Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

I watched that rally in its entirety and I never heard any such thing. If you are going to pronounce people guilty of something, you should do the right thing and prove it.

Smedley_buzkill

Throw large amounts of someone else's money at it. Same solution Liberals have for everything..

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

Sadly, I have to agree with you.

Wonttakeitanymore

Shame on the people who h**e people enough to do this and the people that excuse people who are bad and given a free ticket out! Schools protect these demons! And shrinks know they are dangerous!

TrueAmerican

Shame on you and your ilk for politicizing his act of bravery !!!!!!

waltmoreno

Ain't that the t***h. On a quasi-related topic, I just read today that Calif governor Gavin Newsome is going to dedicate 1 billion dollars towards California's homeless problem.
Hmmmm. I guess he wants to increase the number of homeless in California. Because that's exactly what will happen when he spends that much money on homeless people. He'll get more of it.

bylm1-Bernie

California's problem isn't a homeless problem, it's a drug problem. Until they are able to identify the problem for what it is, nothing will change except wasting more money, the typical solution offered by Democrats in the 20 poorest cities of the U. S. of which they govern.

Smedley_buzkill

Politicians do not elect and re-elect themselves. I'd say the problem lies in brainless v**ers who repeatedly reelect the same unhung scoundrels who caused the problem in the first place and expect a different outcome.
I would also place blame on the educational system and the v**ers who allowed it to degenerate into what it is today.
Ask a high school graduate to take pencil and paper and extract a square root, convert Metric to Standard, or a decimal to a fraction. Ask them questions about simple punctuation. Ask them who their State Representatives and Senators are, and how they v**ed.
Wait for that possum in the headlights reaction.
I have said before (and I stand by it!) that the average high school senior today will graduate with what would have been considered a mediocre 7th grade education in the early seventies when I graduated.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

I have an old McGuffys reader that was equal to an 8th grade education and most of todays college graduate could not pass its tests. Scary isn't it.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

I think you're being very generous at that.

Smedley_buzkill

Have you TALKED to a high school graduate lately? It's like I said, they can't do basic math, don't know basic history and have no idea about the rules of grammar and punctuation. They kant spel either. If I'm ever sent to the old folks' home, I will write graffiti about the staff all over the walls and the staff won't be able to read it because it will be in cursive.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

Actually, I have talked with a few. Recently, I served on a scholarship se******n board, and had a chance to interact with some really impressive graduating students.

As a result of talking with some high school seniors while on that board, and also having talked with others during some sporting events, I came to the realization that the spread between the best educated and the low end students is steadily widening.

The number of ignorant students graduating is growing, and they are the ones most likely to have aspirations of permanently getting on the government dole. Most well educated and intelligent students are openly conservative, and knowledgeable of laws and the constitution. Also, the more educated often mentioned their firm belief in God and their desire of being recognized as having a high degree of integrity.

The one factor that seems to have the greatest impact, ... parent interest and involvement. Most, if not all, of the higher achieving students are from a two-parent home. Apparently, the less educated are taught, by their one uneducated parent, that a good education is not needed, since government owes them everything they want.

I was also very impressed with the number of highly intelligent and educated students wanting to serve their country in the military, after getting a good education, but before starting a family.

Smedley_buzkill

There is an absolute and proven correlation between achievement and a two parent home. I am grateful I grew up in a time and place when this was the norm, rather than the exception, and for that pain-in-the-butt PTA that ensured that teachers taught, and students learned or parents would know the reason why. I truly wish I had enlisted before I spent a year and a half in college. After getting a real education courtesy of Uncle Sam, I went back to college and realized that many of those professors I had thought were so smart were really nothing but parochial wannabes. They had their own little big frog/little puddle niche and pronounced judgement on the mountain of others' experience from the lofty summit of the molehill of their own.
I pissed off several of them. One actually knocked ten points off my grade (University policy, this was allowed at the professor's discretion). I never could keep my mouth shut when a pompous dipstick had his (or hers) open.

Carol Kelly

Amen.

Carol Kelly

I guess my grandchildren are exceptions to the rule. They’re all bright and conservative and private school educated except one whose mother is a teacher with a masters degree and home schools him . Wish every kid in America had the same opportunity. Politics are ruining our public schools. Then there’s my daughter who teaches in public school and has a classroom full of nonEnglish speaking kids who don’t even know how to use the toilet. At least you have something to look forward to. LOL