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Comment Re:I think the lesson to be learned here. (Score 1) 52

The lesson to be learned here is that there's a sucker born every minute. Also you "allowed" Zuck to waste billions on VR because PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY GAVE HIM THE MONEY. People had the choice to spend money on other things and instead bought ads on Facebook. They voted with their wallets. There's your democracy in action.

Comment Re:Wut? (Score 1) 109

Excuses excuses. That officially ended over a hundred years ago, and numerous well-meaning parties have fallen all over themselves in the last 4-6 decades to rectify this problem. Regardless of all that, such failures have nothing to do with moralizing Christians pushing their modern agenda against public schools. Absolutely nothing. Especially not in a place like Baltimore where they have no power. Kindly address the raised point - that social conservatives are somehow responsible for the failure of schools.

Comment Re:Maybe you could pay teachers enough (Score 2) 109

Are there legions of better teachers we can hire right now to do a better job, if in fact that's what we need them to do?

When I was a school kid, I had multiple teachers bust down whatever egos we had (especially in math class) by reminding us that various Soviet students could run circles around us in math with an abacus instead of our fancy graphing calculators.

There are school systems past and present that have produced better testing results on less money spent per student.

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