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Comment Re:The Republican party has been sabotaging educat (Score 1) 61

Thanks for the handwave dismissal of sources you just don't like. I think the NYT is conservative so that doesn't count. It's so easy!

Also sure if we want to go to for that on charters I can also point out plenty of failures in the US but you've already turned this into an ideological issue so who cares.

Comment Re:And for $1,000,000 (Score 1) 158

With any luck this admin won't figure out that so many of the things they want to do require diligent bureaucrats to make happen but are firing or pushy many out the door.

Similar with number of lawsuits they are trying to enact while getting the DOJ. Look at how the Presidents NYT lawsuit got tossed back today in pretty scathing fashion.

Comment Re:The Republican party has been sabotaging educat (Score 1) 61

Sweden's system isn't considered a success by everyone, including Swedes and their results have trended downward over twenty years. Not that I am saying their system never or can't work but it's also not the only answer. Plenty of nations with all public systems do as well or better.

Sweden’s schools minister declares free school ‘system failure’

Is Sweden proof that school choice doesn’t improve education?

Comment The admin can give favors still though (Score 1) 158

Regardless of how you feel about this good or bad it is not really a good thing that in the EO or whatever this is that they still reserve the right to exempt anyone from this at their (Noem's technically) discretion so if you think is a good policy then I hope we can agree we shouldn't have backdoor for anyone to glad-hand their way around it without any structure or oversight to that process. National Interest can be whatever the admin wants it to be.

(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

Comment Re:Just take the best ideas (Score 1) 61

Sorry I mean to compare the brain plasticity of learning an instrument early to the language learning not that an instrument should be mandatory, poor sentence structure there.

The language learning I think should be mandatory but the music thing would not although for kids who are interested I think it should be part of their work and not solely an after school thing.

I think something akin to that should be a part of curricula for every kid, effectively a hobby becomes part of your schooling but have some variety there for kids to explore.

Comment Just take the best ideas (Score 1) 61

You can do some obvious reforms and also look at what other nations succeed at adapt it your country.

Some obvious changes to me

- Stop linking property taxes to schools, this creates death loops and other issues, just do per-child per-state funding.
- Air conditioning
- Free lunch and probably breakfast too. This is no brainer and I cannot believe it is not the case everywhere.
- Start every kid on a language early, like per-k to kindergarten early. I think it's just a good skill and I wish my schooling had started it earlier, my assumption is there some brain plasticity effects in there that pay off over your life. Same with learning a musical instrument.

Comment Re:Two Price Hikes in Half a Year? (Score 1) 35

Small price to pay for being the "hottest country" which the President has repeated several times, including recently to the King of England. Definitely not embarrassing and cringe.

If our new speech enforcement teams are are reading this please note i said *not* cringe and i *definitely* am not using sarcasm.

Comment Re:Everybody hates BluRay the name (Score 1) 41

I am actually going to post my own correction but according to this https://www.reddit.com/r/DataH...

The number of published Bluray titles in 2023 is just over 39k and for DVDs is over 290k which is a way larger disparity than I had considered since BD has been around for almost 20 years now so keep rocking those DVDs

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