Greenwald on the Charlie Hebdo free speech crusaders: where are they now?

Three underappreciated sources.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/index.php
http://arstechnica.com/
http://www.aldaily.com/

Seems a bit thin to criticize people for talking about a high-profile mass murder while not saying anything about random French criminal cases. I mean, obviously it's an abomination to send people to jail for wearing T-shirts. These people ought to move to USA#1.

You should read thebrowser.com (not just politics).

I really don't get the martin shkreli case.

How does a guy get embroiled in a fraud to repay debts of ~8 million that will almost certainly send him to prison when he is worth at least 45 million according to the court, he had no difficulty paying a 5 million bond and he has enough cash on hand to buy a wu tang album for 2 million?

Hubris.

thanks

Looks interesting. There was a story from Heterodox Academy in there today. It was interesting but that site's characterization of its aims interests me. I'm broadly sympathetic to the idea of fighting epistemic closure and ideological mono-culture, but their list of "entrenched but questionable orthodoxies" reads disturbingly like a just-slightly-too-intellectual version of "race realism":

I'm not sure what to make of it

Yes, seriously. I'm skipping past all the 'current public schools are a hell scape that destroys our youth' and talking about his proposed solution.

If schools compete for children, and get funding based on enrollment, what happens to kids that can't keep up and drag a school's reputation down?

They go to schools that don't have a reputation for academic excellence?

Depends what their price is this time. He's probably gone before they get to extradite him. Maybe it's better having the devil they know being boss and bringing billions into the country than a bunch of psychopathic upstarts fighting for his place. I'm sure there's good people involved who want to ensure he faces justice this time, but those good people's bosses probably daf and will enjoy spending their fat bribes. Too cynical?

That wasn't your question. Your question at least as I understood it was why would parents send their kids to a terrible school?

Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol is having some sort of paternity/child support thing that I don't care about wherein the child's father is asking for child support. The father in question is Dakota Meyer, who is this guy:



Anyway, Sarah and Bristol Palin gave statements to Entertainment Tonight, and I'd like to highlight this particular message:

Less children go to a **** school. Terrible I know

But if the charter schools are not obligated to teach students they don't want to, then you are completely ****ing over the most needy students.

It's not entirely surprising that questioning the ideas of a (hypothetical) ideological monoculture would entail saying things that are similar in some ways to what crazy people say.

So the solution is to completely **** over the high-achievers instead?

The most needy students in those environments are often not likely to get anything out of school no matter what you throw at them. Your whole goal imo should be to give options to the high-achievers who need a safe place to learn, and are more likely to serve as role models and give something back to the community. Yes you do your best with the needy kids, but you can't drag down the top kids to do it.

I don't think you have any idea the level of chaos which goes on in an inner-city school. I've listed my experiences before - and that was just junior high. I'm glad I had the experience. But I'd move to Fargo before I put my own kid through something like that. I couldn't do it to them. I'll find other ways to make sure they don't grow up in an ivory tower.

Here's a black kid getting picked on by a bully for "talking white". I saw **** like this every single day.



Imagine how hard it is for good kids to learn in that environment. This is not some anomoly. When I went to Lincoln my first priority by far was not getting my ass kicked every day. If I learned anything it was a bonus. And I'm a pretty big guy that the bullies generally left alone. Other kids, white and black, had it way worse.

Charter schools aren't the only option for kids to leave to, nor do all charter schools work that way

Man, the Palins are going to give us multiple generations of white trashy lulz, aren't they.

Half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've got to deal with down the road.

There was a post before that.

So there will be schools that advertise as being for the mediocre and poor students? I wouldn't think patents would want to acknowledge their kid isn't a super smart special snowflake but I'm probably wrong.

Dakota Meyer
D-Money

COINCIDENCE?????

Yeah as opposed to now.

There are multiple ways to do charter schools, most commonly they are required to take everyone and use lotteries if there are too many kids.

I recommend watching this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery_(2010_film)

The school those kids were trying to get out of has like a 15% high school graduation rate.

He meant Maine girl for chrissake. Just an innocent slip of the tongue. We all accidentally pick up a regular whistle instead of our dogwhistle every once in a while.

Yeah my friends in KC have multiple kids. Once you get the first in the rest are grandfathered. Another friend is sweating it out right now with his 4-year-old. In KC that K-8 French immersion school is really the only charter school option.

Supposedly in LA if you apply to all of them you will probably get into one. But you may not be able to choose the science and math school vs. the music school or w/e. Which explains why the kids sometimes come from 2 hours away. Maybe they can trade with other parents or something.