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  1. TheLeviathan
    The only way is if we basically say "take him for us and we'll give you a pick to do it". Which, to my understanding, is allowed. And I'd probably be ok with that, depending on the pick.
  2. TheLeviathan
    I'd like to see them stand pat I think. The only way I make some kind of huge splash is if I think I can make a deal that cashes in a chip I'd lose in the expansion draft and turns it into something I can protect. But I don't see how that'd happen.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I forgot about the 7/3 option. Pominville is the key to making this happen.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Yeah I think you have to protect Koivu, Parise, Pominville, and Suter. I add Spurgeon, Coyle, Zucker, and Granlund. Then I hope they take a D guy and not Nino. Ideally I find a way out of protecting Pominville so I can protect Nino instead.
  5. TheLeviathan
    KGZ? Had a nice ring and fun political potential...
  6. TheLeviathan
    It was this clown in fact: http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160817192715-02-michael-cohen-situation-room-august-17-2016-exlarge-169.jpg Everyone remember him?
  7. TheLeviathan
    Exactly. I certainly wouldn't deny that. I've argued the same thing. But at the end of the day the single biggest driver for change in education is going to have to be parents. They are the ones raising their children, paying their taxes, sending their children to school, voting for school board members, voting for their state and national representatives, etc. The money follows their choices. As long as well-off white people continue to view "choice" in schools as a good thing we will continue to have a public education problem for those too poor, rural, or not-white to have real choice.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I'm glad to hear that, it was a show I've been eyeing.
  9. TheLeviathan
    But you were right about Nishioka! Does that help?
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  11. TheLeviathan
    RIP BYTO.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I agree, but also like any theory you can over emphasize to the detriment of a more balanced approach. If Twins coaches weren't emphasizing elevation than that is an issue. He shouldn't need Manny for that.
  13. TheLeviathan
    This false dilemma is exactly the problem. If more people bought in to improving all schools there wouldn't be such a divide. And when you choose School B, the poor, black, and brown children suffer most of all.
  14. TheLeviathan
    You know what helps even less? Bad anecdotes about 3/4 of teachers being terrible. We need less well-off whites absconding like DeVos celebrates. Without those sacrifices, nothing will change.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Those of us that are 75% terrible at our jobs (according to you) sacrifice for the greater good every day......
  16. TheLeviathan
    In effect - yes. Without buy-in from all (especially those wealthy enough to abscond) the problem won't be fixed. It's going to take sacrifice and buy-in from all to help all. You want the cart to operate better before you attach your horse but you're riding the horse off to another cart. The cart will never get fixed that way. The states, cities, etc. that you blame see you (with your money) riding your horse off to make a different choice to they enable your choice rather than fix the cart. And that's precisely what has been happening now for decades. In fact, you're exactly the kind of person Betsy Devos will hold up as a shining beacon of what we should all be doing. And who suffers? Teachers and kids who can't abscond.
  17. TheLeviathan
    You know what this says to me? That the manner in which the Twins were rigidly pushing their mantra was coming off poorly. This team showed far too much rigidity in their ways for far too long and that kind of rigidity probably came off to players as inflexible. Sure, we want guys to take outside pitches and spray them the other way, but we also want them to do what they do well and focus on that. It seems to me that the Twins were teaching Twins Way so hard that they ignored (and pushed their players) to ignore their strengths in favor of the Twins Way mantra. If that's continuing (and it sure sounds like it from that comment) - I want it gone. Yesterday.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Suck up.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Except, it becomes a black/white thing when all the well-off white people flee the districts. And NY is one of the worst about this. It isn't projection, it's a reality and your statements indicate you are part of that problem. Or intend to be. We can't fix what's broken with people fleeing the problem. And while you are willing to pay more in taxes (I commend you for that), your stated intentions will undermine what you want to have happen for schools. I'd also suggest that most of what appears to be private schools being "better" is because they have stacked their own deck. I doubt you'd argue Breck's hockey program dominating some rural school is the result of superior hockey coaching so much as it is recruiting vs. local talent pools. And yet so many make the same argument about private schools vs. public.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I don't disagree with any of that, there are some structural changes needed. But you're part of the problem, based on your comments here, for what needs to happen to fix that. You, without even having had a child yet, have declared you'll never put them in a public school. Like many urban whites, you choose to either fight tooth and nail to keep your money in your local (likely mostly white) school or you fight for vouchers so you can take your kid to a private school. The only way we'll be able to afford to pay teachers more, offer a wider variety of high school options, and restructure curriculums is if we get rid of the idea that schools should be run locally. And that you, as a citizen, gets to choose how your education dollars are spent. Or where your kid goes to school. Unless we have 100% buy-in (like all of the countries you clung to earlier based on flawed testing), we're not going to effect those changes. And the sad thing is that most Americans think far too selfishly and locally about education when they should view it for what it is - a foundation, a necessary cornerstone of a capitalist, democratic republic.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Right, and why would anyone sign up for a job when huge swaths of the country say inane things like "75% of teachers are terrible"? Teacher salaries are low, in part, because people are walking around saying "75% of teachers suck" and they don't deserve to be paid more than a pittance. There are a lot of things that go in to making the water fine. We can start by paying teachers a good wage and parents start getting their **** together a little bit. It'd help if I could be 90% teacher and 10% parent and not borderline 50-50. Follow that up with a little bit of shared sacrifice on this from all parties and we could turn some things around. We have far too many rich white people (of all political persuasions) thinking about education selfishly. Fixing that could go a long, long way too.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I think we should just learn to accept that one of Dumba/Brodin/Scandella is likely gone. Or we lose Zucker....which is worse IMO.
  23. TheLeviathan
    My god do we need to fire everyone in the organization that is still stuck on the Tom Kelly, shorten your swing, nonsense. That quote.....maddening.
  24. TheLeviathan
    How many people will support "kicking them in the ass" by doubling their salary? C'mon Dave. Think.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Most of America will buy your phone 75% and laugh at the very idea of doubling teacher salaries.....because they believe 3/4 deserve to be fired, not given a raise.
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