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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Handyman said:
Look I'm currently subbing in a school that is a full on bleepshow because the district has all but outlawed discipline (I literally broke up a fight yesterday and both kids were back in my class 5 minutes later...this place is a fucking suburban hellhole) and yet I would never think what that fuckwit county is proposing is a good idea. Kids having a little fear of authority is good...fearing they might get beat by that authority is going to lead to massive massive problems in the best light...teacher death in the worst.

Fuck Florida.
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I’m the youngest of 5 boys, with a big age gap between my older four all born in the 60s, and then me in 77, and they were mostly raised in the South while I was raised up here in MN. All of that is said to state that it’s hard for me to relate to the terror my brothers must’ve lived through all the way up through their Jr. High years. I hear stories all the time that Bro 3 would get into trouble all the time. As soon as a teacher mentioned anything approaching corporal punishment, he would run away from school. From the sound of it, he was really good at hiding from the staff. What good did that serve anybody? (Although, Bro 3 proved very good at evading police during some high-speed chases back in his 20s, too, so maybe some good...)
 
When it comes to major infractions, whatever happened to in-school suspensions or Saturday detentions? Does any of that still happen? Maybe let's do that before we resort to billy clubs.
 
How is fighting not an automatic suspension for the remainder of the day?

Like if you threw a punch, you were done for at least that day with your parent's being called....
 
RaceBoarder said:
How is fighting not an automatic suspension for the remainder of the day?

Like if you threw a punch, you were done for at least that day with your parent's being called....
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Cause we are the extremity society. We either beat you senseless or we kiss you on the cheek and send you back to class. There is no middle ground here.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
When it comes to major infractions, whatever happened to in-school suspensions or Saturday detentions? Does any of that still happen? Maybe let's do that before we resort to billy clubs.
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Not in most Minnesota districts. Scooby has it right. Because they went too far with suspensions and expulsions MDE went the complete other way and basically used threats of racism to stop any and all punishment. (It's a long bs explanation that infuriates anyone who spends time in any class) Restorative Justice works but only if you have staff and resources to do it right. Problem is many districts are so underfunded they can't even hire enough staff to answer the phones let alone walk the halls or deal with discipline and community building which is needed. This district, in an area with lots of cash, has been run so poorly and underfunded so badly they can't get subs let alone teachers. The assignment I have has been open since September! They had a real teacher for a friggin week otherwise all subs, often just principles doing it for no extra pay...

That said, that Florida county is going to fucked way worse in a few years.
 
RaceBoarder said:
How is fighting not an automatic suspension for the remainder of the day?

Like if you threw a punch, you were done for at least that day with your parent's being called....
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Fighting usually went to immediate 5-day out-of-school suspension. OOSS was a rarity and you had to really fuck up to get it. Otherwise it was ISS.
 
Just had two more fights...which I diffused then the second one jumped back in my room, diffused it again and at the end of the class it damned near became a riot that I had to basically stop with another teacher.

This is what happens when you underfunded education and treat children like cattle.
 
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You can't choose to be LGBTQ or black, but you can choose to hate and to actively work to deny the rights of people based on your narrow interpretation of a few carefully selected passages from multiple poor translations of an ancient text written by fallible and insecure men.
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Speaking of fallible and insecure males, the Patmos Library in Jamestown, MI was forced to close yesterday because of violent threats. And a local business who donated $100K had their plumbing deliberately backed up by the same insecure twits.
 
French Rage said:
Remember that Simpsons episode where the observatory told them a comet was coming so they wanted to burn down the observatory? https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1602708392614805504
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It's very simple. One is either on the side of reason or idiocy. DeSantis and the conservatives chose idiocy. They no longer have an opinion worthy of consideration. They are outside the social contract.

Conservatives are children, they have run under the skirt of their comforting, fictitious gods. Disenfranchise them as we would children. They are not citizens, they are wards.
 
In “fuck around and find out” news, Anchorage, currently being battered by multiple snow storms is suddenly finding out that electing “cut the budget to the bone” conservatives to local and state offices means that snowplow services tend to suffer.

Anchorage School District had to cancel school for four straight days (and basically said “fuck it, you’re going back” today), roads are still in terrible condition (two lane roads are one lane roads, three lanes to two lanes etc.), neighborhoods are still buried and sidewalks are nonexistent.

Can’t wait for our Mayor to close the city snowplow division in response and award a no bid contract to a construction company that just happened to be a large contributor to his campaign (it hasn’t happened yet and likely won’t but still)
 
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After the 2021 runoff saw Ossoff come from behind on Election Day to win on 1/5, Georgia Republicans shortened the leadup time, among other things. After Democrats showed up and won *another* runoff in 2022, Raffensperger (GA SoS) is calling for the state Legislature to end runoff elections. Apparantly old Jim Crow laws isn't having the proper effect.
 
To be fair, runoff elections are stupid and shouldn't be a standard practice.

Ranked Choice Voting manages all of that in one fell swoop.
 
Yeah getting rid of the runoff is the right thing to do. And it definitely will not help the GOP anymore than it would help the Dems...

RCV makes more sense or even just highest total wins. Runoffs are stupid and a complete waste of time and money.
 
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