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“Each year, she’d send out a questionnaire to the parents, asking what they wanted their children to learn that year — in first grade. Her first year, one parent wrote back that she wanted her child to have a thorough grounding in biology, chemistry and physics. For her seven year old.” I imagine that if Ms. Mick repeated her surveys now the results would be quite different? Parents now surely want their first graders to focus on the kids’ sexual identity, LGBTQ family relationships, CRT, institutional racism and white privilege. Biology, chemistry & physics is so last century.
Ironically, in the city of Palo Alto, you may be 100% correct.
Mrs. Mick stopped teaching in 1991. Arrival of son #1 was one part of the reason, large class size was another part of the reason, the fact that there were four separate demographic groups in the classroom (children of Stanford professors, East Palo Alto children who did not have an operating school in EPA in 1991, English as a Second Language students and “regular”) was a third part of the reason. But the single greatest reason she no longer teaches is that she spent 50% of her time on 10% of the kids. She said she’d still be teaching if she could have four vetos a year… “You, you, you and you…out.”
Here is a pretty good editorial on the ruling. Personally, I’m happy to see the mask mandate go away but I do not like the idea a single judge can turn the entire country on its head.
Agreed, but unfortunately it happens regularly. That’s the system.
Two items: first, average number of lithium ion battery charges are 300 to 500 cycles, which is 2-3 years’ worth of use. Recently, an announcement was made that says a breakthrough was achieved to extend lithium ion battery life to 1,000 cycles.
Secondly, there are other promising battery materials, including sulphur, the fifth most common element and can be easily produced in the USA. Few startups working on that one.
Disney is Florida’s largest private employer. So liberals are saying “move away from Florida.” The place where Disney had heretofore enjoyed status that no other corporations involved. So it’s interesting that liberals apparently now think that Disney should just move from Florida. Smart business move, there, liberals.
That’s buffoon Keith Olbermann’s take. He tweeted “A simple solution to the [Gov. Ron DeSantis’] attack on business, specifically [Disney]. The company should close the current [Walt Disney World] in Florida, tear it down, and build a new and better facility in a nearby state NOT run by religious zealot buffoons,”
One wonders what nearby states Olbermann is referring to. Presumably not the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, et al
One also wonders if Olbermann thinks that red state folk might boycott Disney, when in fact their customers tend towards Republicanism.
And finally, I wouldn’t say that DeSantis started this retaliation. That honor belongs to Disney, about 15 months ago:
By the way, this isn’t new. Disney’s been in the bag for Democrats for more than three decades. In our biennial national elections, Disney has never — not once — donated more to Republicans than Democrats. During that time Disney donated over $24 mms. to Dems and less than $8 mms. to Republicans, worse than 3:1.
Of course they haven’t. Both Disney and Democrats operate on “make believe” as their guiding principle.
Mick, there’s no reason to put ‘insurrection’ in quotes. It was plain as day what was going on. The day before the insurrection I started a thread called “Trump still attempting his coup“. There was a multi-pronged attempt to overturn the election. January 6th wasn’t just some big coincidence.
A question for you. Expressed as a percentage, how likely was it that Trump and co., by their actions on January 6, would overturn the results of the legitimate 2020 Presidential election?
At least Biden tried to follow his campaign commitments.
I thought, and forgive me if I’m completely incorrect, that Biden ran and won by promising to be a moderate, but since the election has gone further left than “liberal” and has attempted to execute on the Progressive agenda. Am I wrong? Or were you being sarcastic?
CNN’s own poll has Biden at 39%. A panel with representatives from CNN, Bloomberg and Time Magazine (so…lefties) stated that Dems are deserting Biden in droves given the poor political leadership and multiple economic disasters and Biden’s rightward tilt to alleviate said disasters (e.g., allowing drilling on Federal land).
There was an Atlantic article on the mass of suicides between 2009 and 2015 at Gunn and Palo Alto High school, about 4-5 times the national average.
The Suicide Clusters at Palo Alto High Schools – The Atlantic
A telling paragraph:
Had parents really given their kids the idea that they had to perform? That their love had to be earned with A’s and Advanced Placement tests and trophies? They hadn’t meant to. Yet there, from one of their own kids, was the rebuke that in this community, no place or time or language existed that allowed kids to be vulnerable, much less broken, or even just to be: “We love our moms and we love our dads,” Martha said. “But calm down.”
Uh…yeah.
My son graduated in 2010 and was friendly with a number of Gunn and Paly kids. One of his friends, a straight-A student, brought home a B+ mid-term grade. He found out about it when he had a 102 degree fever. Didn’t stop his parents who howled at him for three hours.
Yes, Tiger Moms, helicopter parents, however you want to describe them…they exist and thrive in Silicon Valley.
This isn’t new, by the way. In the 1980s, Mrs. Mick taught 1st grade at a Palo Alto grade school that catered to the sons and daughters of Stanford students. Each year, she’d send out a questionnaire to the parents, asking what they wanted their children to learn that year — in first grade. Her first year, one parent wrote back that she wanted her child to have a thorough grounding in biology, chemistry and physics. For her seven year old.
Yes, I would agree, and you can put the Drudge Report as the earliest major media change, at least to my knowledge. And you can add Bill Maher to the list of Lefties moving right in many ways.
I suppose I don’t understand the 76% who apparently approve of his work. Highest inflation in 40 years, COVID mismanagement, quality of schools, climate change, lawlessness throughout society, fentanyl epidemic, illegal/undocumenteds, budget deficit, racism, sexism, crumbling infrastructure, massive wealth inequities, etc., etc.
What are they happy about? What’s going right? The right and left are very far apart on these issues:
US life expectancy reversed in 2018, and started trending down. COVID has accelerated this trend, but the real culprit is despair (and fentanyl). Suicide and fentanyl / opioid overdoses have increased for those under 55 by so much that it is lowering life expectancy.
I’m 59 years old. I graduated in a class of 800 in 1984. Three of my classmates have taken their own life, one just yesterday, one in 2008 and one in 2015. One I didn’t know at all, one was an acquaintance, one was a close friend. One woman, two men.
Three out of 800, and I haven’t paid much attention. Could be more. Over the 38 years since we’ve graduated, that’s an annualized rate of about 9.9 per 100,000 which is not too far off from the current annual suicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000 (up from 10.4 per 100k in 2020). Of course, I don’t know if any of my other classmates have taken their own lives, so I could be understating the figure.
Depressing to think about. Teens and middle aged men, two of the most susceptible demographic groups. One friend of mine lost his hearing after contracting COVID. He’s very depressed, I worry about him a lot.
Question is, is the current Fed willing to take a similar approach (agreed that Volcker overdid it)?
I always wonder about the shadow inflation rate. The dirty little secret about inflation is that every so often the government adjusts the “basket” of goods and services to, quote, unquote, “more accurately reflect the cost of living and inflation.”
What it really does is hide the true inflation rate, thought to be about 17% if you use the 1990 basket of items:
What do think the odds are that mortgage rates get to 10% given the velocity of the CPI? And if the FED does not raise them, then what happens? Volker was really cold blooded about it. I still think he went too far. Usually the housing market heats up when the rates start to rise but nothing yet.
The housing market had already been heating up. It’s pre-heated, if you will.
S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index (CSUSHPINSA) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org)
