Culture War - who's waging it?

[Ingomike]

The culture war is everywhere.

High School for the gifted withholds notification of National Merit Scholar awards in the name of 'equity' - The Lion

Parents with children attending a top-ranked Virginia high school were shocked to discover administrators withheld notifications of National Merit Scholar awards for years. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHS) in Fairfax County, Virginia is a STEM-centered magnet school...

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That sure looks like a class action lawsuit, there are real damages from this action.,.

 

[jamil]

That sure looks like a class action lawsuit, there are real damages from this action.,.

The penalty part of the award should be quite painful. But, to the ideologues it's just other people's money paying the damages. It's not gonna stop them from doing it. The ideologues themselves should be held accountable individually.

 

[KLB]

Who puts their child into a school with a primary goal of equity?

 

[jamil]

Someone who would rather their kid settle with tying for last place?

Or parents who don’t know that’s the goal because the school obfuscates what their true goals are?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Who puts their child into a school with a primary goal of equity?

I would imagine most parents blissfully believe their local schools are much the same as they were back when they were in them.

 

[Ingomike]

I would imagine most parents blissfully believe their local schools are much the same as they were back when they were in them.

Normalcy bias at its best…

 

[Leadeye]

Maybe the closer you get to dc the worse the education system gets? Personal injury law firms should be checking out every school in Virginia, sounds like a gold mine.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

A friend’s sister is a (now) retired teacher that taught school down in Paoli for years. We were discussing how the schools had deteriorated a few years ago and he told me about this group. A bunch of the Paoli teachers were members of this one. (It used to not be a private group and the posts pretty much were what you’d imagine them to be based on their description).

If you think your small town school system is escaping the crap that’s infecting them, you might be in for a surprise.

 

[Tombs]

The penalty part of the award should be quite painful. But, to the ideologues it's just other people's money paying the damages. It's not gonna stop them from doing it. The ideologues themselves should be held accountable individually.

The only way to hold them accountable would involve multiple felony offenses.

Who has the money to pursue people like this in the legal realm, much less considering that you're playing against a loaded deck. You can always make the little victories, but for the war-turning types of cases, it just isn't going to happen.

 

[TheTrooper]

The only way to hold them accountable would involve multiple felony offenses.

Who has the money to pursue people like this in the legal realm, much less considering that you're playing against a loaded deck. You can always make the little victories, but for the war-turning types of cases, it just isn't going to happen.

Public school system is toast IMHO.
If your child is in a building that is on fire, step 1 is get them out of the building. (Aka homeschool)
Step 2 is either attempt to put out the blaze, or grab marshmallows and make sure it (the throughly corrupt system which is harming children) burns throughly to the ground.

 

[TheTrooper]

Smith-Mundt got gutted in 2012. This opened the floodgates.

 

[Creedmoor]

Well. I have a lorem ipsom generator in my head.

They used to call that Loran.

 

[Creedmoor]

Maybe the closer you get to dc the worse the education system gets? Personal injury law firms should be checking out every school in Virginia, sounds like a gold mine.

Would one rather have there High School children grad from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda,Md or Anderson High School in Anderson, IN.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Our own government is perpetuating the culture war.

 

[Ziggidy]

Returnable glass bottles.

Used to get 2 cents per bottle when I was a kid.

 

[Ziggidy]

Normalcy bias at its best…

The word "norm" has been changed by those who are not the "norm".

 

[Ingomike]

The word "norm" has been changed by those who are not the "norm".

It has but that point has nothing to do with normalcy bias, a situation where folks think things like “that cannot happen in my kids school” or that “government has borrowed tons of money my whole life and nothing bad happened to me so it will not happen”.

 

[KLB]

Used to get 2 cents per bottle when I was a kid.

Dang, you're OLD!

It was a dime when I was a kid in the 70s. We used to wander the alleys looking for bottles people had thrown away. We would make a killing when we turned them in at the corner store for pop, candy, ice cream.....

 

[jamil]

Who's Sang?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Sang, you're OLD!

It was a dime when I was a kid in the 70s. We used to wander the alleys looking for bottles people had thrown away. We would make a killing when we turned them in at the corner store for pop, candy, ice cream.....

I’m old enough to remember when it went from 2 cents to a nickel to a dime. Biggest pay raises I ever got in my life.