Posted on 05/13/2015 9:27:11 AM PDT by wagglebee
Yes, that very sort of incident.
Good point.
The schools are zoned in such a way to effectively segregate the lower income students from everyone else. The wealthier schools will typically be newer, nicer, have more competent teachers, etc. This way the libs can brag about sending their kids to public schools, but escape most of the negative consequences.
A few years ago, these people would be arrested for 'contributing to the delinquency of a minor' and they should be.
You’re right. It’s all about money and the government bribing the schools.
Once the government give you money you have lost control.
Few people vote in school board elections, which are often separate elections. Most who do vote just back a familiar name, not knowing of the rampant liberalism on such boards.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the regime has no authority to withhold funds under threat. Another case involving Medicaid and Florida is before the Supreme Court.
Since the regime doesn’t care what the Supreme Court says, here’s an idea. SOMEBODY made the threat. Their name is on a piece of paper somewhere. Swear out a warrant for that person’s arrest - defying the SC ruling, making a terrorist threat, jaywalking, spitting on the sidewalk, etc. Get a warrant to search their home, their office, their car, their boat, etc. Keep it up until they back off.
I wanted to post a smiley on that comment because I was posting to you, but it didn't seem prudent... :-)
It’s amusing, but it’s not. These are real young people being screwed up by sicko adults.
Yes, not trying to entice you or anyone to laugh at such a travesty. Just always glad to run into you on a thread.
“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane,” as the sage Jimmy Buffett said.
Always happy to see you, too!
Any Muslims in the school? Let them protest that this is against their religion.
The WDC area is replete with well-paid LIB idiots. They reap what they sow. Hahahahaha!
Several years ago the FCPS Board “dealt” with issues at “failing”
South Lakes High (much lower testing performance relative to the rest of the county, alleged gang and drug problems) by going through the neighboring Oakton High and Chantilly High zones, identifying the homes/pockets of high performing students and gerrymandering them into the South Lakes zone.
Board got really ticked when parents of a lot of the designated kids threatened to undercut the effort and put their children into local Catholic schools.
The issue quickly disappeared off the media’s radar, can’t remember what actually happened.
But....Parents who know how to effectively “after school”, “pre-school” and find tutoring figure out ways to defend their kids from the machinations of government school functionaries.
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A teenage girl not wanting to disrobe in front of a group of teenage boys who have decided to say that they are "transgender" has NOTHING to do with racism.
Aside from the fact that it absolutely sickens me that people play the race card at every perceived offense, this is just so wrong on so many levels.
Public schools have way outlived their usefulness.
Every parent there who opposes it ought to pull their kids and homeschool and then the boards complaint about funding will sound pathetic when they lose it all for all the students who aren't going there any more.
I would LOVE to see the public school defenders defend THIS one.....
Life was so easy when there were only two sexes.
But now, with at least a dozen sexes (and more springing up every week) the only solution is to provide each student with a private changing room.
The cost?
Oh, that doesn’t matter because the Federal Government will pick up the tab, and it won’t cost the schools anything.
Very true.
My experiences with FCPS, as well as that of other family members, is that it really isn’t all that great of a school system. They just have a lot of money. So they focus on catering to the highest and lowest ends of the educational spectrum, while putting all sorts of wizz-bang technology (SmartBoards everwhere!) into classrooms. The kids in the middle just get pushed along in ways that make sure they do well on the SOLs and other standardized tests, and are guided into the various levels of state universities from early ages. My oldest, who is both very bright and also less-than-motivated, was (I’m convinced) aligned by FCPS in elementary school towards GMU or JMU. Which aren’t, of course, bad schools. The problem I had was in the predestination aspects I thought I was seeing.
I once did a Google search on my screen name, “wintertime”, and found that someone had made a special link to a page listing all of my major points against the government's K-12 price-fixed cartel schools. They, of course, added snarky comments of their own. Wow! Imagine that! My own Google page! :-)
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