I refuted the claim that sending people to nursing homes who were already on the road to recovery was bad policy, a claim made by a story you posted. I did not have anything to say on the other claims, I do not like to talk about things I don't know much about. But the nursing home thing is bullenscheiße, yet you stand by it.
I imagine they learn other things, but their very nature is exclusionary, either racially or religiously. If all children can't benefit from it, why should we be spending tax dollars on it?
Private schools by their very nature are discriminatory. So yeah, they don't deserve my tax dollars
Surely it depends at which point in recovery they were sent to nursing homes?
UK guidance is that people should continue in isolation for 7 days after symptoms have completely cleared.
So it would seem a profoundly unwise move to send patients into homes packed with vulnerable people IF the patients hadn’t been symptom clear for 7 days.
From a bluntly pragmatic perspective, it depends on what your overall goal and philosophy about education is; there are some who lean more towards the idea of perfecting the most potentially worthy students and thus are fine with “winnowing out the chaff,” while there are others who see it more as trying to pull everyone up as much as humanly possible. Both see their goal as being one beneficial to both the greatest number of individuals and to society - the former school of thought seeking to cultivate and sharpen the elite (in terms of educational desire and natural skill) by slowly consolidating resources onto them, while the latter school of thought seeks to do a “rising tide raises all boats” by flooding all students with knowledge and e$ustion, whether they want it or not.
As a teacher myself at a public school, and the son of two teachers, I tend to believe in the philosophy of trying to pull everybody up. Yeah there are “trouble kids,” but enough of them are “troubled kids” that I’ve seen get their lives genuinely improved that I don’t mind the ones who choose to try and be “lost causes.” School cultures vary without any set design or type - and frankly, I’ve heard of enough sub-par private schools to think debate over probably depends on researchers with a lot of letters after their name.
There was one guy who gave a lecture at professional development I went to who had numbers he said argued that the “educate everyone to 12th Grade level” was a better economic and social model, with minimal damage to the “elite students” of not actually helping find more of them.
On charter schools, I will admit I’m a little conflicted in that I know that some are attempting to help troubled students and are finding some success, but that just as many have turned into complete failures that fall apart because it turns out that, shock of all shocks, running education like a business means you’re going to suck at education. And a lot of private schools and charter schools operate under faulty premises about “dangerous students” that do greater damage - busing and “forced integration” is proven to have positive benefits that people need to face up to instead of desperately looking to be afraid of. And a lot of “elite” (as in money) private schools are just as much about ensuring privileged kids coast to adulthood as anything else.
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Well, no offense but: It's not news that the UK does not know what it is doing in this crisis, is it? You guys have now more daily infections than any EU country.
Science says:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...alflow-organicThe data show that nine percent of infected people are responsible for 80% of the transmissions, she says. Why? For one thing, the disease is apparently very infectious but only for a short window, and perhaps only in some cases. Contact tracing studies show people are most infectious right around the onset of symptoms, as well as a couple of days before and after. If someone in that stage goes to a party, or church service, or to work in a meat packing plant or nursing home, many other people will probably get sick.
Are these to be considered businesses or religious institutions? The answer could dictate whether the tuition they collect could be considered profit for services rendered or religious contributions, in which case appropriating part of the money earmarked for public education could be illegal.
"This is not the time" is a common phrase used by the right to preserve a status quo that favors their ideology.
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
“It’s your party and you can cry if you want to.” - Captain Europe
I am a libertarian ... That's not what we believe. It's about promoting personal and fiscal liberty, not pushing private over public. Those are views that are at odds in America.
American Libertarianism ( big L) the party, is not true libertarianism but a pocket of neo-liberal policy with an increasing slant on white authoritarian social views. They used to preach moderate fiscal and slightly progressive social issues.
I fear if the GOP takes a shalacking and ends up fracturing or splitting, the big Ls will make us miss the current GOP.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
On memorial day, Trump's approval rating in his favorite poll, Rasmussen, dips to 43 approve, 55 disapprove. Quite low to the lowest he has been with them.
The last week was quite brutal for him in polling.
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"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
First there will be a civil war in the Libertarian party - conservatives can't just redo what Buchanan did to the Reform party and take it over with millions of sudden registrations. The Libertarian party restricts voting to those who pay dues, and even then won't allow anyone who doesn't follow certain principles to even run on the party ticket no matter what party they claim membership in. Trump's election has forced them to do a little would searching and rediscover the "socially liberal" part of the platform and elevate it back to a level equal (or nearly equal) to that of the "small government/fiscal conservative" half of the party plank.
For the 2018 election here in Nevada, the Libertarian Party had a voting guide ranking the non-Libertarian candidates based on how close to their ideals those running came. There were officially no endorsements of anyone who isn't running as a Libertarian (per party policy), but for many races the top rated candidate was the Democrat, and one or two Republicans in my area managed to earn a "Zero Stars" unendorsement with an official line of "no one else on the ballot is worse than this person", and it was typically because the anti-endorsed Republican was a full on participant in the culture wars. There is still a bias towards Republicans over Democrats in the Libertarian party, but it is fading.
Additionally, the Libertarian Party of Nevada has officially come out against a few things one might presume they would be for, such as private prisons- citing the human costs.
In the end it would partly be a question of whether or not the religious right and similar forces in the GoP could overwhelm the heads of the Libertarian party since half the party plank is in outright opposition to them.
Dark does not mean deep.
There is no person called Connor Lamm that I am aware of.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!