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David Benner, Indiana Pacers' longtime PR director, dies: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2023/03/01/david-benner-indiana-pacers-longtime-pr-director-dies/69959800007/ While I really didn't follow Mr. Benner's career with the Pacers I remember growing up reading his work in The Indianapolis Star. Truly a Hoosier Icon. He will be missed.

So have you or will you ever tell a student "Johnny, you need to consider that a 4-year college may not be the best path for you after high school. Have you considered a trade/vocational school, or maybe the military?"

https://mises.org/wire/attack-subversive-elites The cozy relationship between multinational corporations and governments has even aroused the scorn of a few leftist academics. Some note that the UN-WEF partnership and the governance model of the WEF represent at least the privatization of the UN’s Agenda 2030, with the WEF bringing corporate partners, money, and supposed expertise on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR) to the table. And the WEF’s governance model extends well beyond the UN, affecting the constitution and behavior of governments worldwide. This usurpation has led political scientist Ivan Wecke to call the WEF’s governmental redesign of the world system “a corporate takeover of global governance.” This is true, but the WEF model also represents the governmentalization of private industry. Un­der Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism and the mul­tistakeholder governance model, governance is not only increasingly privatized, but also and more im­portantly, corporations are deputized as major addi­tions to governments and intergovernmental bodies. The state is thereby extended, enhanced, and aug­mented by the addition of enormous corporate as­sets. These include funding directed at “sustainable development” to the exclusion of the noncompliant as well as the use of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and 5G to monitor and control citizens. But first the conditions for global government must be established and these conditions include the breakdown of national sovereignty, the abrogation of natural rights, and the reduction of the standard of living of the vast majority. “Affluence,” writes Sam Fleming for the WEF, “is the biggest threat to our world. . . . True sustainability will only be achieved through drastic lifestyle changes.” Thus, these elites are not only subversive but also destructive. It is difficult to conclude that the many recent assaults on the infrastructure of the US are anything but part of a coordinated campaign to destroy productive capacities and terrorize the population. Consider the use of vaccine mandates to choke supply chains, the multiple train derailments and chemical bombs, the undetonated bombs on railroad tracks, the mysterious explosions at metals plants and oil facilities, the “coincidental” fires at food processing facilities and chicken egg farms, the hazardous materials explosions in public transportation facilities, the shutdown of a major baby formula production lab, etc. Consider these in connection with the operations of cultural, social, and political demoralization—the covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates, the quasi-endorsed Black Lives Matter–Antifa riots, the election legerdemain, the January 6 show trials, the unfettered immigration, the foisting of the transgender movement and critical race theory on elementary school students, the differential treatment of crime along political lines (with the apparent rewarding of criminals carrying out subversive acts and the imprisonment of those who merely protest the regime)—and the effect is a politicized anarcho-tyranny unleashed on the populace. Do not all these phenomena have the common effect of producing social and economic insecurity and learned helplessness, while cowing any political opposition into submission? Yet it is essentially impossible to prove that a coordinated campaign by subversive elites is afoot. As internal Twitter documents made available to the public in December reveal, one of the most powerful communications and ideological apparatuses on earth had gone to great lengths to snuff out and filter the visibility of any story that might provide a window into the coordination of the new world order. If, however, as Pareto suggested, a governing elite is inevitable, then, as Jeff Deist has argued, we are certainly under the wrong elites. Whether a circulation of elites can be completed in time to save the world economic system from ruin and the majority from destitution and veritable slavery is a question of no little urgency. The future of this world is in doubt, especially if these global elites seize the power they so desire.

The ISTA/NEA as well.

So they could take LCC's place in the Hoosier Heartland. Much easier over there beating up on the likes of Clinton Central, Clinton Prairie and Taylor.

Then frankly the system needs to change. And not every student is cut out for "college prep" or for that matter a traditional 2-4 year college/university education. They are just are not, and I believe you and most other teachers know that. So why is this the farce still perpetuated?

Why? How is that successful? Why do the "best and brightest" have to waste their time in classrooms filled with mediocre to downright bad student peers?

40 Percent of Liberal Professors Are Afraid They'll Lose Their Jobs Over a Misunderstanding: https://reason.com/2023/02/28/40-percent-of-liberal-professors-are-afraid-theyll-lose-their-jobs-over-a-misunderstanding/

Define "compete well" U.S. Education Rankings Are Falling Behind the Rest of the World: https://www.thebalancemoney.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225

Agreed. The Hoosier Heartland Conference is the natural fit for the Hot Dogs.

To Increase 'Equity,' This California High School Is Eliminating Honors Courses: https://reason.com/2023/02/21/to-increase-equity-this-california-high-school-is-eliminating-honors-courses/?itm_source=parsely-api That is our government education system everybody. I giant race to equity, errr mediocrity.

Never fails.

That would leave just Frankfort, Crawfordsville, North Montgomery, South Montgomery, and Western Boone in the Sagamore. I thought the move was towards larger conferences, not smaller ones? Not sure a 5-school conference in this part of the state is viable anymore. If Tri-West, Lebanon, and Danville leave or are kicked out of the Sagamore look for the entire conference to dissolve shortly after.

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School reverses urinal ban after bathroom access debate: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/school-reverses-urinal-ban-after-bathroom-access-debate-97257376 I've been considering having a urinal installed in my home bathroom. Sounds like with the next decade urinals will be removed from most public restrooms because they "offend" the transgenders.

Yes, I do. No, I don't. Yes, I do. I would say the same of you, but it's clear you choose to live in a de-facto echo chamber, so such feedback would only serve to reinforce your sense of moral superiority. I have never espoused such an idea here on the GID. The is a place for government in our society, but it should be minimized as much as possible. And our current government is not minimal in size, scope, and power.

Isn't animal fighting, like cock fighting or dog fighting, illegal in Indiana?

Social Media Making Kids Depressed? Send Them Outside To Play: https://reason.com/2023/02/24/kids-social-media-depression-outdoor-play/ In a few months I plan on taking about a week long backpacking trip, in an area with little to no cellphone service. I can't wait.

Grow up. Sorry that you obviously have no family or friends. Or least none that will listen to you. Echo chamber and navel gazing to the max. Good luck.

My tax dollars? It probably won't effect them. But it will possibly effect the tax dollars of friends and family living in or around Indianapolis. And they need to be educated on the long term consequences of such government largesse. That they, their children, and their grandchildren will be paying for it for the rest of their lives. Heck, it was previously stated that taxpayers are still paying for the Hoosier Dome. Doesn't that raise warning bells for anyone?

Sure, that investment is great. If it is private investment

And you probably weren't raised in a household where between around 1977-1984 my father would go to work every day not knowing whether or not himself and others would be laid off and out of job by the end of the day, primarily due to company mismanagement. Or forced by that same union to take a pay cut during those lean years in order to help keep the plant open. And your obvious sour grapes concerning "Cadillac" insurance plans and pensions is duly noted. If you want a real "Cadillac" insurance and pension plan you need to look at what retirees from the Teamsters get. No, the UAW has been gutting it's members pension and insurance plans for decades. They are not what they used to be.

Yes, I believe I should have a say in how my tax dollars are spent. Unlike you I don't blindly trust the government.

https://mises.org/wire/power-woke-how-leftist-ideology-undermining-our-society-and-economy I choose freedom, not tyranny. Which is what the left agenda will ultimately lead to.

I am one of the millions of people. I donate my time, talent, and treasure on at least a weekly basis to a small number of community organizations, and have for over 25 years. What about you?