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The Ignorant Fisherman Speaks Sooth
Topic Started: Jul 29 2010, 04:30 PM (677 Views)
Aqua Letifer
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ZOOOOOM!
JBryan
Jul 30 2010, 05:54 AM
'Queen Hatshepsut has a beard.'
Please tell me you guys have seen Bubba Ho-Tep.


"Suck the Dog Dick of Anubis, you Asswipe!"
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
Were those hieroglyphs translated through the Rosetta Stone or some other means?
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Kincaid
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mik, I think you have it absolutely right. Money is not really the issue - at least in our state, every school gets the same amount per student - and it's stunningly over double what it costs to educate a kid in the private Catholic School system - but go figure, the Catholic school kids are doing just fine.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
I stopped reading after he or she claimed that through Jesus Christ (s)he began to see the realities of the world.

Based on what people are responding with, I'd say there are good schools and bad schools based on money and parenting choices. Nothing to do with political affiliation.

I have a friend who teaches in Charles City, VA. She was visiting me two weeks ago and telling me about it. She asked the 6th graders to write down as many states that they could think of. 5 didn't name 1. Not even VA. One girl named some continents and countries. In 6th grade. Pathetic. Now, also in VA, I went to very good schools.
And how are you today?
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KlavierBauer
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HOLY CARP!!!
I think people in border states or states connecting to border states may have a slightly different take on what constitutes "shocking."
There aren't any schools here that aren't affected by illegal immigration, and for us (Colorado, Arizona, NM, California, etc.) this is a real issue, above and beyond the issues already facing the system as a whole.
Talk to Mrs. KB (a Dem. btw) if you want a "fair" perspective (sans my conservative bias) on what is happening to k-12 education in the southwest.
I'm sure IT can weigh in on this as well.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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Phlebas
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Jul 30 2010, 08:02 AM
Mik, I think you have it absolutely right. Money is not really the issue - at least in our state, every school gets the same amount per student - and it's stunningly over double what it costs to educate a kid in the private Catholic School system - but go figure, the Catholic school kids are doing just fine.
Catholic schools don't provide everything that public schools provide - for better or worse. For example, if your child has a learning dissability, you're better off not sending the kid to a Catholic school because they don't have the level of resources that public schools have.

Also, Catholics school heirarchy, and leadership is rolled into the diocese, which has a number of responsibilities outside of schooling. For example, the "superintendent" of a my daughter's Catholic school is the Monsignor. He does a lot of things besides manage the school.
Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML

The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D


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John D'Oh
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Jul 30 2010, 06:52 AM
Was Manchester, UK a conservative (in the US sense of the word) city when you taught there? :blink:
By Mancunian standards, Obama would be considered pretty right wing.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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