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Make the case for us in 3 sentences...or even one for the IDIOT voters, that's the maleducated level we've all been brought to. Something like; "USA educational performance is 217th out of 220 nations, END FEDucation NOW!"
how about - it is not in the constitution (just like abortion) - tasks not specifically given to the federal government are reserved to the states - and there are a lot of other things the government is doing (like energy, EPA, etc.) that are not in the constitution and should only be performed by the states - I hope Trump selects Vivek as VP or some cabinet post to get busy with his plan to reduce the government by 75%
Excellent statements about leaving such things to the states, as provided by the Constitution. But please, no Vivek, as fun as he is to listen to. His prior association with WEF is a red flag that we cannot afford to ignore.
I don't trust Vivek as far as I could spit. He popped up out of nowhere, is waaaaaay too slick, and, then, there's the WEF connection. No Way. No. How.
I knew VIvek was full of shit, when I heard his campaign rhetoric, stating he would hold the fed accountable, for their fiat money and theft from the people. Like anyone could do that. I believe he stated he would downsize the Fed. Excuse me?? The corrupt money changers cannot even be audited.
No, YOU are WRONG!!! Have you studied Hinduism thoroughly? Have you read their ancient scriptures? Have you lived in India? I have done all of the above. Your ignorance is embarrassing. THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THAT GOD IS WORSHIPPED BY HINDUS, JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, and followers of many other religions. You are getting caught up in details you don't understand. A deeper dive is required for you to get it!
Very sincere, very wrong. Religion isn't about how you feel. You are caught in details and history that you don't understand. Hindu is demonic worship. Their god is the Father of lies but if course he always appears as light but his depths are darkness.
Did Jesus ever teach that other religions were demonic? You fail to realize that what religion each person follows is between that person and God, and none of anyone else's business. Judge not, but you are in fact judging others of a different religion. And if you don't think religion is about how you feel, you are really missing the point. God is close to each of us according to how each of us feels about Him, no matter one's religion. God Bless and I hope you wake up to compassion and acceptance for all.
Omgosh, when will certain Protestants ever stop the bashing catholics and prosletyzing? š¢ They also do the same to the Orthodox in Orthodox countries, yet Billy Graham, a true man of God, did not.
I've noticed that certain commenters just regurgitate their mind control programs. There is no thoughtfulness in their comments. I call them Bible bots. They have no tolerance for beliefs other than their own. I'm learning to just ignore them because it does no good to try to reason with them.
And Billy Graham, guided by The Lord, led people, gently, away from false beliefs and towards the saving grace, given freely, by Jesus Christ.....the only way to eternity with God. Romans 10:9
Was he? Angela K, you do exactly what you claim I am doing. I do not call you names and you DO proselytize! But how scary for you if you did denounce your church ties! Not so for true Christians. I'm very very sorry for you. I can never lose my decision and I will never have God's wrath. His promise is His Word and He is able to do as He has said. He will not fail and I shall be with Him in heaven the moment I die. Good luck to you. Hoping you've done all the right things to be accepted, said enough Hails to Mary, lighted with candles to the right ppl, missed the right relics, been fawned by a Cardinal and forgiven, confessed every sin, attended ever mass
Then the Catholic Church owns the power to save. Jesus did not establish the RC church. Peter did not. Paul and the Apostles Warned That they knew of men who were waiting to lead ppl away from their testimony of Christ back into legalism. RC is a cult. You can't get out you will die in hell. Oh WAIT! You're going to hell anyway until you've paid for your sins, to the church.
And Billy Graham, guided by The Lord, led people, gently, away from false beliefs and towards the saving grace, given freely, by Jesus Christ.....the only way to eternity with God.
And it has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. It's ALL ABOUT Jesus Christ and always will be. Romans 10:9
"THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THAT GOD IS WORSHIPPED BY HINDUS, JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, and followers of many other religions."
If that's true then all these religions will pray the Sinner's Prayer (Romans 10:9).....to Jesus Christ.....believing He was born of a virgin, died and was RESURRECTED from the dead.
No one can claim that Jesus Christ was JUST a prophet, or the brother of satan, and believe in the same God as a born again Christian. That's a lie from the father of lies.
Do Hindus believe and worship the Only ONE True God of the Bible? if so, we are worshipping the same God, and we would all be called Christian believers. But I believe Hindus have very many deities they worship, most of which I can't even pronounce, which would then make them pagans....
Yes, I can see it. I was studying Italian for two weeks in Naples in July 2006, and there in time for a festival of Mary. Celebrations included a firework wheel revolving around the church facadeāif I remember correctly. I certainly do remember correctly that at that time I wondered āWhat on earth does this have to do with Mary,mother of Jesus? It' looks like paganism to me!ā And of course the word āpaganusā just means ācountry folk āChristianity being a practice of urbanites in early times. (You will, I hope, pardon the Latin teacher here)
Augustine, early missionary to Britain, wrote to Pope Gregory to ask how he should handle the pagan shrinesāand the Popeās reply was āturn them into Christian churchesāthe people are already accustomed to see these places as sacred.
Wow, he sounds exactly like he does not - If I had only heard the audio I would have assumed that was now. At 18 years old he is more "stately" and professional that all the politicians that I have ever heard speak - wow. Thanks for sharing.
Why on Godās green earth would a taxpayer object to paying educators to make our kids gay, artists to not starve, and health providers to give us lethal injections?
I like the things Vivek āsaysā but Iām leery simply because he reminds me of how Obummer suddenly arrived on the scene and how he was promoted by the left as the āyoung, rising starā in the DemonRAT party. We all know how that turned out and weāre still dealing with his destruction of our nation.
The federal department of education (lower case on purpose) does nothing but regulate and hand out money. They add zero value to the education of out children. Never have, never will. It has become a left wing propaganda machine and must go...save our children and wear this "I identify as non Bidenary" shirt in front of liberals š š¤£
Donāt forget āno child left behindā which ended up inflating grades and passing kids that should be held back! The sad result is kids ending ip in college who cannot put together a coherent paragraph let alone a paper. I know because I graded them in grad school 20 years ago!
I've spoken to some public school teachers. It's _really_ hard to get a kid held back these days. Doable, but the work and paperwork needed are insane. :/
"No child gets ahead" would be the better name for that program. It might have been well-intentioned, but humans are humans - and they turned it into following the letter, not the spirit. :(
I just recently learned that a Rockefeller built the World Trade Center towers in New York. Ya know, the ones that fell down like a stack of Jenga blocks?
In Washington State, teachers can choose to teach to the federal standards for each subject, or to the State standards, which differ widely from the federal. Two sets of widely varying standards, both set by bureaucrats in offices far removed from actual classrooms. Insane. I say get rid of ALL the āeducationā bureaucracies. In our area, whole buildings have sprung up to house all the various bloated administrative āeducationā functions. Much of it reaches far past education and into feeding low-income kids and holding seminars to coach teachers in affirming whatever a kid claims is true. Um, no. There are eternal verities, but they are hateful, so no longer taught. Department of Education should go, as part of the dismantling of our entire corrupt government.
While I liked the idea of DeSantis doing education vouchers so you have school choice, I do NOT like the way it was implemented. It's just a guise of school choice because if a private school takes the vouchers they then have to meet all state guidelines (which right now might not be SO bad, but imagine one day we get a liberal governor who wants trans rights). So, many private schools are having to axe teachers they've had who have had proven success with students but do NOT have a teaching degree or even necessarily a higher education because the state says you have to have a BS degree (soon to be a master's) and a teaching certificate. Just one example of many. So now it LOOKS like school choice, but soon it'll just turn the private schools into public schools that you pay more $ for.
You nailed the problem with vouchers. Strings attached, meaning they wonāt be any good for religious-based private schools. It basically forces government propaganda into private schools that take vouchers, or parents are still forced to pay for private schools that remain āprivateā.
My mom was one. She was one of their best ones, too. Much loved and her kids' parents were all upset she isn't going to be teaching next year and their kids won't see her anymore. But the school was told she didn't have enough 'education' to teach and they had to meet state guidelines on qualifications because they accept the vouchers. A few others were allowed to stay, but only for up to 2 years because they had BS degrees. They have to go to classes and pay for them and certification in order to keep teaching after that.
I heartily agree. Back in 1995, Congress came within a hairsbreadth of passing legislation that would have required ALL educators (including homeschool parents) to be state certified. Moms all over the country called DC and shut down the switchboard, and we ended up defeating the bill. Seems like it has piggybacked onto a great-sounding bill. I'm disappointed in my governor. I thought he was smarter than that.
And... vouchers make it so that these schools can raise their prices. When the vouchers stop, they will have made it so they can't keep going without the govt $$$ and be forced to collude or close.
Pathetic. On NextDoor I see yet another teacher asking for donations of supplies. Donations, when 90% of our property tax goes to schools. This time she is asking for bookcases, desks and other aids for studying AT SCHOOL because so many studentsā home lives are chaotic and so the kids canāt study there. Thereās even a funding website for teachers so donors can help them meet needs their districts donāt fund. It never, ever ends.
I remember when I was in elementary school, the teachers had cases of pencils/erasers/paper to do their jobs. We could bring our own, but it was never required. No asks for parents to supply tissues, paper towels, glue, or anything like that - the school just did it out of their budget. No idea why that's not still a thing.
On contract not many years ago, a team of K-12 test developers conducted ācognition labsā in Washinton State. The team interviewed students to collect responses to the state-mandated tests. It was rigorously scientific, but by mid-morning, the team felt the students were being grilled to despair. In the words of one anguished team member, āOh, the humanity.ā I hear the assessment industry is crashing and burning. Good news far too late.
WA citizens actually had to get up I-2066 to fight the stateās determination to eliminate natural gas. All expense for replacing appliances and furnaces to be borne by citizen. Internal combustion vehicles being targeted, and electric ones, and charging station construction, pushed. Having only one energy source increases energy vulnerability and gives those controlling the power switch complete control. All this while our electrical grid is strained and low-power-producing windmills are pushed onto our local hillsides. Citizens have mounted a fight against that, too.
Oh, and the State constantly threatens to remove dams on the Columbia River. Citizens have been fighting that for years but the threats continue. Despite a shortage of foster parents, Washington State is refusing to un-revoke the foster parent license of a couple who refuse to take their foster kids to pride events and refuse to use incorrect pronouns. Iām not kidding.
The cabal must be using a strategy to pick direct threats upon vital systems and wear out the citizenry until they just cave.
Yes, I read that about the formerly-successful foster parents having their "license" revoked if unwilling to engage in the perversion-program with their foster children.
Kids are innocent. I have every sympathy for what adults and government have done to them. Our schools feed kids even in summer when school is out. My point would be that we need to stop funding and expanding a system where āeducationā takes over as yet another government program to facilitate dependency and dysfunction. Itās a classic argument that conservatives arenāt compassionate, but the truth is that they seek solutions, not endless, painful extension of a problem through enabling it. Build the fence at the top of the cliff. Then you donāt need hospitals at the bottom of it.
During the depression most kids went to school without shoes and Iām sure many of them were hungry. But they learned the basics of education that allowed them to pursue a better future.
Now weāre feeding their stomachs while starving their minds.
Hunger is a great motivator as well...also teaches gratefulness. I don't want kids to go hungry, but no way the gov't should be feeding them. Isn't that what our local churches are for?
I disagree. We need to have some sort of safety net for hungry children. Obviously, the churches didnāt do a very good job or there wouldnāt have been any intervention.
The churches and other organizations did a great job. Government stepped in, taxes increased to cover social programming costs, and church donations a long w donations to other charitable organizations decreased because people believe the government is taking care of people. Not its job. Not in the constitution. The federal government has two jobs. TWO. Protect its borders (so it can protect its people and their freedoms and liberties) and create and preserve infrastructure. Thatās it. Thatās the job. Shutter the DoE and all of the other BS government entities. The people will provideā¦they always do.
Not true in all cases. I taught special education and some of those children were horribly neglected or treated shabbily by their parents. In some cases, I cared about those children much more than their parents.
I have generations of teachers in my family. If course it isn't true in ALL CASES. I also think that gov stepping in to become parents makes hateful lazy parents instead of good ones. Sex education has nothing right about it as it lacks the ability to teach love and only sparks desires to satisfy self by teaching sexual grooming.
Yes thatās also my objection, expanding the role of schoolsāwhere does it end? Clothe them (with name brands so they donāt feel left out or demeaned, naturally)? House them? Theyāre already talking about medical care on schools. At what point does the state take over the children completely, with this creeping expansion?
In the early 90's the Karens of my children's elementary school were soliciting for winter coats for low-income children. But they specified that the coats had to be brand-new. My children were wearing hand-downs and thrift-store winter coats. ???? Instilling in poor children a sense of entitlement.
Exactly! I stopped donating to local causes like āA Gift for Every Childā, in which an āunderprivilegedā childās name, age and gift preference was placed on a card on the Christmas tree. They asked for expensive, brand name gifts, things I didnāt buy for my own children. I never thought that a PlayStation was a necessary thing in our household.
And this entitlement mentality has been fostered for at least 30-40 years, so we have a generation of those folks, expecting that āsomeoneā will provide not only their needs, but their wants as well.
Yes, I have seen far too much of this as well. Itās all because of the desire to make sure kids are ānot being left outā or ānot being made fun ofā because they donāt have āwhat everyone else [meaning the āpopularā kids] has.ā I wish we could focus the mindset more on not being so superficial and not judging based on possessions. I hate how this all feeds into and encourages that mentality š
This is the leftās MO. If everyone doesnāt have something, no one should. Remember the āstudiesā showing that kids from happy families had an unfair advantage over kids who werenāt? It was a NYT article, and suggested kids from unhappy families should have lower educational standards (hoops and challenges to jump) and be given other advantages like scholarships and such. The left tries to ālevelā everything but all it does is capsize the ship.
In my small town everyone knew who was on welfare and the families who were always had the nicest newest bikes for the kids and brand name clothing (among other things) š¤ Whereas working poor families had hand me downs and thrift store items.
That was me - and to this day I'm still a thrift store shopper and advocate. I've studied fashion and imaging consulting for years and I know how to dress. People always compliment me on my sense of style and they are often shocked when I tell them I shop at thrift/consignment stores. Sometimes I can't believe what people give away or consign. I actually made a business out of it when I decided to owned and operated a ladies consignment boutique for nearly 20 years. I made a pretty good living selling used clothing and accessories so I'm thankful for the experience I received because I was raised as a poor welfare kid. I did not remain on the welfare system - I was on my own from the age of 17 and was an entrepreneur - the thought of having a boss didn't sit well with me at all.
I have many expensive items of clothing - one of my favorite suits is 3-button navy Brooks Brothers suit that I paid $50 for at an upscale consignment store. (It was at least $900 when new.) My suit wardrobe includes Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and many others. All purchased second hand.
At this moment I'm wearing a navy Lacoste polo shirt, some Tabasco khaki shorts and Sperry Top-Siders. All purchased used - but many of which are still with the original tags.
I realized a long time ago, that except for a brief moment, all clothes are used clothes. It's stupid to waste money on brand new designer wear when you can buy the exact same items for like 60-90% off.
Buying "gently worn" used is tougher for men than women, at least in our semi-rural area. Men wear stuff until it disintegrates ... whereas some women think "Oh, I cannot wear that again, I've been seen in it already!" and donate it.
And before y'all label me a sexist for that observation, it was made by my wife and not by me. She has a spiffy wardrobe of quality casual stuff (most looking like it was worn once) bought for pennies on the dollar at thrift shops.
You are not a sexist - you are absolutely right - my husband says the same thing, especially of more rural areas. When we go to the big cities we always source out the thrift/consignment stores and he finds great stuff there, but obviously I find way more, that's just the way it goes. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Thanks, Fred. More thoughts on this, but won't go into them now. However, in my mind, the same is true for used cars. Only twice in our married (52 years) life have we bought a new car--and then, only because the new car had what we needed (1978 Subaru--still could use less-expensive leaded gas and then, 1987 Ford Aerostar--because with 3rd baby, we needed a larger vehicle, and only the Aerostar [which proved to be something of a lemon] had the leg room needed by a tall husband.
Exactly!!! And good for you for figuring that out. I just bought a pair of embellished Brazilian Rox Jeans at a consignment store that still had the original price tag of $380 on them - I paid $40. Yey!
Thatās great and I admire that you have gotten such great finds. I have found that it takes so many visits to the second hand shops and so much time combing through the ājunkā that I just donāt have the patience nor do I want to spend the time.
I actually buy most things online these days. I have done Thrifting, but you're right - that's time consuming and often results in not finding what you're after.
Online I can search for exactly what I'm looking for, and specify if I want "New with Tags,' or the exact color, brand, etc.
I love that! You used your experience in a positive way and gained useful knowledge and insights. The people on welfare in my town (which was tiny so everyone knew everyone elseās business) were the definition of deadbeats. Didnāt work, didnāt want to work, perpetually on the government dole. While do many around them worked really hard and struggled š
It was that perception that made it embarrassing for me to use food stamps and medicaid for my son while I was in college as a single mom. But I did it to give him and me a better future. Not all ppl were deadbeats...I still worked 16-20hrs a week holding down a 20+ hour curriculum. And I paid my loans all back (only borrowed 30k for pharmacy school). Paid back those food stamps and any medicaid he used via taxes many many times over. My caseworker used to tell me she wished she had a hundred ppl like me instead of what she usually deals with. But yeah. An atypical example for sure. Still was embarrassing tho. And I still went without because my income was such I only qualified for a small stipend. I was a lot skinnier then. š
Key word, you were embarrassed! It used to be that people that had to take a handout or up, were ashamed. I donāt see that anymore. I see those taking and scamming at the same time, instead of working. And if you are on assistance, Iām thinking nails and eyelashes and cell phones might be a tad expensive for the likes of those people. But apparently, itās now a sense of arrogant pride.
You are the kind of person I am happy to help! Itās meant to be a temporary help not a way of life. I know the reality of generations on welfare from growing up where I did and seeing it first hand, and thatās my objection. The problem with the system is that it is more designed to enable that than give an incentive to get off the program. As your caseworker seemed to acknowledge š
I shop at thrift stores. I wear new/like new Chicoās, Talbots and other brands of upscale clothing. Iāve also found some nice antiques. I recently purchased a stapled plate from the 1870ās for a dollar because it was ādamaged.ā The company made dinnerware for Tiffany.
Most dirt poor, but no one was on welfare. And sharing was eagerly anticipated. Of course, the population was in the low hundreds. I still remember when free food for the poor showed up - most were offended, at least initially. Times have changed.
My mom used to be a guidance counselor and the kids they gave coats to would lose them constantly because they could just get another one. There's no gratitude or appreciation there.
I stopped volunteering to give Christmas gifts š to children because parents felt entitled to them.
People donated bikes and other nice toys. I imagine some of those people did without to make sure kids received their Christmas wishes. I gave out many gifts to parents and none of them said a word of thanks. I was shocked.
It was! I thought that people would appreciate that others cared about their children and wanted to protect them from the harsh realities of life. But they just wanted to come in and grab their stuff and go. I think they felt like people that donated stuff were just to be taken advantage of. I donāt know quite how to explain their attitude. I wasnāt the only volunteer that noticed it. Whenever someone does something nice for me or my family, I try to let them know that I appreciate their kindness and thoughtfulness.
Unfortunately when people expect it as their due, this is the attitude you get š My mom participated in a nonprofit that rehabbed houses and rented them to low income people. Some of the people just who had all of their rent paid for just trashed the place š Itās very disheartening.
Nothing teaches gratitude more than going without things that aren't water, meat and veggies, clothing to fit the weather and maybe just a little too thin, and shelter from wind and sun and snow and rain.
Wow! I hadnāt heard that one. But it has all the marks of the truth I experienced. Throughout those years of exposure, I continued (and continue) to believe that ābeggars canāt be choosersā. My childrenās father was starting/running a high tech business; āsalaryā was an iffy thingāa paycheck a reason for great gratitude (to be honestā38 years later, thatās still true). Hence, Mamaās sewing machine and the thrift shop.
I stopped volunteering to give Christmas gifts š to children because parents felt entitled to them.
People donated bikes and other nice toys. I imagine some of those people did without to make sure kids received their Christmas wishes. I gave out many gifts to parents and none of them said a word of thanks. I was shocked.
Way back in the day, we participated in the hedonistic, let's get them all they ever wanted for Christmas. But we came to realize this was misguided.
These days, I'm proud to say that my children who are scattered around the globe, are all my friends. We talk about serious things we laugh about unserious things. but we talk.
Though I did my best as their father, I had no reason to expect that they would turn out so well,. and impress me so much.
I believe that all school children in the US should wear uniforms!! So much pressure is off parents and children with uniforms! No wealth or fashion comparing!
No binary and gender garbage. Boys and girls uniforms, period.
The lack of discipline in this country is getting out of hand. Cell phones should be handed in at the beginning of the day too, or simply not allowed!
I agree! My grandchildren were privileged enough to attend a Christian elementary school where they wore uniforms every day. It gave me such an appreciation for the concept of school uniforms.
It eliminates all the stress and competition in the dress area at least. They focused their competition on academic performance which was a great thing!
Yup, I think so too, hence my objection. And itās so easy to convince people this is all okay using the ādonāt you care about the children??ā manipulative argument š
Really? Can you look a 6 year old girl in the eyes and tell her itās better if she goes hungry? The government shouldnāt help her at all. She ought to go begging to the church for help. I donāt mind paying taxes to feed hungry children. But thatās just me š
School lunches totally suck. Itās not like theyāre getting good meals.
Really? There were other comments saying we should flat out not feed them but I donāt have time too inclination to look for them.
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MamaApprovedBooks4Kids
5 hrs ago
Hunger is a great motivator as well...also teaches gratefulness. I don't want kids to go hungry, but no way the gov't should be feeding them. Isn't that what our local churches are for?
CathyRN
6 hrs ago
During the depression most kids went to school without shoes and Iām sure many of them were hungry. But they learned the basics of education that allowed them to pursue a better future.
Now weāre feeding their stomachs while starving their minds.
That isnāt what I said š Please donāt twist my words and interpret them to mean something different from what I wrote. Just because Iām not in favor of this particular solution doesnāt mean I want kids to starve. Itās not a binary choice between schools feeding kids and them not getting fed at all.
There are kids who are homeless too. And need clothes and medical care. What about building dormitories for homeless children and a store so they can get free clothes? And attach a medical center to the school while youāre at it too.
Your rection is exactly what Iām talking aboutācreeping government control is justified by appealing to peopleās emotions and accusing people of being uncaring if they are not on board with expanding government services. Schools are not the only way to get children fed. And government is usually the most wasteful and least efficient way of getting anything done. I donāt want to pay more taxes for this not because I donāt want children to eat, but because I want to minimize government involvement in all of our lives. There is far too much waste, bureaucracy and ultimately less freedom once the government starts to put its tentacles into any aspect of life. For all the taxes we pay, we should have zero societal problems by now, but it seems like the more we pay, the more problems we have.
Btw. When child labor laws were passed, many people felt that the government should not intervene in their childrenās lives. Parents wanted their very young children to work 10-12 hours in the mines and factories to help support them.
Of course they thought that, children contributed income to the household and they had to find a way to replace that somehow š The idea was good but as always with the government, implementation was flawed. I wonder how many children subsequently went hungry because their income was suddenly missing from the household? A transition period to allow households to adjust m, or some other way to ease into it, would have been a better idea, but I am sure the people patting themselves on the back for āsaving the childrenā didnāt ever consider that.
I agree with you that for as many taxes as we pay, we should have zero societal problems. However, please tell me your better solution for feeding hungry school children? I think government intervention is absolutely essential in some areas. One of them is in school lunches for poor children. I think itās terribly cruel that some people here feel kids do better in school when theyāre hungry. These are children -not adults. Although, I donāt think that the schools need to provide 2 or 3 meals a day for them.
Non profits? Churches as mentioned above? A combination of different approaches? Donāt we pay politicians and policy makers big money to come up with these kinds of solutions? Why is it up to me to do that? All I know is, since the government declared a so-called āwar on povertyā things have only gotten worse even though we spend more money than ever.
Let me turn the question around to youāwhy do *you* believe government is the best way to help people? From what I have seen in my life, itās usually the least effective means of solving any problem.
I also challenge how many children are actually āhungry.ā How is that even determined? Do they ask kids? What is the basis for deciding this? And why canāt we just feed the ones who really are hungry instead of allowing those who are perfectly capable of providing meals to their children to freeload off of everyone else if they choose to? Thatās my problem with all of these government programs, they use exorbitant amounts of money and only end up helping a small proportion of those in real need. I hear people say āoh well I would rather have the programs available even if some donāt need it and at least some in need will also be helped.ā But that is totally ignoring the concept of opportunity cost. Despite what some people seem to think, funds are not unlimited. If we use part of our money to help people who donāt actually need it, then less money is available for people who truly do. I am not okay with that. Iām also not okay with financially supporting a cumbersome and inefficient bureaucracy to distribute the funds and services to needy people.
Donāt feel obligated to respond, if you donāt want to take the time. Itās been a very interesting discussion that would be far easier in person than typing out long replies š I am in the middle of a very busy week and I am not sure if I will be able to continue the exchange, as interesting and thought provoking as itās been. š
I was from a rather poor family and we probably didnāt go to the doctor but very few times in my entire 17 years at home. One time my mother took my sister to the doctor because she had been coughing and coughing and was having trouble breathing and he said we need to put her in the hospital. She has pneumonia and my mother went to the pharmacist and got some medicine and brought her home. She lived long past that illness.
Hereās a scenario, itās morning, parents are rushing around getting ready for work, oops, no time to feed the kids a healthy breakfast or pack a lunch, hey kids, just catch breakfast at school. Phew, one less thing to worry about. Lucky parents, one fewer responsibility.
Iām 100% positive the breakfasts are healthy and delicious too. Not!!!
My opinion: double the salaries for men and let the moms stay at home. Mom used to make wonderful lunches for their kids, and everything was always organic and homemade from scratch.
There are probably a few out there, but many parents are both working fulltime low pay jobs just to live. Shoot, a 1 bdrm apartment here in Central FL is $1400/mo. No way you can survive these days without working all the time just to pay to live.
Inflation and high costs partly because of taxes are big contributors. The more the cost of living goes up the more people will clamor for government intervention so imo itās by design at least partly.
I dont like feeding kids at school on tax payer dolalrsā¦.. but honestly I do not think this is how it is. Its people living on McDonalds salaries or those who work at say a clothing store etc. Fill in a low income job.
But you failed to mention that the lowest wage an employer can pay is $20 an hour. These are the reasons that some of the people are illegally coming across our border.
Ppl don't understand simple economics!! Good grief. Raising income raises costs. Printing money makes money worthless unless you only print at much as you have gold in the bank to back it up. Period. It's history for 1000s of years.
That is fair....and sadly, it is often the case that school is the only "square" meal kids get in a day, and most schools serve a lot of garbage....but garbage food is better than no food ultimately.
3 meals a day in some areas of CA, year around, and not just kids from lower income families. The reports of the quantity of wasted food are outrageous. And of course, no share-zies with the homeless. They have their own NGOs. And the illegals receive cash cards. BTW, due to the food banks, WIC, and many other other government programs, I would bet my house that there are zero hungry kids in CA that are not part of a mentally ill or drug addicted family. Oh waitā¦. Perhaps those resources could be better spent elsewhere?
When I served on a school board in California, it was reported to me that the kids were throwing their school breakfasts away. They didnāt need them or want them.
Yes, its pretty standard to require kids to take a minimal amount of food that covers certain food groups, whether they eat it or not. The amount of food that is discarded and wasted is mind blowing.
This is what I actually observed for years doing faculty-required cafeteria duty in a Phila suburban middle school. And kids threw the juice boxes on the stairway as they left cafeteria to go to 1st period class.
I question How they determine the supposed need. I have no doubt some children are actually in danger of going hungry but when they throw out numbers like āx thousand children go hungry every dayā how do they even determine that?
We lived below the poverty line nearly every year we raised four kids and homeschooled on a shoe string. Who had it better than us? NOBODY!!
No need to feel sorry for homes full of love, laughter, and a stretch. We felt sorry for ourselves at times but God always provided what we NEEDED though many times we did without common things others did like school sports (WHO CAN AFFORD TO PLAY?!) and soda pop (or however you say that), or cable tv, fast food and weekend dinners. We have never owned a new car or furniture. But I did get a new setting machine once! šš» And new mattresses "once and for all." š
The problem is that they are not just feeding low income students. They are feeding ALL students. In many areas, it is against school policy for a child to bring their own food to school. The government is taking a parent's right to provide for their children. They are conditioning people to expect the government to take care of themselves, one small step at a time, starting in grade school.
An objection I have is that the government is not just helping, but also taking away a parent's responsibility to provide for their child. It is the expectation now that the school will provide the meals for children, not the parents. In my area, during summer vacation and the different breaks and holidays during the year, the school district still provides meals. Now, I am not against feeding hungry children. But if a parent is that poor that they can't feed their child, they are in most cases already receiving money to feed their child through the Food Stamp program. Having been brought up by a single parent who lived through the Depression, I learned as a child from my mother to be very resourceful and thrifty. My mother knew how to stretch her money. But todays low income parents don't have to be resourceful or teach their children to be thrifty. After-all, the responsibility is the government's to provide for their children, not theirs. And if you don't believe me, go to any Walmart on the day the EBT cards have been freshly infused and take a glance at what qualifies as food expenses in the shopping carts.
I worked at a convenience store one summer and the people who paid with food stamps always bought junk food and not only that, bought it at the most expensive place in town instead of going down the street a half a mile to the actual grocery store.
Was unaware of the EBT card-infusions, but in decades past, when food stamps were a "thing", noticed the high-priced items (e.g., Green Giant veg, not store brand) in the carts of the stamp-holders. For me/us, only the store brand.
But but but parents cannot be trusted to provide their kids with a meal that contains officially-approved nutritious ingredients. Mike Obama saw to that over a decade ago.
O-Johnny! Should the education department also put new tires on the cars of low income families so their 8-year olds could get to school safely? And buy jackets for them so they could be warm at school? Every child should have necessities for living, but the governmentās job is to protect, not to provide. And the education departmentās job SHOULD BE to educate, not endlessly extend their reach to non-educational income streams, like food, to fund their woke garbage and shove it down 8-year oldsā throats. The public school system has reached a cadaverous state and needs to be razed and scraped to make way for private schools and other creative ways to prepare our children to make their way through life knowing their true identity in their Creator, and their purpose.
āRazed and scraped.ā Yes! And God indeed has given each of us an identity and made each of us for a purpose. The godless āschoolsā are not the path to finding it.
I used to do cafeteria duty (by choice, actually). So many students were on 'free and reduced--price lunch" and breakfast. The waste was upsetting to me, Assistant principal pointed out that some children, with Mercedes in their driveway, had joined that program because parents had suffered employment difficulties. Nothing like parents planning for a rainy day. (And I really lost any respect for that principal, too).
This is typical of high income educated people - although the Mercedes could have been leased... I remember reading this years ago - a real eye opener and the writer learned absolutely NOTHING from what happened:
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
That sounds about right. I was doing a graduate ācapstoneā project on why my Latin student population was so heavily skewed to immigrants (i.e, what was it about Latin that immigrant parents but not American parents recognized?). Was required to meet with assistant superintendent before proceeding, was told that I was forbidden to ask how long the student had been in US. In case child/parents were here illegally. Please noteāthis was in Dec/Jan. 2011.
this used to be termed parental neglect, but now these waifish wards are womb to tomb the responsibility of the Progressive State. Mainstreamed by media, and every grant grabbing grifter to end childhood hunger in America; one out of every 3 children faces food scarcity blah blah blah even while our Ag Lands are under attack, our food is crapified, on and on.
Johnny-O is a classic "reply guy", the internet is lettered with these types. Their responses always have three components: 1) half truths, 2) arguing a point you never made, and 3) arrogant condescension. Reply Guy comments are not meant to advance the conversation but score a cheap burn and show off how smart they are. They do neither but just piss people off and drive away people in their lives.
Vox Day described this phenotype perfectly as the Gamma Male. They are miserable, desperate for attention, and can't understand why no one likes them. Imagine having a conversation with someone face to face who acts like this. Would you want to talk to them again?
Your response Becky was intelligent and thoughtful, but undeserved. Don't waste your time responding in good faith to people who behave like this. I know some people will think this comment is mean, and it probably is. But the truth often is.
Dam, you got me too Jeff C. But even if only throwing pointed daggers into the conversation at times can spur some brighter and constructive persons along (as they are action-oriented doer types) then maybe we "reply guys" can have a positive role at times, and perhaps we occasionally do contribute to the conversation (?)
My! When I was a kid in the 1950's we did not have all these 'programs' and we were not all 'entitled' to anything. You either bought lunch or brought it in a brown paper bag. Most often, I brought lunch ... and my family were well to do mill owners. And I never felt deprived for eating like every one else. And I did not squawk one bit because I liked peanut butter and jellies sandwiches even if they were perhaps not the most nutritious thing a kid could eat.
Also, I wish kids could have gotten jobs like they once did before the Roosevelt mentality mid-20th century began to set in. Learning responsibility and having my own money would not have hurt me one bit. It would have helped.
Hot dogs when I was a kid cost about twenty-five cents. Something like that. Now what to they cost? I don't know because I won't pay two, three or more dollars for a hot dog. And that's where all our 'entitlement' mentality has gotten us ... plus the MIC and perpetual war mongering, government Health Terrorism and Control, with the 'money' inflated away to zilch! Me? I rather have pay your own way and bye-bye Nanny. And besides, kids in the my town? Nobody was starving and looking skin and bones just arrived from the concentration camp. Nobody!
I wouldn't feed my dog the ultra-processed Food Like Substances they give kids in schools and people in hospitals. If it were real food - I'm all for it... but this chemical "stuff" is not food and creates mental and physical problems.
Dreading going on Facebook today, I can just hear my artist friendsā ranting against DeSantis. Jeff, your explanation convinced me you are right, maybe Iāll cut and paste it as a response, giving you credit of course.
One downside, I think people may go after other non-profits though. I have heard rumblings about churches and their nonprofit status.
Itās not just low income kidsā¦her in CO, itās ALL kids. We already had free and reduced lunch and breakfast for low income kids, but now ALL kids eat free. And most just take a few bites and then toss their meal. Itās a huge expense, a waste of $$, and a waste of food.
I remember one of the planks of Ronald Reagan's campaign platform was his promise to abolish the DOE. But after the Bush team took over his cabinet team, that promise was never fulfilled. The Marxists will never give up control of America's children.
I agree!! Iām sure that if you ask people who want to keep the DofE what exactly this department does that is of such benefit, they would be totally unable to tell you.
I beg to differ. Red Downstate Illinoisians LOVE their gov funded schools!! Love their rivalries! Love their teachers and superintends and extracurriculars and... You have to promise that they won't lose any of that... BUT WAIT!! PLUS early childhood indoctrinating...oh yah STATES. WHEW I was so worried we'd lose our Spartan education. (Tic)
Yes I know there are a lot of people like that š I still bet they couldnāt tell you what specifically the federal department of education does at all, let alone give details on anything beneficial that they do.
Okay, I know this isnāt so simple for everyone to do, but honestly what keeps public school going is people sending their kids there. A quick solution would be for everyone to stop sending their kids.
First step; Eliminate and deport the disgrace of a human being, gender confused, superiority complexed Randi Weingarten. Maybe she can get her old job back, playing Ralph on "Green Acres".
Trump voter and supporter here. I don't think he has the political will to evict illegals in large numbers from the country or shut down the Department of Education, as he is promising, because at bottom, he doesn't like to perceived as cruel by the media and Establishment. I hope I'm wrong about this, but past experience indicates that when the rubber hits the road, Trump takes incremental steps, not bold ones.
I'm of the opinion that Trump is more aware than most of the seriousness of the trouble we are in as a country and will have the boldness to make the bold moves...or we are lost as a country.
He probably shouldnāt have said that, because he actually does not have that power as president (nor should he). He needed help from other people and other entities to get that accomplished and since he wasnāt able to get the necessary people to work with him, no jail for the Hildebeast.
Our country successfully educated its children for 200 years, before the creation of the DOE. At the time the DoE was created, we ranked 1st in k-12 education and had the best-surveyed education system in the world. In 2010, we fell to 17; today, we rank 13th (data pandas), which is impressive considering we rank 30th in math and 19th in science (PISA). Soā¦.the DoE has done nothing but line the pockets of bureaucrats while watching our children get dumber and dumber.
Exactly. Every time the (federal especially) government gets involved to āsolveā a problem, they not only make the problem worse but create new problems.
I remember president Ronald Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. He didn't, but was voted in twice, with HUGE margins. Carter threw in the towel before all the votes were cast, which threw the LIBERAL IDIOTIC Media in frenzy and they agreed NOT to project winners until ALL the votes were counted. As for Mondale in 1984, he barely won won his own state!
honest question, but other than the gender nonsense at the moment and I am sure other things....but what is the benefit of leaving education to the state?
Thought he was going to drain the swamp in 2016? What makes you think he will follow through with this, this time around? genuinely asking because I don't know who to vote for. (no, not Biden, but I am debating bn Kennedy and trump, who will have the better chance at following through?)
My mother had this framed, I have it hung in my kitchenā¦āYou say my Son it canāt be done? Your statement isnāt trueā¦you mean mean my son it can be done, but canāt be done by youā¦When anyone says āIt canāt be doneā heās quitting in advanceā¦the little man who says āI canā will win with half a chance.ā
This is a story about 4 people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
And that's why in emergency situations, you have to specifically tell one person to call 911 as everyone assumes someone else will do it. I remember this from CPR training.
Love this poem! Sharing with my boys today - it will be a great way to begin our week 3 of slow summer days & doing the things we think canāt get done!
Baffling at the amount of tax payer funding bloated salaries!!!Donāt get me wrong I absolutely love art but this is excessive - way to go Desantis ! Really like this Moms of Liberty gal more if this šššš
The black midwife who delivered my two sons (in 1980 and 1982) was a wealth of inspiring sayings. (Her name was Gladys Milton and she was recognized by the state of Florida (Women of Light, I think) for her service in delivering many, many babies in a long career in Walton County.
One of her sayings was, āThe difficult, weāll do right away. The impossible may take a little longer.ā
My dad used to read this to us as well. It has been many years since I last heard it. But I love it and need to remember to live accordingly (and teach my kids as well)!
āBlessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.ā
Asking any accountant: look at the screenshot Jeff took of the summary IRS form 990. What the heck is
-$291,000 in "other revenue"? Is that some kind of accounting trick for an expense or more salaries? It sure looks like it. As usual, Jeff is not only objective, he's TOO fair, lol!
Hey Libs: before howling that government (your fellow citizens' money) funding is being withheld from the Arts or annything else, step up and write the check. Same goes for tax rates. Taxes too low? Shut your pie hole and write the check first. Then lobby for others to pay more. Start with yourself, Libs. We've had enough of the hypocrisy. You think climate change is man-made, real, and reversible? Live in a small house. Drive a small car and stick with a bike whenever possible. Shop locally only, never use Amazon, big box stores or delivery services. Don't wear anything synthetic; buy clothes made primarily from hemp. Never ever drink bottled beverages, just tapwater. If you own a second house you are an absolute hypocrite if you think climate change is real, manmade and reversible. Some of these ideas are actually good for all of us not infected by Climate Religion Propaganda, particularly those who see the threat of globalism and corporate capture of government and vice versa. Mainly: Shop local stores with local owners who source many items locally. And use attorneys who own their own practice, like Childers Law!
Try to pay in cash for most of what I buy, with few exceptions here and there! It also helps to withdraw said cash from the banks, so they KNOW they CANT do away with it!
I only see the 2021 form on the website. It is as clear as an IRS form can be (insert eye roll). If I spent a little more time with it I could figure it out completely but here is a quick summary. The line you pointed out references Part VIII which references Part lV which references Schedule G. So if you look at all all those references there are "Direct expenses" which reduced fundraising income to a loss. But due to typical IRS forms....the fundraising contributions are listed elsewhere so you have to back those out of the total. Then the preparer deducted the direct expenses from the reduced fundraising income which resulted in a loss. Then the net inventory sales and building rental is added to that loss which still nets to a loss and that is the negative revenue (a loss) you see on that line.
Wow, this analysis says so much about so many things. It sounds like it could mean they spent more money trying to raise money than they actually raised, at least in certain "fundraising" categories. Think dinners and events for "donors" with a massive DEI component. No wonder they "need" government grants! Thanks for the analysis.
Did you see that DOD cannot account for moneys sent to China because of their bookkeeping limitations?
āDue to limitations in the DoD's tracking systems, the full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories for research related to the enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown.ā DOD of the Inspector General
Catherine Austin Fitts says something like 21 trillion has gone missing over the past few decades and she was at HUD where ALOT of money disappears or used to fund illegal things...
They can't account for trillions given out to bribe institutions to become Covid-pushing "centers" - like the community college I worked for. They've historically had to account for every penny in grant money but not Covid money! Nope. That wasn't tracked for anyone who got it.
Because they ... The DOD is too busy making sure that all our military people use the right pronouns! All the high paid elected in the DOD need to go as well!!!!!
New idea for a law - gov funds only given to items that can be tracked to their end use. I can see this being useful in all sorts of areas - money to China and Ukraine come to mind.
The DOD probably has thousands of accountants employed. Their job is probably to destroy financial DOD misdeeds. Just like Border Patrol agents are now hospitality and travel providers.
Thank God I cancelled our cable in 2020!!!!! Plus I never listened to those talking headsā¦.no jabs for us!! Godās immunity is best! Whatās sad are those who were forced to take them! All these people need hung!!!!!! Or a firing squad!!!
I stopped AM radio for a year during my commute and switched to audio books. When I switch it on again, it was clear how negative it is. Both political sides do it.
It's crazy when I go to friend's houses and they have TV "News" blasting all the time.
Whether it be CNN, MSNBC or even Fox News. Add in the plethora of 5 min drug commercials, it's no wonder people are walking zombies. I keep telling them to switch off the boob-tube and put on some music instead. Your life will be immediately improved!
Its worse than that. We have tv but we mostly watch cable. Even shows like on hgtv that are played on demand have disgusting drug commercials to boot. And many of them are for HIV drugs featuring gays. š
We have some of those nutcases as āformerā friends and unfortunately some relatives!!! Thatās all I need to know!!! All have gone loony with all the jabs! There is no common sense left in their brains!
It really does! I couldnāt even watch the whole thing. Trying to find a compilation of Cdn headlines/video clips of that era that remind me why I left; canāt remember where I saw it.
It was by the Grace of God that anyone was not vaccinated . Pride comes before a fall. The unvaccinated are not heroās. Only God the Amighty is worthy of praise.
They withstood the most intense, the most diabolic, military and government psychological operation ever devised.
They were threatened. They were demonized. They were fired from their jobs. They were not allowed to attend university. They were not allowed to travel. They were not allowed in shops and restaurants.
Heck yes. Hold your heads high, brothers and sisters. We held the line.
My employer coaxed and bribed, and tried desperately to make us get injected. The HR people were clearly chomping at the bit to mandate it. But they couldnāt. And why not? Because 40% of the people in the company said no, aināt happening, not today, Satan. We held the line, and supported each other, heroes indeed.
Wow! 40% is better than the national average I believe. Most estimates Iāve heard put the unvaxed at around 30%. You had an awesome group of coworkers, and you were heros indeed!
Lighten up Mary, Iām all about giving God all the glory and praise for all of His benefits to us, but our fellow humans need encouragement too. So itās perfectly fine to call someone a hero for taking a tough stand, itās like a pat on the back, saying āgood job manā. And that takes absolutely nothing away from God.
It took a great deal of courage for many people to face employers and say NO. Many of them lost jobs and many others were in fear of losing their job, their livelihood. We were already retired when that all happened, so I can only imagine the stress of that ordeal. I hope youāll rethink your statement and realize that giving people well deserved praise is not the same thing as giving praise that belongs only to God.
I'd like to see how many of these USEFUL IDIOTS pushing this agenda have already DIED or have a major illness impeding their life.... My compassion has reached its limit for them...
āThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.ā
Seems like the devil has been loosed for a couple hundred years now. Setting out world in fireācount the āgreat firesā of the 1800s. There are too many to be a coincidence.
His minions have infiltrated every one of our institutions and ruined them with his favorite weaponāmoney.
He seemed to have snuck in on the back of the Industrial Revolution. It just gets worse and worse. Maybe we will see the nadir in our lifetimes, wouldn't that be something?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution people killed each other, wars were common. Kings ruled and they were ruthless. Think of the Vikings, the Mongols, the Barbarians, the Romans, the millions who have been enslaved. The savagery that man has heaped on man for thousands of years.
This specifically passage corresponds to the thousand years reign of JesusChrist with His church.
āAnd I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.ā
There is a documentary I saw years ago laying out just how the art world is basically just money laundering. When you see stuff like giant toddler scribbles on a huge canvas that is the newest phenom, it should be apparent. Then look at the wonderful local artists' works in comparison at street fairs and farmer's markets. That's where the real art is - IMHO.
I read an interesting comment on X/Twitter recently talking about the state of "modern art." The account, Fisher King, said something like: "the true test of an artist is if he or she can actually produce the real thing. For example, before Picasso went all angles and distorted features, he was trained in traditional methods and could do representational art very well. With current artists, many couldn't paint a landscape or draw using perspective if their life depended on it." He noted the same about musicians. Before Schoenberg experimented with 12 tone/atonal composition, he learned and used conventional music theory and could compose traditional music. Same with Shostakovitch, Bartok and the rest of early 20th c. composers.
Jeff is right in one sense, I think, that the art world is elitist, but on another level, score one for the reputation of conservatives as throwback troglodyte rednecks who are literalist and concrete. There are many theologians who think Christ IS the imagination. If DeSantis had said he was going to slash that budget and throw that money into music and art classes in schools, the progressives would still go mental, but there would be profound enrichment for the kids. The making of images in the brain has stopped as kids don't read or make art or music and instead they have images firehosed into their heads through tv and cell phones and pornhub and video games, and that is turning them into zombies IMHO. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/
And most of the 'product' was donated/resourced without expense from the museum. With the advent of the internet and 72 inch tv screens, anyone who wants to see art can. Is it as enriching as seeing in person? That is a never-to-be-solved debate. One can read about the Barnes Foundation history and saga, and how it was moved to Philadelphia Art Museum to see how that change was not an improvement. Museums should be self-funded at this point. Too much dreck out there now looking for a home and someone to foot the bill.
To your epic point, 12YO Pfizer trial participant Maddie de Garay was left paralyzed from the waist down, in tremendous pain everywhere else, and exists on a feeding tube after her shots... and her reaction is listed as "functional abdominal pain" in the official trial data. So yeah, we should be looking closely at those "non-serious" events. [insert string of furious emojis here]
I'm stuck on her mom saying that putting her in this drug trial was a "win-win." Maddie should take this up with her mother. This is awful. What kind of a mom does that???
If youāve watched the countless interviews with her, she did not know. She had a doctor friend who put her children in a clinical trial, and there were no issues whatsoever. The mother is guilty of misplacing her trust in the medical establishment, like so many othersā¦.but give her credit that she is fighting and speaking out as much as she can now. Obviously, she learned the truth in the most tragic of ways. And will have to live with that the rest of her life.
Agree. I cannot condemn Maddie's mom. Though I wouldn't have enrolled my kids in a drug trial (I am a nurse and have enough experience to be wary), I did vaccinate my kids with all the traditional shots about which I now I have tremendous regret. Maddie's mom has to face the consequence of her decision every, single, day. Her burden is heavy enough.
Yeah, but actually it's her daughter that has to live with it. Mom isn't paralyzed. She isn't in constant physical pain. I am sure she is in constant emotional pain and that is awful, but I'd rather be in emotional agony than in a wheelchair. I am very glad she is speaking out so honestly, though. That takes guts.
As a mom I spend 60-80% of my time fighting to protect my child from jabs, drugs, too much sugar, too much tv, exposure to electronicsā¦. the list goes on.
It sounds like she had no instincts.... I mean, your kid comes first, right? I can see her playing with her own life, and she should have, but not her kid's life. I have never trusted anyone in authority so it is hard for me to relate, but I understand there are people who did/do trust.
I could say, "I don't know who needs to hear this but..." But the fact of the matter is everyone needs to hear this. Dr. David Martin was recently in Texas at the State Legislature for an emergency meeting. So while he was in Texas, Dr. Martin finally had time to be interviewed by Alex Jones who turned his hour and a half show over to him to allow David the whole time to present his findings. He very clearly lays out the facts of reality and cuts through the bullshit. We all need to hear this regardless of how much we know.............................................
Alex Jones not interrupting and talking over him shows something right there! Glad to hear it. I love Alex Jones and if he gave his mic over to Dr Martin like that, I respect that.
Yes! And Martin makes the point that if Pharma companies were liable for injuries and deaths, we would have no more āpandemicsā. We need an executive order on that.
Recently I had the chance to take a tour of Naples, FL. The tour guide was happy to tell us that over 12,000 millionaires (yes you read that correctly, 12,000) had a home in the Naples area, not to mention a half dozen billionaires. And many of those only spend 4-6 weeks in their homes there, since they live elsewhere for the majority of the year. Here's an idea for the overpaid director of the Tampa area arts organization, why not try to get a couple hundred dollars from each of those people? That would cover your budget (or cause you to have to reduce the budget when you get a lot of questions about what you are spending the money on). The arts scene, and their 'need' for funding, reminds me of places like Yale who have these massive endowments where the interest earned each year on the billions socked away can fund the tuition for all incoming freshmen each year. Typical liberals love spending other peoples' money.
Iām curious to compare tax spending between state and national parks vs āartā. Iām disgusted with modern art. Never forget the āartā featuring Christian symbols submerged in containers of urine.
Since the Clinton era, the focus has been on not making things much easier for more people to visit our 'national treasures' (National Parks and other land designations). Instead they put more acreage off limits to all but those very few who are willing to backpack in for days at a time. So the question becomes, "Is it a 'national treasure' if the nation for the most part can't enjoy it?" NP infrastructure has been horrible for decades. Their main solution winds up being limiting people who want to go see things. IN the case of Valley Forge, they took a park that was great for families to go visit and hang out at for picnicking, and allowed many areas to over grow because some stooge thought making it that way was more 'authentic'. I can guarantee you those people don't have overgrown yards that are more 'authentic' to what was there before their house was built on it.
Our national parks are a treasure that should be easier to visit and explore, and not cost a fortune to do so. But that isn't the "enlightened's" goal. Or if it is, then they are too stupid to implement it and they should resign their positions and let people in who can actually get it done.
I am sad to read this about Valley Forge - I visited VF with my family when I was 10 years old and have never forgotten the experience. This sounds like more of the crumbling of our society/civilization.
The park used to have multi-purposes. Their was the visitor center, and some of the cabins would have re-enactors and there was a cannon area. So you could go for the history, but then you had areas where you could then picnic and fly a kite, plenty of space to throw a frisbee. Near the General Wayne statue is a large hill that could never be used for anything official. About a 200 foot wide by 600 foot long hill that was great for sledding. Kids didn't have to worry about cars like in their neighborhoods. In Jan/Feb there isn't much usage of the park anyway outside apart from some hearty joggers. For many months it becomes the equivalent of those downtown outdoor stadiums the public pays for that don't get used in the off season. It's a shame. And in Gettysburg Park, they took out the tall tower that was great for viewing up high the grounds to get a better idea of the flow of troops and such. (And for kids was a fun place to walk down the outside stairs while the parents took the elevator.)
Well, the rich have more money for groceries that's for sure.
Wealthy people donate large sums to hospitals, museums, universities all the time. Often, because of their contributions a wing of a building or maybe a library will be named after them.
Probably an ego boost thing to do, but it does benefit the organization.
I've seen clips of her being attacked while "interviewed" on various news shows and she doesn't let them get away with anything. Smart, smart woman and 100% on the correct side of things which doesn't hurt when battling the Woke idiots.
Just wish she had said āso-called gender affirming careā instead of just āgender affirming careā or maybe even added child mutilation. We have to take back control of the language.
I came to the comments to say exactly this. Why do conservatives continue to use the Orwellian doublespeak terminology of the leftists who intend to change the language in order to control thought?
Unfortunately a federal district judge just ruled that Florida's law making gender identity treatment for minors is unconstitutional. His comments were unbelievably ignorant of current Science...
"U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled the ban is unconstitutional at least in part because it applies even when gender-affirming care for minors is āmedically appropriate,ā according to the judgment."
"Hinkle said in the ruling that āgender identity is realāāsomething he has emphasized in at least one past rulingāand the gender-affirming care the state sought to ban is often recognized as āproper treatmentā for people suffering gender dysphoria due to their identity not matching their sex at birth."
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that there was no medical basis for the ban or restrictions, it limited their parental rights to make medical decisions for their children and that the state enacted the law out of discrimination and animusāand Hinkle seemingly agreed, writing āit is clear that anti-transgender animus motivated bill sponsors and at least a significant number of legislators.ā"
I did read in one report that he actually left in place the ban on surgery for minors.
Minors.... children have no idea what being the opposite sex actually means! NO adult should EVER suggest to a child that they might have been born in the wrong body! This is INSANE!
"U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled the ban is unconstitutional at least in part because it applies even when gender-affirming care for minors is āmedically appropriate,ā according to the judgment."
"Hinkle said in the ruling that āgender identity is realāāsomething he has emphasized in at least one past rulingāand the gender-affirming care the state sought to ban is often recognized as āproper treatmentā for people suffering gender dysphoria due to their identity not matching their sex at birth."
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that there was no medical basis for the ban or restrictions, it limited their parental rights to make medical decisions for their children and that the state enacted the law out of discrimination and animusāand Hinkle seemingly agreed, writing āit is clear that anti-transgender animus motivated bill sponsors and at least a significant number of legislators.ā"
I did read in one report that he actually left in place the ban on surgery for minors.
But she also has done so much good with Moms for Liberty that I take her like Desantis almost do not want her moved. She is doing so much good where she is.
Remember when rich folks were "patrons of the arts?" What happened to the Wadsworth, Gugenheims, and Whitneys? Or, in Florida's case, the Plants, Flaglers, and Ringlings? Now, it goes without question that an auto mechanic in Pensacola or a waitress in Orlando should be the new patrons...without their consent. It represents a huge shift in what we expect. With every generation, we expect more from Uncle and less form ourselves.
school crisis solved. return to the standards of the Kansas 1895 8th grade diploma. I challenge any college graduate reading this to see how well they do on the following graduation test.
Hereās an 1895 final exam, taken by eighth graders in Salina, Kansas, from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
Note that this test was five hours long. Yikes!
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that
you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs. What is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. of coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln,Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography,etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret āuā.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final āeā. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
Were you as amazed as I was? It was very common to read of our ancestors having only an eighth grade education, but hot-diggity, with smarts like this, they probably didnāt need to go onto secondary education. At least, not like we do today.
So, do tell. Can you answer these questions? With news reports lamenting the lower than expected reading scores in some of todayās schools, do you think we should go back to nineteenth century standards of learning?
@nancylee Wow! Thatās just crazy. Iām sure all the teacherās unions would say those are white patriarchy standards and as such, must be studiously avoided š¤¦š»āāļø
IMO moving into the future students who gain the most practical knowledge while young will be the most successful adults. The type of knowledge that will help with basic survival. Building structures using hand tools, and the general use of all types of hand tools, growing food, knowing what plants are edible in the forest, basic math, using their imagination ( without it there is no new innovation), how to work cooperatively with others, the basics of cooking and hand sewing, and probably some sort of trade like auto mechanics, plumbing, electrician....
actually I agree with you. I spend a lot of time imagining 'school' and it would be mostly experiential. learn math by designing and building a structure. learn gun responsibility by having target practice, then ride alongs with EMS to understand consequences. have one whole year dedicated to coming up with a business and running it. spend every semester as a teen apprenticing to a different trade. I love the japanese practice of the kids being responsible for the school from first year on. for cleaning, I'd add cooking, and growing the food they cook. and maintenance. and lots of languages, music, art, meditation. what humans would emerge!
I could answer a lot of those but some of the questions I am not sure how to answer not because I donāt have the knowledge necessarily but because we use different terms or categorize things differently. Like the āprincipal partsā andāfundamental rulesāāI donāt think it makes people uneducated if they canāt name these. Thatās just not how theyāre taught anymore. Same with the epochs of American history. And Iād probably get some of the capitals of European countries wrong on their test because the countries have changed names and borders since then.
Ending the federal department of education should be reason enough for people to vote for Trump.
Make the case for us in 3 sentences...or even one for the IDIOT voters, that's the maleducated level we've all been brought to. Something like; "USA educational performance is 217th out of 220 nations, END FEDucation NOW!"
how about - it is not in the constitution (just like abortion) - tasks not specifically given to the federal government are reserved to the states - and there are a lot of other things the government is doing (like energy, EPA, etc.) that are not in the constitution and should only be performed by the states - I hope Trump selects Vivek as VP or some cabinet post to get busy with his plan to reduce the government by 75%
Excellent statements about leaving such things to the states, as provided by the Constitution. But please, no Vivek, as fun as he is to listen to. His prior association with WEF is a red flag that we cannot afford to ignore.
I don't trust Vivek as far as I could spit. He popped up out of nowhere, is waaaaaay too slick, and, then, there's the WEF connection. No Way. No. How.
Heās slick and polished- exactly like Obamaā¦ and he sort of āfell from the skyāā¦ like a Jeffrey Epstein personaā¦
I definitely believe operative candidates are being run
https://youtu.be/dSbgCeFilos?si=h0sArjIaEYaG2Zgm
Full. Of. $#!+.
I knew VIvek was full of shit, when I heard his campaign rhetoric, stating he would hold the fed accountable, for their fiat money and theft from the people. Like anyone could do that. I believe he stated he would downsize the Fed. Excuse me?? The corrupt money changers cannot even be audited.
https://youtu.be/dSbgCeFilos?si=h0sArjIaEYaG2Zgm
https://youtu.be/dSbgCeFilos?si=h0sArjIaEYaG2Zgm
I greatly appreciate Vivek. However, I simply cannot vote for Hindu. That's paganism, folks.
Hinduism is not paganism. That statement shows how little you know. Hindus believe in the One Supreme All-Pervasive God same as Christians do.
Different God. Not at all the same. Good guess, but wrong.
No, YOU are WRONG!!! Have you studied Hinduism thoroughly? Have you read their ancient scriptures? Have you lived in India? I have done all of the above. Your ignorance is embarrassing. THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THAT GOD IS WORSHIPPED BY HINDUS, JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, and followers of many other religions. You are getting caught up in details you don't understand. A deeper dive is required for you to get it!
Bluebird - I like your passion, and your scholarship.
I would ask - what is the name of "god"? If there is only one.
Very sincere, very wrong. Religion isn't about how you feel. You are caught in details and history that you don't understand. Hindu is demonic worship. Their god is the Father of lies but if course he always appears as light but his depths are darkness.
Did Jesus ever teach that other religions were demonic? You fail to realize that what religion each person follows is between that person and God, and none of anyone else's business. Judge not, but you are in fact judging others of a different religion. And if you don't think religion is about how you feel, you are really missing the point. God is close to each of us according to how each of us feels about Him, no matter one's religion. God Bless and I hope you wake up to compassion and acceptance for all.
It would hard to be more demonic than the god of the Old Testament.
Any references? Sounds like Freemasons and Zionism.
God is beyond name, but people all over the world call Him by different names.
How do you know that this god is a him?
The earliest god worshiped by humans
was a black female.
Hindus are not in that group.
What is god.
Hinduism is paganism.
What you dont know is true Christianity. It isn't Roman Catholic. They worship another god and another Jesus.
Omgosh, when will certain Protestants ever stop the bashing catholics and prosletyzing? š¢ They also do the same to the Orthodox in Orthodox countries, yet Billy Graham, a true man of God, did not.
I've noticed that certain commenters just regurgitate their mind control programs. There is no thoughtfulness in their comments. I call them Bible bots. They have no tolerance for beliefs other than their own. I'm learning to just ignore them because it does no good to try to reason with them.
This article might help to explain the issues with Catholicism. It would be better understood without bias.
https://bereanresearch.org/catholicism/
And Billy Graham, guided by The Lord, led people, gently, away from false beliefs and towards the saving grace, given freely, by Jesus Christ.....the only way to eternity with God. Romans 10:9
Was he? Angela K, you do exactly what you claim I am doing. I do not call you names and you DO proselytize! But how scary for you if you did denounce your church ties! Not so for true Christians. I'm very very sorry for you. I can never lose my decision and I will never have God's wrath. His promise is His Word and He is able to do as He has said. He will not fail and I shall be with Him in heaven the moment I die. Good luck to you. Hoping you've done all the right things to be accepted, said enough Hails to Mary, lighted with candles to the right ppl, missed the right relics, been fawned by a Cardinal and forgiven, confessed every sin, attended ever mass
Wrong. It is Catholic - the Church established by Our Lord Jesus Christ and given His authority at Mt. 16:18-19.
There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church.
Jesus was šÆ% Jewish.
Christians used to believe in reincarnation like the Hindus.
Then the Catholic Church owns the power to save. Jesus did not establish the RC church. Peter did not. Paul and the Apostles Warned That they knew of men who were waiting to lead ppl away from their testimony of Christ back into legalism. RC is a cult. You can't get out you will die in hell. Oh WAIT! You're going to hell anyway until you've paid for your sins, to the church.
Not what the Bible teaches. Never.
This article might help to explain the issues with Catholicism. It would be better understood without bias.
https://bereanresearch.org/catholicism/
And Billy Graham, guided by The Lord, led people, gently, away from false beliefs and towards the saving grace, given freely, by Jesus Christ.....the only way to eternity with God.
And it has nothing to do with the Catholic Church. It's ALL ABOUT Jesus Christ and always will be. Romans 10:9
Hinduism is absolutely pagan.
"THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND THAT GOD IS WORSHIPPED BY HINDUS, JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, and followers of many other religions."
If that's true then all these religions will pray the Sinner's Prayer (Romans 10:9).....to Jesus Christ.....believing He was born of a virgin, died and was RESURRECTED from the dead.
No one can claim that Jesus Christ was JUST a prophet, or the brother of satan, and believe in the same God as a born again Christian. That's a lie from the father of lies.
Do Hindus believe and worship the Only ONE True God of the Bible? if so, we are worshipping the same God, and we would all be called Christian believers. But I believe Hindus have very many deities they worship, most of which I can't even pronounce, which would then make them pagans....
Hindus believe in one absolute god,
that can take many forms including
a holy trinity.
There is nothing in Christianity that was not borrowed from
other earlier religious traditions.
What was the god of Christianity doing for those
thousands of years while many different cultures
around the world were worshiping the 'wrong' gods?
Christians believe in The Holy Trinity - ONE God in THREE Persons!! How many 'gods' are there in Hinduism-- here's a clue, Bluebird: https://www.hinduismfacts.org/how-many-gods-are-there-in-hinduism/#google_vignette
You are correct. I do know very little.
Forgive my bluntness; I meant you didn't know about Hinduism. I'm sure you are very knowledgeable on many other subjects. God Bless. And thank you.
That's the oldest religion in the world
All others stole from it. Sanskrit is the oldest language
I think God spoke the original holy tongue of Hebrew. Then with the tower of Babel he invented Sanskrit and the other languages.
I really am not interested in its age, but thank you for thinking of me.
Absolutely, VVV. We already had a pagan , perhaps manyā¦..but Vivek is a bridge too far. He is smarmy. I donāt trust him at all.
Apparently my comment set off something of a firestorm yesterday! (And I had meant to say āa Hinduā, not simply āHinduā)
A lot of the Catholic rituals come from pagan traditions... just saying.
Yes, I can see it. I was studying Italian for two weeks in Naples in July 2006, and there in time for a festival of Mary. Celebrations included a firework wheel revolving around the church facadeāif I remember correctly. I certainly do remember correctly that at that time I wondered āWhat on earth does this have to do with Mary,mother of Jesus? It' looks like paganism to me!ā And of course the word āpaganusā just means ācountry folk āChristianity being a practice of urbanites in early times. (You will, I hope, pardon the Latin teacher here)
Augustine, early missionary to Britain, wrote to Pope Gregory to ask how he should handle the pagan shrinesāand the Popeās reply was āturn them into Christian churchesāthe people are already accustomed to see these places as sacred.
Also, his affiliation with Big Pharma as well...
https://youtu.be/dSbgCeFilos?si=h0sArjIaEYaG2Zgm
Wow, he sounds exactly like he does not - If I had only heard the audio I would have assumed that was now. At 18 years old he is more "stately" and professional that all the politicians that I have ever heard speak - wow. Thanks for sharing.
Power to the states. This democratic-republic is far too much fed-level republic and not enough state-level democratic.
Agree 100%! I don't trust him as far as I can throw him, as my Mama used to say.
https://youtu.be/dSbgCeFilos?si=h0sArjIaEYaG2Zgm
Why on Godās green earth would a taxpayer object to paying educators to make our kids gay, artists to not starve, and health providers to give us lethal injections?
I got no idea; I'm baffled.
Hey, we finally agree on something! š
I like the things Vivek āsaysā but Iām leery simply because he reminds me of how Obummer suddenly arrived on the scene and how he was promoted by the left as the āyoung, rising starā in the DemonRAT party. We all know how that turned out and weāre still dealing with his destruction of our nation.
Especially with choice of VP!
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The federal department of education (lower case on purpose) does nothing but regulate and hand out money. They add zero value to the education of out children. Never have, never will. It has become a left wing propaganda machine and must go...save our children and wear this "I identify as non Bidenary" shirt in front of liberals š š¤£
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Donāt forget āno child left behindā which ended up inflating grades and passing kids that should be held back! The sad result is kids ending ip in college who cannot put together a coherent paragraph let alone a paper. I know because I graded them in grad school 20 years ago!
Yep. The more money we put into public education, the further academic performance drops. Simple historical fact.
Thatās because funding is tied to āperformanceā so principals pressure teachers and teachers give in to inflating grades. smhš©
I've spoken to some public school teachers. It's _really_ hard to get a kid held back these days. Doable, but the work and paperwork needed are insane. :/
Absolutely. And even tho its really in best interest of kid, it looks bad on teacher and prob school.
True. Some parents think it makes THEM look bad. Inconceivable!
"No child gets ahead" would be the better name for that program. It might have been well-intentioned, but humans are humans - and they turned it into following the letter, not the spirit. :(
Obama fixed no child gets ahead and called it Race to the Bottom.
Once again - great comment. But ditch the ad
Going as planned since Rockefeller and Carnegie took control along with health.
No mention of NIH ?
This SHOULD BE a full scale WAR on New Deal Agencies and the putrid corruption they inspire and the parasitism they are upon the country.
I just recently learned that a Rockefeller built the World Trade Center towers in New York. Ya know, the ones that fell down like a stack of Jenga blocks?
If we graded on performance a lot of things would be gone
In Washington State, teachers can choose to teach to the federal standards for each subject, or to the State standards, which differ widely from the federal. Two sets of widely varying standards, both set by bureaucrats in offices far removed from actual classrooms. Insane. I say get rid of ALL the āeducationā bureaucracies. In our area, whole buildings have sprung up to house all the various bloated administrative āeducationā functions. Much of it reaches far past education and into feeding low-income kids and holding seminars to coach teachers in affirming whatever a kid claims is true. Um, no. There are eternal verities, but they are hateful, so no longer taught. Department of Education should go, as part of the dismantling of our entire corrupt government.
While I liked the idea of DeSantis doing education vouchers so you have school choice, I do NOT like the way it was implemented. It's just a guise of school choice because if a private school takes the vouchers they then have to meet all state guidelines (which right now might not be SO bad, but imagine one day we get a liberal governor who wants trans rights). So, many private schools are having to axe teachers they've had who have had proven success with students but do NOT have a teaching degree or even necessarily a higher education because the state says you have to have a BS degree (soon to be a master's) and a teaching certificate. Just one example of many. So now it LOOKS like school choice, but soon it'll just turn the private schools into public schools that you pay more $ for.
You nailed the problem with vouchers. Strings attached, meaning they wonāt be any good for religious-based private schools. It basically forces government propaganda into private schools that take vouchers, or parents are still forced to pay for private schools that remain āprivateā.
Exactly. The vouchers mean state guidelines is exactly why I do not want school
choice. I told my husband state funding always means strings!!!! No thank you!
I have been wary of it, but did not know teachers were having to be let go in order to use the funds. That's so sad!
My mom was one. She was one of their best ones, too. Much loved and her kids' parents were all upset she isn't going to be teaching next year and their kids won't see her anymore. But the school was told she didn't have enough 'education' to teach and they had to meet state guidelines on qualifications because they accept the vouchers. A few others were allowed to stay, but only for up to 2 years because they had BS degrees. They have to go to classes and pay for them and certification in order to keep teaching after that.
SYFY - Thanks for clueing me in to this injustice. I have supported "vouchers", but now I do not agree with the attached strings.
I heartily agree. Back in 1995, Congress came within a hairsbreadth of passing legislation that would have required ALL educators (including homeschool parents) to be state certified. Moms all over the country called DC and shut down the switchboard, and we ended up defeating the bill. Seems like it has piggybacked onto a great-sounding bill. I'm disappointed in my governor. I thought he was smarter than that.
And... vouchers make it so that these schools can raise their prices. When the vouchers stop, they will have made it so they can't keep going without the govt $$$ and be forced to collude or close.
Abysmal record for k-12: https://washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/ReportCard/ViewSchoolOrDistrict/103300. WA needs to do better - Get rid of superintendent Chris Reykdal.
Pathetic. On NextDoor I see yet another teacher asking for donations of supplies. Donations, when 90% of our property tax goes to schools. This time she is asking for bookcases, desks and other aids for studying AT SCHOOL because so many studentsā home lives are chaotic and so the kids canāt study there. Thereās even a funding website for teachers so donors can help them meet needs their districts donāt fund. It never, ever ends.
No it does not. Disgusting. And i have teacher friends.
Who doesn't? Like nurse friends too. PhD assts,
I remember when I was in elementary school, the teachers had cases of pencils/erasers/paper to do their jobs. We could bring our own, but it was never required. No asks for parents to supply tissues, paper towels, glue, or anything like that - the school just did it out of their budget. No idea why that's not still a thing.
They do this all the time around here in FL. Been doing it for years. Insane.
We came very close last time despite losing the governor & presidential races here. It is possible!
On contract not many years ago, a team of K-12 test developers conducted ācognition labsā in Washinton State. The team interviewed students to collect responses to the state-mandated tests. It was rigorously scientific, but by mid-morning, the team felt the students were being grilled to despair. In the words of one anguished team member, āOh, the humanity.ā I hear the assessment industry is crashing and burning. Good news far too late.
WA citizens actually had to get up I-2066 to fight the stateās determination to eliminate natural gas. All expense for replacing appliances and furnaces to be borne by citizen. Internal combustion vehicles being targeted, and electric ones, and charging station construction, pushed. Having only one energy source increases energy vulnerability and gives those controlling the power switch complete control. All this while our electrical grid is strained and low-power-producing windmills are pushed onto our local hillsides. Citizens have mounted a fight against that, too.
Oh, and the State constantly threatens to remove dams on the Columbia River. Citizens have been fighting that for years but the threats continue. Despite a shortage of foster parents, Washington State is refusing to un-revoke the foster parent license of a couple who refuse to take their foster kids to pride events and refuse to use incorrect pronouns. Iām not kidding.
The cabal must be using a strategy to pick direct threats upon vital systems and wear out the citizenry until they just cave.
Yes, I read that about the formerly-successful foster parents having their "license" revoked if unwilling to engage in the perversion-program with their foster children.
May it be so!
Feeding low income kids - what a horrible thing. Maybe those lazy 8 year olds could get a job and feed themselves.
Kids are innocent. I have every sympathy for what adults and government have done to them. Our schools feed kids even in summer when school is out. My point would be that we need to stop funding and expanding a system where āeducationā takes over as yet another government program to facilitate dependency and dysfunction. Itās a classic argument that conservatives arenāt compassionate, but the truth is that they seek solutions, not endless, painful extension of a problem through enabling it. Build the fence at the top of the cliff. Then you donāt need hospitals at the bottom of it.
During the depression most kids went to school without shoes and Iām sure many of them were hungry. But they learned the basics of education that allowed them to pursue a better future.
Now weāre feeding their stomachs while starving their minds.
Hunger is a great motivator as well...also teaches gratefulness. I don't want kids to go hungry, but no way the gov't should be feeding them. Isn't that what our local churches are for?
I disagree. We need to have some sort of safety net for hungry children. Obviously, the churches didnāt do a very good job or there wouldnāt have been any intervention.
The churches and other organizations did a great job. Government stepped in, taxes increased to cover social programming costs, and church donations a long w donations to other charitable organizations decreased because people believe the government is taking care of people. Not its job. Not in the constitution. The federal government has two jobs. TWO. Protect its borders (so it can protect its people and their freedoms and liberties) and create and preserve infrastructure. Thatās it. Thatās the job. Shutter the DoE and all of the other BS government entities. The people will provideā¦they always do.
There was an intervention because the Democrats know how to pull up the heartstrings!
Churches aren't perfect. Churches demanded accountability.
My exact same thought. I went to a country school and there were lots of poor kids there and I donāt remember anyone going hungry.
I was going to say the very same thing!
Truth! And we're feeding them garbage to boot.
Those kids were more loved by parents than government teachers.
Not true in all cases. I taught special education and some of those children were horribly neglected or treated shabbily by their parents. In some cases, I cared about those children much more than their parents.
I have generations of teachers in my family. If course it isn't true in ALL CASES. I also think that gov stepping in to become parents makes hateful lazy parents instead of good ones. Sex education has nothing right about it as it lacks the ability to teach love and only sparks desires to satisfy self by teaching sexual grooming.
Children learn better when theyāre a bit hungry. It is a fact.
Another great comment - thanks for sharing.
You were around then?
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Yes thatās also my objection, expanding the role of schoolsāwhere does it end? Clothe them (with name brands so they donāt feel left out or demeaned, naturally)? House them? Theyāre already talking about medical care on schools. At what point does the state take over the children completely, with this creeping expansion?
In the early 90's the Karens of my children's elementary school were soliciting for winter coats for low-income children. But they specified that the coats had to be brand-new. My children were wearing hand-downs and thrift-store winter coats. ???? Instilling in poor children a sense of entitlement.
Exactly! I stopped donating to local causes like āA Gift for Every Childā, in which an āunderprivilegedā childās name, age and gift preference was placed on a card on the Christmas tree. They asked for expensive, brand name gifts, things I didnāt buy for my own children. I never thought that a PlayStation was a necessary thing in our household.
And this entitlement mentality has been fostered for at least 30-40 years, so we have a generation of those folks, expecting that āsomeoneā will provide not only their needs, but their wants as well.
Yes, I have seen far too much of this as well. Itās all because of the desire to make sure kids are ānot being left outā or ānot being made fun ofā because they donāt have āwhat everyone else [meaning the āpopularā kids] has.ā I wish we could focus the mindset more on not being so superficial and not judging based on possessions. I hate how this all feeds into and encourages that mentality š
This is the leftās MO. If everyone doesnāt have something, no one should. Remember the āstudiesā showing that kids from happy families had an unfair advantage over kids who werenāt? It was a NYT article, and suggested kids from unhappy families should have lower educational standards (hoops and challenges to jump) and be given other advantages like scholarships and such. The left tries to ālevelā everything but all it does is capsize the ship.
You and I could be good friends, I think!
Iām sure we could! I often wish we could have an in-person coffee. Some of us have so much in common!
šÆ! We may already be there!
In my small town everyone knew who was on welfare and the families who were always had the nicest newest bikes for the kids and brand name clothing (among other things) š¤ Whereas working poor families had hand me downs and thrift store items.
That was me - and to this day I'm still a thrift store shopper and advocate. I've studied fashion and imaging consulting for years and I know how to dress. People always compliment me on my sense of style and they are often shocked when I tell them I shop at thrift/consignment stores. Sometimes I can't believe what people give away or consign. I actually made a business out of it when I decided to owned and operated a ladies consignment boutique for nearly 20 years. I made a pretty good living selling used clothing and accessories so I'm thankful for the experience I received because I was raised as a poor welfare kid. I did not remain on the welfare system - I was on my own from the age of 17 and was an entrepreneur - the thought of having a boss didn't sit well with me at all.
I have many expensive items of clothing - one of my favorite suits is 3-button navy Brooks Brothers suit that I paid $50 for at an upscale consignment store. (It was at least $900 when new.) My suit wardrobe includes Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and many others. All purchased second hand.
At this moment I'm wearing a navy Lacoste polo shirt, some Tabasco khaki shorts and Sperry Top-Siders. All purchased used - but many of which are still with the original tags.
I realized a long time ago, that except for a brief moment, all clothes are used clothes. It's stupid to waste money on brand new designer wear when you can buy the exact same items for like 60-90% off.
Buying "gently worn" used is tougher for men than women, at least in our semi-rural area. Men wear stuff until it disintegrates ... whereas some women think "Oh, I cannot wear that again, I've been seen in it already!" and donate it.
And before y'all label me a sexist for that observation, it was made by my wife and not by me. She has a spiffy wardrobe of quality casual stuff (most looking like it was worn once) bought for pennies on the dollar at thrift shops.
You are not a sexist - you are absolutely right - my husband says the same thing, especially of more rural areas. When we go to the big cities we always source out the thrift/consignment stores and he finds great stuff there, but obviously I find way more, that's just the way it goes. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Agree. Have wished husband could get the male equivalent of fine clothing I wear from thrift stores. Difficult for a male.
I am not bothered by the āIāve been seen in it alreadyāāthing but my style and needs change more frequently than my husbandās do.
Thanks, Fred. More thoughts on this, but won't go into them now. However, in my mind, the same is true for used cars. Only twice in our married (52 years) life have we bought a new car--and then, only because the new car had what we needed (1978 Subaru--still could use less-expensive leaded gas and then, 1987 Ford Aerostar--because with 3rd baby, we needed a larger vehicle, and only the Aerostar [which proved to be something of a lemon] had the leg room needed by a tall husband.
Exactly!!! And good for you for figuring that out. I just bought a pair of embellished Brazilian Rox Jeans at a consignment store that still had the original price tag of $380 on them - I paid $40. Yey!
Thatās great and I admire that you have gotten such great finds. I have found that it takes so many visits to the second hand shops and so much time combing through the ājunkā that I just donāt have the patience nor do I want to spend the time.
That was my attitude toward yard sales--although thrift shop clothing was much more efficient.
Go to high end neighborhoods and the ones who support Cancer.
I actually buy most things online these days. I have done Thrifting, but you're right - that's time consuming and often results in not finding what you're after.
Online I can search for exactly what I'm looking for, and specify if I want "New with Tags,' or the exact color, brand, etc.
I like the way you dress! Preppie all the way! ā„ļø
It's the age I grew up in. At one time, I owned 3 copies of "The Preppy Handbook."
Today I could easily model for "Prep Persona No. 5: the County Club Years.' Page 192. (Ask me how I know.)
I love that! You used your experience in a positive way and gained useful knowledge and insights. The people on welfare in my town (which was tiny so everyone knew everyone elseās business) were the definition of deadbeats. Didnāt work, didnāt want to work, perpetually on the government dole. While do many around them worked really hard and struggled š
It was that perception that made it embarrassing for me to use food stamps and medicaid for my son while I was in college as a single mom. But I did it to give him and me a better future. Not all ppl were deadbeats...I still worked 16-20hrs a week holding down a 20+ hour curriculum. And I paid my loans all back (only borrowed 30k for pharmacy school). Paid back those food stamps and any medicaid he used via taxes many many times over. My caseworker used to tell me she wished she had a hundred ppl like me instead of what she usually deals with. But yeah. An atypical example for sure. Still was embarrassing tho. And I still went without because my income was such I only qualified for a small stipend. I was a lot skinnier then. š
Key word, you were embarrassed! It used to be that people that had to take a handout or up, were ashamed. I donāt see that anymore. I see those taking and scamming at the same time, instead of working. And if you are on assistance, Iām thinking nails and eyelashes and cell phones might be a tad expensive for the likes of those people. But apparently, itās now a sense of arrogant pride.
You are the kind of person I am happy to help! Itās meant to be a temporary help not a way of life. I know the reality of generations on welfare from growing up where I did and seeing it first hand, and thatās my objection. The problem with the system is that it is more designed to enable that than give an incentive to get off the program. As your caseworker seemed to acknowledge š
I shop at thrift stores. I wear new/like new Chicoās, Talbots and other brands of upscale clothing. Iāve also found some nice antiques. I recently purchased a stapled plate from the 1870ās for a dollar because it was ādamaged.ā The company made dinnerware for Tiffany.
Most dirt poor, but no one was on welfare. And sharing was eagerly anticipated. Of course, the population was in the low hundreds. I still remember when free food for the poor showed up - most were offended, at least initially. Times have changed.
When you think about the government declaring a āwar on povertyā in the 60s and decades later itās gotten worse not betterā¦
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.... Myself!
My mom used to be a guidance counselor and the kids they gave coats to would lose them constantly because they could just get another one. There's no gratitude or appreciation there.
I stopped volunteering to give Christmas gifts š to children because parents felt entitled to them.
People donated bikes and other nice toys. I imagine some of those people did without to make sure kids received their Christmas wishes. I gave out many gifts to parents and none of them said a word of thanks. I was shocked.
Thatās awful š
It was! I thought that people would appreciate that others cared about their children and wanted to protect them from the harsh realities of life. But they just wanted to come in and grab their stuff and go. I think they felt like people that donated stuff were just to be taken advantage of. I donāt know quite how to explain their attitude. I wasnāt the only volunteer that noticed it. Whenever someone does something nice for me or my family, I try to let them know that I appreciate their kindness and thoughtfulness.
Unfortunately when people expect it as their due, this is the attitude you get š My mom participated in a nonprofit that rehabbed houses and rented them to low income people. Some of the people just who had all of their rent paid for just trashed the place š Itās very disheartening.
Nothing teaches gratitude more than going without things that aren't water, meat and veggies, clothing to fit the weather and maybe just a little too thin, and shelter from wind and sun and snow and rain.
Wow! I hadnāt heard that one. But it has all the marks of the truth I experienced. Throughout those years of exposure, I continued (and continue) to believe that ābeggars canāt be choosersā. My childrenās father was starting/running a high tech business; āsalaryā was an iffy thingāa paycheck a reason for great gratitude (to be honestā38 years later, thatās still true). Hence, Mamaās sewing machine and the thrift shop.
I stopped volunteering to give Christmas gifts š to children because parents felt entitled to them.
People donated bikes and other nice toys. I imagine some of those people did without to make sure kids received their Christmas wishes. I gave out many gifts to parents and none of them said a word of thanks. I was shocked.
Our 5 children are all successful adults now.
Way back in the day, we participated in the hedonistic, let's get them all they ever wanted for Christmas. But we came to realize this was misguided.
These days, I'm proud to say that my children who are scattered around the globe, are all my friends. We talk about serious things we laugh about unserious things. but we talk.
Though I did my best as their father, I had no reason to expect that they would turn out so well,. and impress me so much.
Deo gratias.
Fred, you give the credit correctly, where it is truly due.
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I believe that all school children in the US should wear uniforms!! So much pressure is off parents and children with uniforms! No wealth or fashion comparing!
No binary and gender garbage. Boys and girls uniforms, period.
The lack of discipline in this country is getting out of hand. Cell phones should be handed in at the beginning of the day too, or simply not allowed!
I agree! My grandchildren were privileged enough to attend a Christian elementary school where they wore uniforms every day. It gave me such an appreciation for the concept of school uniforms.
It eliminates all the stress and competition in the dress area at least. They focused their competition on academic performance which was a great thing!
I wore one for 8 years at a parochial school. Hated it then but I realize what a good thing it was for us.
My daughter wore one at her Catholic high school for high school. It was a true blessing, especially in high school!
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I believe thatās actually the objective; train them to look to government for every need/want.
Yup, I think so too, hence my objection. And itās so easy to convince people this is all okay using the ādonāt you care about the children??ā manipulative argument š
Really? Can you look a 6 year old girl in the eyes and tell her itās better if she goes hungry? The government shouldnāt help her at all. She ought to go begging to the church for help. I donāt mind paying taxes to feed hungry children. But thatās just me š
School lunches totally suck. Itās not like theyāre getting good meals.
No one said donāt feed kids. The DoE is failing and expanding a failure is more failure. The DoE system is broken. Thatās the point.
Really? There were other comments saying we should flat out not feed them but I donāt have time too inclination to look for them.
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MamaApprovedBooks4Kids
5 hrs ago
Hunger is a great motivator as well...also teaches gratefulness. I don't want kids to go hungry, but no way the gov't should be feeding them. Isn't that what our local churches are for?
CathyRN
6 hrs ago
During the depression most kids went to school without shoes and Iām sure many of them were hungry. But they learned the basics of education that allowed them to pursue a better future.
Now weāre feeding their stomachs while starving their minds.
Parents are getting welfare and food to feed plus free meals at school! Hooray parents can sell the food or cards for drugs and sex.
That isnāt what I said š Please donāt twist my words and interpret them to mean something different from what I wrote. Just because Iām not in favor of this particular solution doesnāt mean I want kids to starve. Itās not a binary choice between schools feeding kids and them not getting fed at all.
There are kids who are homeless too. And need clothes and medical care. What about building dormitories for homeless children and a store so they can get free clothes? And attach a medical center to the school while youāre at it too.
Your rection is exactly what Iām talking aboutācreeping government control is justified by appealing to peopleās emotions and accusing people of being uncaring if they are not on board with expanding government services. Schools are not the only way to get children fed. And government is usually the most wasteful and least efficient way of getting anything done. I donāt want to pay more taxes for this not because I donāt want children to eat, but because I want to minimize government involvement in all of our lives. There is far too much waste, bureaucracy and ultimately less freedom once the government starts to put its tentacles into any aspect of life. For all the taxes we pay, we should have zero societal problems by now, but it seems like the more we pay, the more problems we have.
Btw. When child labor laws were passed, many people felt that the government should not intervene in their childrenās lives. Parents wanted their very young children to work 10-12 hours in the mines and factories to help support them.
Of course they thought that, children contributed income to the household and they had to find a way to replace that somehow š The idea was good but as always with the government, implementation was flawed. I wonder how many children subsequently went hungry because their income was suddenly missing from the household? A transition period to allow households to adjust m, or some other way to ease into it, would have been a better idea, but I am sure the people patting themselves on the back for āsaving the childrenā didnāt ever consider that.
I agree with you that for as many taxes as we pay, we should have zero societal problems. However, please tell me your better solution for feeding hungry school children? I think government intervention is absolutely essential in some areas. One of them is in school lunches for poor children. I think itās terribly cruel that some people here feel kids do better in school when theyāre hungry. These are children -not adults. Although, I donāt think that the schools need to provide 2 or 3 meals a day for them.
Non profits? Churches as mentioned above? A combination of different approaches? Donāt we pay politicians and policy makers big money to come up with these kinds of solutions? Why is it up to me to do that? All I know is, since the government declared a so-called āwar on povertyā things have only gotten worse even though we spend more money than ever.
Let me turn the question around to youāwhy do *you* believe government is the best way to help people? From what I have seen in my life, itās usually the least effective means of solving any problem.
I also challenge how many children are actually āhungry.ā How is that even determined? Do they ask kids? What is the basis for deciding this? And why canāt we just feed the ones who really are hungry instead of allowing those who are perfectly capable of providing meals to their children to freeload off of everyone else if they choose to? Thatās my problem with all of these government programs, they use exorbitant amounts of money and only end up helping a small proportion of those in real need. I hear people say āoh well I would rather have the programs available even if some donāt need it and at least some in need will also be helped.ā But that is totally ignoring the concept of opportunity cost. Despite what some people seem to think, funds are not unlimited. If we use part of our money to help people who donāt actually need it, then less money is available for people who truly do. I am not okay with that. Iām also not okay with financially supporting a cumbersome and inefficient bureaucracy to distribute the funds and services to needy people.
Donāt feel obligated to respond, if you donāt want to take the time. Itās been a very interesting discussion that would be far easier in person than typing out long replies š I am in the middle of a very busy week and I am not sure if I will be able to continue the exchange, as interesting and thought provoking as itās been. š
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I also believe that is the objective - it's in the marxism playbook...
My opinion: we should go back to letting children bring a bag lunch from home.
We need more individual responsibility .
We need less, way less, government nannying .
Seriously, in my small Catholic school, everyone brought their lunch. There was bread and peanut butter if you forgot.
I was from a rather poor family and we probably didnāt go to the doctor but very few times in my entire 17 years at home. One time my mother took my sister to the doctor because she had been coughing and coughing and was having trouble breathing and he said we need to put her in the hospital. She has pneumonia and my mother went to the pharmacist and got some medicine and brought her home. She lived long past that illness.
Medical care? Or forced injection
Well yes that but other things too.
WA state is already putting āhealth centersā in schools.
Even states like Indiana are trying to expand what schools can offer in terms of medical services.
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Hereās a scenario, itās morning, parents are rushing around getting ready for work, oops, no time to feed the kids a healthy breakfast or pack a lunch, hey kids, just catch breakfast at school. Phew, one less thing to worry about. Lucky parents, one fewer responsibility.
Iām 100% positive the breakfasts are healthy and delicious too. Not!!!
My opinion: double the salaries for men and let the moms stay at home. Mom used to make wonderful lunches for their kids, and everything was always organic and homemade from scratch.
There are probably a few out there, but many parents are both working fulltime low pay jobs just to live. Shoot, a 1 bdrm apartment here in Central FL is $1400/mo. No way you can survive these days without working all the time just to pay to live.
Itās all part of the collapse of the family. Thatās my worry about this. I agree, itās outrageously expensive to live these days.
Inflation and high costs partly because of taxes are big contributors. The more the cost of living goes up the more people will clamor for government intervention so imo itās by design at least partly.
Big Mike Obama made sure the breakfasts are (what Army vets call) shite on a shingle.
She/heās a mess. Wonder if Big Mike forgot on purpose, to not tuck when on the Ellen Show.
Funny story, sometimes my dad would ask mom to make SOS! Gag!
I dont like feeding kids at school on tax payer dolalrsā¦.. but honestly I do not think this is how it is. Its people living on McDonalds salaries or those who work at say a clothing store etc. Fill in a low income job.
But you failed to mention that the lowest wage an employer can pay is $20 an hour. These are the reasons that some of the people are illegally coming across our border.
Ppl don't understand simple economics!! Good grief. Raising income raises costs. Printing money makes money worthless unless you only print at much as you have gold in the bank to back it up. Period. It's history for 1000s of years.
That is fair....and sadly, it is often the case that school is the only "square" meal kids get in a day, and most schools serve a lot of garbage....but garbage food is better than no food ultimately.
3 meals a day in some areas of CA, year around, and not just kids from lower income families. The reports of the quantity of wasted food are outrageous. And of course, no share-zies with the homeless. They have their own NGOs. And the illegals receive cash cards. BTW, due to the food banks, WIC, and many other other government programs, I would bet my house that there are zero hungry kids in CA that are not part of a mentally ill or drug addicted family. Oh waitā¦. Perhaps those resources could be better spent elsewhere?
Exactly right, Fred!
When I served on a school board in California, it was reported to me that the kids were throwing their school breakfasts away. They didnāt need them or want them.
Yes, its pretty standard to require kids to take a minimal amount of food that covers certain food groups, whether they eat it or not. The amount of food that is discarded and wasted is mind blowing.
This is what I actually observed for years doing faculty-required cafeteria duty in a Phila suburban middle school. And kids threw the juice boxes on the stairway as they left cafeteria to go to 1st period class.
Most likely tasted bad.
Johnny, please see my comment below. Plenty of resourcesā¦thatās not the problem.
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If ppl aren't feeding their own children then they should have them taken away. Don't bite me. It's not that simple but yes it's very simple.
At least take away the extra money the government gives them to provide for their children.
This is a Gov lie.
I question How they determine the supposed need. I have no doubt some children are actually in danger of going hungry but when they throw out numbers like āx thousand children go hungry every dayā how do they even determine that?
We lived below the poverty line nearly every year we raised four kids and homeschooled on a shoe string. Who had it better than us? NOBODY!!
No need to feel sorry for homes full of love, laughter, and a stretch. We felt sorry for ourselves at times but God always provided what we NEEDED though many times we did without common things others did like school sports (WHO CAN AFFORD TO PLAY?!) and soda pop (or however you say that), or cable tv, fast food and weekend dinners. We have never owned a new car or furniture. But I did get a new setting machine once! šš» And new mattresses "once and for all." š
Well said. Itās more compassionate to fix a problem than to sustain it.
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Bang on Becky - very well said. Thanks for sharing - I totally agree!
The problem is that they are not just feeding low income students. They are feeding ALL students. In many areas, it is against school policy for a child to bring their own food to school. The government is taking a parent's right to provide for their children. They are conditioning people to expect the government to take care of themselves, one small step at a time, starting in grade school.
An objection I have is that the government is not just helping, but also taking away a parent's responsibility to provide for their child. It is the expectation now that the school will provide the meals for children, not the parents. In my area, during summer vacation and the different breaks and holidays during the year, the school district still provides meals. Now, I am not against feeding hungry children. But if a parent is that poor that they can't feed their child, they are in most cases already receiving money to feed their child through the Food Stamp program. Having been brought up by a single parent who lived through the Depression, I learned as a child from my mother to be very resourceful and thrifty. My mother knew how to stretch her money. But todays low income parents don't have to be resourceful or teach their children to be thrifty. After-all, the responsibility is the government's to provide for their children, not theirs. And if you don't believe me, go to any Walmart on the day the EBT cards have been freshly infused and take a glance at what qualifies as food expenses in the shopping carts.
They shouldnāt be allowed to purchase any junk food. Itās a waste of taxpayer money.
I like WIC better as a program for that reason. Only certain foods are approved. The idea should be sustenance not treats.
I worked at a convenience store one summer and the people who paid with food stamps always bought junk food and not only that, bought it at the most expensive place in town instead of going down the street a half a mile to the actual grocery store.
Was unaware of the EBT card-infusions, but in decades past, when food stamps were a "thing", noticed the high-priced items (e.g., Green Giant veg, not store brand) in the carts of the stamp-holders. For me/us, only the store brand.
But but but parents cannot be trusted to provide their kids with a meal that contains officially-approved nutritious ingredients. Mike Obama saw to that over a decade ago.
I agree, thatās a huge problem.
O-Johnny! Should the education department also put new tires on the cars of low income families so their 8-year olds could get to school safely? And buy jackets for them so they could be warm at school? Every child should have necessities for living, but the governmentās job is to protect, not to provide. And the education departmentās job SHOULD BE to educate, not endlessly extend their reach to non-educational income streams, like food, to fund their woke garbage and shove it down 8-year oldsā throats. The public school system has reached a cadaverous state and needs to be razed and scraped to make way for private schools and other creative ways to prepare our children to make their way through life knowing their true identity in their Creator, and their purpose.
āRazed and scraped.ā Yes! And God indeed has given each of us an identity and made each of us for a purpose. The godless āschoolsā are not the path to finding it.
Maybe the parents can feed them? You know, like what parents have done for thousands and thousands of year before gubment skools???
I used to do cafeteria duty (by choice, actually). So many students were on 'free and reduced--price lunch" and breakfast. The waste was upsetting to me, Assistant principal pointed out that some children, with Mercedes in their driveway, had joined that program because parents had suffered employment difficulties. Nothing like parents planning for a rainy day. (And I really lost any respect for that principal, too).
This is typical of high income educated people - although the Mercedes could have been leased... I remember reading this years ago - a real eye opener and the writer learned absolutely NOTHING from what happened:
This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/08/this-is-what-happened-when-i-drove-my-mercedes-to-pick-up-food-stamps/
Wow. And no sense of the future, so while the going was good they didnāt prepare for future ānot goodā times.
I was told by the person administering free lunch program that they are not allowed to verify the household income reported by the parent.
no stigma allowed; we're all equally complicit and served by our government masters. welfare for all
That sounds about right. I was doing a graduate ācapstoneā project on why my Latin student population was so heavily skewed to immigrants (i.e, what was it about Latin that immigrant parents but not American parents recognized?). Was required to meet with assistant superintendent before proceeding, was told that I was forbidden to ask how long the student had been in US. In case child/parents were here illegally. Please noteāthis was in Dec/Jan. 2011.
Spanish is a Latin language so Spanish speakers will have a big advantage over black and whites and non-Latinos.
Latin = Medicine & Pharmacy jobs
And legal I should think?
I took Beckyās point as education and food distribution are different goals and mixing is scope creep. Not that feeding kids is bad.
Yes I understood the same.
this used to be termed parental neglect, but now these waifish wards are womb to tomb the responsibility of the Progressive State. Mainstreamed by media, and every grant grabbing grifter to end childhood hunger in America; one out of every 3 children faces food scarcity blah blah blah even while our Ag Lands are under attack, our food is crapified, on and on.
WP William: Always avoid alliteration!
Johnny-O is a classic "reply guy", the internet is lettered with these types. Their responses always have three components: 1) half truths, 2) arguing a point you never made, and 3) arrogant condescension. Reply Guy comments are not meant to advance the conversation but score a cheap burn and show off how smart they are. They do neither but just piss people off and drive away people in their lives.
Vox Day described this phenotype perfectly as the Gamma Male. They are miserable, desperate for attention, and can't understand why no one likes them. Imagine having a conversation with someone face to face who acts like this. Would you want to talk to them again?
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-socio-sexual-hierarchy
Your response Becky was intelligent and thoughtful, but undeserved. Don't waste your time responding in good faith to people who behave like this. I know some people will think this comment is mean, and it probably is. But the truth often is.
The Reply Guys are trolls who earn a $oro$ payment for every response they generate from their server farm.
Dam, you got me too Jeff C. But even if only throwing pointed daggers into the conversation at times can spur some brighter and constructive persons along (as they are action-oriented doer types) then maybe we "reply guys" can have a positive role at times, and perhaps we occasionally do contribute to the conversation (?)
I don't recall hearing about so many kids needing food in my day or in my kids' day. Why aren't families feeding/taking care of their kids themselves?
Their parents are using the money to buy math and fentanyl and tattoos.
I could only wish theyād buy math! š¬š
(Sorry, couldnāt resist a bit of fun with the typo! š).
My! When I was a kid in the 1950's we did not have all these 'programs' and we were not all 'entitled' to anything. You either bought lunch or brought it in a brown paper bag. Most often, I brought lunch ... and my family were well to do mill owners. And I never felt deprived for eating like every one else. And I did not squawk one bit because I liked peanut butter and jellies sandwiches even if they were perhaps not the most nutritious thing a kid could eat.
Also, I wish kids could have gotten jobs like they once did before the Roosevelt mentality mid-20th century began to set in. Learning responsibility and having my own money would not have hurt me one bit. It would have helped.
Hot dogs when I was a kid cost about twenty-five cents. Something like that. Now what to they cost? I don't know because I won't pay two, three or more dollars for a hot dog. And that's where all our 'entitlement' mentality has gotten us ... plus the MIC and perpetual war mongering, government Health Terrorism and Control, with the 'money' inflated away to zilch! Me? I rather have pay your own way and bye-bye Nanny. And besides, kids in the my town? Nobody was starving and looking skin and bones just arrived from the concentration camp. Nobody!
Correct, daverb. And there was never more than one obese kid in any class, if any obese, and that kid was always named. āFattyā.
And all the food was organic and homemade from scratch. Kids were much healthier.
I wouldn't feed my dog the ultra-processed Food Like Substances they give kids in schools and people in hospitals. If it were real food - I'm all for it... but this chemical "stuff" is not food and creates mental and physical problems.
Dreading going on Facebook today, I can just hear my artist friendsā ranting against DeSantis. Jeff, your explanation convinced me you are right, maybe Iāll cut and paste it as a response, giving you credit of course.
One downside, I think people may go after other non-profits though. I have heard rumblings about churches and their nonprofit status.
A sleeve of Pop Tarts and a box of battery acid mixed with glucose, I mean, orange juice, is not FOOD.
Donāt forget Carnation Instant Milk, yea, that stuff didnāt sit well on the stomach.
or maybe their parents
Itās not just low income kidsā¦her in CO, itās ALL kids. We already had free and reduced lunch and breakfast for low income kids, but now ALL kids eat free. And most just take a few bites and then toss their meal. Itās a huge expense, a waste of $$, and a waste of food.
Reading is fundamental, so read it again.
I remember one of the planks of Ronald Reagan's campaign platform was his promise to abolish the DOE. But after the Bush team took over his cabinet team, that promise was never fulfilled. The Marxists will never give up control of America's children.
Bush promised school choice in Texas when he ran for governor. Never happened. Promises promises promises are just lies.
GW was one of the globalists. That we finally figured outā¦too late, I might add.
I agree!! Iām sure that if you ask people who want to keep the DofE what exactly this department does that is of such benefit, they would be totally unable to tell you.
I spent 2 days at the DOE L'Efant Plaza, DC 1999.
It was Resort Living pretending to be work. Executive Chef cafeteria, empty building by 3pm, breakfast at 8-10, lunch 11-1.
Resort Living pretending to be working. I Spit
Multiply that by the other 14 cabinet level bureaucracies, and gee...why are we $35 TRILLLION in debt??
Right???
Wow. But not all that surprising to me unfortunately š
I beg to differ. Red Downstate Illinoisians LOVE their gov funded schools!! Love their rivalries! Love their teachers and superintends and extracurriculars and... You have to promise that they won't lose any of that... BUT WAIT!! PLUS early childhood indoctrinating...oh yah STATES. WHEW I was so worried we'd lose our Spartan education. (Tic)
Yes I know there are a lot of people like that š I still bet they couldnāt tell you what specifically the federal department of education does at all, let alone give details on anything beneficial that they do.
We've ALL been heavily New-Dealed by the largesse of the system
Your use of āRedā is keyā¦ (but I think I missed something in the second sentence).
Okay, I know this isnāt so simple for everyone to do, but honestly what keeps public school going is people sending their kids there. A quick solution would be for everyone to stop sending their kids.
Even if HALF would!!
Particularly since the contrast between the govt school students and the private and home school students would be so stark.
First step; Eliminate and deport the disgrace of a human being, gender confused, superiority complexed Randi Weingarten. Maybe she can get her old job back, playing Ralph on "Green Acres".
Totally agree. And somehow, many seem to have already forgotten the Bill Gates role in "Common Core."
Trump voter and supporter here. I don't think he has the political will to evict illegals in large numbers from the country or shut down the Department of Education, as he is promising, because at bottom, he doesn't like to perceived as cruel by the media and Establishment. I hope I'm wrong about this, but past experience indicates that when the rubber hits the road, Trump takes incremental steps, not bold ones.
I'm of the opinion that Trump is more aware than most of the seriousness of the trouble we are in as a country and will have the boldness to make the bold moves...or we are lost as a country.
Not trying to be a doggie downer but I'm not holding my breath on the demise of the DOE no matter what he says on the campaign trail. Talk is cheap.
Later Jay
In the debate, Trump told Hillary if he won, he would put her in jail. I applaud it then he won and did not put her in jail. Why not? ? ?
He probably shouldnāt have said that, because he actually does not have that power as president (nor should he). He needed help from other people and other entities to get that accomplished and since he wasnāt able to get the necessary people to work with him, no jail for the Hildebeast.
Our country successfully educated its children for 200 years, before the creation of the DOE. At the time the DoE was created, we ranked 1st in k-12 education and had the best-surveyed education system in the world. In 2010, we fell to 17; today, we rank 13th (data pandas), which is impressive considering we rank 30th in math and 19th in science (PISA). Soā¦.the DoE has done nothing but line the pockets of bureaucrats while watching our children get dumber and dumber.
Exactly. Every time the (federal especially) government gets involved to āsolveā a problem, they not only make the problem worse but create new problems.
Talk is cheap. He threatened TWICE to not sign the continuing resolution over lack of funding for a border wall, and TWICE caved.
Iām so tired of lies and abject criminality (not talking about Trump here).
I remember president Ronald Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. He didn't, but was voted in twice, with HUGE margins. Carter threw in the towel before all the votes were cast, which threw the LIBERAL IDIOTIC Media in frenzy and they agreed NOT to project winners until ALL the votes were counted. As for Mondale in 1984, he barely won won his own state!
And the great thing about Trump in 2016 was that he did everything he said he wouldā¦ if it didnāt happen he had at least made 100% effort
YES!
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honest question, but other than the gender nonsense at the moment and I am sure other things....but what is the benefit of leaving education to the state?
Not spending money on federal bureaucrats who donāt make any real contribution to anything important?
Thought he was going to drain the swamp in 2016? What makes you think he will follow through with this, this time around? genuinely asking because I don't know who to vote for. (no, not Biden, but I am debating bn Kennedy and trump, who will have the better chance at following through?)
I propose that this be the official poem of C&C š (my mom used to read it to us when we were kids ā¤ļø)
It Couldnāt Be Done
BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST
Somebody said that it couldnāt be done
But he with a chuckle replied
That āmaybe it couldnāt,ā but he would be one
Who wouldnāt say so till heād tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldnāt be done, and he did it!
Somebody scoffed: āOh, youāll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it;ā
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew heād begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldnāt be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure,
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing
That ācannot be done,ā and youāll do it.
My mother had this framed, I have it hung in my kitchenā¦āYou say my Son it canāt be done? Your statement isnāt trueā¦you mean mean my son it can be done, but canāt be done by youā¦When anyone says āIt canāt be doneā heās quitting in advanceā¦the little man who says āI canā will win with half a chance.ā
LOVE IT!!
And this is what America USED to be all about, and can be again!
That is awesome!! š Thank you for sharing!
This is a story about 4 people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
And that's why in emergency situations, you have to specifically tell one person to call 911 as everyone assumes someone else will do it. I remember this from CPR training.
In fact, you are supposed to POINT at them and say "YOU! Call 911".
I remember also that, when there's a baby involved, you shake the baby and yell "baby, baby, are you all right?".
Hopefully people know not to shake the baby too hard. That would cause problems. š³
āWe the people have done so much for so long with so little we are now qualified to do everything with absolutely nothing.ā
That reminds me of some discussions Iāve read hereā¦ š
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^^Like... So good :)
Love this poem! Sharing with my boys today - it will be a great way to begin our week 3 of slow summer days & doing the things we think canāt get done!
Baffling at the amount of tax payer funding bloated salaries!!!Donāt get me wrong I absolutely love art but this is excessive - way to go Desantis ! Really like this Moms of Liberty gal more if this šššš
Awesome, that makes me very happy! Agree with your comments on todayās post too!
I learned this poem as a kid and recited at Family Christmas. What a memory that stirred of such happy days. Thank youš
Awww! That makes me smile!! So glad it brought back good memories for you! ā¤ļø
Its also one of the things that used to separate America from other countries, a spirit of ingenuity.
Yes! The ācan doā mentality! Now itās more of an excuses mentality in many cases š
The black midwife who delivered my two sons (in 1980 and 1982) was a wealth of inspiring sayings. (Her name was Gladys Milton and she was recognized by the state of Florida (Women of Light, I think) for her service in delivering many, many babies in a long career in Walton County.
One of her sayings was, āThe difficult, weāll do right away. The impossible may take a little longer.ā
That's the Seabees too
Love it!! š
My dad used to read this to us as well. It has been many years since I last heard it. But I love it and need to remember to live accordingly (and teach my kids as well)!
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^^Like! You lifted my chin with a bit a grin :)
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āPeople who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.ā š
My t-shirt today says, "Those who say 'it cannot be done' shouldn't interrupt the people doing it."
Perfect!!
Thanks!š. I love the Edgar Albert guest poem āit couldnāt be done.ā
I love this! ā¤ļø
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Wish I could like this!
Is your like button still not working? š Mine was wonky for a day or two but then worked again.
It hasn't worked for two weeks at least.
Ugh š Such a pain š
Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah,
And whom You teach out of Your law;
That You may grant him calm from the days of calamity,
Until a pit is dug for the wicked.
For Yahweh will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
ā Psalm 94:12-15 LSB
Psalm 1
āBlessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the ungodly shall perish.ā
āāPsalmsā¬ ā1ā¬:ā1ā¬-ā6ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.1.1-6.NKJV
Love this Psalm. Such beautiful imagery.
My dad's favorite Psalm.ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
I'm glad that you post in LSB! Some may think it's strange to use Yahweh rather than LORD, but Yahweh is His name. Thank you.
And Yeshua ben Yoseph is His Son's name.
"If the people want more Nothingness, they can pay for nothing by themselves." š
Asking any accountant: look at the screenshot Jeff took of the summary IRS form 990. What the heck is
-$291,000 in "other revenue"? Is that some kind of accounting trick for an expense or more salaries? It sure looks like it. As usual, Jeff is not only objective, he's TOO fair, lol!
Hey Libs: before howling that government (your fellow citizens' money) funding is being withheld from the Arts or annything else, step up and write the check. Same goes for tax rates. Taxes too low? Shut your pie hole and write the check first. Then lobby for others to pay more. Start with yourself, Libs. We've had enough of the hypocrisy. You think climate change is man-made, real, and reversible? Live in a small house. Drive a small car and stick with a bike whenever possible. Shop locally only, never use Amazon, big box stores or delivery services. Don't wear anything synthetic; buy clothes made primarily from hemp. Never ever drink bottled beverages, just tapwater. If you own a second house you are an absolute hypocrite if you think climate change is real, manmade and reversible. Some of these ideas are actually good for all of us not infected by Climate Religion Propaganda, particularly those who see the threat of globalism and corporate capture of government and vice versa. Mainly: Shop local stores with local owners who source many items locally. And use attorneys who own their own practice, like Childers Law!
And please use cash for some of your spending. We have to keep cash in circulation to avoid CBDC.
Try to pay in cash for most of what I buy, with few exceptions here and there! It also helps to withdraw said cash from the banks, so they KNOW they CANT do away with it!
Yes! Thatās the way to do it!
Or, put your cash in box and ship it to my place. I like cash...... just saying.
Later Jay
I only see the 2021 form on the website. It is as clear as an IRS form can be (insert eye roll). If I spent a little more time with it I could figure it out completely but here is a quick summary. The line you pointed out references Part VIII which references Part lV which references Schedule G. So if you look at all all those references there are "Direct expenses" which reduced fundraising income to a loss. But due to typical IRS forms....the fundraising contributions are listed elsewhere so you have to back those out of the total. Then the preparer deducted the direct expenses from the reduced fundraising income which resulted in a loss. Then the net inventory sales and building rental is added to that loss which still nets to a loss and that is the negative revenue (a loss) you see on that line.
Wow, this analysis says so much about so many things. It sounds like it could mean they spent more money trying to raise money than they actually raised, at least in certain "fundraising" categories. Think dinners and events for "donors" with a massive DEI component. No wonder they "need" government grants! Thanks for the analysis.
I am in agreement.
It is ridiculous when our 'Climate Czar' flies in a private jet
to go relax on his mega yacht.
Video compilation of the covid pysops deployed to shame/destroy/demonize the unvaccinated.
For everyone who refused...you are the heroes.
For everyone who demonized us...we have the receipts.
https://rumble.com/v53am4o-how-propaganda-was-used-as-psychological-warfare-to-create-crimes-against-h.html
Did you see that DOD cannot account for moneys sent to China because of their bookkeeping limitations?
āDue to limitations in the DoD's tracking systems, the full extent of DoD funds provided to Chinese research laboratories for research related to the enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential is unknown.ā DOD of the Inspector General
Catherine Austin Fitts says something like 21 trillion has gone missing over the past few decades and she was at HUD where ALOT of money disappears or used to fund illegal things...
She's spot on. Her analysis of the big picture of what is going on is the most comprehensive one I've seen yet.
That doesnāt surprise me at all š
She is a great source of information. And she reminds us to keep using cash. Itās one of our protections of privacy.
Yes, I saw that...
...if that giant asteroid hit the Pentagon, I would not be sad.
A whole of dc approach would be best.
The world would be more peaceful, that's for sure.
Unfortunately an aircraft hit the pentagon building that held records (evidence?) of the money trail- according to some.
No aircraft. A surviving video shows a missile hitting the Pentagon, not an airplane. And there were no aircraft pieces at the scene...none.
Iāve seen the same. Also, records in bldg 3 destroyed by controlled demolition that had to be set up weeks in advance. Weāll never hear the truth
The evidence is quite clear. All the buildings were controlled demolition. The OKC bombing was the test run.
No luggage either.
Yes.
Correction I think it was bldg 7.
Not sure.
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They can't account for trillions given out to bribe institutions to become Covid-pushing "centers" - like the community college I worked for. They've historically had to account for every penny in grant money but not Covid money! Nope. That wasn't tracked for anyone who got it.
Because they ... The DOD is too busy making sure that all our military people use the right pronouns! All the high paid elected in the DOD need to go as well!!!!!
New idea for a law - gov funds only given to items that can be tracked to their end use. I can see this being useful in all sorts of areas - money to China and Ukraine come to mind.
The DOD probably has thousands of accountants employed. Their job is probably to destroy financial DOD misdeeds. Just like Border Patrol agents are now hospitality and travel providers.
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Thank God I cancelled our cable in 2020!!!!! Plus I never listened to those talking headsā¦.no jabs for us!! Godās immunity is best! Whatās sad are those who were forced to take them! All these people need hung!!!!!! Or a firing squad!!!
No TV since 2012. Whenever I see a clip of one of the "news" shows it is always shocking to me how insane it is.
I stopped AM radio for a year during my commute and switched to audio books. When I switch it on again, it was clear how negative it is. Both political sides do it.
It's crazy when I go to friend's houses and they have TV "News" blasting all the time.
Whether it be CNN, MSNBC or even Fox News. Add in the plethora of 5 min drug commercials, it's no wonder people are walking zombies. I keep telling them to switch off the boob-tube and put on some music instead. Your life will be immediately improved!
Its worse than that. We have tv but we mostly watch cable. Even shows like on hgtv that are played on demand have disgusting drug commercials to boot. And many of them are for HIV drugs featuring gays. š
No TV saved me.
How you gonna know what the normies are thinking?
Bannon on Warroom shows the video clips of Joy Reid who culturally appropriates white women hair and Joe "dead intern" Scarborough rants.
Easy, just listen to what they say and watch what they do.
Also just read a few headlines occasionally.
My not-so-close-as-before friends most reliably parrot those, and they email me NYT articles, too. LOL.
Propaganda is subtle.
We have some of those nutcases as āformerā friends and unfortunately some relatives!!! Thatās all I need to know!!! All have gone loony with all the jabs! There is no common sense left in their brains!
OTA tvā¦you can see locally what they are about. I have to stream for other info. So so tired of the drug commercials.
My last tv was in 1990ās. Have never missed it at all ever.
Never Forget!! Boy has that phrase taken on a new meaningā¦
Yes.
Thx for getting my vitals out of whack, Kathleen!...:)
I swear it triggers some sort of PTSD watching it after the fact.
It really does! I couldnāt even watch the whole thing. Trying to find a compilation of Cdn headlines/video clips of that era that remind me why I left; canāt remember where I saw it.
No kidding...watching all those clips together is horrifying on what they did to us.
Right?! I thought I remembered how bad it was, but sheesh!! Excellent post Kathleen!
Most effective military and government psyops ever.
I was just wishing DEATH on them all..... did I just say that???
Lol. I have worse thoughts...occasionally
It was by the Grace of God that anyone was not vaccinated . Pride comes before a fall. The unvaccinated are not heroās. Only God the Amighty is worthy of praise.
The unvacccinated are heroes.
They withstood the most intense, the most diabolic, military and government psychological operation ever devised.
They were threatened. They were demonized. They were fired from their jobs. They were not allowed to attend university. They were not allowed to travel. They were not allowed in shops and restaurants.
And they stood their ground against all odds.
They are heroes.
Heck yes. Hold your heads high, brothers and sisters. We held the line.
My employer coaxed and bribed, and tried desperately to make us get injected. The HR people were clearly chomping at the bit to mandate it. But they couldnāt. And why not? Because 40% of the people in the company said no, aināt happening, not today, Satan. We held the line, and supported each other, heroes indeed.
God Bless all of you for fighting back.
Wow! 40% is better than the national average I believe. Most estimates Iāve heard put the unvaxed at around 30%. You had an awesome group of coworkers, and you were heros indeed!
I donāt really understand why the comment you responded to was even made??
No kidding.
But, me with my big mouth, was not gonna let it slide.
Me too. I hesitate some times and try to modify. O well
My patience is wearing thin with all the covid and bird flu crap.
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Lighten up Mary, Iām all about giving God all the glory and praise for all of His benefits to us, but our fellow humans need encouragement too. So itās perfectly fine to call someone a hero for taking a tough stand, itās like a pat on the back, saying āgood job manā. And that takes absolutely nothing away from God.
It took a great deal of courage for many people to face employers and say NO. Many of them lost jobs and many others were in fear of losing their job, their livelihood. We were already retired when that all happened, so I can only imagine the stress of that ordeal. I hope youāll rethink your statement and realize that giving people well deserved praise is not the same thing as giving praise that belongs only to God.
Wow. I mostly avoid ānewsā and this compilation is disturbing. It was a physiological operation. The rhetoric is shocking and unAmerican.
Yes. When you watch clip after clip...it was the most intense military and government psyops ever deployed.
I'd like to see how many of these USEFUL IDIOTS pushing this agenda have already DIED or have a major illness impeding their life.... My compassion has reached its limit for them...
Bet most of them received saline.
OMG I'm so glad I don't watch ANY "news". The bombardment!
Yeah, those clips are even more brutal when they are all lumped together.
"we have the receipts." Oooo, that was really good KJ!
Later Jay
I stole it from Steven Bannon...on WarRoom.
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āThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.ā
āāRevelationā¬ ā20ā¬:ā1ā¬-ā3ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/rev.20.2.NKJV
Seems like the devil has been loosed for a couple hundred years now. Setting out world in fireācount the āgreat firesā of the 1800s. There are too many to be a coincidence.
His minions have infiltrated every one of our institutions and ruined them with his favorite weaponāmoney.
Robin! I just made a podcast last night on money and how it ties to our slavery. Hereās the summary: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/podcast-timestamp-freedom-vs-slavery
He seemed to have snuck in on the back of the Industrial Revolution. It just gets worse and worse. Maybe we will see the nadir in our lifetimes, wouldn't that be something?
Vida! Ha, your comment is spot on as I also wrote my book which examined just how much the world shifted since the Industrial Revolution! Hereās the overview of the book: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-history-of-you-a-book-that-connects
It's a darn good read especially if you meditate on what is presented.
Good on you Franklin.
Later Jay
Prior to the Industrial Revolution people killed each other, wars were common. Kings ruled and they were ruthless. Think of the Vikings, the Mongols, the Barbarians, the Romans, the millions who have been enslaved. The savagery that man has heaped on man for thousands of years.
This specifically passage corresponds to the thousand years reign of JesusChrist with His church.
āAnd I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.ā
āāRevelationā¬ ā20ā¬:ā4ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
https://bible.com/bible/114/rev.20.4.NKJV
Some may find this of interest.................
A Redemptive-Historical Interpretation of Revelation
https://chalcedonstore.com/products/divorce-of-israel-the
Sounds like a fascinating new way of interpreting Godās relationship with humanity.
Sometimes with the passage of time, old things become new again.
I am an art and museum lover. They generally charged admission to enter. Yet they still get tax payer money. Huh?
It sounds like they need to tighten their belts mike the rest of us.
There is a documentary I saw years ago laying out just how the art world is basically just money laundering. When you see stuff like giant toddler scribbles on a huge canvas that is the newest phenom, it should be apparent. Then look at the wonderful local artists' works in comparison at street fairs and farmer's markets. That's where the real art is - IMHO.
A giant toddler scribbling sure sounds like Hunters paintings and money laundering.
I read an interesting comment on X/Twitter recently talking about the state of "modern art." The account, Fisher King, said something like: "the true test of an artist is if he or she can actually produce the real thing. For example, before Picasso went all angles and distorted features, he was trained in traditional methods and could do representational art very well. With current artists, many couldn't paint a landscape or draw using perspective if their life depended on it." He noted the same about musicians. Before Schoenberg experimented with 12 tone/atonal composition, he learned and used conventional music theory and could compose traditional music. Same with Shostakovitch, Bartok and the rest of early 20th c. composers.
True NAB... I'd add color theory
Yes! And you can apply the same point to dancers, or even basketball players. Thereās a lot more fundamentals than learning how to dunk!
I could become an artist, just throw some paint on a canvas and I am making money selling that trash.....
Exhibit A- Hunter Biden's 'art'.
If you donāt see a banana taped to the wall with duct tape, art. You just arenāt cultured enough. š
The banana reference reminds me of a Monk episode in which Monk thinks he has some great artistic talent. It involves a banana. Very funny episode.
It is a very funny episode.
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Jeff is right in one sense, I think, that the art world is elitist, but on another level, score one for the reputation of conservatives as throwback troglodyte rednecks who are literalist and concrete. There are many theologians who think Christ IS the imagination. If DeSantis had said he was going to slash that budget and throw that money into music and art classes in schools, the progressives would still go mental, but there would be profound enrichment for the kids. The making of images in the brain has stopped as kids don't read or make art or music and instead they have images firehosed into their heads through tv and cell phones and pornhub and video games, and that is turning them into zombies IMHO. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/
Yes to funding music and art classes.
And most of the 'product' was donated/resourced without expense from the museum. With the advent of the internet and 72 inch tv screens, anyone who wants to see art can. Is it as enriching as seeing in person? That is a never-to-be-solved debate. One can read about the Barnes Foundation history and saga, and how it was moved to Philadelphia Art Museum to see how that change was not an improvement. Museums should be self-funded at this point. Too much dreck out there now looking for a home and someone to foot the bill.
Agreed
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MOMA charges at least 30 bucks for an adult's ticket.
I got my first degree in Art History, and even I'm repulsed.
It must ve hard to āwatchā all of this.
To your epic point, 12YO Pfizer trial participant Maddie de Garay was left paralyzed from the waist down, in tremendous pain everywhere else, and exists on a feeding tube after her shots... and her reaction is listed as "functional abdominal pain" in the official trial data. So yeah, we should be looking closely at those "non-serious" events. [insert string of furious emojis here]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fe66Vh40no
I'm stuck on her mom saying that putting her in this drug trial was a "win-win." Maddie should take this up with her mother. This is awful. What kind of a mom does that???
If youāve watched the countless interviews with her, she did not know. She had a doctor friend who put her children in a clinical trial, and there were no issues whatsoever. The mother is guilty of misplacing her trust in the medical establishment, like so many othersā¦.but give her credit that she is fighting and speaking out as much as she can now. Obviously, she learned the truth in the most tragic of ways. And will have to live with that the rest of her life.
Agree. I cannot condemn Maddie's mom. Though I wouldn't have enrolled my kids in a drug trial (I am a nurse and have enough experience to be wary), I did vaccinate my kids with all the traditional shots about which I now I have tremendous regret. Maddie's mom has to face the consequence of her decision every, single, day. Her burden is heavy enough.
Yeah, but actually it's her daughter that has to live with it. Mom isn't paralyzed. She isn't in constant physical pain. I am sure she is in constant emotional pain and that is awful, but I'd rather be in emotional agony than in a wheelchair. I am very glad she is speaking out so honestly, though. That takes guts.
Yes, it's sad that she has to live with her tragic mistake, no doubt!
Still...
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As a mom I spend 60-80% of my time fighting to protect my child from jabs, drugs, too much sugar, too much tv, exposure to electronicsā¦. the list goes on.
What kind of mom makes their kid into a guinea pig? Sad, sad, sad. Yeah, Pfizer ruined her life but could not have done so without mom.
A mom that trusted the governmentā¦I used to be like that so I understand.
Hard lesson to learn.
It sounds like she had no instincts.... I mean, your kid comes first, right? I can see her playing with her own life, and she should have, but not her kid's life. I have never trusted anyone in authority so it is hard for me to relate, but I understand there are people who did/do trust.
I know, itās horrible š
IDK how theyāre using āfunctional,ā but in common usage, I believe it lands under āin your head.ā
Good point!
Please familiarize yourself with the story of Maddie and her family.
No thank you.
That is truly disturbing and disgusting.
I almost thought he was going to say shut down, āThe Federal Reserveā lol. That wouldāve been a huge move to give Americans back their freedom:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/podcast-timestamp-freedom-vs-slavery
Baby steps š
That is a dream of mine!
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I just don't want Jared Kushner anywhere near the Oval Office.
I could say, "I don't know who needs to hear this but..." But the fact of the matter is everyone needs to hear this. Dr. David Martin was recently in Texas at the State Legislature for an emergency meeting. So while he was in Texas, Dr. Martin finally had time to be interviewed by Alex Jones who turned his hour and a half show over to him to allow David the whole time to present his findings. He very clearly lays out the facts of reality and cuts through the bullshit. We all need to hear this regardless of how much we know.............................................
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/dr-david-martin-interview-us-gov-is-coordinating-a-depopulation-program-against-the-world/
Alex Jones not interrupting and talking over him shows something right there! Glad to hear it. I love Alex Jones and if he gave his mic over to Dr Martin like that, I respect that.
Yes! And Martin makes the point that if Pharma companies were liable for injuries and deaths, we would have no more āpandemicsā. We need an executive order on that.
If I picked one point as THE takeaway, that one is it... one Day 1 of his second term.
And we would have no more useless vaccines - for children or adults if liable for their injuries and deaths. Time to get rid of the 1986 vaccine act!!
"I don't know who needs to hear this but..."ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦Trump too?
I'll second that.
YES!
Could be a limited hangout.
Really? I'd like to hear that explained.
Recently I had the chance to take a tour of Naples, FL. The tour guide was happy to tell us that over 12,000 millionaires (yes you read that correctly, 12,000) had a home in the Naples area, not to mention a half dozen billionaires. And many of those only spend 4-6 weeks in their homes there, since they live elsewhere for the majority of the year. Here's an idea for the overpaid director of the Tampa area arts organization, why not try to get a couple hundred dollars from each of those people? That would cover your budget (or cause you to have to reduce the budget when you get a lot of questions about what you are spending the money on). The arts scene, and their 'need' for funding, reminds me of places like Yale who have these massive endowments where the interest earned each year on the billions socked away can fund the tuition for all incoming freshmen each year. Typical liberals love spending other peoples' money.
Iām curious to compare tax spending between state and national parks vs āartā. Iām disgusted with modern art. Never forget the āartā featuring Christian symbols submerged in containers of urine.
Since the Clinton era, the focus has been on not making things much easier for more people to visit our 'national treasures' (National Parks and other land designations). Instead they put more acreage off limits to all but those very few who are willing to backpack in for days at a time. So the question becomes, "Is it a 'national treasure' if the nation for the most part can't enjoy it?" NP infrastructure has been horrible for decades. Their main solution winds up being limiting people who want to go see things. IN the case of Valley Forge, they took a park that was great for families to go visit and hang out at for picnicking, and allowed many areas to over grow because some stooge thought making it that way was more 'authentic'. I can guarantee you those people don't have overgrown yards that are more 'authentic' to what was there before their house was built on it.
Our national parks are a treasure that should be easier to visit and explore, and not cost a fortune to do so. But that isn't the "enlightened's" goal. Or if it is, then they are too stupid to implement it and they should resign their positions and let people in who can actually get it done.
I am sad to read this about Valley Forge - I visited VF with my family when I was 10 years old and have never forgotten the experience. This sounds like more of the crumbling of our society/civilization.
Mrs. "the Knife"
The park used to have multi-purposes. Their was the visitor center, and some of the cabins would have re-enactors and there was a cannon area. So you could go for the history, but then you had areas where you could then picnic and fly a kite, plenty of space to throw a frisbee. Near the General Wayne statue is a large hill that could never be used for anything official. About a 200 foot wide by 600 foot long hill that was great for sledding. Kids didn't have to worry about cars like in their neighborhoods. In Jan/Feb there isn't much usage of the park anyway outside apart from some hearty joggers. For many months it becomes the equivalent of those downtown outdoor stadiums the public pays for that don't get used in the off season. It's a shame. And in Gettysburg Park, they took out the tall tower that was great for viewing up high the grounds to get a better idea of the flow of troops and such. (And for kids was a fun place to walk down the outside stairs while the parents took the elevator.)
It would be very easy for the director of the Tampa museum to go on a fundraising campaign targeting the millionaires.
They could have different levels of sponsorships depending on the amount given.
@Kathleen sounds like a perfect application of one of their favorite sayings: āthe rich need to pay their āfair share.āā
Well, the rich have more money for groceries that's for sure.
Wealthy people donate large sums to hospitals, museums, universities all the time. Often, because of their contributions a wing of a building or maybe a library will be named after them.
Probably an ego boost thing to do, but it does benefit the organization.
KJ .. I'd love to know what the director does to earn that salary!!
Not much. It's the worker bees that do all the work.
Tiffany Justice would be a great cabinet member.
I've seen clips of her being attacked while "interviewed" on various news shows and she doesn't let them get away with anything. Smart, smart woman and 100% on the correct side of things which doesn't hurt when battling the Woke idiots.
Just wish she had said āso-called gender affirming careā instead of just āgender affirming careā or maybe even added child mutilation. We have to take back control of the language.
I came to the comments to say exactly this. Why do conservatives continue to use the Orwellian doublespeak terminology of the leftists who intend to change the language in order to control thought?
Yes!! Exactly.
Language is so, so important.
Unfortunately a federal district judge just ruled that Florida's law making gender identity treatment for minors is unconstitutional. His comments were unbelievably ignorant of current Science...
Ugh š I wonder whet the supposed reasoning was?
Maybe it will take massive lawsuits to doctors and hospitals by kids whoāve been permanently altered and regret it as adults to change this š
"U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled the ban is unconstitutional at least in part because it applies even when gender-affirming care for minors is āmedically appropriate,ā according to the judgment."
"Hinkle said in the ruling that āgender identity is realāāsomething he has emphasized in at least one past rulingāand the gender-affirming care the state sought to ban is often recognized as āproper treatmentā for people suffering gender dysphoria due to their identity not matching their sex at birth."
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that there was no medical basis for the ban or restrictions, it limited their parental rights to make medical decisions for their children and that the state enacted the law out of discrimination and animusāand Hinkle seemingly agreed, writing āit is clear that anti-transgender animus motivated bill sponsors and at least a significant number of legislators.ā"
I did read in one report that he actually left in place the ban on surgery for minors.
Minors.... children have no idea what being the opposite sex actually means! NO adult should EVER suggest to a child that they might have been born in the wrong body! This is INSANE!
agree totally-NUTZ
"U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle ruled the ban is unconstitutional at least in part because it applies even when gender-affirming care for minors is āmedically appropriate,ā according to the judgment."
"Hinkle said in the ruling that āgender identity is realāāsomething he has emphasized in at least one past rulingāand the gender-affirming care the state sought to ban is often recognized as āproper treatmentā for people suffering gender dysphoria due to their identity not matching their sex at birth."
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that there was no medical basis for the ban or restrictions, it limited their parental rights to make medical decisions for their children and that the state enacted the law out of discrimination and animusāand Hinkle seemingly agreed, writing āit is clear that anti-transgender animus motivated bill sponsors and at least a significant number of legislators.ā"
I did read in one report that he actually left in place the ban on surgery for minors.
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Agree.
But she also has done so much good with Moms for Liberty that I take her like Desantis almost do not want her moved. She is doing so much good where she is.
Remember when rich folks were "patrons of the arts?" What happened to the Wadsworth, Gugenheims, and Whitneys? Or, in Florida's case, the Plants, Flaglers, and Ringlings? Now, it goes without question that an auto mechanic in Pensacola or a waitress in Orlando should be the new patrons...without their consent. It represents a huge shift in what we expect. With every generation, we expect more from Uncle and less form ourselves.
Totally agree. I also don't like the idea of the government determining what is worthy "art."
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āBut Director Tomor should earn his living fair and square, like the rest of us. Not through tax gifts.ā
Yes!! Add university presidents, alphabet groups and government agencies; the list goes on and on
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Whether glaucoma can be considered non-serious would depend on one's point of view.
I'll see myself out . . .
school crisis solved. return to the standards of the Kansas 1895 8th grade diploma. I challenge any college graduate reading this to see how well they do on the following graduation test.
Hereās an 1895 final exam, taken by eighth graders in Salina, Kansas, from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
Note that this test was five hours long. Yikes!
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case. Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that
you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs. What is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. of coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln,Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography,etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret āuā.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final āeā. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
Were you as amazed as I was? It was very common to read of our ancestors having only an eighth grade education, but hot-diggity, with smarts like this, they probably didnāt need to go onto secondary education. At least, not like we do today.
So, do tell. Can you answer these questions? With news reports lamenting the lower than expected reading scores in some of todayās schools, do you think we should go back to nineteenth century standards of learning?
@nancylee Wow! Thatās just crazy. Iām sure all the teacherās unions would say those are white patriarchy standards and as such, must be studiously avoided š¤¦š»āāļø
well maybe not studiously. that's a bit rigorous
IMO moving into the future students who gain the most practical knowledge while young will be the most successful adults. The type of knowledge that will help with basic survival. Building structures using hand tools, and the general use of all types of hand tools, growing food, knowing what plants are edible in the forest, basic math, using their imagination ( without it there is no new innovation), how to work cooperatively with others, the basics of cooking and hand sewing, and probably some sort of trade like auto mechanics, plumbing, electrician....
actually I agree with you. I spend a lot of time imagining 'school' and it would be mostly experiential. learn math by designing and building a structure. learn gun responsibility by having target practice, then ride alongs with EMS to understand consequences. have one whole year dedicated to coming up with a business and running it. spend every semester as a teen apprenticing to a different trade. I love the japanese practice of the kids being responsible for the school from first year on. for cleaning, I'd add cooking, and growing the food they cook. and maintenance. and lots of languages, music, art, meditation. what humans would emerge!
just mandate it disinformation, far less effort involved.....
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Well, I have to confess I could not pass.
and this was even better. eleeomosynary was in the 3rd grade spelling bee.
"What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?"
Hoooo-boy, the answers we would get today!!
Thanks for this, I love this test (though I could tell you f-all about Juan Fernandez....)!
I could answer a lot of those but some of the questions I am not sure how to answer not because I donāt have the knowledge necessarily but because we use different terms or categorize things differently. Like the āprincipal partsā andāfundamental rulesāāI donāt think it makes people uneducated if they canāt name these. Thatās just not how theyāre taught anymore. Same with the epochs of American history. And Iād probably get some of the capitals of European countries wrong on their test because the countries have changed names and borders since then.