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[–] 78 points 3 years ago (7 children)

The books will be withheld until academic performance improves.

same backwards insanity as No Child Left Behind;

"We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us."

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    no-oil

    "We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us."

    obama-socialism

    "Uhh, let me do the above, but make it worse by tying it even more to the standardized test industry which incentivizes making kids give up and fail because that means even more privatization."

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    :the-republican: new, horrible and unpopular policy

    :the-democrat: horrible and unpopular policy, expanded and refined, given the rubber stamp of 'progressive' legitimacy

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    This Reddit post yesterday is an example of this. Instead of just legalizing weed, there has to be this whole “review process” spectacle to prove how measured and reasonable the Democrats are. It’s just fucking weed man, it wasn’t a problem before it was criminalized and it still isn’t. Stop giving the question legitimacy with these sober analyses.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I wonder what material conditions could be affecting children in Texas so much that it could affect their performance?

    thonk

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    have you tried studying after being shot in the head? it's tough

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lazy ass student won’t get off the floor and clean up the mess after being shot only 27 times. The entitlement is unbelievable. “I should be transported to the hospital by OTHER people.” Must be the avocado toast

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I heard a boomer talk about how easy kids have it these days. These people need to shut the fuck up.

    Kids now have it so fucking hard. They're watching people get murdered in HD, including other kids, because you can't scrub that completely off of the internet. They're still watching loved ones get sick and die from a once-manageable virus after having spent years of school on Zoom. They're witnessing the devastation of climate change. They're facing a future that seems to be growing bleaker by the day.

    In short, they're forced to reap what previous generations have sown. Adults who claimed to care about the well-being of children stole their future for profit and kicked out the ladder, knowing full well they won't have to see the worst of what they set into motion. But yeah, kids these days have it easy because they have phones and physical abuse is slightly regulated.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Remember when people said trump was the boomers last “fuck you” before they head out?

    Well, almost ten years since trump entered politics and they’re still here in all of their lead-poisoned glory, also ensuring they do their very best to make the earth uninhabitable

    (Not all boomers but certainly your average one)

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    In Stalinist North Maoist China they force the undesirables... look I can't even do this. Fuck Texas and fuck the USA for enabling Texas.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    The raging hate-boner that grillman has for children and the fetish that they have for "disciplining" children chills my blood and speaks of their hidden pathology. libertarian-alert

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Nobody is more obsessed with kids than right wingers who dont have any

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Nobody is more obsessed with kids than right wingers who dont have any

    Right wingers that have kids often abuse them, up to and including being estranged from their kids and deserving it. If you dare to peek into QAnon cult shit, a lot of it is a magical power fantasy of "and then all of our illnesses will be cured by medbeds, our debts will be wiped away by a MAGA jubilee, and our kids will beg our forgiveness or die." grill-broke

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah a lot of Qanon mythology rests on the idea that the uninformed will all en masse admit they were wrong, renounce leftism, and become ardent Trump supporters

    It really reminds me of Mormonism or the Millerites. I think home grown American religious movements only have one trick.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago*

    It really reminds me of Mormonism or the Millerites. I think home grown American religious movements only have one trick.

    It's pure frontierism ideology.

    "My frustrations with civilization will be solved if I strike out on my own and start my own mini civilization where I make the rules and the masses will crawl to me someday!"

    "Galt's Gulch" in Ayn Rand garbage fiction was exactly that. We even see that shit with techbros fantasizing about conquering space. my-hero

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Yes.

    By "medbed" I mean the belief in alien technology that is supposedly held back by the deep state that cures everything imaginable and that trump-moist will totally release it for free to the MAGA believers.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    I know that you made this observation before, and I couldn't agree more. Right-wing parents see their children as accessories, and I think they intentionally sabotaged the job and housing market to maximize their children's dependency on them for as long as possible.

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago*

    When your average k-12 student isn't dodging bullets from a black pilled neo-nazi incel school shooter, it's put into a work camp for getting a D in freedom and patriotism class.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They are finally being honest about the fact that schools in the USA are not for education, but intake centers for the new plantations: For Profit Prisons.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    grillman:

    "We need to cut education and critical thinking and instead focus on discipline"

    "The one context we should be lenient about is bullying. It helps teach the wimps to be more normal!"

    "Of course we should cut history and science first, only nerds could possibly care about that stuff anyways!"

    "While we're at it, we should use those funds to add a surveillance system to look for any queers!"

    "....after all, the last thing we want is to make anyone (me) UNCOMFORTABLE!"

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    "The one context we should be lenient about is bullying. It helps teach the wimps to be more normal!"

    Also helps identify future slave catchers (pigs) and plantation guards.

    Libraries were the only way I survived my youth.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Education is the enemy of fascism.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    We should be careful to hedge this as real education. The fascists do plenty of education of their own, intended to groom a fascist culture through hitler youth approaches. Historical revisionism and carefully chosen philosophical bullshit go a long way towards the shaping of entirely fascist generations.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Part of this is happening because the state of Texas seized control over the school district from the city, I've been guessing because it's the most populated in the state and one of the least white

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    The beatings will continue until morale improves

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago*

    I swear to God we're gonna get to the point , if we haven't already (I'm thinking of that obama-socialism quote where he describes trying fuck that bi girl at college by flexing his Foucault learns) where all the administrators and managers are reading Foucault and treating it as a manual.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Find the policy psychos responsible and [redacted... Like really fucking redacted]. Sooner or later there's going to be some kids who "graduate" from said system with nothing to lose... Maybe with all the easy access to [redacted] and it'll eventually sort itself out. The free marketplace of ideas is such a bastion of innovation.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    At any point, did they consider having a education system that was worth a shit instead?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    What a fucking disgrace

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Ah yes because burning the books is how you improve education-shits bonkers even on the most cave man of levels.

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ah yes, the correct response to poor academic performance, plan B so to speak: work day camps

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    hey why does every adult with power in this country just fucking hate children? what's up with that?

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