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Comment Re:Hello Captain Obvious (Score 1) 114

#1 Teacher pay, outside a rock bottom amount seen almost entirely in rural areas, has no significant effect on student performance
#2 This is a problem, perhaps if admin overhead hadn't ballooned far beyond teacher pay or student allotment it might not be an issue
#3 Irrelevant. They need to reinstitute student accountability. Disruption of class gets ISS and then suspension. Violence gets suspension. Continued violence gets expulsion. If you can't read, write, or do your sums at grade level, you get held back a grade in classes with people who were held back grades so as not to disturb the kids who didn't.
#3 in particular would solve most issues, with the rest being solved by getting rid of common core entirely. Phonics, grammar, memorization in math of tables and formulas, and book reports on books the kid chooses. Only one mandatory book per semester. Unless you're in AP class nothing else really matters to the process of learning prior to 8th or 9th grade.

Comment Re:This (Score 1) 55

Not very. It's what happens when you push for quick construction and none of the documentation for the custom equipment that needs to be built is in the local language, in this case English, is available. Getting custom documentation properly translated for industrial equipment takes time to ensure that everything is translated perfectly regarding construction and operation. So they brought in Koreans for the specialty construction and to train the people that would be operating the equipment. Since going hat in hand to the US government to tell them exactly why they need either more time or a lot more work visas would lose a significant amount of face, they took shortcuts. Those shortcuts came back to bite them in the ass.

Comment Re:Wokeness (Score 1) 180

Caddyshack aged like milk because it was a poorly made drug fueled trainwreck. The best parts of the movie were always Dangerfield playing himself and Bill Murray because his storyline had little interaction with the rest of the movie, with Murray on set for all of 6 days because he rightly despised Chevy Chase and didn't want to hang around.

Comment Re:UK to drop access to encrypted American data (Score 4, Interesting) 81

Yes, the US has no legal right to stop the UK from crippling encryption in UK sold phones. However now you can buy an Apple phone made for any market in which the govt doesn't demand this and it will still properly use encryption. Whereas had the UK's demand been allowed it would have forced a backdoor in all of Apple's mobile phone encryption systems everywhere.

Comment Re:"problematic plastic products" (Score 1) 17

The worst polluters are the Chinese and Indians. The amount of plastics pollution flowing out of either the Ganges or Huang He dwarfs the rest of the world combined. This doesn't even get into the industrial pollution coming out of the Ganges which is in a decade or two going to turn the majority of the Indian Ocean into a giant dead zone.

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