The earthquake was survivable. Other areas are rebuilding from the tsunami. The area around Fukushima Daiichi remains empty. It will stay empty of humans for years to come.

No, they won't. If you don't understand this then you don't understand the Japanese people. In some respects the Japanese people view the meltdowns at Fukushia Daiichi as the very worst disaster to ever befall their country. Considering some of the things that have happened to Japan, that might seem overstated, but it is not. Those other disasters were ones that could be worked around and made better. Tons of radioactive crud being spewed across the countryside is not something that they can make better. They can collect as much of it as they can and bury it, but they know it is still there, waiting to kill just inches beneath the surface of the elementary school playgrounds. That's the sort of horror that will have Japanese people waking up in cold sweats for decades to come. This is the kind of horror that will spawn a new generation of Japanese monster movies as the culture tries to exorcise these demons.

Whatever. Nuclear power is dead in Japan, and it is the average Japanese citizens who want it that way.

and the services in the area suck at the moment

Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be those "tiny amounts of radiation" that leaked and caused all the folks who used to provide services to go and live in school gymnasiums in the next prefecture over?

The nuclear power industry just took a mammoth dump all over the Japanese people's beloved countryside. They are in no mood to "suck it up." Nuclear power is dead in Japan. Get used to it.

and the services in the area suck at the moment

Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be those "tiny amounts of radiation" that leaked and caused all the folks who used to provide services to go and live in school gymnasiums in the next prefecture over?

The nuclear power industry just took a mammoth dump all over the Japanese people's beloved countryside. They are in no mood to "suck it up." Nuclear power is dead in Japan. YOU suck it up.

When someone comes to a very diferent conclusion, we shouldn't be so quick to assume they're stupid

Very true! I believe that life begins with ejaculation! Every one of you masturbators is a mass murderer!

One nuclear aircraft carrier worth ought to do it.

Good riddance. All schools should be able to do that, not just the charters. If a child is disrupting his classmates' education and refuses to stop, ie: he's a troublemaker, then he should face discipline and expulsion.

Really. Go to your friendly neighborhood high school and visit some of the classrooms at the end of the day. It's nasty. Kids today have taken slobbery to a whole new level. It is unfair to students that the only time they get a clean classroom is the first period of the day. Without either proper upbringing from their parents or firmly enforced rules from the school, kids will be pigs. The empirical evidence to support this claim can be found within a few miles of where you live.

Not arbitrary authority. The school's authority. If the school doesn't want kids to bring Sharpies to school so they can cut down on the graffiti and vandalism, then the students need to not bring Sharpies to school. If students do so anyway, they need to learn that their feelings and opinions on the matter do not count. If the school has a dress code and the child violates the dress code, then they need to learn that their feelings and opinions on that matter are irrelevant as well.

In other words, children need to learn to follow the rules of the organization that they find themselves a part of.

I won't debate your points about the rich, though. After all, the rich are the main reason why most politicians suck.

The objection is to teachers' unions that get policies in place that make it hard to fire teachers for incompetence. This sort of thing does occur in some school systems.

It's pretty unusual, actually. Very few school districts actually have work rules that protect incompetent teachers. The problem is that administrators have to prove that the teacher is incompetent. If the administrators are themselves incompetent, then they either don't bother trying or they fail to properly prove their case.

This isn't a problem with the unions. It is a problem with poor management and incompetent administrators that get promoted to positions of authority due to nepotism or favoritism.