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  1. DaveW
    Lot of fat to be cut in bad school districts and states. I maintain my 75% number in re: to schools I went to. College I only disliked 10% of my professors and thought they were lazy tenure folks. Definitely a huge gap between the two. I'm all for paying teachers a livable salary, I think salaries should START at 65k and within 10 years every teacher should be making 110k+ That will bring in some decent talent IMO. Instead we are paying a lot of them borderline minimum wage in several states. It's hard to attract talent that wayx
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    Hmmm who?
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    Minnesota has good public schools, as does Nevada I believe. In fact one of my best friends wife is a teacher in Nevada, and she speaks pretty highly of it. And while Nevada is low taxed, keep in mind they have a treasure trove of tax income coming in from the hotels and casinos, so it works! Minnesota is not the norm though, I went through the public school systems in: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina and all were dumpster fires (and we even lived in one of the bet districts each time) (Washington was good, Montana was Ok) New York City is a disaster, a lot of that reason is because of the unions. Listen I respect GOOD teachers who make the sacrifice, but from my experience the majority of my teachers in those bad states were either: 1. Lazy 2. Dumb 3. Both Again: Minnesota does a damn fine job though, along with a few other states. The majority of states however do NOT. And our math and science scores alone prove this. I stand by my "rant" earlier: 75% of my teachers were worthless and I would have been better off learning on my own. In fact I was better off doing independent learning, instead of doing the pointless tasks some of those idiots (75%) were having us do.
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    Yup very well said Brock. The poor pay is what causes a bunch of folks that WOULD be good teachers to not even consider it in the first place. Again, 75% or so definitely fall in the: Those that can: do Those that can't: teach Bucket.
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    Well they are. The US loses ground in "country standing" year by year when it comes to various disciplines. I was a product of the public school system as well, I lived in 6 separate states (and thus school systems growing up) they all have their issues. Now I live in the best city in the world, yet I would never send my kids to public schools here because they are a joke. Something is wrong with that. Teachers unions IMO share a boatload of the blame, it allows terrible teachers to continue to have a secured job. I'd say that 75% of the teachers I had growing up were terrible, I'd guess that is likely the same number across the board. They should reward good teachers and fire bad ones, instead it's all about "experience and tenure" it sucks and it's why we are terrible across the board in education compared to other countries.
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    The public schools by and large across the country are a joke. Both Libs and reasonable repubs have ignored it for too long, which I think has directly lead us to the worst case scenario of DeVos running, gutting and destroying the show. I feel really bad currently for anyone who has school aged children currently and not any options. It could be a tough 3-4 years for the edu department.
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    In re: abortion. The "pro life" argument is not about "saving a life" it has and has always been about controlling women. Make no mistake about it. If you are "anti choice" you are basically anti empowering women and pro controlling them and their choices. People can hide behind religion all they want, but that's what it's all about.
  8. DaveW
    Yeah that is the general consensus. Also how he told the Jewish reporter to sit down and that he (trump) was "literally the least anti Semitic person in the world" was the height of ridiculous as well. its so annoying how he HAS to be the "best" at everything, like being the "least" racist person ever. Not to mention the majority of people who have to repeatedly say "I'm not racist" are usually some of the most racist. Pretty sure even david Duke claims he is personally not racist.
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    Obama is apparently doing a lot of behind the scenes work, in meantime the Dems are standing up to every dumb thing Trump does. But they are (smartly I might add) letting Trump hang himself with all of this ridiculousness. I had dinner the other night with a member of parliament here in the U.K. (House of lords) they said they thought trump would be out of the White House within the next 90 days one way or another. Resign, Impeachment..or ..other. And this was prior to whatever the hell that insane press conference was yesterday.
  10. DaveW
    Giving Trump bizzarely the benefit of the doubt at this stage is the whole problem at this stage!
  11. DaveW
    Yeah the interviews were awesome. Also Glen was(and remains) the man: @glenperkins/status/216374422330806272
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    Would have kept Stat around for sure.
  13. DaveW
    I like to call them #alternativefacts
  14. DaveW
    Add Lambo to the list. Jew is on life support, I see him pop up in T Pups chat from time to time, just not the same though....
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    Kenny Rogers 2006 IIRC
  16. DaveW
    My favorite Bit was that after itstimetomeltdownandkickbabies got banned (or quit?) he came back as justanotherfan, us mods knew it instantly and basically told everyone else via PM. We let him do his bit for a few weeks about he was some lawyer from Maine, eventually of course he had another meltdown. Also LoL to him contacting the Twins about copyright infringement
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    Yeah, like you can't give Trump the benefit of the doubt at this point, he literally MEANS everything he says. This isn't a guy who has a W "brain fart" He (and Moreso Bannon) know what they are doing, they realize that anyone with half a ****ing brain in this country has zero faith in him at this point (his dissaproval rating will hit 75% by end of month) so the only shot they have is to hit their rabid fan base of white supremacists, hardliner baptist types, racists, islamophobes, etc to hope that THEY keep "fighting" for him via twitter etc. Seriously the fact that literally nobody in the GOP Is calling him out on this **** is just embarrassing as all hell. I know the right likes to create the meme that "the left think they always have the morale high ground" but seriously....it's the truth. Death to the GOP Murder the Government Resist!
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    That's not at all how it came off, it came off on "well you are black, they surely are your friends, can you set it up?" Trump lives in some la-la land where all minorities know each other, agree with each other 100% of the time and are all the same. It's not a reporters job to set up meetings between the president and the CBC, like it's just so absurd and Trump knew exactly what he was saying/implying...basically shifting any blame to "you guys" for not setting up the meeting.
  20. DaveW
    Awesome, great work! I know that you and I disagree on my scorching hot baseball takes!!1! But wanted to say what you are doing with this is admirable and commendable, keep up the good fight in Minnesota!
  21. DaveW
    What the **** happened today?
  22. DaveW
    I would honor this momentous occasion with an act of Rocketpigging, but then I realized that London has some pretty strict obscenity laws...
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    Trump isn't going to survive this. No chance. Beginning of the end. Hopefully Pence can go down in the scandal as well. I don't like Paul Ryan very much, but compared to those two? He looks pretty good.
  25. DaveW
    The most upsetting thing to me is not that they did this, it's that they did this and actually thought they wouldn't get found out. What a complete lack of respect for the public, journalism, and the people. Their arrogance will be there downfall, rightfully so.
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