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2 years

@Ezra4Liberty Look at that. Moderate libertarian. Who would have expected that?

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2 years

@kaschuta Meh. If there's a market for it, great. If there's not, people won't use some of the flags or characters. If people oppose it, they won't buy/play the game, and COD will do something different with the next version. This is the way free markets work.

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@wanyeburkett Most poor people are not anti-social. But most anti-social people are poor and you don't need very many anti-social people to destroy a family, a classroom, a school, or a neighborhood.

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@FreeRangeKids People drop off young kids at the library like it's daycare. The libraries aren't staffed for that, and the kids are loud and destructive. What would you have the libraries do?

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@DanWuori My babies are in their 20s now, but my most willful limit-pusher was my least tantrum-y toddler. Because, instead of getting upset at whatever limitation had been put in her path by me or the laws of nature, she was busy formulating a plan B, C, D, E, F... LOL!

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@whstancil Nobody cares what consenting adults do or how they identify themselves. But when it becomes "schools should teach x ideology" or "laws should recognize x ideology over scientific fact" or "citizens must endorse x ideology over y ideology" that does & should elicit pushback.

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@wanyeburkett 20 yrs ago, before I went to college, I joined an online parent of twins group. In various discussions it became very obvious that several very educated people (professors, lawyers, etc.) did not understand insurance, credit, or very basic econ. It changed my worldview.

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@TheRabbitHole84 It goes farther back than that. If you look at 8th grade curriculum from 100 years ago, the rigor is similar to a bachelor's degree today or a high school diploma in 1970. We keep adding years and funding and not adding education/learning.

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10 months

@MattRKay Missed opportunity. You need to model academic English 99% of the time and then occasionally praise a particularly high-quality answer/contribution with "wow, Brittany. Great answer! You *pause awkwardly* "ate that up." Look to the class for approval. They'll go crazy LOL!

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2 years

@suptdrmccormick I've always been a fan of yours and have defended you to conservatives. But you're on the wrong side of school choice. If districts want the funding, they need to address the reasons families are leaving.

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@IbnKhaldune @Empty_America You can live an average 1920 lifestyle (small home, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no car, no cell service, no cable, no convenience foods/takeout) working 16 hours a week. But most of us would prefer to work FT for the higher standard of living.

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@LeeCZ73 @ZubyMusic I went to college at age 35 to get my teaching license. All of my education courses were ideological, not scientific, and most were taught by people who possessed a below-average fund of knowledge compared to average non-academics. Grad courses were even worse.

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@mcsquared34 This isn't true. The methodology used to come to this conclusion is only measuring serf obligation to the Lord (2-3 days a week) in return for the land on which the Serfs could farm and homestead for themselves on top of that. None of your ancestors had more leisure than you do!

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@whstancil I think you have to be pretty affluent to not know how much money you make and how much money you spend. Anyone who lives on any sort of budget keeps track of this information, right? And, you can literally compare a grocery ad from 12/2/19 and 12/2/23 (or any other kind of ad)

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2 years

@RAZ0RFIST @kaschuta They're going to do whatever gets them the most customers. I'm not a potential customer, so my preferences don't matter.

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2 years

@Anonymo67908660 @AnkerMath Your child is an outlier. In 9 yrs & 1000+ students, I have never had a student who worked hard, studied hard & did poorly on tests. I believe such students exist, like your child, but we shouldn't base class policy on once-a-decade kids, but accommodate outliers as they occur.

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@benigma2017 We pay more for tax-funded healthcare and tax-funded education than most other countries. I definitely think we could allocate that funding better, but the poor in particular, have access to more education and healthcare than the poor have anywhere in the world, don't they?

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11 months

@whstancil It's awesome that my gen-z kids' part-time food service pay went up 60% (from $9/10 hr in 2019 to $15/16 now.) My income has gone from 46K in 2019 to 52K last year (13%) and my expenses have gone up roughly 30%. That's the real world people are living in and complaining about.

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@Shockey_Stan @whstancil My kids (22, 22, 25) had abt 30% income increase since 2020 in their part-time food service jobs while in college. I, a HS teacher & the one paying their bills, have had a 17% increase. Together, we average higher real income, but I'm the nutjob if I complain about inflation.

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2 years

@kellyske This is a red herring. Opposition to school choice comes primarily from people who benefit financially and/or politically from the American assigned-school system, not homeschoolers. Majorities in both major parties, all races, and all age groups support school choice.

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@SchlFinance101 We fund education so that it's accessible to all, not to control other people's kids. We should fund k-12 ed the same way we fund daycare vouchers, Pell grants, public housing, Medicaid, &food stamps: allowing the funding to follow the recipient to the provider they choose.

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2 years

@GreasyAzzDawg @PaulSkallas Living within your means and avoiding debt are timeless. What has changed is entitlement. Social media has convinced the most privileged generation to ever live on earth that they are disadvantaged and oppressed.

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2 years

@BrentAWilliams2 @MrDanielBuck SEL is not always evil. Sometimes, if it's done well, it's merely a waste of time and taxpayer money.

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2 years

@freethe_saints @SallyMayweather The graphic is very accurate. The distance from the cookie kiosk to the bathroom entrance to the food court is 50 yards. Every Hoosier who has ever been to Greenwood Park Mall can confirm what every officer, witness, and journalist has reported. It was indeed a 40 yard shot.

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2 years

@Evill_01 @DJCwittz @DelusionPosting Hunting and gathering in a national forest and hiding from authorities will be way easier than hunting and gathering in the Stone age hiding from the things humans hid from in the Paleolithic age.

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@Angry_Staffer Is there something specific about Project 2025 that concerns you. Is it the decentralization that worries you or something else? Genuine question. Progressives keep talking about how bad it is but then describe parts that would make us more like other liberal democracies.

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@MadiSP4321 As a parent, when my kid responded stuff like this with the equivalent of "the teacher is wrong," I was always like, "before you ask me to advocate for you, I need you to be very, very sure that what you're telling me is 100 factual." I'd get "well let me double check..." 🙄

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@sage_stage We don't need to increase funding. We simply need to separate kids who don't want to be there from the kids who do. I could teach classes of 40-50 kids if you took out the 4-5 kids who can't or won't demonstrate high-school level behavior and academic ability.

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@patwmcnamara @wanyeburkett I've never voted for a Republican president, and certainly wouldn't choose Trump for my first. But I have to admit, the Chevron ruling and the left's reaction to it has me considering voting for Trump (rather than 3rd party) for no other reasons than the Supreme Court nominees.

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@scottsantens See, this is where I think UBI has potential. Replacing need-based programs with a UBI (and decreasing social security by UBI amount) is a better use of social welfare dollars. It would also encourage multi-adult households, which current welfare programs dis-incentivize.

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@emilykmay But nobody has to pass out candy. When it stops being fun, people turn off their lights & stop participating. I don't think it's the candy-givers that are ruining things. It's the huge # of rude kids who are ruining it. Trick or treating used to be fun for givers and getters.

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@whstancil Being ethically opposed to conscription is repulsive? That's an interesting perspective.

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@cafreiman And the standard of living is much higher. My great-grandparents worked 60 hr weeks to live in a rural shack with no plumbing or electricity. I could live like they did working one hour a day at minimum wage.

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@pontificatormax @DelusionPosting This is only counting the days they worked for the Lord. They still needed to do all the work needed to feed clothes and shelter their own families, which was non-stop work. There's a reason our grandfathers left the farm and got day jobs.

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@JayWamsted I agree most students are not prepared for rigorous coursework. But I disagree we are "stuffing" difficult work onto hardworking kids. They're not ready because they haven't learned what they're supposed to learn. Past generations learned more, not less, in middle & high school.

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@He11star @ZachWLambert @YouTube Forgiving people who owe you money is gracious. Stealing from one person to pay the debt of a wealthier person to an even wealthier person is not gracious or Christian or moral.

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@ZoeBearG @sarahbeth345 @mrobmused The majority of both major parties supports school choice, but the objection comes from people who benefit from the assigned school system who are overwhelmingly Progressive, so they try to paint choice as something radical and right wing.

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@CBoothStuntman @FischerKing64 It's actually benefiting motivated high schoolers. I teach healthcare career courses & help place students in entry level healthcare jobs. The # of employers that will hire & train HS students for HHA, CNA and pharmacy tech jobs has increased dramatically this school year.

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@oilrfan @kpac_15 Children are undeveloped and vulnerable and need legal protection from adults who would exploit them. Parents are the legal guardians. Teachers are not the legal guardians. Hope that helps.

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@Ssmith571Smith @JeremyTate41 @SethDillon I think interacting with the real world teaches you how to interact in the real world, and age based classrooms don't mimic the real world very well at all.

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@goinggodward I asked a woman when she was due in the waiting room of a lab where 2 other women & myself were late-term pregnant & she looked early-to-mid. She wasn't. I told her she didn't look it, it was just because I thought "we" all were. She pretended to believe me. It still haunts me.

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@rowan_canyon @wanyeburkett If people suspect child abuse, they should report it. But normalizing teachers and healthcare workers routinely questioning children and framing themselves as benevolent and parents as threats is authoritarian craziness. Parents are the legal protectors.

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@StaringSad @YIMBYLAND

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@BruceHoltgren @FreeRangeKids Oh, I'm sure you're right. But it's much, much easier to have a "no unsupervised children" policy than to keep out JUST the trouble makers.

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@HNeufmille @RayHale2906 @ZubyMusic You can't force unwanted treatments on people because of your medical condition. Other people aren't to blame for your immuno compromised state and they're not responsible for protecting you from it at the expense of their own liberty and agency over their own body.

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@MrDanielBuck I think there should be an optional exam to test out of grade levels. I also think you should be able to take the GED at any age. Make the knowledge more important than "schooling."

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@techknowmath I swear achievement would skyrocket and cost would plummet if we simply allowed kids to take the GED at any age and offered free college courses in high school.

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@drqinzhu @CCreightonMath Americans use terms like "student-centered" learning to mean 'teacher-dependent" learning and teacher-centeredv learning for teaching students to learn independently. Which is completely backwards, but I don't make the rules.

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@martinsross1 @Miss_Snuffy I'm thankful for all kinds of people who get paid to do jobs that make my life better. Gratitude benefits me. Entitlement hurts me. Why wouldn't I teach my children and my students that?

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2 years

@Julian_Liberty @monitoringbias If you download the whole report, it's on page 141.

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@crcwilkinson @Angry_Staffer Thank you. It's a large document. I was just asking people discussing it what specifically alarmed them. Despite the craziness in this thread, several people did indeed provide quotes that highlight disturbing threats to civil liberties.

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@EDHotTakes @wesyang What data are you referring to? I'm genuinely interested in the methodology and criteria for success with regard to moving in the right direction.

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@JayWamsted I don't think the problem is teachers referring to any part of their personal lives. The problems occur when a teacher uses his/her personal life to try to convert students to ideologies that conflict with the cultural, religious, or political ideologies of their parents.

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@Duckthorix @LocalBateman Interesting compared to what? Interesting compared to hobbies you would do for free? Of course not. Interesting compared to hunting and gathering, sustenance farming, or homeless starvation - absolutely.

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@lesliejones4mo Monopolies are the problem, and competition is the solution. Profit or nonprofit isn't the determining factor. Improving competition within education, healthcare, or prison management will increase quality and decrease cost.

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@mrsblovehistory @nancytaughtyou I think this is the rule, not the exception. I think social media gives us the impression that there are more affluent people than they're actually are. I agree people who inherent$$ or can borrow more than the occasional $50 from their parents are extremely privileged.

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@Wrldccrdngtpl @Rothmus Authoritarian govt can corrupt any economic system. But voluntary collectivism is possible in free markets, yet voluntary exchange is not possible under collectivism. Collectivism forces exchanges that one or both parties wouldn't voluntarily make. Voluntary exchange is win-win.

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@rastokke When I went to college at age 35, I was worried I'd look/feel stupid. Ha! In every single course I took, there were only 2-3 sts who appeared to have done any of the readings, even a quick skim. Those that came to class prepared were almost always older, nontraditional students!

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@TrollTrace5 @RealSpikeCohen @piper4missouri This doesn't make sense. School choice uses current funding. The problem isn't inadequate funding. The problem is schools that disenfranchised families. If you want to keep enrollment money, address the concerns of the families who are leaving.

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@JuicyJuuce @rowan_canyon @wanyeburkett I'm saying it's as weird as if your grocery store bagger wanted to pull your kid aside and ask them if everything is okay at home. You would rightfully object. Because it's bizarre and inappropriate. If the grocery store bagger suspects abuse, he/she should call CPS.

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@Jurgen80048425 @Strandjunker They don't. Only 1.3% make the federal minimum wage or below, and most of those are workers who also make tips. Even in low-cost-of living Indiana, 15-year-olds are making $15/hour in fast food, and Amazon hires 18-year-olds with no experience or HS diploma at $17/hour.

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@theDRAMAgoat1 This is objectively false. Black/Brown families use school choice in higher proportions than white families do. And charter schools and voucher schools are poorer and less white as a while than district schools as a whole.

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@LynEpar @RepThomasMassie @Serienya @CDCDirector @US_FDA Can you name a single instance where he is misrepresenting actual scientific data? So much of what the CDC, FDA and pharma called science has been propaganda, not science.

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@ModestTeacher Indiana has income limits for vouchers. Rich families aren't eligible.

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@misterslaw @whstancil There is no library, database, or peer-reviewed research that suggests any other time or place where more people had a higher standard of living than the US today. There might be some quibbling abt 2019 vs 2024, but nobody thinks people were richer in the 50s or 70s or whatever.

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@mattyglesias Sometimes when I get frustrated with teaching, my salary, housing prices, culture war stuff, etc. I just picture my ancestors looking at my standard of living and lifestyle compared to theirs and just laughing and laughing and laughing.

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@desmos77 @MrDanielBuck That's absolutely tragic, but that has nothing to do with homeschooling or positive/negative socialization. Most of the violence, bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault people experience in their entire lives takes place in school settings.

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@ChrisExpTheNews How do you propose we keep kids from going to college for unmarketable majors? How do we get kids to develop marketable skills before they interview for middle class jobs? Because kids with marketable majors and skills are getting good jobs just fine.

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@rebelEducator I swear we need a school model where first 2 hours are devoted to core content teaching and assessment, and the rest of the school day is for tutoring, enrichment/electives, activities. But for students who stay proficient in core content, the rest of the school day is optional.

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@HppoTweeter @redscores1 @Rothmus You can keep posting Barbie memes, but it doesn't change the fact that there's nothing consensual about income tax, property tax, UBI, inflationary monetary policy.

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@Angry_Sociology @CougarSpider @SwannMarcus89 The primary purpose of prison is to protect society from criminals. Rehabilitation is a worthy and noble goal. But it's secondary to protecting society from crime.

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@k8roulette2 When I taught the solar system to 6th graders, one year I tried pronouncing Uranus as YER-uh-nus, to avoid the snickers. Kids still giggled. I'm like"I'm pronouncing it this way so you won't giggle and you're still giggling." And a boy says, "but now you're saying urine." 😂🙄

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@EDHotTakes @wesyang I'm as pro-science as it gets but I'm unfamiliar with the data you're referring to. My skepticism regarding gender ideology is that it is not based on science. I'm open to new information, but just waving your hand and saying "all the data" isn't persuasive.

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@Activist_Shirts Why? Why is renting your home to someone who wans to rent a home different than providing any other good or service? Are you against renting furniture? Leasing a car? As long as it's a voluntary exchange, why do you care what people choose to exchange?

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@JasonJAnger Group-work isn't all bad, especially in science. Grouping kids in 4s makes it convenient for labs, stations, and any activity that requires supplies. I think group grades and group assessments are always bad, but working in groups can be productive, cost-efficient and enjoyable.

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@FD @mattyglesias We also have higher rates of crime, higher rates of recidivism, more violence in our schools, and lower rates of psychiatric institutionalization. We don't do things that prevent high crime.

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@THEBIGCREME @ControGorilla I've actually never talked to a socialist who understood microeconomics at all. They've all read collectivist philosophy and think that's the same as economics, and that anyone who disagrees is brainwashed.

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@whstancil Even if your parents/grandparents did buy homes in their 20s (mine didn't), they weren't like 2024 homes. In 1950, 25% of homes lacked indoor plumbing. . In 1970, 72% of homes had only 1 bathroom. In 1980, 35% of homes lacked A/C. In 1990, only 45% of homes had a diswasher

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@baggy615 @estockbridge You think the supreme court judges checked the power of un-elected bureaucrats in extra-constitutional federal agencies because they want to abolish the government as a whole?

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@fredgiblet @freechewy @ZeekArkham You're mischaracterizing the center as indecisive instead of independent minded. We shouldnt have to choose between authoritarian left and authoritarian right. Economic and Social common sense is mostly in the middle.

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@JasonJAnger One of the smartest things I ever did was buy a second-hand copy of "How to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" & taught my daughters to read before kindergarten. This was before I went to college & became a teacher.

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@bethanyshondark Several years ago, a friend was going back & forth about keeping/ending her pregnancy. She ended up getting a 15 wk abortion. The sounds traumatized her, & her description of the sounds traumatized me. She has guilt, but she expected guilt. She wasn't prepared for the sounds.

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@Penny_VB "While we believe it to be accurate, we no longer have- nor can we find-the original research that supports the numbers." - NTL Institute personal communication, 2009

(PDF) A rebuttal of NTL Institute's learning pyramid

PDF | This article discusses the learning pyramid propagated by National Training Laboratories Institute. It presents and complements the historical and... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

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@juanlargooo @jared_vastine @Rothmus Nobody is obligated to loan you money. And people who do loan you money are completely within their rights to use math to estimate the risk of loaning you money. Similarly, you are free to loan out money to whomever you wish, without using math to estimate your risk.

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@BH53476328 @RampCapitalLLC I'm gen x, but a lot of anti-boomer stuff only applies to the wealthiest boomers. Most boomers worked jobs younger generations won't do for more hours than younger generations are willing to work and married younger and at higher rates than younger generations.

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@ElonTusk_4Real @Rothmus American anti-capitalists are literally people living in the global 1% claiming they are victims of a system that allows people to be even richer.

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@HannahDCox Eminem is 9th. It goes Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac, Biggie, André from Outkast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas, and then him.

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@whstancil I agree 100%. But "People believe the economy is worse than it is because of the media" is also not a serious answer in a discussion of why people are so much more miserable today than in 2019. As you may recall, negative media was also a thing during the Trump administration.

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@collectivided @Austen The fact that people use the extra time to work toward a higher standard of living rather than maintaining a 1920s standard of living is a personal choice, not capitalistic exploitation. You could live a 1920 standard of living and work only a few hours a week if you wanted.

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@alfiekohn An important caveat is that in the 1930s, an 8th grade education meant something significant & rigorous, similar to Bachelor of Arts today. So yes, from there you can be quite experimental without harm. But you have to have a solid foundation or you get the mess we have now.

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@benigma2017 The US government has an enormous market-share of healthcare and education, almost enough to be considered a monopoly share of healthcare, and more than a monopoly share of education (Preschool through tertiary). You're blaming capitalism for the problems caused by our socialism.

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@ahni_miller @DeAngelisCorey @charles20514392 @Campbell4TN @AFPhq I'm not blindly following anyone. I've been an advocate of school choice for almost 20 years, since I was a broke single mom with kids assigned to a crappy school district. Corey DeAngelis has successfully helped increase and expand school choice. That's a very good thing.

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3 years

@TheTonus I've got a lot of family and friends in the Greenwood area and it's insane how many have left the district schools for private schools just in the last month.

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@IndianaModerate

1 month

@SunnyDfan4eva @jimmygandhi @wanyeburkett I don't think Cohen meets conservatives on their own terms. He behaves outrageously and dares people to call him out. That's not the same thing as what Walsh is doing in this clip. (Unless I simply haven't seen the Cohen bits you're talking about, which is completely possible.)

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1 year

@AncestralLight @DelanoSquires If she paid for the bike, how is SHE putting HIM in danger by not letting him take it? Sincere question. You seem sane so I'm obviously missing something.

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@IndianaModerate

4 months

@Hoosier47906 @Angry_Staffer I asked a followup question on a Twitter discussion. That's how Twitter works, no?

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@IndianaModerate

3 years

@worthrisdon57 @zdearaujo European and Asian teachers have more prep time but larger class sizes. I would actually prefer that (teach my current 120 student course load in 3 classes instead of 6+more prep time) if they would remove disruptive students to a different learning environment.

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2 months

@heymrsbond @bfwriter I think the social expectations are different before 9 a.m. I admit that's an arbitrary line. but when you go to the grocery store first thing in the morning and someone is in their PJs, it just doesn't "present" the same as someone in the same grocery store & same PJs at 4 p.m.

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@IndianaModerate

4 months

@ks_moody @wanyeburkett Finland reading scores have declined significantly since that book was written. In 2022, US scored 9th on PISA reading, and Finland scored 14th. Not horrible, but they're no longer the PISA leaders they were 10 years ago.

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4 months

@mcsquared34 This is absolutely false. "Democratic Socialist" European countries have school choice, decentralized government, and competitive public and private markets. American Progressive ideology is more similar to China or Russia, more authoritarian, nationalist, and illiberal.

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@SelfGenPodcast @antoniogm Any alternative to voluntary exchange of goods & services requires a forced exchange that one or both parties would never make voluntarily. Most problems collectivists have with capitalism is either caused by obstacles to voluntary exchange or a result of the human condition.

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