Watching Trump's address to Comgress

[Rooster]

Liberals' heads are going Allah ackbar all across the country right now. Pelosi looked like someone just fed her a lemon.

[The Big Pickle]

The First Lady of America is finally BEAUTIFUL unlike that apelike creature with a penis Mooooochellle Obongo. OOOooeeeeeOOOOEEEEEE

[Diego in Seattle]

Nothing like parading the widow of a soldier out. Especially after saying "they lost Ryan," as if he's not the CinC. What a despicable POS!

[The Big Pickle]

Pickle was here

[Rooster]

Trump knocked it outta the park. You could almost see the voters looking at the Dems and asking their television sets, "Why aren't you standing and applauding the opportunity for parents to choose the school for their child? Oh, that's right-- parents are only supposed to have the right to choose to kill their kid, not to choose how to educate them."

[Diego in Seattle]

Trump knocked it outta the park. You could almost see the voters looking at the Dems and asking their television sets, "Why aren't you standing and applauding the opportunity for parents to choose the school for their child? Oh, that's right-- parents are only supposed to have the right to choose to kill their kid, not to choose how to educate them."

No they're not. Most of them aren't buying that school choice bullshit.

[smackaholic]

Trump knocked it outta the park. You could almost see the voters looking at the Dems and asking their television sets, "Why aren't you standing and applauding the opportunity for parents to choose the school for their child? Oh, that's right-- parents are only supposed to have the right to choose to kill their kid, not to choose how to educate them."

No they're not. Most of them aren't buying that school choice bullshit.

If you were a parent of a kid in a failing city public school, you sure the fukk could be buying it.

Pouring money into these schools will not fix the problem. They already have boatloads of cash. The trouble is, a sizeable percentage of their students have shit for parents and are pertty much a lost cause academically. There is not much hope for them. Unfortunately, these kids drag down the rest of the class. Having a voucher system gives parents that do give a fukk, other options. Better to help the kids that do have a chance.

[Goober McTuber]

Having a voucher system gives parents that do give a fukk, other options.

Yes, like pouring tax dollars into religious schools.

[Left Seater]

Trump knocked it outta the park. You could almost see the voters looking at the Dems and asking their television sets, "Why aren't you standing and applauding the opportunity for parents to choose the school for their child? Oh, that's right-- parents are only supposed to have the right to choose to kill their kid, not to choose how to educate them."

No they're not. Most of them aren't buying that school choice bullshit.

If they aren't it is because their masters told them not too.

So if vouchers aren't the way to fix failing schools, what is?

[Diego in Seattle]

Suppose that a private school charges $5,000 a year. Then the Gubmint hands out vouchers worth $5,000. Knowing that their clients/parents now have an additional $5,000 in their pocket, guess what the private school are going to do with their prices? How will the low-income students afford the private schools then?

'holic, I agree that crappy parents are part of the problem. Yes, some don't care. But keep in mind that some don't have the time to spend with their child when they're spending time working a couple of jobs to pay the bills.

The first two things to improve the public schools is A) make sure the school districts aren't top-heavy salary-wise, and B) hit the eject button on Common Core.

[Carson]

Concur with dumping Common Core.

It's the "dumbing down" flagship.

[The Big Pickle]

Concur with dumping Common Core.

It's the "dumbing down" flagship.

Also the public skrools are communist indoctrination centers. No wonder the pedo in seattle loves them so much.

[Rooster]

I read an interesting article discussing Common Core and the infusion of Marxism all the way down to the primary school level. In a nutshell, the writer's contention is that Common Core is a purposeful tool to remove critical thinking from our children's ability to learn. The reason for this is to force the child to rely on the teacher for explanations and context. This extends to removing phonics from reading skills and teaching sight reading where a child memorizes a word and how it looks rather than working out how the word is formed using standard rules for sounds and construction. Math is also made fuzzy with intent. By removing certainty from equations, it further reinforces a dependence of the student on the teacher to explain the process of arriving at the answer.

In addition, introducing disturbing ideas such as gender fluidity and sexuality destroys a child's sense of self and causes them to question the foundation of who they are and why regardless of the spurious science behind transgenderism and sexuality that morphs in response to circumstances.

According to the author this is all a form of re-education that various regimes have used to channel and mold children into instruments of the State. Maoist techniques utilizing shame, social pressure, and fluid definitions for bedrock concepts like family, sexuality, and politics, place the child in a vulnerable circumstance where they are dependent on the teacher to provide a path for understanding.

[Moving Sale]

Just another POS arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

I really wonder what Drump would think if someone mentioned Wickard to him. He would probably think it was a kind of basket.

[Mikey]

Trump knocked it outta the park. You could almost see the voters looking at the Dems and asking their television sets, "Why aren't you standing and applauding the opportunity for parents to choose the school for their child? Oh, that's right-- parents are only supposed to have the right to choose to kill their kid, not to choose how to educate them."

Didn't catch the speech because I had other obligations.

I hear he pretty much rehashed his continuing themes, didn't provide any details on how he would actually get anything done, but also didn't go completely off the rails.
It's a pretty low bar, but I guess that counts as "knocking it outta the park."
How does Trump jizz taste, BTW? I'll bet it's fabulously rich.

Actually, I don't really give that much of a RA that Trump sits in the Oval Office.
I still think he's a lying, self-serving, megalomaniac, low information prick who I wouldn't trust even with Pikkkle's dick, and I'll keep invading your Trump safe space whenever I see a chance.
But as long as my 401(k) keeps going up, as long as my employer keeps providing decent health coverage, as long as Social Security is still around in a few years, they keep their fucking hands off the California State Parks, our coastline, and the clean air and water around here, I'm OK. When he screws middle America and impoverishes most of the dipshits who voted for him, and you still want to keep fellating his minuscule dick -- that's your deal. But if and when he fucks the rest of us over and we all start circling the drain...I'll have a problem with that.

[Diego in Seattle]

and the clean air and water around here

Too late.

[Mikey]

I didn't watch his speech either. Ohio State was playing Penn State on the BIG10 Network.

Your take is funny, though. I hope it all works out for you.

Thanks I'm glad you liked it. We were celebrating Mardi Gras with tostadas and Mexican beer while watching Arrival on Amazon.

Today's the first day of Lent and I guess I'm supposed to give up something.
Have to give that some thought.

[Left Seater]

The first two things to improve the public schools is A) make sure the school districts aren't top-heavy salary-wise, and B) hit the eject button on Common Core.

I agree with you on common core. On the salary issue, I don't see it as an issue of salary, but rather an issue of tenure. If school districts are performing, no reason their super, principles, and teachers shouldn't be well compensated. Where they aren't performing well, everyone should have their compensation reduced. There are far too many teachers that get a raise every year because of their years of service. (Union). We should be getting rid of these teachers that aren't doing much of anything but collecting a check. Same for the admin.

[Moving Sale]

The national Dept of Education should be disbanded as unconstitutional. The Orange pedobear is too dumb to know what part of the USC it violates.

[Rooster]

We were celebrating Mardi Gras with tostadas and Mexican beer while watching Arrival on Amazon.

Today's the first day of Lent and I guess I'm supposed to give up something.
Have to give that some thought.

Shouldn't that have been, say, chicken & sausage gumbo, jambalaya, red beans & rice or something? I think you've got Cinco de Mayo and Mardi Gras mixed up...
Cinco d'Mardi Gracias perhaps?

[Mikey]

We were celebrating Mardi Gras with tostadas and Mexican beer while watching Arrival on Amazon.

Today's the first day of Lent and I guess I'm supposed to give up something.
Have to give that some thought.

Shouldn't that have been, say, chicken & sausage gumbo, jambalaya, red beans & rice or something? I think you've got Cinco de Mayo and Mardi Gras mixed up...
Cinco d'Mardi Gracias perhaps?

Martes Gordo.

Or maybe just Carnaval.

[Diego in Seattle]

The first two things to improve the public schools is A) make sure the school districts aren't top-heavy salary-wise, and B) hit the eject button on Common Core.

I agree with you on common core. On the salary issue, I don't see it as an issue of salary, but rather an issue of tenure. If school districts are performing, no reason their super, principles, and teachers shouldn't be well compensated. Where they aren't performing well, everyone should have their compensation reduced. There are far too many teachers that get a raise every year because of their years of service. (Union). We should be getting rid of these teachers that aren't doing much of anything but collecting a check. Same for the admin.

While I agree that tenure has kept too many inept teachers in the classroom, paying wages based on performance has its own problems. Who would want to work in some inner-city schools where parents can't spend as much time with their children due to work obligations nor afford tutors?

[Left Seater]

True, but you could go to a modified plan where length of service raises are on a 5 year basis.

But until you fix the parents the inner city schools will go nowhere. I don't buy the work obligation or can't pay for tutors garbage either. There are multitudes of programs in the inner city schools that take care of the after school care, tutoring, meals, transportation and recreation. I volunteered with two of them in Houston.

Sadly many parents don't see the value in such h programs so their kids think it is crap as well.

[Rooster]

There's another inner city/ghetto/projects problem that doesn't have a ready solution: The sense that getting an education or wanting to succeed in school makes you an Unc'a Tom in the street rats' eyes. It amplifies the already difficult task of maintaining the student's focus on learning with a hostile environment independent of the classroom.

[Moving Sale]

Gang colors have a stronger pull than school colors.

[Arch Angel]

Wow.....a first.

Three great posts in a row from posters who are unalike and frankly enemies on here.

Rack all three of you all stating what the issues are and that there are many more but at least you are paying attention to some troubling issues.

[Moving Sale]

Fuck you mvscal.

[Moving Sale]

Including the pentagon.

[Diego in Seattle]

and the clean air and water around here

Too late.

He needs to trim it and ALL government shi errrr agencies down by about four fifths...

Tell that to the people of Flint, MI....

[Moving Sale]

It's kind of stunning how dumb you are.

[Rooster]

When big government fails in a big way, the obvious solution is to make government bigger.

That's the socialist's way, comrade.
-- Bernie Sanders

That's because there weren't enough affirmative action IT techs at my wife's former business!
-- Barack Hussein Obama

That's what my mentor, Saul Alinsky, always said!
--Hillary Clinton