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| What's wrong with our schools? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 22 2014, 10:11 AM (305 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 10:11 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Hint: It's not the schools. Price Hill is a less well-heeled neighborhood in Cincinnati.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 22 2014, 10:38 AM Post #2 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeah? What are you doing to fix it? |
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| Copper | Oct 22 2014, 10:52 AM Post #3 |
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Shortstop
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One thing you could do is become a democrat congressperson then you can run their lives for them. On second thought what needs fixing? |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 10:52 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Raising my kid and paying taxes. Taking care of business, starting non-profits to raise money for scholarships and supporting good school programs. We gave out $2K in 2013, $4K this year and plan for $7K in 2015. What are YOU doing to fix it? I can't fix the broken culture, Aqua, other than by demonstrably living a different way and teaching those I am responsible for to feel a duty to give back to the community. That is the essence of civilization. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 22 2014, 11:32 AM Post #5 |
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MAMIL
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Or vote GOP and let the little bastards die in the streets. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Copper | Oct 22 2014, 11:42 AM Post #6 |
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Die in the streets? What are you talking about? I am assuming the window sticker is showing us a republican female NFL owner, who, like most NFL owners has 11 on the field and 3 in jail. Go Rams! Have you got something against a female owner? Is this some kind of war on women? |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Horace | Oct 22 2014, 11:43 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Improviso | Oct 22 2014, 12:15 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Best laugh of the day.
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Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism. We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 12:31 PM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Brilliant. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 22 2014, 01:31 PM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Mik, it's 2014. "Giving back to your community" doesn't cut it anymore because that word doesn't even mean what it used to. We live in areas in which our neighbors—if we even know them at all—are more similar to us in socio-economic status, age and political viewpoint than any other time in the past fifty years. And there's no "downtown" anymore; every neighborhood has its local suburban strip mall with stores catered only to those who live within a 3-mile radius of the parking lot. There's absolutely no reason or opportunity to interact with people from different walks of life. As for volunteering, we no longer do it like we used to. Instead of joining long-term community organizations that incorporate a diverse group of citizens, we join small, short-term activist groups with a smaller and tangible goal in mind. We don't volunteer at Boys & Girls Clubs anymore, we join the local cyclist rally to get a new bike lane built in. Everything else we throw money at or sign online petitions. Our "communities" are entirely homogeneous; we haven't been this segregated as a society since slavery. When we give back at all, it's either in the form of financial contributions—and look how well that's working out so far—or it's to serve our own local self-interests. The problem with the poorer areas isn't that they just don't have the money to better their communities; fundraising for community projects is easier than ever before now. The problem is influence. Every day—their home life, the home life of their friends, neighbors and relatives, where they shop, where they go to school, where they work—it's the same old shit. Leadership by example doesn't work, Mik. No one's seeing you do it. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Copper | Oct 22 2014, 01:39 PM Post #11 |
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Shortstop
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You need children. You'll see a whole new world. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Axtremus | Oct 22 2014, 01:44 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Send your children to private schools and may be you can avoid seeing that whole new world. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 01:45 PM Post #13 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You are wrong, Aqua. Many, many people see me do it and I have brought hundreds of people in to do it with me in the past 8 years. Enough people have seen me and believed in the mission that I have been able to transition leadership of one group to others and have it carry on without me. I am working on the other one. Leadership by example is all there is. I can't change the whole world. But I can damn well make the neighborhood, the school district, the town, the county, the state I live in better. You can too. If everybody did we would not have nearly so many problems. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 22 2014, 01:59 PM Post #14 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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You're not listening to what I'm saying. You're doing what helps out your own community, but that's not where we have these problems. The amount of exposure you and your activities have on the areas in which we have the troubled schools—inner cities, poor communities—has never been so limited in our history. You're preaching to the choir, Mik. The people stuck in the crappy neighborhoods don't have the influences and interaction they've had before. And hey, maybe that wouldn't do the job, but you can't go around saying "if they only did what I'm doing" when they have no idea who in the world you are. Personal experiences aside, successful people have never interacted less with poorer communities than they do right now. And I'm not saying that it's some fault of theirs, or that they're not trying to chip in or anything like that. I'm saying that's how our daily life is structured. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 02:11 PM Post #15 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Well then, I suppose we might as well fence them in and then gas them because nothing we ever do will make any difference. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 22 2014, 02:32 PM Post #16 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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What I'm saying is that helping your community doesn't influence theirs. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 22 2014, 02:47 PM Post #17 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I know what you are saying. I'm telling you there isn't anything else. Good ideas spread when people want good ideas. The lack of leadership comes from our 'Oh, you poor thing, nothing is your fault' mentality. We apply it to our children and our poor with predictable results. No, the circumstance they were born into is not their fault. What they do or do not do about it is. The best one can usually do is be an example of something better. |
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| Axtremus | Oct 22 2014, 02:57 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Now, see, had Communist China did not exile the Dalai Lama, he would be happily leading-by-example in his little corner of Tibet rather than teaching the rest of the world about ... well, whatever he's teaching. Doctors Without Borders could have easily stayed Doctors in the 'Hood. |
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| Copper | Oct 22 2014, 03:51 PM Post #19 |
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Is that true? I'd think with the massive increase in communications over the last few decades the communication between everyone and everyone has gone through the roof. Certainly the ability to communicate between everyone and everyone has gone through the roof. You can find any number of successful people right here at tncr that never would have associated with this riff-raff 20 years ago. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Steve Miller | Oct 22 2014, 04:50 PM Post #20 |
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Bull-Carp
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Horace | Oct 22 2014, 05:31 PM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Remember this article that Jon posted a link to a few months ago? Zuckerberg threw 200m at a school district and met only with failure. Mostly, I guess, because the forces he was competing against think that the political commodity of oppression is too valuable to risk losing it by solving it. (He's trying to do it again with schools right here in the East Bay so hopefully he thinks he's learned something, and can do it right this time.) |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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