Senate The US Politics 2.0 Discussion Thread

From the memos I've gotten, I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to listen to her on this since I'm a man and she's a woman, so I can't criticise her on this.

 

That... is a lawsuit waiting to happen, since you cannot release a child's name without permission in any circumstance, I believe.

 

I think they don't identify the specific child by name. They just reveal that there is a LGBTQ kid is in the class -- which is probably even worse -- as the class's children will go onto to do a kiddie-version reenactment of "The Crucible" as they try to out the kid in class who's "different."

 

How long before they have them wearing rainbow-colored stars?

 

If you're going to invoke that, just go right to pink triangles. its weird avoiding that

 

Here's another version

 

I sorta hope this gets maliciously complied with.... the specification is that parents would be notified if there's a student "open about their gender identity".... that would include any student that's being open about a gender identity that isn't trans, too. So I suspect that'd cover a significant portion of students and the whole thing becomes worthless quickly and burn out the possibility of witch hunts.

 

Remember that Florida has an immense teacher shortage that is getting worse every passing day.

 

So, I don't think this is terribly likely to go anywhere, but this is certainly an interesting experiment.... Utah's Mike Lee is up for reeelection this year, and is being challenged by conservative independent Evan McMullin. And McMullin is being endorsed by the Utah Democrats. To give a numerical idea of why this is going on... Utah's registered voters is 51% Republican and 14% Democrat (most of the rest are unaffiliated). In 2016, Mike Lee got 68% of the vote compared to Democrat Misty Snow's 27%. In contrast, that same year, Donald Trump only got 46% of the vote, well behind Mike Lee's share, while Clinton got 27% and McMullin was a relatively close third at 22%.

McMullin has been positioning himself as a continued Trump critic, and Lee is endorsed by Trump, so this does seem to be a state where a Democrat was simply not going to win, but Mike Lee *might* get replaced, with a pretty small chance, depending on how McMullin runs this campaign, how many normally Republican voters he can draw in, and what Democrats do and if they a. back him and b. do so in a way that doesn't repel the Republican voters that would need to be swayed. It certainly seems to also depend on to what extent he can attach Trump to Lee.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/...ts-are-supporting-his-senate-campaign-anyway/

 

I mean, it worked in Buffalo, didn't it? A city where a Republican was never going to win had the establishment Democrats get the Republicans to vote for their candidate after they lost the primary to a progressive, and the incumbent got reelected for the 50th time.

 

I think that was true (which led to the lot of "special circumstances" murder charges) but not any longer? It wouldn't surprise me if still true, but I thought I'd heard it wasn't...

 

It's pretty bad in a lot of places. In Virginia, which is historically a much better state to be a teacher than Florida (our Republican governor excluded) our schools are filling over 1000 jobs this off-season. And it's probably even worse, as a lot of schools don't announce their separations until almost June. In April (when the article was released) I only knew of about four people in my school quitting, but when school let out at the end of May, there were fifteen. I think even in my small district, between our four secondary schools we are filling 87 positions this summer.

The shortage is never going to get better, frankly. It's not just pay anymore. The pay doesn't help, but a lot of folks are tired of being squeezed and guilted over a lack of student success. There is an immense amount of pressure in a job to perform where kids are not given any degree of accountability. A child wrote and digitally released a song this year in which he said (in a few colorful ways) that he was going to murder my co-teacher and I. The kid wasn't even sent home (for the day!) because of "his rights." Teachers are tired of being mistreated and the Great Resignation is going to be how the educational establishment is going to be shown. A lot of people I know are only returning this upcoming year because they just haven't found anything else yet. A system like education which is built on the exploitation of its so-called "professionals" is one that is not made to last.

 

Trumpers now being called on to boycott "WokeWalmart"

 

If anyone’s interested, I’ve started building a platform for the purpose of unpacking the history and civics of the United States.

https://theunitedstatesproject.blogspot.com/

 

I live in Fairfax county, VA and plenty of students in my son's school and surrounding areas are held accountable, especially for death threats. During the last week of school many kids were suspended for making threats that parents were all assured were empty threats. It was a really scary month for us as parents after Uvalde. And I am glad our district took every single threat seriously. As a parent I get emails form the school all the time reminding me to speak to my child about this or that and remind them there will be consequences for their actions. Especially these social media challenges. It's a scary, scary world for teacher's and you should absolutely be protected, I'm really sorry to hear a child would be let back in the building after such an incident. That isn't right.

 

The Fresh Air story about 1/6 and groups like the Proud Boys said after the insurrection those groups have changed focus to work at the most local levels of politics. They go to school board and town council meetings to engage in conservative culture war politics. It’s loosely coordinated nationally. It’s a way for those groups to lay low after after 1/6 while still remaining active and gaining momentum.

We’re going to see more of this leading to 2024. It’s meant to look like individual local issues when it’s really part of a national plan.

 

RepubliQans don't want anybody to be educated anyway.

REVEALED: Teachers come from 'dumbest parts of dumbest colleges,' Tenn. governor's education advisor tells him
Video reveals Gov. Bill Lee never disputed those comments in joint appearance, instead offering only praise for Larry Arnn's 'vision'

• "You will see how education destroys generations of people. It's devastating. It's like the plague."

• "Here's a key thing that we're going to try to do. We are going to try to demonstrate that you don't have to be an expert to educate a child because basically anybody can do it."

 

I wish I could say that was the worst thing this child did, but for chance of risking both my anonymity and his I will leave it there. Needless to say, my district had a plentitude of opportunities to remove him from our school both before and after that incident.

Thankfully, VA is not a common core state. I think universal pre-K is probably the best change we can make to improve public education. The problem is that the Democrats' plans for it eventually put much of the onus on the states which is a recipe for disaster. At that point, it's a glorified mandate.

Suburban districts have had a bit more luck with that... all I will say is I imagine those threats are much more empty than they say, especially based off of what I hear from my friends who teach at Edison, Chantilly, TJ, and Fairfax HS. But I appreciate it. It's a really hard time to teach in a Title I these days. I wish you and your son a great upcoming school year.

 

They've probably condemned a 10 year old rape victim to death, so not really caring about those who put through these changes.

They're also closely aligned to the "actions have consequences" crowd, oh wait, that wasn't supposed to apply to them too?