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Titus Sardonicus posted:So true. Sometimes I think maybe I should just stick to my principles and enroll her in a public school because it's just the right thing to do re: civic duty, and fight for the quality of the schools themselves, all the while, hoping that my wife and I (and the community as a whole, "it takes a village," etc.) can do a good job enriching her and filling in the gaps. But that's just too idealistic then, isn't it? No, it isn't. For most of my childhood my dad was an automechanic and my mom was an unemployed stay at home mom. I still graduated at 16 and was accepted into the honors program at a major private university despite going to public schools because my parents encouraged me to read and learn on my own time, visit museums in the city, go to academic lectures(we live somewhat near Fermilab), etc. If my parents could do it out in the country on a single salary most of the time, I'm sure two college educated parents working in academia can pull it off. It just takes encouragement, support and even just the smallest amount of effort.
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It's ... disturbing seeing my Gocomics comment quoted in here. (Yes, I'm a Gocomics commenter, don't judge me.)
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Selachian posted:It's ... disturbing seeing my Gocomics comment quoted in here. (Yes, I'm a Gocomics commenter, don't judge me.) Did you just doxx yourself?
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Titus Sardonicus posted:So true. Sometimes I think maybe I should just stick to my principles and enroll her in a public school because it's just the right thing to do re: civic duty, and fight for the quality of the schools themselves, all the while, hoping that my wife and I (and the community as a whole, "it takes a village," etc.) can do a good job enriching her and filling in the gaps. But that's just too idealistic then, isn't it? The school still gets the taxes you pay whether you send your child there or not. I really don't understand why people think sending their kids to private schools takes anything away from public schools. They might lose some federal and state per capita subsidies, but those would have gone toward your child anyway, and the rest of the local tax resources your child would have used can go to other kids whose parents can't afford to send them to private schools. I really don't know what you people and Ted Rall are talking about. The school does not lose a drat thing! They arguably gain something, as long as you don't become a complete poo poo and start voting against funding or supporting politicians who want to cut it. Also, if you move to a district because of its superior, well-funded public schools, then you are arguably making the problem a lot worse. A Fancy 400 lbs posted:No, it isn't. For most of my childhood my dad was an automechanic and my mom was an unemployed stay at home mom. I still graduated at 16 and was accepted into the honors program at a major private university despite going to public schools because my parents encouraged me to read and learn on my own time, visit museums in the city, go to academic lectures(we live somewhat near Fermilab), etc. If my parents could do it out in the country on a single salary most of the time, I'm sure two college educated parents working in academia can pull it off. It just takes encouragement, support and even just the smallest amount of effort. That's great, but 1) if it happened before NCLB then it's totally irrelevant and 2) some public schools are pretty good, some are complete poo poo, maybe you were lucky and lived in a decent district. One thing they have a lot more of these days, though, is hours upon hours of mandated proficiency testing, and days upon days of test prep that has little educational value. In most states, private schools are exempt from the bulk of this (because the whole point of the testing is to evaluate the schools for funding and administrative purposes). I'm not saying everyone should send their kids to private schools, but if your school district is broken and you can afford a good private school, you shouldn't feel like you have some obligation to "support" your public school. You can support them by not voting like an rear end in a top hat.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I'm really confused, what's going on here? The Sun tabloid in Britain (a terrible newspaper and the flagship of Rupert Murdoch's awful empire) has for decades included a picture of a topless model on its third page (i.e. the one you see as soon as you open the front cover). They recently announced they're going to stop doing that (because it's terrible). That tweet is really confusing though, maybe they have decided to keep doing it after all?
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:The school still gets the taxes you pay whether you send your child there or not. I really don't understand why people think sending their kids to private schools takes anything away from public schools. They might lose some federal and state per capita subsidies, but those would have gone toward your child anyway, and the rest of the local tax resources your child would have used can go to other kids whose parents can't afford to send them to private schools. I really don't know what you people and Ted Rall are talking about. The school does not lose a drat thing! They arguably gain something, as long as you don't become a complete poo poo and start voting against funding or supporting politicians who want to cut it. Everyone does this immediately, though.
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:That's great, but 1) if it happened before NCLB then it's totally irrelevant and 2) some public schools are pretty good, some are complete poo poo, maybe you were lucky and lived in a decent district. One thing they have a lot more of these days, though, is hours upon hours of mandated proficiency testing, and days upon days of test prep that has little educational value. In most states, private schools are exempt from the bulk of this (because the whole point of the testing is to evaluate the schools for funding and administrative purposes). NCLB was enacted when I was starting middle school, IIRC, and hell no it wasn't a good school district. My school celebrated(we had a literal celebration assembly about it) when our average ACT score went up to 18 and we were using portable trailers as classrooms that hadn't been certified to be used as classrooms for years. We had creationist biology teachers(except one, who was probably the best teacher we had), a Christian club that prayed around the flag every morning, all kinds of hick bullshit. I'm fairly sure we were one of the lowest $/student school districts in Illinois, even including inner city Chicago schools.
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TheDarkFlame posted:Wow. That's great, look at how confident and commanding they look, true patriots the both of them. You know if you flipped to the front of that book Ryan is holding, it'd be "How To gently caress Your Country For Fun And Profit". Or maybe it's an entirely different sort of manifesto.  
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I assume "H.B.D.W" in that drinky duck cartoon stands for "Happy Birthday (somebody)." Whatever it stands for, that and "Squirrel Appreciation Day" are apparently more noteworthy than MLK day for Tinsley, year after year. I usually work on MLK day, and for years we had a horrible client who would call every Jan. 19 to wish us "Happy Martin Luther n***** Day." The calls finally stopped last year; I think the guy's dead. Social evolution at work. Maybe this is what it will take for the goddamn annual squirrel cartoons to finally stop. bitey fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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achillesforever6 posted:I knew I recognized that Far Side strip. Man when will we be allow to post Far Side strips online Gary, the internet isn't going to cause you to lose money or whatever it is that makes you want to not have people post your work online. Get this - you can post it and there's not a lot Gary can do to stop you
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I mean, I guess not everyone's cut out to be a musicologist, but I don't really get how that fits with the "joke."
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Lemming posted:Everyone does this immediately, though. No, they don't. You want to see FYGM, see the people who move to wealthy white exurbs and take their tax revenues with them.
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:Or maybe it's an entirely different sort of manifesto. I would love to see that 689 reasons to defeat Obama list.
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Ralepozozaxe posted:I would love to see that 689 reasons to defeat Obama list. DID SOMEBODY SAY 689??    And Harry on the State of the Union:  TheDarkFlame posted:"Help me, Black Zed, my tits are falling off" Weirdly, I think Kirschen's art has actually gotten better since his stroke.
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:Race isn't a problem in this country because Muir likes cream in his coffee? Is that really what he's saying? If you acknowledge a racial divide in America, you're a racist.
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loquacius posted:I think somebody makes a joke exactly like this every goddamn year. It's more like the Biden Ryan debate cartoons. Biden makes a mockery of Ryan and the next day all the usual suspects were choking on their own bile with a "LOL Biden the gaffe clown LOL." cartoon. When republicans burn democrats it means they are de-legitimizing their entire platform, but when democrats burn republicans it's a slap in the face to bipartisanship.
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gently caress off, Ramirez. They're all so frustrated that, despite their best efforts, America under Obama is producing some pretty nice-looking figures and he had a lot of good news to report in the State of the Union.
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Bloodnose posted:gently caress off, Ramirez. They're all so frustrated that, despite their best efforts, America under Obama is producing some pretty nice-looking figures and he had a lot of good news to report in the State of the Union. No you see, Obama's corrupt bureaucrats fudged all those numbers, and they don't account for the real unemployment rate, and Obama lied about everything, and all the good stuff is because of the Republican Congress anyway, and furthermore pig balls.
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Cloud Potato posted:Those women want to be Page 3 models, and are protesting for the boobie pictures to come back. But they're topless, and it's cold, and poor Sadie's frozen solid!
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WarpedNaba posted:I almost want to see what he'd suggest would improve the situation. if the dayton newspaper employed a political cartoonist, it would show dayton's commitment to arts and culture, and would attract people from far and wide to it's amazing marvels, quickly becoming a city to rival paris or berlin
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WarpedNaba posted:I almost want to see what he'd suggest would improve the situation. He... he did? He mentioned selling the buildings on the cheap to people who would be willing to renovate them and not tear them down, and cites that as having worked previously.
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