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Could she have done better? Maybe. But I still think her losing had way more to do with more of the country being sexist and racist at heart than we’d like to believe

Since these polls were started in 1945. He broke his own record set in 2017.

There’s a kid who calls her father dada (dadda?..sp?) throughout the movie

Things going on in the USA right now should be a reminder that just because there are gains, that doesn’t mean they can’t be reversed. Continued celebrations highlighting visibility are still needed, outside of just the fact that they’re also just allowed to celebrate their community.

I agree they need to hear the message. Just a bit of a stretch from the normal “working class” definition. I have a feeling a huge portion if not possibly a majority of attendees there have/had trust funds. They’re hardly paycheck to paycheck.

They’re dropping $1000+ per person for a concert, all said and done (food at places like this is crazy, travel costs, etc).

That said, you are absolutely right we shouldn’t divide ourselves up and I’m glad he was there. Just meant to observe the irony in the headline.

Love the message and I get that he’s trying to shift the popular view and this isn’t a bad place to do it

But Coachella isn’t exactly filled with your average “working class” folks. Tickets start at $600 per person.

I believe OP’s point was that the title says “Teacher accused of sex with students.” It should read “Teacher accused of raping students”

This is taking away the last reason any of my coworkers fly it for business. They have lots of direct, but they’re all in the middle of the day and don’t go to any smaller airports, requiring lots of extra driving if you need to visit a facility outside major metros.

For all their flaws, I love that I can take an American flight and land directly in a small town by 9am, do my business, hop in Lyft/Ubers, then fly back and not even spend the night. SWA coworkers spend less time in the air and at airports, but often have to spend 2 nights and spend hours in a rental car driving themselves the extra 2 hours each way to the town.

If every student needed the same amount of support, that would be correct. But that is not the case.

Public school districts are required by law to provide whatever is needed for a student’s education. That even includes some students beyond the age of 18.

That includes everything from academically gifted students to English language learners to special needs students who require full time, 1x1 caregivers. I’ve personally worked as a substitute teacher in some of those special needs classes.

All of those specially educators and the facilities needed all cost more than an average general education kindergarten teacher.

When parents of kids who are average of slightly above average and don’t have a lot of special needs (read: often the more affluent families) pull their kids out, the ratio of kids with more meds changes.

Again, that extra support is required by laws passed by this same Tennessee legislature.

And you also ignored the issue of voluntary parent fundraising they is the lifeblood of many schools. That’s a massive gap that is made worse when affluent families pull their kids out.

Educational funding in most of the USA works a bit like insurance and/or a healthy social system. Everyone pays in based on their means - creates a pool of resources - then kids get assistance/education based on needs.

The trick here is that a lot of the kids with the most need are from families with the least means. So if the ratio of kids who need extra help/resources goes up because rich families all pull their kids out, then the schools won’t have enough funding to cover the needs of the kids that are left.

That’s exacerbated by the fact that schools in most of the USA (and definitely TN: I live in Nashville) are woefully underfunded, and rely in fundraisers and parent support groups to fill the gap in funding so teachers can have even basic supplies. Again, if most of the affluent families leave, there will be fewer parents of means there to help fill the gap.

It’s another example of rich families wanting to be able to opt out of helping poor ones.

But 1) I sincerely don’t think he sees it that way and 2) it doesn’t weaken Putin’s position. I don’t honestly believe Trump is a direct asset, but I 100% believe Putin has people closer enough to pull strings and plant ideas with a man who is very clearly open to any suggestions if they are pitched with a populist and/or 1%er bent.

You might know this and I’m missing the sarcasm, but Musk can’t be president (or VP). He’s not a native born citizen. President is one of the few places where being a naturalized citizen isn’t enough.

I mean, he is 78 years old, apparently never exercises, and eats McDonald’s on a regular basis…

Cool story, but not where that comes from and not how that phrase is used.

“Just under the wire” means “just in time”, “at the last second”, etc.

It comes from horse racing and the wire they would strong across the finish line. Same as “down to the wire”

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/under--the--wire

Meta gave the donation, not Zuck personally? Somehow that seems extra sleezy. Not only a payoff, but using someone else’s money to do it.

Sheesh. That is crazy. I grew up in evangelical churches in the southern USA and that’s a new one to me.

What do you mean? Like this one? Do please educate us if you know better.

They didn’t live in a world saturated in sugar. It was a very rare treat.

Also, depends on the ages here. A lot of 4 year olds can still be kept busy for a while by something like that. …If they haven’t been handed an iPad since they were 9 months old anyway.

Your explanation says that a post with 100k actually has 20k. What this guy is saying is that it does actually have 100k.

No doubt it’s a bit different. But it was still splitting and both did have established western boundaries.