Discussion: 'We Are Left With No Other Choice': WV Teachers Strike Again A Year Later

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I dunno, but something ought to be done with WV schools, they produce too many wingnuts, trumptards and all-around ignoramuses .

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C’mon now, y’all greedy teachers. We need at least 50 percent of y’all’s salaries to fund that thar wall down yonder in Areezona. What’s more important: Socialist ‘doctrination of your li’l uns or pro-tectin’ 'em Mountaineer State school children from them Mexican Muslims?

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You tell 'em, Linday.

EDIT: Lindsay.

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The state legislature really is a bunch of assh*les, isn’t it?

Also, the usual AP: this legislation is complicated, so we’ll just punt on even telling you what it does.

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Shorter AP: We don’t understand the legislation.

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Charter schools are likely to need urban areas in order to get the enrollment they need to really milk the state budget. I don’t know what the population distribution is in WV, but my guess is that the charters will be centered in cities. That turns it into a wedge between urban and rural teachers. No surprise that they have introduced this.

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In Pennsylvania they have/had “online charter schools”. All the grift without any of the trouble arranging classrooms. I forget what the outcome of the scandal was.

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Good for the teachers and their unions. It’s long past time we start to fight the privatization of our educational system and the poor treatment of those who are responsible for teaching the next generation. The last thing this country needs is a bunch of ignorant folks, and we already have a good supply of those.

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Who’s last? Mississippi? So much to be proud of…

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“Carmichael said the bill’s goal is “getting our education system out of the doldrums.” "destroying public education so that once everything is privatized, we can avoid pesky constitutional requirements like no school prayer and teaching accurate American history and civics…maybe even someday segregate the schools again.”

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One of Claude Shannon’s first principles of information theory: the Twitter Threshold. It states that no message longer than ~1200 bits c—

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I bet you anything that “Crime & Corrections” is rated so highly because they have draconian enforcement that targets minorities more harshly.

If they ever formally institute summary executions for driving while black, that #31 would probably enter the top 10.

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That is very likely to be the face of the charter movement since it eliminates the need for a site. Some early charters functioned (and still function) much like private schools, requiring parental involvement that constrained children from less affluent backgrounds. Somehow, the involvement always required that the parent be able to be at school during school hours, take part in fundraisers (that is to say, donations), and have connections in the community.
Some of the online charters provide laptops for students who need them, but that still assumes that the child lives in a home with wifi access, or in a community with an easily accessible library that could provide that access. Smaller towns are less likely to have these, but that doesn’t change the perception that “everyone can be a part of this!”

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