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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Vickie - 2016-10-18 1:30 PActually the charter school movement is much more responsible for segregating our schools and it is a right wing, money grabbing scheme. Charter schools may be required to take any student, but if your kid is not up to their standards they will find a way to kick them out. Low performing, handicapped, emotionally scarred, all the "undesirables" are expelled from many charter schools. I am not saying all, there are some who work very hard to help underpriviliged students. But, the majority exist to make money and don't want to waste resources on anything but the best students. Parents love them because they don't have to trouble-makers. But the result is segregration.
The only charter schools in Monroe City and Lincoln Parish are black. Chartered by, administered by, and attended by African Americans. One is performing arts and one is a basketball farm. |
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Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | SloRide - 2016-10-18 1:39 PM
Wow. Let's just ignore the racism in your post for a moment. A major reason why many black schools do not perform well is because they get the shaft on funding. Not because they are populated with mostly black children. Now one could argue that they get unfairly funded because they are predominantly black school in poor neighborhoods, but then we would need to address the issue of institutionalized racism and I doubt you think institutionalized racism is a real thing. Those blacks are probably just really really lazy.
I am a white teacher at a black school. We have plenty of money. Each teacher begins the year with $400 to buy consumables. We all have SmartBoards. Laptops for each student in the classroom. We tutor after school. We offer summer programs. We are an "F" school according to our standardized test scores. It's not a lack of financial support or effort. We have to send them home. That's the problem. |
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| 1DSoon - 2016-10-18 6:26 PM CowboyUp!!! - 2016-10-18 7:02 PM Blanket statements... people are on welfare currently not because they want to be. The values of our society has declined since the MTV years. Shut off the cable, kick the useless sex tape celebrities out of the country, dump the electronics..bet everyone knows Kim Kardashian but can't name one congressman...your kid has an I phone but can't do his homework without google...we are poorly educated as a country when compared with the rest of the world. Most youth lack the discipline and the patience to reach beyond their means. Inner city youth have Even less opportunity due to demographics and preconceived notions handed down by a parent, teacher, someone, anyone. Its the ME society. We are a helpless, helpful country...our government is set up for failure so they can sit back and run business as usual while we lemmings blame everyone but ourselves for personal failure... almost all of that is spot on. Except for the part about wanting to be on the programs.
Yes they want to be.
But you want to know how to fix all of these problems? Stop feeding them, stop sheltering them, stop medicating them.
Hunger is inspirational. I know, i've been hungry. I"ve been the kid at school that had a measly little sack lunch because that's all we could afford. I've been the kid that had one pair of jeans and 3 shirts to make it thru a week of school.
You know what I did? I decided that **** was for the birds and I worked harder than everyone else and made something of myself so that me and my kids didn't live the life that I lived.
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Miracle in the Making
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| I have a different take its all our fault we have allowed the same represnatives and senators in office to long we should have voted them out when they don/t listen
we should insist on term limits congress welds to much bloat power they are beyond corrupt
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TXBO - 2016-10-18 6:49 PM 1DSoon - 2016-10-18 6:26 PM CowboyUp!!! - 2016-10-18 7:02 PM Blanket statements... people are on welfare currently not because they want to be. The values of our society has declined since the MTV years. Shut off the cable, kick the useless sex tape celebrities out of the country, dump the electronics..bet everyone knows Kim Kardashian but can't name one congressman...your kid has an I phone but can't do his homework without google...we are poorly educated as a country when compared with the rest of the world. Most youth lack the discipline and the patience to reach beyond their means. Inner city youth have Even less opportunity due to demographics and preconceived notions handed down by a parent, teacher, someone, anyone. Its the ME society. We are a helpless, helpful country...our government is set up for failure so they can sit back and run business as usual while we lemmings blame everyone but ourselves for personal failure... almost all of that is spot on. Except for the part about wanting to be on the programs.
Yes they want to be.
But you want to know how to fix all of these problems? Stop feeding them, stop sheltering them, stop medicating them.
Hunger is inspirational. I know, i've been hungry. I"ve been the kid at school that had a measly little sack lunch because that's all we could afford. I've been the kid that had one pair of jeans and 3 shirts to make it thru a week of school.
You know what I did? I decided that **** was for the birds and I worked harder than everyone else and made something of myself so that me and my kids didn't live the life that I lived.
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| slacy09 - 2016-10-18 8:50 AM
tin can - 2016-10-17 5:34 PM Do a little research and look at the mess we were in the banks ford, Chrysler Chevrolet. The stock market is up compared to 2007 he isn't perfect but he did do some things that helped us from being in a worse recession than what we were in, no die hard republican will ever see it so I'm wasting my energy lol.
Have you seen the national debt lately?? Someone refresh my memory....how much has it gone up under Obaama???? 
Yes let's take a look at say wells Fargo, corrupt. Buick which OUR tax dollars bailed out now completely 100% produce their vehicles IN MEXICO! Let's also look at Obozocare which is currently imploding save for another government prop. Texas residents who buy individual policy are seeing upwards of $1000 INCREASE PER MONTH in addition to their 6000+ deductible. Obummer has been AWESOME.
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Location: Where I am happiest | Trump is going after term limits if he gets elected! He wants 6 years for the house, and 12 years for the senate. It's past due time!! |
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Googly Goo
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| Uneducated sheep. Slowly but surely pulled into the indentured servitude of the elite. History is sure to repeat itself. I must give the left my kudos for their immaculate execution of Machevalian theory. |
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Googly Goo
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| The arrogance of the elite trumps the ignorance of the hoi polio. Well done Hillary. |
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Location: High heels in the air... | I tutor in my spare time...the cost of child care increases the drop out rate as older children care for their siblings while the parent works. The welfare system is definitely broken...The ones that comes to me have a dream, black, white, Mexican...they want a better life...
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | CowboyUp!!! - 2016-10-18 9:42 PM
I tutor in my spare time...the cost of child care increases the drop out rate as older children care for their siblings while the parent works. The welfare system is definitely broken...The ones that comes to me have a dream, black, white, Mexican...they want a better life...
That's nice. They want a better life.
How do they do that? |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | ThreeCorners - 2016-10-18 8:25 PM Trump is going after term limits if he gets elected! He wants 6 years for the house, and 12 years for the senate. It's past due time!!
I agree with term limits but the Congress is never going to vote themselves out of a job. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | If anybody missed the videos last night on Hannity......the real thing. It showed teams hired by the DNC to hire protesters to cause mayhem at Trump rallies. We've all seen that. They even purposely chose violent mentally ill. Clinton Foundation and donor money at work.
Also shown were teams hired by the DNC (Hillary) to bring illegals to the voting booth on a major scale. Something we all know helped put Obama in the WH.
These videos were disgusting and you'll likely never see them on liberal media. If you're not scared, you should be. There's nothing honest about this election. |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | streakysox - 2016-10-18 5:06 PM I taught in a Charter School. They get their funding like other public schools or at least in Texas, as they are a separate school district, each having their own superintendent and school. We got the kids that had been kicked out of the high school for discipline problems. Why is saying that neighborhood schools are low performing or that democrat have the blacks where they want them is racist? I teach in a high school that is equally divided Hispanic, Black, and white. My black teacher friends feel the same way that I do about the black kids having to attend low performing schools when most of them attended schools that were completely integrated. I think the point I was making was that the democrats have set them back to a place before they were integrated. This is fact not opinion. All schools in Texas are rated according to test scores, attendance, graduation rate and several other factors. My job is to get the graduation percentage up. I don't care if they kid is green, if they get in my room they work and they understand that. If the breakdown of the family and apathy are the ruination of education then all schools are doomed. I have many girls who are single parents, they they are happy that our school district who is has a program where they can finish. If I have a student who in not working, a quick call to a parent usually gets them in gear. So there went the apathy theory. I do think that today's education is failing some students because we are to make brain surgeons out of everyone. I will say this, our new superintendent is trying to incorporate some vocational classes for kids in the early grad program. At least they can take something that interests them they will be better prepared to support themselves.
I don't give a tinker's **** about most of this thread but I am SO GLAD to hear that a school district somewhere is bringing back vocational classes. It is so hard to find somebody to hire with any kind of blue collar skills. You'd think in a medium-sized city surrounded by farm country we could find somebody who knows one end of a screwdriver from another.
Add on somebody with blue collar skills that can pass a drug test, has a decent driving record, can show up on time, and actually do their job? That's like hunting a unicorn. |
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Location: OH | Nevertooold - 2016-10-18 11:32 PM ThreeCorners - 2016-10-18 8:25 PM Trump is going after term limits if he gets elected! He wants 6 years for the house, and 12 years for the senate. It's past due time!! I agree with term limits but the Congress is never going to vote themselves out of a job.
It would have to be a Constitutional Ammendment---the public would vote on it. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Mighty Broke - 2016-10-19 7:50 AM Nevertooold - 2016-10-18 11:32 PM ThreeCorners - 2016-10-18 8:25 PM Trump is going after term limits if he gets elected! He wants 6 years for the house, and 12 years for the senate. It's past due time!! I agree with term limits but the Congress is never going to vote themselves out of a job.
That is true ......however, the Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | This is what will ultimately doom us.
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Googly Goo
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| Bear - 2016-10-19 9:12 AM
This is what will ultimately doom us.
It's Biblical, Bear.
1 Samuel 8:19-20
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
Israel was warned what the king would take from them but they wanted someone to fight their battles. |
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Location: TEXAS | TXBO - 2016-10-18 9:51 AM Vickie - 2016-10-18 9:42 AM . Now that we are not fighting Bush's wars on two fronts we will get out of debt, it will just take time. ......
Now we are fighting ISIS all over the globe.
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Zeal Queen
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Location: TEXAS | ThreeCorners - 2016-10-18 11:35 AM Reester - 2016-10-18 10:30 AM Bear - 2016-10-18 10:19 AM It's not just one person or a few people who are to blame. The system is failing top to bottom. The lying, corruption, greed, self-preservation, apathy, and passivity is rampant, not just within our government, but throughout society. You are not alone Bear, I agree with you wholeheartedly. 
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