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Comment Re:Teachers overreaching their responsibility (Score 1) 220

Well, the schools aren't paying for them in a lot of cases. Gotta afford those new football jerseys somehow, right?

It's shitty, but in the real world a lot of teachers use their own money for things that the school should pay for. How are they supposed to teach a curriculum that requires calculators if the kids don't have calculators?

Comment Re:What do they want? (Score 1) 209

https://www.payscale.com/data/...

Between April and May of 2019, 248,000 respondents in the United States took Payscale’s online salary survey. Those with at least a bachelor’s degree were shown the following question:

Looking back on your education what do you most regret?

  • Student Loans
  • Area of Study (major, minor, concentration)
  • School/Institution choice
  • Too many degrees/over-education for my career
  • Time to complete (too long)
  • Academic underachievement
  • Not making the right connections (networking with peers/faculty/alumni)
  • I have no regrets

Comment Ratings System is a Joke (Score 4, Interesting) 60

Shady developers already have ways to manipulate the ratings system on Google Play. This is just giving them one more avenue. When "Spider Hero Fort Night City Auto Theft" has a 4.3/5 rating, I think your system is broken. Maybe focus your energy on that instead, Google.

Comment Re:Alternative headline (Score 4, Informative) 974

In the article, Facebook's spokesperson said that they were all "promoting Gavin McInnes, founder of the violence-prone far-right group the Proud Boys", among other things. Go ahead and argue that he's not a psychopath responsible for violence against innocent people. If someone posted stuff like that on my website, I'd ban them too.

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