OT: The OT Thread: To move or not to move, that is the question.

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Hey Chain - legitimate question because I'd love the clarity - what constitutes politics talk vs. general economics/living discussion. I dont want to cross the line to politics talk - is there guideline around what's acceptable and whats not? Thanks!

Commenting on things like anthems or posting doctored pictures of political figures is certainly not economics or living discussions. So that all just got the boot.
 
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By all the metrics Education has only gotten worse since the inception of the DoE and NCLB was a massive failure of an expansion, the only way to really fix the education system in the US would be to go scorched earth on the entire system and rebuild it from the ground up. We spend more per student than almost all developed countries and still fall way behind them.

No Child Left Behind certainly exacerbated things. Tying a school's funding to the "success" of the kids led to teachers teaching to the test, and a lot of grinding kids through the system instead of getting them the resources they need to actually be successful.

We also spend more on health care than anyone else and lag behind dozens of nations. Makes me wonder where all the money is going...[but we don't really have to wonder, do we?]
 
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No Child Left Behind certainly exacerbated things. Tying a school's funding to the "success" of the kids led to teachers teaching to the test, and a lot of grinding kids through the system instead of getting them the resources they need to actually be successful.

We also spend more on health care than anyone else and lag behind dozens of nations. Makes me wonder where all the money is going...[but we don't really have to wonder, do we?]
ESL certainly drags our education system down out here also.

If they audit the DoE the way they have been going through USAID I'm not sure we'd be all to surprised at the outcome.
 
Looking at the techniques to measure success is also something at odds with how other nations do things. The testing tied to funding part leads to teaching to tests set at a state and district level rather than trying to offer holistic teaching methods. Places that turn out well-rounded humans that don't grind to tests are also held as unattainable to scale by the nation spending that much on education. We've instituted a system with assistant to the assistant to the head of the redundancy department who then all have staff. That part is certainly bloated so money does not reach staff. Teachers are relatively poorly paid for the work they do and much like just about all other expenditures, supply provisioning failures result in most being forced to lay out their own income (which is already insufficient) for supplies used in daily instruction.

Literacy programs have little impact without the push of parents and guardians to make sure their charges are actually reading, getting their kids to basic literacy before they arrive at school. Funny how a bunch of issues shrink in the face of getting people literate.
 
Literacy programs have little impact without the push of parents and guardians to make sure their charges are actually reading, getting their kids to basic literacy before they arrive at school. Funny how a bunch of issues shrink in the face of getting people literate.
Parents these days have been conditioned to think that their own failures are always someone elses fault, really sad when parents wont hold themselves accountable and also hold their children accountable.
 
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Is that what they’re telling people they’re doing at US aid? An audit? As a federal government employee, all I can say is lmao
Its acting as an audit at this point but thats not explicitly what it is. And audit as kuch as the things they have been spending money on are being made public. USAID looks to be mostly a money laundering scheme more than anything.
 
I know, no politics. And I generally absolutely agree with that stance.

But.....

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US “will take over” the Gaza Strip, after saying earlier that he doesn’t think there is a permanent future for Palestinians in Gaza.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said during a joint press conference alongside his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.”

What? Wait... What? I don't know how or even if this will happen, but if it does it radically changes everything in that region.

 
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Looking at the techniques to measure success is also something at odds with how other nations do things. The testing tied to funding part leads to teaching to tests set at a state and district level rather than trying to offer holistic teaching methods. Places that turn out well-rounded humans that don't grind to tests are also held as unattainable to scale by the nation spending that much on education. We've instituted a system with assistant to the assistant to the head of the redundancy department who then all have staff. That part is certainly bloated so money does not reach staff. Teachers are relatively poorly paid for the work they do and much like just about all other expenditures, supply provisioning failures result in most being forced to lay out their own income (which is already insufficient) for supplies used in daily instruction.

Literacy programs have little impact without the push of parents and guardians to make sure their charges are actually reading, getting their kids to basic literacy before they arrive at school. Funny how a bunch of issues shrink in the face of getting people literate.

Whoa, haven’t been here in a minute and this was the first post I see, preach. Never got my credentials- I’m not paying more money to be paid and treated like shit. Shame, I loved teaching, kids are great, but the world the adults have made.. doesn’t jive with basic respect or happiness. Whatever, at least Musk has 400 billion dollars, that’s super cool and efficient.
 
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Its acting as an audit at this point but thats not explicitly what it is. And audit as kuch as the things they have been spending money on are being made public. USAID looks to be mostly a money laundering scheme more than anything.
Audit…😀
 
So, the wife finds out if Elno lays her off after she spent 10 years as a contractor only to finally be hired as a fed, and with 3 months left of her 2 year probation (SEC has a 2 year policy). She's already been promoted, works her ass off, nights and weekends, and now she going to be laid off by a billionaire zealot who thinks public sector jobs are "low productivity." Oh yeah, no severance at all. Just "as of this moment you are terminated." FYI, I was laid off a month ago. So, yeah, no politics, but f*** that apartheid-baby piece of shit and anyone defending his traitorous actions.
 
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I'm worried about my sister in law, especially her kid. A lesbian couple with a 13-14 year old trans kid? Yeah, things look worrisome for them.

All I know is, she (the kid) is just a happy kid right now because nobody can tell she was once a boy. She is treated like a human bein, and low and behold- she doesn't self loathe. She's just very outgoing, loves to dance, and has an energetic and happy personality.

Kills me to know that innocence may be drained from her as she grows older, and hears the animosity a lot of people have toward her.

I'm not looking to debate the issue. There's never a resolution in those convos. I'm just looking at it at a human level, and I just feel for them. That's all.
 
I'm worried about my sister in law, especially her kid. A lesbian couple with a 13-14 year old trans kid? Yeah, things look worrisome for them.

All I know is, she (the kid) is just a happy kid right now because nobody can tell she was once a boy. She is treated like a human bein, and low and behold- she doesn't self loathe. She's just very outgoing, loves to dance, and has an energetic and happy personality.

Kills me to know that innocence may be drained from her as she grows older, and hears the animosity a lot of people have toward her.

I'm not looking to debate the issue. There's never a resolution in those convos. I'm just looking at it at a human level, and I just feel for them. That's all.
My oldest and youngest kids are transgender.

And while I thought my youngest turning 18yo on 1/20 would shield him from immediate stuff because he was an adult who can vote and serve in the military, now we have an exec order trying to block him from getting the gender affirming care that he finally got his mom to sign on with less than a year ago.

That doesn't even get into the fears that his step-mom and I have given that he wants to be a math teacher. And despite his natural abilities in math and tutoring plenty of classmates in HS, we know there will be small-minded people that could flip out if they find out a transgender person is teaching their kid.

So yeah, I get it.
 
I'm sorry to have dumped my rage on this thread. I know a lot of people are being affecting by this terror regime.
 
People are the f***ing worst. It's not that hard to not be an asshole. It's just heart breaking reading what so many people have to go through because parts of our species are f***ing garbage
 
Jesus Christ either there is or there isn't political talk in here. Because it seems to me only one side of the politics gets to be discussed here.
 
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Jesus Christ either there is or there isn't political talk in here. Because it seems to me only one side of the politics gets to be discussed here.
I tried to keep my post to a human level, and not bring politics into it. But yeah, Chain may have some cleaning up to do in this thread.
 
My oldest and youngest kids are transgender.

And while I thought my youngest turning 18yo on 1/20 would shield him from immediate stuff because he was an adult who can vote and serve in the military, now we have an exec order trying to block him from getting the gender affirming care that he finally got his mom to sign on with less than a year ago.

That doesn't even get into the fears that his step-mom and I have given that he wants to be a math teacher. And despite his natural abilities in math and tutoring plenty of classmates in HS, we know there will be small-minded people that could flip out if they find out a transgender person is teaching their kid.

So yeah, I get it.
Question, how have they been treated by their peers? I remember HS being extra ruthless for gay people. No one really transitioned at my school, either. They would've been tormented. I'm wondering if mids these days are more lenient on those sort of things. I graduated in 06. We were a harsh generation of kids.
 
Jesus Christ either there is or there isn't political talk in here. Because it seems to me only one side of the politics gets to be discussed here.
Our lives are being severely impacted by "politics". I'm sorry that's a hard truth to learn.
 
I tried to keep my post to a human level, and not bring politics into it. But yeah, Chain may have some cleaning up to do in this thread.

I know you do. I tried to as well by keeping things generalized and not using names yet they are still deleted. I have no problem with others thoughts and feelings on subjects. But it is quite annoying being shut down for having different thoughts and are just responses to whatever had already been posted.
 

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