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We pay for 13 years of education at no cost to the child is or the child's family... If the locals choose to reward teachers that fail to teach their students with higher paychecks, tenure, and life-long pension and healthcare rather that's on the community.

People aren't denied education, they simply mismanaged the resources provided to educate them.

Disclaimer: I'm a IT staff member in a public school district.

Given your low 4-digit UID, I assume you're an old fart. So let me spell out something for you.

There is mismanagement of resources, but placing the blame squarely at the feet of teachers is wrong.

Throwing money at education, much like anything else, doesn't guarantee success. Further, it's not like the students being educated are products at the local store. You can't just run in and pay for "education" in a can and always walk out with the exact same product every time. It's a craft, not a mass produced trinket from China. You will get imperfections and defects every time. Even more so once you realize the craft is being applied to substandard materials, IE. Children. These students are not adults with a desire to learn, they are kids who for all intensive purposes, are being held against their will, in a room by people they may not like, along with a bunch of other peers they may not like and may even be terrorized by, under the pretext of it being "good for them".

One of the biggest issues is the gamification of education. The No Child Left Behind Act is directly responsible for this mess because a bunch of politicians decided that everyone was perfect, and mandated by law perfection, with showering of money for showing constant "growth" in student proficiencies, and pink slip Russian roulette for constant "regression". Cue the pubic school districts wanting free money or to avoid losing their jobs bumping up the test scores, and being found out. All of that's before you get into the misuse of the Standardized Test Scores. Plus it's getting worse, what with our US Department of Education Secretary being a privatization of education proponent, e.g. Charter Schools which have a profit incentive to ensure low passage rates and high tuition costs as a business model, who's supporters say she should step down, and state governors like Matt Bevin (KY) who wants to use public funds to support said for profits, while at the same time cutting public education funds saying the money isn't there. Long story short, you can't gamify a person's continued employment completely based on the input from others and expect the results to be good.

And before you say: "We'll that's what they get for not teaching them." Remember that the Standardized Tests are Multiple Choice tests for the sole purpose of expedient grading. They are not a valid method to determine a person’s knowledge because it's perfectly possible to ace the test without knowing any of the answers through sheer probability / luck. Worse, it's perfectly possible for a student to hide their deficiencies on the test because of this. So even an educa

Here's a trial by a tv station: http://www.nbc12.com/story/182...

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Give me a single solid example - voter validation leaves a paper trail, so the evidence should be easy to come by.

Utter BS!

What paper trail? You walk in, say you are Joe Blow, live at a given street, make your mark and you get a ballot... the only way you know that this was done fraudulently is if the real Joe Blow comes in later to vote and told that he already did... which mathematically wouldn't always happen depending on how well a fraudulent voter picked their targets.

Want cases of people who were told they already voted? Here are a couple:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/199...
http://www.examiner.com/articl...
And even from Scotland: http://www.itv.com/news/update...

At the end of the day, so long as you keep your mouth shut (unlike this woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) you probably aren't going to get caught: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local... as you don't exactly see many cameras in polling stations synced up to when given names are scratches off as having voted.

This all assumes it's hard to get someone else's ballot, (spoiler: it isn't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And I'm not sure if you've ever noticed, but cashiers are supposed to match the name on your license with the name on whatever credit card you're purchasing with. What would be different here?

I'm pretty sure that's wrong. From what I've read, you "cannot" be required to show an ID when purchasing with a credit card, unless you haven't signed the back. This is the first link I found that seems to back that up.

bullshit.

I'm not up on all the most current regional slang. In your area does "bullshit" also mean, "I don't know and can't bother to find out"?

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He's mentally ill

How, exactly, do you know this? You have the qualifications to set a diagnosis and have enough data to comfortably do so?

Judge orders Chesterfield Marine's release from psychiatric facility

However, Raub's defense attorney admitted in court that during Raub's evaluation, mental health professionals found signs of "psychosis."

"Add into the mix one guy who watches too much wrestling and one gal who re-lived her first Backstreet Boys concert by wetting herself and you'll being looking for video of the whole thing"

Found it!

Info http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/ 6592/

Video http://nbc12.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WWBT/P age/VideoPopup&c=Page&cid=1059969235826&image=medi a.mgnetwork.com!wwbt!images!hdr_video.jpg&oasDN=ww bt.com&siteid=WWBT&videoid=1031784465717

Slideshow http://macdailynews.com/index.php?URL=http://media .gatewayva.com/photos/rtd/special/ibook/index.htm

Pics: http://media.gatewayva.com/photos/rtd/special/iboo k/index.htm
Realplayer Video: http://nbc12.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WWBT/P age/VideoPopup&c=Page&cid=1059969235826&image=medi a.mgnetwork.com!wwbt!images!hdr_video.jpg&oasDN=ww bt.com&siteid=WWBT&videoid=1031784465717

Good luck - my installation barely survived the floods caused by Hurricane Gaston (the stupid slideshow says Frances, but it was Gaston.)