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Comment Leaving Politics out of School (Score 5, Interesting) 378

Our children are in public schools. In talking with parents who switched to home schooling, it was based on two things: The first was schools losing focus on basic education (the school district published that they donâ(TM)t teach English grammar after 5th grade, but who actually understands grammar at that point?) The other reason the parents claimed for home schooling was the persistent political social agenda pushed in schools now. It used to be that politics or social topics were discussed with a published curriculum in your Social Studies class. Not so anymore. Teachers told me they were instructed to âoeTeach your Truthâ, meaning they stopped teaching the curriculum and taught whatever they wanted. It was disastrous. Test scores fell, my son never learned negative numbers in math⦠We moved. The new school district teaches English grammar through high school (when kids can finally understand it) and teachers teach their topics, leaving the social political out. Our kids are happier because they donâ(TM)t feel like they are being pressured to conform to current social trends. It reminds me of when this has happened historically when ideology was pushed through the education system instead of leaving the politics out of school.

Comment Re: This is not how you encourage vaccination (Score 1) 600

Just because the pandemic is raging where you and I live, doesnâ(TM)t mean itâ(TM)s raging everywhere. In fact, in some places in Idaho, the pandemic never really happened. Take a look at the cases in Clark County, ID⦠Do you think they all need to wear masks in Clark County, ID? Just because there are more cases in my county where I live than the whole state of Idaho doesnâ(TM)t mean everyone everywhere needs to wear a mask. Yes, weâ(TM)re going back to wearing masks here because unfortunately somebody around here keeps spreading it, and a lot worse than they do in Idaho. Itâ(TM)s amazing, but people forget that everywhere else is not like where you liveâ¦

Comment Be kind (Score 1) 698

Kindness is always admired. It takes a strong person to be kind.

Make good friends who will help lift you up.

You can do great things.

Do what you know is right, even when it's hard, you'll be happier with yourself afterward.

-- Thanks for the chance to reflect and contemplate. Best of wishes for you and your family.

Comment Old age (Score 2, Insightful) 1119

From the initial take, the intent of the article could easily be construed to say Java will die. But I thought was interesting that it would be from old age, not from some challenger language.

In many regards, concerning its lifetime, C has been/will be around for a very long time too... Which, I think, is probably one of the signs of a good language. Because if it was so horrible/people could not get their stuff done reliably, no one would use it.

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