Good teachers - left to their own to use the skills they sought to become teachers - generally know who needs help and who doesn’t. They also know which way their students learn and which way is best to test their knowledge. There is no one size fits all test. Never will be never has been. Measuring educational success based on a single annual or every other year or every three year test only works if everyone learns and tests the same way.
Yes I am. Because in many cases it’s not a failure to learn to read or comprehend - it’s a failure to regurgitate on specific tests in a specific way. Which then gets neglected as the child ages and becomes a barrier to future successful learning.
One of the “keys to success” is holding back kids in third grade who aren’t judged “ready” to take the four grade tests this “improvement” is based on. So only the kids who are going to do well get promoted. Call me nuts - I know a lot of folks here do - but all that means is you are willing to game the system not actually teach your kids
There is no bench depth in the red states and that’s where a lot of the senate elections next year are. Mississippi’s democrats will likely run the same black guy who got 42% against Wicker last year. And while he’s a solid moderate Democrat he’s goi g to need 9% more white people to get elected against Hyde-Smith.
It will be something fascists will keep in their back pocket to use randomly against anyone that disagrees with the administration, same as revoking a visa. The best situations is where they can punish, at their own whim, literally any person they want.
Though the Whose Line reference is also well played.
As much as I despise this attempt at social control, why always stickers with me is how much these folks feel they have to twist words to hide intent. It’s like they know they are morally repugnant and don’t want to own that.
What drives your inherent need to go find obscure stories no one else is talking about to feed your incessant “neither side has moral standing” argumentation?
And therein is the fundamental difference between the left and the right. No leftist would ever declare due process as a thing that isn’t or shouldn’t be popular across the board, since due process affects everyone across the board.
Not the same thing. If he’s doing this routinely he’s using the app so his communications aren’t captured and preserved. And for way more than this. It’s meant to prevent him or anyone else being held accountable by Congress and the courts.
He was nobody’s idea of a leftist; he was also not every Catholic’s idea of a Pope. He tried to call the wider church back to its foundations to minister at the margins, and to respect all the people the church encountered. In that his was a Christ centered papacy. I worry that his successor will walk the church away from those ministries.
May he rest in peace having been welcomed home as a good and faithful servant.
You and everyone to your right keep talking about how these people shouldn’t be here. No one talks about all the people that hire them. Thus creating economic demand that isn’t otherwise fillable.
But sure let’s keep making our immigration problems about the migrants.
Elected representatives who have their constituents removed by force because they don’t like what the constituent is saying are not exercising a hecklers veto. They are denying the protestors 1st amendment rights in real time. It should be an abomination to this nation to do so.
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And they will celebrate as the “pain” necessary to defeat China or some such claptrap. The suffering of Americans will be morphed into a grand cause.
Classic fascist playbook stuff.
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Good teachers - left to their own to use the skills they sought to become teachers - generally know who needs help and who doesn’t. They also know which way their students learn and which way is best to test their knowledge. There is no one size fits all test. Never will be never has been. Measuring educational success based on a single annual or every other year or every three year test only works if everyone learns and tests the same way.
It’s a red herring.
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That we let teachers teach. Pay them well. Give students the additional support. Stop trying to meet production quotas and quantitative rubrics.
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Yes I am. Because in many cases it’s not a failure to learn to read or comprehend - it’s a failure to regurgitate on specific tests in a specific way. Which then gets neglected as the child ages and becomes a barrier to future successful learning.
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One of the “keys to success” is holding back kids in third grade who aren’t judged “ready” to take the four grade tests this “improvement” is based on. So only the kids who are going to do well get promoted. Call me nuts - I know a lot of folks here do - but all that means is you are willing to game the system not actually teach your kids
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There is no bench depth in the red states and that’s where a lot of the senate elections next year are. Mississippi’s democrats will likely run the same black guy who got 42% against Wicker last year. And while he’s a solid moderate Democrat he’s goi g to need 9% more white people to get elected against Hyde-Smith.
Not happening.
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This is your money quote:
Though the Whose Line reference is also well played.
As much as I despise this attempt at social control, why always stickers with me is how much these folks feel they have to twist words to hide intent. It’s like they know they are morally repugnant and don’t want to own that.
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Mississippi is playing statistical gamesz
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There’s supposedly been another arrest elsewhere.
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Good for him.
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What drives your inherent need to go find obscure stories no one else is talking about to feed your incessant “neither side has moral standing” argumentation?
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And therein is the fundamental difference between the left and the right. No leftist would ever declare due process as a thing that isn’t or shouldn’t be popular across the board, since due process affects everyone across the board.
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This is indeed true in the south. Mostly because they believe privilege conveys freedom.
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Many of them are racists. And they are stepping up but the Lincoln Project running pithy ads won’t cut it.
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The patriots are weary. We’d really like some of our right leaning colleagues to step up and save the republic.
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Not the same thing. If he’s doing this routinely he’s using the app so his communications aren’t captured and preserved. And for way more than this. It’s meant to prevent him or anyone else being held accountable by Congress and the courts.
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SecDef is just following the P2025 playbook which directly calls for using apps like Signal to circumvent records retention laws. He’ll be fine.
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One has to wonder if Robert’s is regretting his blanket immunity ruling yet.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
This should worry us way more then it does.
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He was nobody’s idea of a leftist; he was also not every Catholic’s idea of a Pope. He tried to call the wider church back to its foundations to minister at the margins, and to respect all the people the church encountered. In that his was a Christ centered papacy. I worry that his successor will walk the church away from those ministries.
May he rest in peace having been welcomed home as a good and faithful servant.
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ThTh2 - you’ve seen the budget passback coverage for NOAA haven’t you?
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
You and everyone to your right keep talking about how these people shouldn’t be here. No one talks about all the people that hire them. Thus creating economic demand that isn’t otherwise fillable.
But sure let’s keep making our immigration problems about the migrants.
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That’s funny. You want her to do her constitutional job? Hahahahahaha.
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Elected representatives who have their constituents removed by force because they don’t like what the constituent is saying are not exercising a hecklers veto. They are denying the protestors 1st amendment rights in real time. It should be an abomination to this nation to do so.
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You’d rather discuss hypothetical Limits then implications of actual events? And you wonder why people think you are a bad faith troll.