Frist

Rowdy Roddie Rosenstein is being sent to the cornfield FOR SURE this month!

*maybe

**if barr gets confirmed

I'm zigging where everyone else is zagging, voting for Sanders.

RUDY!

RUDY!

RUDY!

Didn't Rosenstein already announce he was leaving?

there was reporting that rosenstein expects to resign soon after barr is confirmed but nothing official from him

Why cant Stephen Miller go away.

trump needs somebody to print out r/thedonald threads for him

Man i have no idea why my post are getting nuked in the atf thread when they are on topic with the posts im quoting that stay...baffling. I think i need an atf thread about that atf thread.

And i had some good stuff in that one post in the exiled containment thread.

Mike Haven deleted about 80-90 posts. Yours probably were collateral damage.

Couple of threads going in the forum right now that I am deliberately not opening so that I don't troll myself. Please let me know if this is a bad call and I should be reading them, kthx.

I don’t open anything having to do with climate change for that exact reason. Also not opening that Ma.son “how are we doing” nonsense.

What are current groundhog odds?

Same. Everything worth saying about CC and abortion has already been said as far as I'm concerned and I'm actively avoiding the Masonic Temple for patently obvious raisins

To continue from last month:


I resemble this remark, expecting #2 in about a month and a half. I've thought about it, and it's a tough dilemma. We've seen multiple manifestations about how human nature tends to make people happier in their station if they are better off relative to other people rather than a situation where they everyone else around them are better off in absolute terms. The right answer is to vote for improving all schools to be equal to each other and all better than a status quo "good school" (such as adopting the Finnish model), but that almost certainly won't manifest between now and when #1 enters school. It probably won't manifest before she leaves for college. But when the system is set up as a zero-sum game, as bobman was arguing, do I have to set myself up to lose to be considered a decent person? Is there a decent way to thread the needle along the lines of competing for the best for my kids, but wanting to do so in the context of a fair game where the competitors are on equal footing? Maybe, but the game doesn't really exist as such, and fixing it also is unlikely to happen in the relevant time window. I'm not totally versed on what tools I have at my disposal to give my kids an edge other than housing location and support at home, but it doesn't seem like paying for an abode in a favorable district and helping with homework is over the line. Getting on the school board and redrawing lines to favor me definitely is.

I tried to vote AOC but could not find her name.

I'm not sure why it isn't a "why not both" situation? Fighting for better schools for everyone and better living conditions for everyone shouldn't preclude you from trying to live in the best place you can and trying to put your kids into the best schools you can afford. The choices become difficult only when do something good for your kids prevents you from doing something good for all kids, and I don't have a feel for how often those situations come up or how much they outweigh things like voting for the school levy.

I've been in some well run school districts, some inner-city war-zone schools, and a nihilistic bedroom-community suburban high school which pretty much felt like Mean Girls every day. Or maybe River's Edge or something.

I thought that's just what HS was. I thought the John Hughes movies where kids could be individualistic and not get beaten into submission every minute of the day were just fantasy. But I've since seen high schools fairly up close that don't seem nearly as evil as mine was.

Anyway I wouldn't want my kid to go through the war zone or the suburban snipe fest if I could help it.

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My kids did go to a well-regarded school, but I don't think they would have had a worse education at an average school. Some things might have been a little worse, but some might have been a little better. Going to one of the lowest performing schools would be another thing.

And the solution for the lowest performing schools is probably something pretty dramatic like not concentrating poverty geographically.

Your kids' school is one of the ones I've seen up close that seemed night and day from where I went to HS as far as kids' attitudes and the way they treated each other. Getting a high score on a test is literally cool vs. something to be sneered at for caring.

I'm over-simplifying but you get the basic idea.

Could be just the times too. And helicopter parents vs. latch-key kids. We got in every kind of trouble you could imagine after school - starting in jr. high, even late elementary school - drugs, porn, vandalism, playing with guns, breaking into empty houses, you name it. Bored kids with no parents around. Not good.

If I had a kid they would know from birth that they're not coming home to smoke weed and play video games after school. You find something you want to do, or we'll pick something for you. Enjoy your piano lessons.

Also of course if I was embedded in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes high achievers, instead of the David Letterman make fun of everything/nothing matters crowd, my HS experience might be totally different.

It's both. Times have changed a lot.

A potential escape hatch is that the commonly understood standard of "goodness" in schools is loading students up with ~extracurriculars~ and preparing them for an even more brutal war to secure acceptance to the best possible college and land as high as possible on the hierarchy of power-elite careers at the end, which is not what is actually "good" for a child.