Serious?

[sealybobo]

I got 1/3 the way through a business masters.

.....

Hey idiots. The only point I was trying to make is that I have more of an education than Don Jr. He has a BS in economics. I am 1/3 the way to having a masters. He's not.

I wonder how much Trump paid to get Don Jr. in to that school.

From UPENN!!!! Where is your undergrad from? LOL

Ike Barinholtz Uses A Russian Accent To Prank An Internet Radio Show – The Howard Stern Show Howard Stern podcast

Listen to Ike Barinholtz on the Howard Stern show. He called a conservative radio host and listen to all the horrible things he says that she agrees with.

Scary shit because we all know that's how a lot of white nationalists feel and right now you are going along with them.

Right at the end he said "jews too" and she said, "absolutely" LOL.

What show did he call? The Alt Right is awful. But the Progressive Left is equally awful. I have stated this 100x.

He never gave out the woman's name. I would love it if he did and everyone called her show and laid into her. Did you listen? Yes, the Alt Right is deplorable.

But I can see why you would chose them over the party that elects Muslims. I get it.

Luckily most Jews vote Democratic.

As we enter the 2020 presidential election cycle, one of the very few things one can forecast with high probability is this: The majority of American Jewish voters will vote Democrat.

Why U.S. Jews will continue to vote Democrat

Democratic share of the Jewish electorate has never dropped below 63 percent, while the Republican share has never risen above 31 percent. Jews were, on average, 20 percent more Democratic than the entire population. Jews constitute the most pro-Democratic white constituency in the electorate.

Rationally, given their high levels of education, income, occupational status and other traits, Jews should embrace the Republican Party and political conservatism. That’s the assumption voting behavior research would lead one to expect.

And, it isn’t like conservatives have tried to appeal to Jewish voters. Since the 1970s, Jewish neocons (former liberals turned conservative) have attempted to detach American Jews from liberalism, without much success. This lack of success led neocon leader Norman Podhoretz to conclude in his book, “Why Are Jews Liberals?” that it was due to “willful blindness and denial.”


So are Jews just as dumb as blacks for voting Democratic? I think not.

Do you know why Jews are Democrats? Because it was us liberals who fought to include you in the political process. And just like blacks, gays, Mexicans and Muslims, as soon as Republicans stop using you as a reason why whites should be afraid, you'll quickly forgive and join the other side. Blacks and hispanics are very socially conservative. They would already be Republicans if the GOP wasn't so anti them. One day the GOP will learn it's better to embrace the minorities instead of using them as political footballs. What makes me mad is how quickly you all will forgive and forget.

And, the reason Jews tend to identify as Democrats is because the Democrats “own” the separation of church and state idea.

 

[sealybobo]

I got 1/3 the way through a business masters.

.....

... I have more of an education than ....I am 1/3 the way to having a masters. ...l.

You know why I stopped? Because I'm a Republican now remember? I'm anti education. I was sick of being brainwashed by liberal socialists.

Keep in mind that it's the GOP who attack education. It's a joke. YOU are a joke.

How am I joke? Please explain.

Was I talking to you?

 

[baileyn45]

As to the original op, it seems to me that we are producing to many kids that can parrot a left wing political views and yet can't read. Math is a foreign language, history is whatever you feel. I can't say it's everywhere but it is continually growing.

I interview and hire high school graduates, It's quite frankly frightening. I'm not sure they can spell their own name, and people will think I'm kidding. I'm not. 18 year olds that can't spell the city they live in. Get the current year wrong, by 3 or 4 years. 18 year olds that have made it to the second round of interviews that can't answer 6 X 48. The last time I used that out of 6 high school graduates 1 got it wrong another wrote in" I don't know". Frightening.

A few years ago I read an article speaking about remedial reading programs at Ivy league schools. How in the F#$% do you get into an Ivy League school when you can't read?

And your side wants to ban abortions. Imagine all the shitheads we’d have if abortion were illegal.

Those are all clearly liberal women getting abortions right?

First of all, I don't have a side, if I did it would probably end on the side the child. Stunning and beyond understanding to you. It's a human thing.

 

[Unkotare]

As to the original op, it seems to me that we are producing to many kids that can parrot a left wing political views and yet can't read. Math is a foreign language, history is whatever you feel. I can't say it's everywhere but it is continually growing.

I interview and hire high school graduates, It's quite frankly frightening. I'm not sure they can spell their own name, and people will think I'm kidding. I'm not. 18 year olds that can't spell the city they live in. Get the current year wrong, by 3 or 4 years. 18 year olds that have made it to the second round of interviews that can't answer 6 X 48. The last time I used that out of 6 high school graduates 1 got it wrong another wrote in" I don't know". Frightening.

A few years ago I read an article speaking about remedial reading programs at Ivy league schools. How in the F#$% do you get into an Ivy League school when you can't read?

And your side wants to ban abortions. Imagine all the shitheads we’d have if abortion were illegal.

Those are all clearly liberal women getting abortions right?

First of all, I don't have a side, if I did it would probably end on the side the child. Stunning and beyond understanding to you. It's a human thing.

You don’t know how right you are.

 

[Unkotare]

You’re not very educated. So you’re doing the best you can. Don Jr. dates KG. He is the MAN!

I got 1/3 the way through a business masters.

.....

... I have more of an education than ....I am 1/3 the way to having a masters. ...l.

You know why I stopped? ....

Everyone knows why, genius.

 

[baileyn45]

As to the original op, it seems to me that we are producing to many kids that can parrot a left wing political views and yet can't read. Math is a foreign language, history is whatever you feel. I can't say it's everywhere but it is continually growing.

I interview and hire high school graduates, It's quite frankly frightening. I'm not sure they can spell their own name, and people will think I'm kidding. I'm not. 18 year olds that can't spell the city they live in. Get the current year wrong, by 3 or 4 years. 18 year olds that have made it to the second round of interviews that can't answer 6 X 48. The last time I used that out of 6 high school graduates 1 got it wrong another wrote in" I don't know". Frightening.

A few years ago I read an article speaking about remedial reading programs at Ivy league schools. How in the F#$% do you get into an Ivy League school when you can't read?

That's appalling. And no doubt there are inept and bad teachers in the mix there.

But let's just say that ALL those students came to school, from age 5 on, ready and motivated to learn. That the teachers did not have to do any remediation, including teaching them basic human things like putting on and zipping a coat in Kindergarten. Or sharing. Or the basics of table manners.

How would things change?

The teachers have nothing to do with it. It's the parents. I am well educated, there are two people that can claim responsibility, my parents. It was expected of me to be educated, it was demanded. Period. Teachers can change nothing.

 

[sealybobo]

I got 1/3 the way through a business masters.

.....

... I have more of an education than ....I am 1/3 the way to having a masters. ...l.

You know why I stopped? ....

Everyone knows why, genius.

It was a bad decision in retrospect but that bad decision led me to where I am now. 48. Everything’s paid off, just upped my 401k another 10% because my checking account is building up too fast.

So I don’t care that I didn’t complete the masters program. It led me to where I wanted a masters to take me. And it didn’t cost me a dime. I learned a lot in those 7 classes. I was getting a 3.5 when I stopped.

I like making very close to 6 figures and working 7 minutes from home. 40 hours a week. Don’t take my job home with me. Lovely life. This is what I wanted a masters to get me. I got it. What more do you want from me?

 

[sealybobo]

...Don’t take my job home with me. ....

...to or for anyone...

I’m someone.

 

[sealybobo]

...Don’t take my job home with me. ....

...to or for anyone...

I’m someone.

Get a second opinion.

My girl says you sound like looser.

I didn’t misspell that it’s her cute Belarusian accent.

You are a looser.

 

[sealybobo]

...Don’t take my job home with me. ....

...to or for anyone...

I’m someone.

Get a second opinion.

My girl says you sound like looser.

I didn’t misspell that it’s her cute Belarusian accent.

You are a looser.

Go put in more quarters.

It’s Greek Easter today have some respect. Seriously?

 

[sealybobo]

Anyone interested in a serious discussion about education? Any non-educators have any questions about what really goes on in the classroom instead of stereotypes and assumptions? Any educators want to share stories from the front lines? Anything?

What do you recommend students do to get their act and sat scores up?

 

[Unkotare]

Anyone interested in a serious discussion about education? Any non-educators have any questions about what really goes on in the classroom instead of stereotypes and assumptions? Any educators want to share stories from the front lines? Anything?

What do you recommend students do to get their act and sat scores up?

1) Develop a love of reading from the earliest age
2) Study vocabulary deliberately from grade 9
3) Begin working with published test prep materials at least 4 days/week starting in grade 10
4) Enroll in intensive test prep courses (at least one class/week) and take at least one complete practice test weekly starting at the beginning of grade 11
5) Have celebrity parents pay $$$$$$ to some fraud to take the test for you
6) Pretend to be on the Crew team of your target school
7)If all else fails, cry racism


If nothing else, begin steps #2,3,4 as soon as possible

 

[DGS49]

Have you figured out what a parent has to do in order to motivate their children to be good students?

I personally loafed my way through 1-12, getting A's and B's with minimal effort, and never really "got it" until I went back to college after the Army (I had failed out in one year prior to enlisting). I really didn't care about school. I was more interested in sports, cars, and girls...none of which ever benefitted me measurably.

My (37-year-old) son had the same attitude, did OK in school, and didn't really motivate himself until graduate school.

But I see some parents are able to get their kids to place the same kind of importance on ACADEMICS as most kids place on sports and games. I've always wondered what it is they do. And obviously, it's more difficult to motivate boys than girls.

Any clues?

 

[sealybobo]

Have you figured out what a parent has to do in order to motivate their children to be good students?

I personally loafed my way through 1-12, getting A's and B's with minimal effort, and never really "got it" until I went back to college after the Army (I had failed out in one year prior to enlisting). I really didn't care about school. I was more interested in sports, cars, and girls...none of which ever benefitted me measurably.

My (37-year-old) son had the same attitude, did OK in school, and didn't really motivate himself until graduate school.

But I see some parents are able to get their kids to place the same kind of importance on ACADEMICS as most kids place on sports and games. I've always wondered what it is they do. And obviously, it's more difficult to motivate boys than girls.

Any clues?

Ask asians

 

[Unkotare]

Have you figured out what a parent has to do in order to motivate their children to be good students?

I personally loafed my way through 1-12, getting A's and B's with minimal effort, and never really "got it" until I went back to college after the Army (I had failed out in one year prior to enlisting). I really didn't care about school. I was more interested in sports, cars, and girls...none of which ever benefitted me measurably.

My (37-year-old) son had the same attitude, did OK in school, and didn't really motivate himself until graduate school.

But I see some parents are able to get their kids to place the same kind of importance on ACADEMICS as most kids place on sports and games. I've always wondered what it is they do. And obviously, it's more difficult to motivate boys than girls.

Any clues?

Children take their cues from their families. If academics are more important to the parents, the kids are likely to get the message.

 

[sealybobo]

What's your point? That was from 2017 and nothing has happened in Dearborn, MI. Looks like this article was trying to rile up whites to vote Republican. Center left my ass.

Google “Dearborn MI Sharia” and see what you get. Especially on YouTube. It is disturbing. How many openly Jew hating Congress persons have an (R) next to their names?

I see a 2 year old article. Nothing current. In other words, I see nothing.

FACT CHECK: Has a City in Michigan Become the First in the U.S. to Fully Implement Sharia Law?

YouTube a video. It’s shocking. You’re floating in a river in Egypt.

I'm not going to listen to what paranoid Jews think about muslims. They make up 1% of our population in America. You'll survive. You have more to worry about with white nationalists. Isn't it starting to remind you of Germany in the late 30's?

Is there a prize for biggest jerk on USMB??

What's the prize? Are you trying to win?

Yes unkotare won it last year

These Republican Teachers Are Running Against Their Party

I just love Republican teachers

When Melanie Spoon, a middle-school librarian in Oklahoma City, showed up outside Republican state Rep. Mike Osburn’s office during the teacher strike last month, she planned to tell him how her budget for new books had been cut by more than half and how she hadn’t gotten a pay raise in 10 years. But, she said, Osburn wouldn’t meet with her, so Spoon — a Republican who voted for Osburn two years ago — decided to run against him.

Do you know what Melanie needs to realize? She's in a union. No one at her school got fired when Bush's great recession happened. In our private companies, people got laid off and people took pay cuts. You didn't. In exchange for that job security, your pay isn't going to go up like our pay in the private sector went up. It's called Risk and reward.

Anyways, back to these Republican teachers who aren't happy with the way Republicans treat schools.

The wave of teacher activism sweeping red states in the past few months isn’t stopping at strikes and protests. Frustrated with years of funding cuts and neglect for public education, dozens of teachers in traditionally Republican strongholds are taking matters into their own hands and running for office themselves. Most of the candidates are Democrats, but several are Republicans. And a handful of GOP-leaning educators are even challenging members of their own party as first-time candidates.

Osburn said he does not remember Spoon visiting his office, but denies she would have been “shooed out.” He said he met with many other educators during the two-week walkout, the threat of which helped pressure lawmakers to pass a pay raise and increase the state education budget through the state’s first major tax hike in nearly 30 years. Osburn voted for the education increases.

Pay raises? Looks like the strike worked. Only unions get to strike right? And I believe Republicans want to take away your ability to strike. Do you realize you would be powerless against Republicans if you didn't have a union?

I find it fascinating to find a republican socialist teacher on USMB. Must be weird having cognitive dissonance.

You should quit and go work for a private school. You don't deserve to work in a Public school. I'm surprised you even want to. You have a fucking government job

Clark, an assistant principal in Olive Hill, Kentucky who is running in a Republican primary against incumbent state Rep. Jill York, who has held the seat since 2009.

“You can’t just continue to shaft your people and expect them to continue to vote for you,” Clark said. “We need somebody who’s going to stand up for all of our people and not just do what needs to be done to save face.”

York — who voted against a new pension plan signed into law last month, which includes less generous retirement benefits for new teachers — said she has supported public educators during her tenure

Clark is among at least 40 educators running for office in Kentucky this year. Scott Lewis, superintendent of Ohio County Schools in Hartford, Kentucky and a Republican running for the Kentucky House, said he has been frustrated since August, when state leaders began discussing changes to the education budget and the pension plan. It was the start of what Lewis describes as an “all-out attack this year on public educators from the Governor on down.”

Wow a Republican who gets it

“That was the tipping point. Public education is the backbone of everything in your state — a better educated workforce, [better] economy. Businesses that want to come here want to know what kind of schools you have,” said Lewis, who is campaigning for a seat left vacant as the Republican incumbent runs for state Senate. “If we’re going to grow this state, we need to have a focus on public education.”

To me it seems like Republican voters in Red states are starting to wake up. They want some of that socialism. Of course they do they don't realize they take more fedeal dollars than blue states do.

 

[sealybobo]

What's your point? That was from 2017 and nothing has happened in Dearborn, MI. Looks like this article was trying to rile up whites to vote Republican. Center left my ass.

Google “Dearborn MI Sharia” and see what you get. Especially on YouTube. It is disturbing. How many openly Jew hating Congress persons have an (R) next to their names?

I see a 2 year old article. Nothing current. In other words, I see nothing.

FACT CHECK: Has a City in Michigan Become the First in the U.S. to Fully Implement Sharia Law?

YouTube a video. It’s shocking. You’re floating in a river in Egypt.

I'm not going to listen to what paranoid Jews think about muslims. They make up 1% of our population in America. You'll survive. You have more to worry about with white nationalists. Isn't it starting to remind you of Germany in the late 30's?

Is there a prize for biggest jerk on USMB??

What's the prize? Are you trying to win?

Dismissive comments made last August by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin about teachers walking out over pension changes were enough to make Paula Setser-Kissick, a resource teacher for Fayette County Public Schools and a lifelong Republican, change her party affiliation.

 

[sealybobo]

Have you figured out what a parent has to do in order to motivate their children to be good students?

I personally loafed my way through 1-12, getting A's and B's with minimal effort, and never really "got it" until I went back to college after the Army (I had failed out in one year prior to enlisting). I really didn't care about school. I was more interested in sports, cars, and girls...none of which ever benefitted me measurably.

My (37-year-old) son had the same attitude, did OK in school, and didn't really motivate himself until graduate school.

But I see some parents are able to get their kids to place the same kind of importance on ACADEMICS as most kids place on sports and games. I've always wondered what it is they do. And obviously, it's more difficult to motivate boys than girls.

Any clues?

Children take their cues from their families. If academics are more important to the parents, the kids are likely to get the message.

The more I read about teachers the more I realize you have a second job because you need one.

Some campaign tasks — such as researching issues, speaking to groups of people and making posters — have come easier to teachers who are already used to splitting their time with a second job and using their own money to buy school supplies. Casey Satterlee, a Republican candidate in a crowded primary for a seat in the Oklahoma state House left vacant by a term-limited incumbent, has been a teacher for 14 years. He and his wife, who is also a teacher, have picked up coaching and tutoring jobs and administered standardized tests, pursuing any opportunities for supplemental income. “My wife and I have essentially had the same pay since we started teaching,” he said. “In that time, we’ve gotten married, bought a house, had two children, but nothing’s changed about our pay.”

 

[sealybobo]

Ha! Listen to this "republican"

Satterlee agrees with the GOP on many issues, but unlike many Republicans, he wants to change tax policy in the state in order to boost funding for education and other public services.

Lets say it like it is. He wants to raise taxes.

“Taxes are low in Oklahoma, and I know it’s not a popular answer to anything, but I do think there are some adjustments we can make to our taxes that would increase the revenue,” he said. “I think most of it needs to come from big business … but we’re all going to have to step up as a community to fix our state.”

Sounds like a liberal democrat to me. LOL.

Spoon, the librarian in Oklahoma City, thinks too many lawmakers self-describe as “pro-education” to appease constituents, but do little to support teachers and students if it means breaking from the party line.

 

[Crixus]

Anyone interested in a serious discussion about education? Any non-educators have any questions about what really goes on in the classroom instead of stereotypes and assumptions? Any educators want to share stories from the front lines? Anything?

Not an educator l, but I can share a story or two. Here at the district where I work the latest scandal had to do with “time out” rooms. They used these up into middle school. Really bad kids got put into these. There is a desk, a light, and padded walls. Typically the dest would end up sticking out of a wall after sshit had been smeared all over it. There was a class action law suit so now the doors have to come off all “time out” rooms and the teachers are not allowed to restrain these kids. That’s bull shit, especially since folks want teachers pay based on merit.


In the high schools kids can opener tell their teachers to fuck off and do about anything they want as long as they don’t strike the teacher. When resource officers are called in to remove the kid, it looks like a cell extraction at a prison.


I’m a maintenance guy. I only fix the shit they break, but I’m cool with making a teachers life a bit more easy. If that involves a bit more $$$ fine.