I call "shenanigans". Do you have any actual recent sources for saying that? Are you from a state that is reasonably funding its educational system? I'm very impressed with my kids' public school and am happy we chose that over private. I'd find sources for something more than an anecdote, but I won't waste my time if you're not.
I guess I should have put in something like [rolls eyes] in my original post, as that it appears that your sarcasm meter isn't functioning at a properly high level.
Why can't I slap my wife around? I feel that sometimes it's in her best interest that I do so, so why is that tool not available to me?
Depends on what state you live in.
I believe in AR, that on the books, there is still a law that says something like that you can beat your wife, but only like once a week and cannot use a stick/pole that is larger than 1/2" diameter. Something like that.
Its funny some of the old laws that are on the books...so, you actually might be technically legal to still slap her around in some states.
2) The father could beat the shit out of you if you didn't do your homework, or mouthed off to the teacher.
Err...when and in what state is it against the law for a parent to use corporal punishment on their own child? I'm not saying abuse, but spanking, etc...is perfectly still legal as far as I know. It is just that so many parents today are a bit too namby pamby and want to be friends with their kids instead of parents to them.
But, I never heard it as against the law to spank your kids.
Too many parents are burned out, working all day not getting home until after 6pm only to crash and wake up and do it again. They don't have as much time or energy for their kids as in years past because wages on average have not kept up with the cost of living, so people are working harder for less. It's an effect from the short sighted economic policy in this country. And considering how many kids have been pushed (sold) to go into debt to go to college only to find themselves without a good enough job or enough income for the decent standard of living they were promised, it's only going to get worse.
Perhaps it is because parents of today don't know or accept that if you choose to have kids, there are SACRIFICES that have to be made my most folks that aren't wealthy.
Quit working 14 hour days, to have money for a house bigger than you can afford, to drive that BMW you can't afford, and have other luxuries that others seem to have.
Drop back on the lifestyle, and pay that money and more importantly, TIME, to your kids.
If you wanted more disposable income, then you should not have chosen to have one or more kids.
Parental participation is NOT the problem. The problem is administration and the U.S. litigious attitude. School boards have members pushing personal agendas in terms of education, while stripping power and responsibility away from front-line teachers for fear of any potential legal action. Teachers should be granted "legal guardian" status for every child in their class during the school day, superseding the parents. This would allow teachers to act more like parents and deal with kids, instead of having to throw their hands up in the air in frustration that Little Johnny has a rich, douchebag lawyer for a father.
Perhaps we need to rethink this whole "right to an education" thing as it has been traditionally thought of.
Perhaps we need to give everyone a chance at a regular education, but rather than continually pander to the lowest common denominator (behavior or ability), those can can't cut it or make it difficult for teachers to maintain control...we weed those kids out, and set up an alternate path for them, going to what used to be termed trade schools where the kids could then at least learn direct skills for a trade to work at when they were graduated from the process.
Would that not be a win-win? It allows the students that want to learn and behave to get a broader traditional education with competition, etc...un-hindered by students that can cut it, but still allowing for the lesser students to have trained abilities so they too can make a living in the world when they leave home.
When it comes time for admission and staying in, a student in the top 10% of a US high school just does not have the ability to compete with his/her counterparts who come from China and India [1].
In danger of playing the "race card" here, but even the Chinese/Asian students that ARE American Citizens, raised in the US, have pretty high scholastic achievement over other races in the US going from HS to College.
Even here in the US, a lot of Chinese, Japanese, etc kids still seem to be raised in households that value PUSH for kids to educate themselves.
You know, I'd be all for fully funding food stamps IF, they would/could somehow control them to ONLY be used for healthy foods. No processed foods to be bought with them, only fresh veggies and fruit, meats, eggs...etc. Stuff you have to cook.
This, to me....would be giving nutrition where it is truly needed. Don't allow them to be used for crappy food, or be sold or bartered for cash at stores that do this, so that money can be used for drugs, etc.
Also never seem to attend public schools. Usually these cheerleaders are wealthy, and wealthy families tend to use private schools.
And exactly what is wrong with people that can afford to help their children get a better education doing so? Should not every parent try to provide the best life skills and education for their offspring that they are able to provide?
Are you advocating that people who have these means...sacrifice the lives of their children, send them for a poor education merely to prove a social "point"?
Yeah, like the present public school system is a shining beacon of success.
Yep, we're just churning out bright, qualified students one right after the other.
Geez, our present system is an utter failure in most of the US. I would posit that pretty much anything is worth trying, in an effort to start trying to reign in cost, and get more results from our efforts.
There is one thing, however, which I don't know how we can fix, at least not from a legislative or policy standpoint, and that is the lack of parental participation.
So many parents think of the schools as a dumping ground for their progeny for day long child care. They don't participate except to raise hell with the administrators they their little Bobby or LaTonya is accused of mis-behavior (MY child would never...), or if they need to be held back due to lack of progress.
Yeah that actually is a bad thing, since with such a car you're spending multiple times the necessary energy to get from A to B while not being any faster, in practical terms, than, say, I in my car which I easily get over 50 mpg (still ~30 mpg when driving 'wasteful', i.e. frequently going over 85 mph; ~15 when really pushing it (>110 mph))
Did you ever consider that some of us buy cars for FUNâ¦.and can afford the gas?
Okay, I'm somewhat off-topic, but I've gotta ask what you have against this? I've personally had the experience of a former GF's 4 yr old opening a back door while I was cruising down the road.
But they are fuckin' pain in the ass for a grown adult riding with someone that always has the damned things locked.
Sheesh...are today's kids just more stupid? I mean, no one I know growing up before this charming invention had problems with kids falling out of moving cars left and right..?
Disclaimer: i drive manual transmission too, but for none of the reasons you mention. My reasons are: a) simpler/more robust design (i.e. one less part which can fail fail), b) more control, c) avoid ridicule
You forgot:
d) Its fun to rev the engine, and drop the clutch and spin the tires from time to time.
Everyone google everyone. When someone is asking for employment, seek a job, seek a position, ask for marriage, new neighbors etc...you'll get googled. This isn't good, in fact - it's very bad, for everyone, including yourself. Because at some point, you'll have no privacy anymore.
Well, there's good reason to not put information about yourself on the internet. I've been on since about '92, and thankfully googling myself comes up very little pointing to me. I don't do FB or twitter, etc.
You don't have to be highly searchable, so many people are doing this to themselves by publishing every picture ever taken of themselves, and constantly publishing their daily routine and other more personal information. People are doing it to themselves sadly.
But while so much privacy is lost today, sadly...you CAN do things to help keep your digital footprint to the lowest possible level, and still have a thriving and fun life. Just because you're not on FB doesn't mean you have to be a hermit either, I prefer to get out and interact with real people in meatspace.
Where in the Constitution does it say anything at all about marriage? This is the problem with education these days - people have no idea what the Constitution even is.
Govt (state or fed) should *not* be in the marriage business at all.
Marriage is a religious institution, and if anything deserved the separation of church/state this should be a big issue.
Now, if one or more people want to bind in a civil contract (union), then sure, the govt can bless and help enforce that.
Do this and clear up all the shit out there about this or that marriage. Leave marriage to the churches. Let the govt sanction and enforce contracts like they should.
I'm not for or against Obamacare, as a software engineer it simply does not affect me. (I kept my same health insurance I've always had.)
Don't worry, you will deal with obamacare soon. They delated the changes and mandates to the employer based health plans, but it is coming, they hope just after the next presidential election.
But, everyone else will get hit with this mess then, unless we can fix/repeal and start over.
Many American family's do not have an extra $100 in their budget.
Err...why should US families save a portion of their budget each paycheck aside for routine health needs, just like they do for savings, utilities, food, shelter, etc?
I would prefer that the HSA's (Health Savings Accounts, not a use it or lose it like FSA's at work) be easier for all US citizens to open to save their routine health care dollars into pre-tax. This is the way to give people power over their medical dollars, and just save insurance for emergencies, what used to be called "Major Medical".
They're the definition of a subset of the Republic Party. The Teabaggers are the most radical, and most stupid, faction of the Republic Party. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just honestly curious, what do you think is stupid about them?
I like the parts about reducing our govt. to levels more in line with what is spelled out in the Constitution, more power to the states as it was set up, etc.
What about that do you think is stupid? Honest question...is it this, or you have other items you dislike and please list them.
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I guess I should have put in something like [rolls eyes] in my original post, as that it appears that your sarcasm meter isn't functioning at a properly high level.
Depends on what state you live in.
I believe in AR, that on the books, there is still a law that says something like that you can beat your wife, but only like once a week and cannot use a stick/pole that is larger than 1/2" diameter. Something like that.
Its funny some of the old laws that are on the books...so, you actually might be technically legal to still slap her around in some states.
Hey, I know that if I'd not gotten the ass-whoopings I did, I would NOT have turned out as well as I did.
Err...when and in what state is it against the law for a parent to use corporal punishment on their own child? I'm not saying abuse, but spanking, etc...is perfectly still legal as far as I know. It is just that so many parents today are a bit too namby pamby and want to be friends with their kids instead of parents to them.
But, I never heard it as against the law to spank your kids.
Perhaps it is because parents of today don't know or accept that if you choose to have kids, there are SACRIFICES that have to be made my most folks that aren't wealthy.
Quit working 14 hour days, to have money for a house bigger than you can afford, to drive that BMW you can't afford, and have other luxuries that others seem to have.
Drop back on the lifestyle, and pay that money and more importantly, TIME, to your kids.
If you wanted more disposable income, then you should not have chosen to have one or more kids.
Perhaps we need to rethink this whole "right to an education" thing as it has been traditionally thought of.
Perhaps we need to give everyone a chance at a regular education, but rather than continually pander to the lowest common denominator (behavior or ability), those can can't cut it or make it difficult for teachers to maintain control...we weed those kids out, and set up an alternate path for them, going to what used to be termed trade schools where the kids could then at least learn direct skills for a trade to work at when they were graduated from the process.
Would that not be a win-win? It allows the students that want to learn and behave to get a broader traditional education with competition, etc...un-hindered by students that can cut it, but still allowing for the lesser students to have trained abilities so they too can make a living in the world when they leave home.
In danger of playing the "race card" here, but even the Chinese/Asian students that ARE American Citizens, raised in the US, have pretty high scholastic achievement over other races in the US going from HS to College.
Even here in the US, a lot of Chinese, Japanese, etc kids still seem to be raised in households that value PUSH for kids to educate themselves.
Youtube has from time to time prompted me to put in for a G+ account, but I just keep refusing.
By the by...who actually puts their REAL name on there when creating a gmail account?
This, to me....would be giving nutrition where it is truly needed. Don't allow them to be used for crappy food, or be sold or bartered for cash at stores that do this, so that money can be used for drugs, etc.
And exactly what is wrong with people that can afford to help their children get a better education doing so? Should not every parent try to provide the best life skills and education for their offspring that they are able to provide?
Are you advocating that people who have these means...sacrifice the lives of their children, send them for a poor education merely to prove a social "point"?
Yep, we're just churning out bright, qualified students one right after the other.
Geez, our present system is an utter failure in most of the US. I would posit that pretty much anything is worth trying, in an effort to start trying to reign in cost, and get more results from our efforts.
There is one thing, however, which I don't know how we can fix, at least not from a legislative or policy standpoint, and that is the lack of parental participation.
So many parents think of the schools as a dumping ground for their progeny for day long child care. They don't participate except to raise hell with the administrators they their little Bobby or LaTonya is accused of mis-behavior (MY child would never...), or if they need to be held back due to lack of progress.
Do they even hold kids back anymore?
I buy only for myself. I've never understood the people that try to equate it with a penis thing tho....
Did you ever consider that some of us buy cars for FUNâ¦.and can afford the gas?
Can you just not choose OnStar as an option? Can you not have the dealer completely remove that crap?
If it isn't an option (I heard you can't get chevy w/o OnStar now)â¦.how can you quickly detach/disable this functionality?
You talk like that's a bad thing or something....?
But they are fuckin' pain in the ass for a grown adult riding with someone that always has the damned things locked.
Sheesh...are today's kids just more stupid? I mean, no one I know growing up before this charming invention had problems with kids falling out of moving cars left and right..?
You forgot:
d) Its fun to rev the engine, and drop the clutch and spin the tires from time to time.
Well, there's good reason to not put information about yourself on the internet. I've been on since about '92, and thankfully googling myself comes up very little pointing to me. I don't do FB or twitter, etc.
You don't have to be highly searchable, so many people are doing this to themselves by publishing every picture ever taken of themselves, and constantly publishing their daily routine and other more personal information. People are doing it to themselves sadly.
But while so much privacy is lost today, sadly...you CAN do things to help keep your digital footprint to the lowest possible level, and still have a thriving and fun life. Just because you're not on FB doesn't mean you have to be a hermit either, I prefer to get out and interact with real people in meatspace.
Gang members kill people.
Govt (state or fed) should *not* be in the marriage business at all.
Marriage is a religious institution, and if anything deserved the separation of church/state this should be a big issue.
Now, if one or more people want to bind in a civil contract (union), then sure, the govt can bless and help enforce that.
Do this and clear up all the shit out there about this or that marriage. Leave marriage to the churches. Let the govt sanction and enforce contracts like they should.
Don't worry, you will deal with obamacare soon. They delated the changes and mandates to the employer based health plans, but it is coming, they hope just after the next presidential election.
But, everyone else will get hit with this mess then, unless we can fix/repeal and start over.
Err...why should US families save a portion of their budget each paycheck aside for routine health needs, just like they do for savings, utilities, food, shelter, etc?
I would prefer that the HSA's (Health Savings Accounts, not a use it or lose it like FSA's at work) be easier for all US citizens to open to save their routine health care dollars into pre-tax. This is the way to give people power over their medical dollars, and just save insurance for emergencies, what used to be called "Major Medical".
Just honestly curious, what do you think is stupid about them?
I like the parts about reducing our govt. to levels more in line with what is spelled out in the Constitution, more power to the states as it was set up, etc.
What about that do you think is stupid? Honest question...is it this, or you have other items you dislike and please list them.
I mean, I've seen humans walking around that are large enough to have their own personal orbital field around them.
I'd have to think that with this many fat folks on earth these days, it would affect the gravity pull of earth itself.