It is not like they didn't find new safer ways to do similar things in the 2024 election and they probably did! You think this time they had whistleblowers to catch them this time? Everybody knows it would be so much worse for anybody who spoke out now compared to back then. Plus Russia was more involved this time around and not buying silly ads on facebook like they did in 2016... we know they did buy influencers this last time.

>Which is why I send my school to one.

lol. I won't make fun of you saying you send your school to a private school... because bots who make such mistakes also don't feel anything.

Somebody else's mess becomes your mess when you participate in it. It is too easy to dodge responsibility when it's distributed among others but it's just lazy to say prior history completely exempts you now. "I didn't do it" is for children; what competent parent lets a child get away with that argument?

There are OTHER children that your child will have to live with in their future... unless they become a hermit; perhaps you should save for a private island? You mention only money, but your time and effort for your child can be put into the local school but also, your money. I've seen far too many people bitch about taxes and school funding while hating on their community for being under-resourced! It's not just about throwing money at a problem but a lot of times it does come down to money. Next is paying attention and taking action and not being a deadbeat citizen. I know politicians who want to destroy public schools and willing to sacrifice a few generations to their privatization religion - they are not too hard to spot if you pay attention; their reforms are often identifiable as poison pills.

You make a lot of assumptions about public schools; a much larger group.

People don't drink beer for their health; and frequent drinkers who should be concerned by heavy exposure would be the most concerned if this was soda or coffee but this is beer; these heavy users care the least (that is, not enough to quit.)

To make enough people care, you need connect these artificial hormones to more than low sperm counts; you need to link it to small penises, man boobs, and the increase in trans people and breast cancer, prostate cancer... I'm not even making those up; they really could be connected. Maybe already if we didn't have industries actively working to against such discoveries. Now days, it's more clever to not discover things in internal testing which later gets used in court as evidence against your corp; just go right to the propaganda on step 1 and maintain plausible deniability.

If only people could teach the "right wing" basic math... and basic economics. Their track record governing has been abysmal; all they can do is lie about it.

ALSO they blow maybe 1/3 of their budget advertising and promoting their school; including retention and fluffing their customers. One local school in my city has a whole job placement dept which is great for them but it is not free; they also have a foreign trip included in their degree which at least gets the students outside the culture for a few weeks - but that isn't free either.

I still don't believe many who claim their sports programs pay for themselves.

Yeah, lets swap $5k with each other, pay tax on it-- then we contributed $5k to the USA's economic "output." We can pat ourselves on the back for all our valuable hard work.

Charter schools are a WASTE of money. I have a relative who was a public school admin for at least a decade or two. Charter, district, magnet schools, special joint charters, all of it. Also a student of private schools until graduate level. It really comes down to how well administered any of them are and the teachers but in terms of waste -- charters are worst.

A district pools resources which saves on cost. Charters have regulations of public but are basically a district on their own without pooling abilities and also more subject to the local political influences (this is bad;) sometimes they are more like private in that they can easily kick out students for many more reasons.

Private schools just kick out any problems or don't let them in. Expensive students are dumped on the public school to deal with.

Also, districts often have an alternative learning school for the criminal element and some might be teamed up with the prison system but usually those are special districts. Broad public funding goes to them all and adds significantly to the cost! That disabled child who is in such bad shape they need a full time assistant with them ALL DAY is crazy expensive. FREE bussing is not cheap either. Certainly, some waste goes on and being larger the number adds up to more; bureaucracy hides waste too, but it's not as high as people think when you put it into % rather than totals.

If your district, which has an elected management is poor; then it is YOUR FAULT it is poorly run. But go ahead and blame somebody else and the decline of your community when those idiot kids become adults and your snowflakes were isolated and sheltered.

Parents should have ZERO choice. It's OUR society and children are not solely your property to dictate; the culture that excludes society is bound to fail in the end. If your school sucks and you can't choose an alternative then you need to do something about it instead of buying your way out of it; if you can afford to do so. Oh, and a chuck of that private money is spent to sucker customers into how great their purchase was. Public schools have zero or almost zero budget for self promotion.

If we could have uneducated, poorly screened, pedophiles teach our children it would be a lot cheaper and we'd feel good because a man of god was there instead of some secular college grad with a masters - who BTW, in this culture is treated like shit and that was before today's anti intellectualism.

I sense high cognitive dissonance in the parent. Possibly also self-inflating if not deception.

Somebody with proper science shouldn't make broad policy from personal anecdotes.

Old people generally have a bias about things being so much worse than they remember it for themselves. Not saying it is always false, but there is likely a bias to be compensated for.

Public schools are under attack now (and since the 80s;) some clever tactics use the fanatic "left" against themselves, it is a very Russian subversive thing to do but then the GOP has gradually adopted all the psychological tactics of the KGB for generations now. I suggest you look into this topic.

Public education is always going to have conflicting factions and modern tech is making people far less tolerant and isolated and ignorant. The clashes are stronger more stark and the culture shock unlimited. Public education is far more than job training-- it's citizen training for a functional society and actual tolerance as well as toughening up is the major lesson to learn. One big problem in the USA, is local school funding, allowing private k-12 schools, school boards, PTA... Every school needs to be great not just your child's school. If you want fairy tales, send them to Sunday school. Education science should decide what is done - and get academics to fight out your battles over pronouns and not politicians and propaganda "news."

I'd gladly fight pronouns if I had some support but my unlikely allies are outside the public system hating it and not participating. Tolerance is dying. Science is just another narrative and we're at war with reason and facts. I'm in the gender doesn't matter camp and strongly object to these posers playing almost satirical gender stereotypes (I'd say some are similar to "black-face" but nobody knows what that is anymore either.)

The societal breakdown is manifest most in public schools!

Everywhere else is segregated or self-censored. The public school is the most representative place in modern society. If you want to punish your society, you go shoot the school up plus people are most sensitive about children so the younger, the stronger the statement. Shopping malls are dead as a representation - but mall and parade shootings still happen. If you hate a specific group, those are not hard to find gathering places.

Fanatics are always a problem but modern technology has amplified the voice of the minorities; especially, those who increase engagement.

There is more than left vs right. Authoritarians who are intolerant can have any position on economics; from national CEO of corporate anarchy (libertarian fascism) to god-like leader of the collective (Mao/Stalin.)

A liberal, often conflated with the "left" seating arrangement is by definition of the word "liberal," tolerant. While under the vague term "left" has zero meaning; like Republican has proven to have no meaning. Democrat still retains a little. Glossing over, one could equate the parties but in these times, that is gross over simplification born of extreme ignorance or being a simpleton.

NOTE- with Nixon a war on education began in the USA. The public (boomers) ranked education as a top priority in voting preferences years later which is when the fight really began. The GOP didn't care about education enough to do harm before that time. After becoming a political football, the system was doomed into the downward spiral we have today. The racists and their religious cover, also became amplified and captured a good portion of the GOP and for them education is a great enemy undermining their fictional narratives (constructs.) Private schools boomed with de-segregation for a reason! Also, a good chunk of $$$ is spent advertising the private school; most importantly, to retain customers - religious ones have much easier & cheaper retention.

The pop culture makes males defective; the schools can't help but be influenced by the culture. They influence each other and the parents are a huge problem, voters are probably 2nd. Everybody believes they are an education expert on par with educated educators (sad I have to say educated, in this age where we let anybody become an "educator.")

Oh it HAS been helping the tests. short term. Things are worse because of all that test prep making the scores higher than they are now. Furthermore, it depends on the testing. You create different and better testing it will show a huge shift from the previously gamed testing.

If they were learning as part of gaming the testing system then you've achieved education in pursuit of the test... is it the best method? no. They'll just not drop as much when you change testing if they accidentally learned something in the process.

Exactly. thank you.

I also found the Lincoln Douglas debates interesting. Somebody cleverly set one up without saying who was who with some tweaks. So that you didn't know it was Lincoln so clearly but obviously that time period - and Lincoln sounded far far more like an old Democrat (like 1980s) and Douglas more like a pre-trump Republican. (Shouldn't we call them Trumpists? real republicans who actually think for themselves are without a party today. Those who don't have any actual principles go anywhere dear leader says.)

I think your in error. Even so, it did get bipartisan support because it was a sneaky plan with plenty of openings for it go bad. Plus politicians like most Americans think they are experts on Education when they are totally ignorant. It is like thinking you understand Dentistry simply because you've been to the dentist many times and had plenty of work done (except education is actually a more difficult topic, plus it's always more political.)

YES! but no mod points today.

I knew a high ranking GOP advisor back in the day and he flatly told me No Child Left Behind was designed to wreck public schools because they were too popular to destroy so they have to lower the popularity so they can privatize the system. When I said that will harm the USA, he said only for a generation and we'll come back better than ever. He really does believe privatizing everything is best; it's a religious belief for some of them (since they have no basis, it's just faith no different than communist faith.)

This.
and... people don't have enough time to consume all the content produced; plus AI slop is going to generate even more "content." The thoughtless podcasts will be the first an AI can replicate.

Me, I listen while driving a distance... so many people switched to virtual work that companies are downsizing office space. I would think that should cut into listeners...

How about they make the phone thinner and put the battery OUTSIDE. everybody needs a case especially when it's so thin and the case should hold the battery. this allows for more options plus battery replacement. that would be innovation. besides, its not like they don't try to exploit the case marketplace by taking a cut of that when they can; this would let them dominate the case market by playing games with compatibility.