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Oxymoron.

And you're an Anonymous Coward who sneers at military professionals, so everyone you apply sarcasm to must be bad.

That's a lie. The total fatalities of the American Revolutionary war was between 100,000 and 120,000, of which close to 50,000 were American and 51,000 British. (wikipedia).

Some things become obsolete. Religious training in public school used to be standard, it's widely ignored now. Bits and pieces of various fields have been dropped as irrelevant to modern life. In many fields teaching has become more efficient, as subjects thought to be prerequisites to "final" skills and knowledge have been found unnecessary or have been streamlined. The time saved from teaching obsolete material can be dedicated to new stuff.

Who teaches "casting out nines" these days?

Those kids who aren't learning fast enough probably need MORE, not LESS, teaching

Good way to turn dislike of a subject into active hatred.
Frequently, what is needed is a different approach.

If you don't understand the value of having children, it's a good thing you don't have children.

There are schools where they can't even afford basic supplies like paper.

That is total BS. Paper for a whole classroom costs less than 1 minute of a teacher's salary. The inefficiencies in modern schooling have roughly doubled the cost of schooling (in constant dollars) from 50 years ago. There are legions of unnecessary teachers, administrators, assistants, and counselors doing little but sucking up money. Unions promote waste and get a cut of salaries, with the sole goal of increasing their own political power.

There's no lack of money. Get rid of the waste.

Progressivism is not exclusive to Democrats. There are many Republicans - Theodore Roosevelt, the Bushes, for examples - whose minds are polluted to varying degrees with Progressive ideology.

How does "pretend play" differ from real play?

OTA UHD requires too much bandwidth, and bandwidth is limited and expensive. It's unlikely to ever become a market success when 3 or 4 2k channels use the same bandwidth, for 3 or 4 times the revenue.

3D generally has been a fringe market for over 100 years. Every time publicists claimed 3D would be the next big thing it's flopped.

8k is useful for text and extremely good static images being carefully examined. For anything that moves I think that the human vision system would have trouble distinguishing 4k from 8k. 8k is at or just beyond the limits of human visual acuity.

The hospital colluded with the state.

Gag orders ought to be considered unConstitutional.

Kidnapping is what the hospital did. Taking her from the hospital is rescuing a kidnap victim.