common good” issues were outside the legal scope of teachers’ contracts, but as The Wall Street Journal editorial board pointed out, OEA is not a rogue branch of the teachers union. The National Education Association (NEA)—the largest labor union in the U.S. representing teachers and other school faculty—explicitly tells teachers to bargain for the “common good,” advising union branches that, “When we expand the continuum of bargaining, we build power, and go on the offense in order to fight for social and racial justice.”

What makes the NEA’s bargaining approach so remarkable is the fact that this union and its counterpart, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have recently inflicted profound racial and social injustice on the country’s school children in the form of extended school closures.

As an Oakland public school teacher, I was a staunch supporter of the teachers union and was a union representative at my school for three years. In 2020, however, I began to disagree with the union when it prevented me from returning to my classroom long after studies proved that school reopening was safe, even without COVID-19 mitigation measures. In my experience, the union’s actions were not motivated by sincere fears, but rather by a desire to virtue-signal and maintain comfortable work-from-home conditions.

Although union bosses like Randi Weingarten continue to obfuscate their role in school closures, the historical record is clear: The union repeatedly pushed to keep schools closed, and areas with greater union influence kept schools closed longer. Politicians, public health officials, and the media certainly had a hand in this fiasco, but the union egged on dramatic news stories, framed school reopening as a partisan issue, and directly interfered in CDC recommendations. Teachers saw firsthand that virtual learning was a farce and that children were suffering. While there may be plenty of blame to go around, teachers’ abandonment of their own students was a special kind of betrayal.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-teachers-union-broke-public-education