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Don’t Let Utopian Public Schooling Rhetoric Block School Choice: https://www.cato.org/blog/dont-let-utopian-public-schooling-rhetoric-block-school-choice Public schools were not forging unified, enlightened citizens, as was the goal, but were largely just a mundane part of life. Which would be fine, except that taxpayer support of uniform public schooling is compelled on the grounds that it is so much more than what it actually is — it is essential for “democracy,” right? — and in that privileged position it has often been worse than just ineffectual at its professed purpose. It has imposed or reinforced inequality and injustice. I won’t go over all the injustice in detail — you can see where I’ve discussed it in more depth—but remember that for much of its history public schooling often discriminated against minority religions, most notably Roman Catholics. It often either completely barred or segregated African Americans—not just in the South—and in some places Mexican and Asian Americans. It attacked the culturally unifying language of German immigrant communities. It now systematically treats religious Americans as second‐class citizens. And it forces people with different values, cultures, and identities to fight to see which “equal” people win, and which lose. School choice is fundamentally different from this. Based not on rhetoric about creating social and personal perfection, but on the reality of diverse human beings and communities, choice enables families to pursue the education that they want, that respects their cherished values and cultures, and that removes the threat that those with the most political power will impose their idea of “the good” on everyone. No doubt believers in public schooling such as Neem are guided by good intentions — they truly seek the ideal of unity and enlightenment for all — but too often, especially if they oppose school choice, they may let their ideals overtake their understanding of reality. And sometimes, it may lead them to forget that liberty is the country’s truly bedrock value.

Presidential Candidates Promise Freebies for Everyone Politicians win, taxpayers lose. : https://reason.com/2020/01/29/presidential-candidates-promise-freebies-for-everyone/ And what is sad is the taxpayers who vote for a uni-party candidate. They are as short-sighted as the candidates themselves, enamored with what kind of "free" stuff they can get from the federal government. They are perfectly willing to sacrifice the future American, the country of their children and grandchildren. Pitiful.

https://www.bestplaces.net/docs/studies/hurricane_hotspots.aspx http://www.hurricanecity.com/city/fortmyers.htm Again, no thanks. But to each his own.

Former Tri-West football coach charged with child seduction, obstruction: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2020/01/29/former-tri-west-football-coach-charged-seduction-obstruction/4607128002/

Yeah, looks great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCzoUTvAWg

I'll take tornadoes over rain deluges and storm surges.

https://reason.com/2020/01/28/1619-project-new-york-times-public-schools/ May be interesting how this plays out. Any Indiana government schools districts planning on using this material?

1. Hurricanes. No thank you.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2020/01/28/frankfort-mayor-chris-mcbarnes-stepping-down-moving-wyoming/4597775002/ Well, well. This was a surprise, only about 3 months after winning an unprecedented (for Frankfort) third term as Mayor. Expect some good political fallout and conspiracy theories over this one. Mr. McBarnes and the city council have saddled the city with all kinds of debt, guess he is the first to literally get out of Dodge. Not the mention the frankly asinine and IMHO should-be-illegal method of choosing a new Mayor, this time for an almost full term. There should be another election..................

You are welcome. Care to tell us about your storied local political career as a member of the uni-party?

Yale Will Eliminate a Beloved Introductory Art Class for Being Too White, Male, and Western: https://reason.com/2020/01/27/yale-university-art-department-western-white-male-problematic/ Poor little sheltered snowflakes may feel uncomfortable by an art class. Pitiful.

Be careful using the word 'any' IO: https://www.lp.org/elected-officials Now are these mostly small town, local, political arenas? Of course they are. But a movement has to start somewhere, and after all government is more effective the more local it is.

A couple have been in business, and growing, for 30+ years now. So I guess it has worked.

The Libertarian political party, of which I am not a member, is not part of the uni-party.

Yes, but I know of a number of large manufacturing facilities here in Indiana that run their operations, from factory floor to the administrative areas, on Windows servers.

So Seattle doesn't have a government school system?

https://reason.com/2020/01/28/why-alaskans-cant-get-alaskan-natural-gas/ Yet another example on why the insidious Jones Act needs to be repealed.

Seattle's School System Wants to Dismantle Its Gifted Programs. This Is Why School Choice Matters.: https://reason.com/2020/01/27/seattles-school-system-wants-to-dismantle-its-gifted-programs-this-is-why-school-choice-matters/ Only 1.6 percent of program's participants are African-American. But for these parents, that's a reason expand it, not end it. One parent told Herzog that Juneau hasn't talked to minority parents who have kids in the program to get their feedback. They don't seem to care about how minority students who do participate in the program have benefited. Instead, School Board Director Chandra Hampson claimed that these parents were being "tokenized" and used by white people to maintain the program. Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat is baffled by those at the school district who want to eliminate a successful program rather than trying to expand its reach. One school administrator told a parent that the program is "manufactured brilliance" that leads to "opportunity hoarding" by the privileged. Westneat has been seeing the term tossed around a lot lately, and he thinks it leads to a very ugly place: It should be horrifying to any parent that there are people out there who think educational equality means not just improving opportunities for those who are struggling but purposefully impeding opportunities for those the district deems too far ahead. And this isn't just happening in Seattle. Reason's Matt Welch has written about a similar fight in New York City. When I was in middle school, we read Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," a science fiction story about a future that achieved equality by handicapping those who were more talented than others. How else could we describe dismantling an education program entirely because it helps high-achieving students? Parent Chun Ng tells Westneat the likely outcome if the program disappears: And that, ultimately, is why school choice matters. Parents should be able to respond to Juneau's blunt dismissal of their children's needs by taking their business elsewhere.

My definition of 'Uni-Party' has not wavered. It is the Democratic Party and the Republican party. The only real difference between the two anymore is exactly who's money they want to steal in order to fund an over sized, bloated federal government. Just two sides of the same corrupt coin.

FTFY. YW.

Yes, definitely residents of the Atlanta, Arcadia, Cicero region.

How is Linux working at the Clark County School District? And once again you are talking about hardware, not software. There is a difference between the two, you realize that?

Spoken like a true Apple fanboi and worshipper of the late Steve Jobs. And what exactly do you mean by "every segment of computing outside of PC's"

https://apnews.com/c6174405f64d2d49d54ba955d5ccad70 Congratulations to Mr. Manning on a long and successful career. Now the question is: Hall of Fame?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-washington-is-ramming-real-id-down-our-throats/ More security theater. And of course the real threat is to U.S. citizens and their freedoms.