School-Choice Advocate Corey D'Angelis Exposes the NEA's Radical, Antisemitic Political Manifesto as the NEA Races to Erase It From the Internet; He Renews His Demand to De-Certify This Communist, Anti-Student "Union"

I'm inclined to agree already but let's read some of his exposé.

Actually, he isn't interested in de-certifying the NEA so much as crippling its true role as a Democrat grifter organization. He wants the STUDENT Act passed.

The National Education Association (NEA) tried scrubbing its radical 2025 handbook from the internet after I leaked its contents on X, but I saved a copy of their 434-page manifesto. This document, meant to guide America's largest teachers' union, exposes a radical agenda: erasing Jews from the Holocaust, blaming "white supremacy culture" for systemic racism, pushing illegal racial quotas, calling for "educational reparations," and attacking homeschooling while ignoring their own failing schools.
The NEA, armed with a unique 1906 federal charter, has become a money-laundering operation for the Democratic Party, funneling over 99% of its 2022 political contributions to Democrats. Its president, Becky Pringle, an at-large Democratic National Committee member, engages in histrionics to rally this partisan machine.
The "Stopping Teachers Unions from Damaging Education Needs Today (STUDENT) Act," introduced last week by Senator Cynthia Lummis and Representative Scott Fitzgerald, would gut this cartel by banning lobbying, political activity, and racial quotas, mandating transparency, and stopping strikes that shutter schools. Congress must pass this bill to leverage the NEA's charter, force it back to education, or make it beg to lose its special privilege.
The NEA's handbook is a blueprint for extremism, not education. It downplays the Holocaust's targeting of Jews, framing it as a generic tragedy while emphasizing other groups, effectively erasing Jewish suffering from history. It declares that "educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, and white privilege," vowing to push "strategies fostering the eradication of institutional racism and white privilege perpetuated by white supremacy culture." It demands school districts provide training in "cultural competence, implicit bias, restorative practices, and racial justice." Worse, it calls for illegal racial quotas, stating, "The National Education Association believes that at every phase of governance and on all decision-making levels of the Association there should be minority participation at least proportionate to the identified ethnic-minority population of that geographic level." These quotas prioritize identity over merit, dividing teachers and distracting from student needs. The handbook even attacks homeschooling, claiming "home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience"--ironic, given that only about a quarter of public school eighth graders are proficient in math despite $20,000 per student in annual spending.
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The NEA's federal charter, a privilege no other union enjoys, was meant to advance teaching and learning, not fuel a partisan agenda. With nearly $400 million in annual revenue from teacher dues, the NEA bankrolls Democratic campaigns while neglecting classrooms. Pringle's DNC ties and histrionic convention speeches ensure the NEA serves progressive politics, not educators. The union's 2025 convention in Portland, Oregon, doubled down this month. Ashlie Crosson, the 2025 NEA Teacher of the Year, declared teaching "deeply political." Resolutions read like a DNC war plan: one pledged thousands to smear President Trump as a "fascist," misspelling "fascism" as "facism." Another committed over $200,000 to evade a Supreme Court ruling allowing parents to opt out of gender ideology instruction. The NEA also vowed to fight Trump's immigration and education policies. In 2019, it rejected a resolution to "rededicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America."
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The STUDENT Act is a kill shot. Unlike revoking the NEA's charter -- a symbolic jab that wouldn't stop its antics -- this bill dismantles its power. It bans lobbying and political activity, choking off its Democratic pipeline. It ends racial quotas, ensuring merit-based leadership. It mandates annual reports to Congress, exposing Pringle's $400 million war chest. It prohibits strikes, keeping schools open for nearly 50 million students. It scraps the NEA's D.C. property tax exemption and requires informed consent for dues, ending automatic deductions.

Read the whole thing.

More: Randi Weingarten is looking to join up with the equally-popular Klaus Schwab.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, dropped a bombshell last week at the union's annual convention in Washington, DC.
In a speech that could have been ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel, she announced a partnership with the globalist World Economic Forum to craft a new curriculum for America's schools.
If you thought Common Core's centralized, one-size-fits-all approach was a bad idea, Weingarten's latest move is the educational equivalent of saying, "Hold my beer."
The WEF, known for its unsettling vision of a future where "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy," is now being invited to shape the minds of America's children.
This is the same organization that cozies up to the Chinese Communist Party, promotes digital IDs and pushes foolish, industry-killing green energy schemes.
The AFT has been edging up to this alliance: When its members passed a resolution this spring calling for "climate-smart and sustainable schools," they explicitly cited the WEF as part of a push to "integrate the curriculum to facilitate comprehensive energy reduction."
Partnering with an entity that holds up authoritarian regimes as models is a five-alarm fire.
And considering the WEF's track record of championing policies that undermine industrial competitiveness, Weingarten's claim that the coming curriculum will lead to "good jobs and solid careers in US manufacturing" is laughable.
This move fits Weingarten's pattern: She has a craving for centralized power, and her union's history shows a knack for leveraging authority to bend institutions to its will.

As I always point out: Failing teachers always want to "reform the curriculum" because the only other alternative would be to fire the incompetent teachers, which the failure-factory-protecting teachers unions vow will never, ever happen.

If you can't fire the people actually to blame, you have to claim that some "reform" in the "system" is necessary. So every five to eight years we go through the same bullshit: Teachers fail, the public sees that they're failing, the teachers unions propose more changes to "the system" which results in even more failure but hey, it buys them another five to eight years until the cycle repeats.

We must destroy them.

This seems impossible but until six months ago it also seemed impossible to seal the border, deport the illegal alien criminals, rebalance world trade and defund PBS and NPR.

We can do this.

Meanwhile: The "experts" keep experting.

This is Harrison Bergeron stuff -- the early readers must be stopped from reading until age 7 so that they're equal to the slow readers.

I https://t.co/D8SGjB0bYR
— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) July 31, 2025

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1 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:17 PM (MGB5H)

2 I'll let the others know this one's live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 31, 2025 05:17 PM (O7YUW)

3 >>We can do this.

Don't White Pill me, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (fVmgO)

4 ST.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (S96/n)

5 Government Schools are child abuse.

Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)

6 Huh.

Well, where was it, Chicago, where recently it was reported a bunch of schools (elementary or middle, can't recall) reported *0%* of their students able to read or do math at their grade level.

Zero.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (U/Byj)

7 ‘Becky Pringle‘

Oh my God, Becky, look at her butt!

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (1fKd8)

8 Ready the burn bags. Bring the files up from the Mines of Moria.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 31, 2025 05:20 PM (S96/n)

9 Abolish public schools and let the states figure out education.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 31, 2025 05:20 PM (3Ope8)

10 And this is after years of Baltimore schools reporting small %s of their "graduates" able to do math or English at their grade level (and I assume those standards have been lowered, like everything else).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 31, 2025 05:21 PM (U/Byj)

11 The root of everything that is wrong in this country stems from the schools. Every. Fucking. Thing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 31, 2025 05:21 PM (P845J)

12 Wolf is using a lot of words to disguise what she really means: Keep them dumb as they're less likely to notice when the "elites" screw up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2025 05:21 PM (tT6L1)

13 So they hate the Jews and want to ban you being able to teach your children reading before age 6.

This isn't batshit insane or anything.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (CueAq)

14
Odd. My first memory was my 4th birthday and I had a pin that said, "I'm 4 Years Old Today!" So I have no memory of a time when I couldn't read.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (HZi96)

15 My theory is this:

THe Left is trying to "mint racists" because there just isn't enough actual racism in the US to justify their ideology. Solution: So outrage and humiliate white kids that they become racists, and bingo you then point out how everyone really is racist now.

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (pMi6S)

16 Anti Molochetic.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (S96/n)

17 If you can't fire the people actually to blame, you have to claim that some "reform" in the "system" is necessary. So every five to eight years we go through the same bullshit: Teachers fail, the public sees that they're failing, the teachers unions propose more changes to "the system" which results in even more failure but hey, it buys them another five to eight years until the cycle repeats.
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You left out the demand for more money.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (od0dV)

18 Maryanne Wolfe "if your child isn't retarded we'll make sure he or she is". Progress!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2025 05:23 PM (j1Y/l)

19 Maryanne Wolfe looks exactly as I would expect.

Posted by: profligatewaste at July 31, 2025 05:24 PM (ZpWed)

20 You know what is crucial for myelination? (which they now claim is so important)

Cholesterol.

Low cholesterol keeps you stupid.

Eat more steak and eggs for a smarter life.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 31, 2025 05:24 PM (F/35S)

21
"Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA"

Another indication that America's universities are the incubators of every virulent societal virus.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (HZi96)

22 Well, where was it, Chicago, where recently it was reported a bunch of schools (elementary or middle, can't recall) reported *0%* of their students able to read or do math at their grade level.

Zero.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 31, 2025 05:19 PM (U/Byj)

Also Baltimore.

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (YrqgQ)

23 I wonder if being able to identify the letters of the alphabet by the time one reaches kindergarten would be considered reading? I want to say that was the bare minimum expected when my kids entered school. However, I also think my kids were already reading, to a certain extent, by the time they started school.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (tT6L1)

24 Just a few more K per student and we will fix it right up!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (MGB5H)

25 I can't say I'm a big Jackson Browne fan but...yeah Boulevard is a pretty solid 80's jam.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

26 Give parents a choice.

If they choose to homeschool or find alternate educators for their children, give them the exact amount of money the schools would have received for each child.

Make it a zero sum game.

Would Detroit parents spend their $20,000 per child, or whatever, on education. Who knows. But the rest of society deserves that choice.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (jvJvP)

27 I can't even read this post. I have a sister in law who is a retired public school, union member, teacher. I say "union member", because for these union teachers, their own self interest supersedes everything else. Student needs are way down the list of their priorities. I once respected my sister in law, but I have come to despise her as much as I despise the union mentality in public school education. It is heartbreaking to me because she had the potential to be a wonderful human being, but her membership in the union has ruined her.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (0Htd1)

28
If we're going to be this stupid anyway, can we bring back lead paint?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (HZi96)

29 My mom caught Hell when I was in first grade because my grandmother (her mother) had already taught me to read. (Yes, it was with Winnie the Pooh.)

Later, in 4th grade, same grandmother found I'd loved The Red Headed League, so she gave me the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. My teacher told mom to take it away because it was too advanced for me.

For some reason, I have never trusted the schools. The last step in my plan is sowing the ashes with salt.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (od0dV)

30 Teach to the slowest kids, and handcuff the smarter kids (or give them drugs to slow their growth ... ADHD drugs, or mRNA crap, or just tell them they are trans).

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (vbXSk)

31 Would Detroit parents spend their $20,000 per child, or whatever, on education. Who knows. But the rest of society deserves that choice.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at July 31, 2025 05:25 PM (jvJvP

Who cares. It's Detroit. That kid Prly going to prison anyway.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (MGB5H)

32 Fuck Maryanne Wolfe with a chainsaw

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (xcxpd)

33 Maryanne Wolf says that brain myelination needs to reach a certain stage, and that teaching reading prior to 5 is "really wrong" and that she would ban teaching reading prior to 6 nationwide if she could.
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Maryanne Wolf--just another example of the maxim "Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out."

Posted by: Crusader at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (TN0g+)

34 Maryanne Wolf says that brain myelination needs to reach a certain stage, and that teaching reading prior to 5 is "really wrong" ...
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I have a thought about Ms. Wolf's brain myelination.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (JvZF+)

35 Teachers need to join lawyers and reporters at the bottom of the deep blue sea.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (kTd/k)

36 The Dems are hilarious trying to fight census adjustments considering populations dramatically shifted post-pandemic and post Biden's illegal immigration policy.

The law allows a new census AT LEAST every 10 years, not only at 10 years.

Posted by: SMOD at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (nRImN)

37 >>I can't say I'm a big Jackson Browne fan but...yeah Boulevard is a pretty solid 80's jam.

My appreciation for Jackson Browne starts and ends with 'Doctor My Eyes'

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (fVmgO)

38 I learned to read when I was three. The first word I read was "beautiful", according to my mother. My parents used to have me read the newspaper to their friends and relatives. Kind of like a parlor trick.

Screw these people that say kids shouldn't read earlier. Reading opened up a whole world for me, even at that age.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (k9OZB)

39 I learned to read at a young age due to the amount of time I spent in waiting rooms and hospital beds. It was my only escape. Drove my parents crazy, though because they'd get books for me and I'd be done with them and need more before I left the hospital.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (tT6L1)

40 On the plus side, if the kids can't read, they won't be able to enjoy Kamala's new book.

They could still enjoy the pictures though.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (jvJvP)

41 >>>I can't say I'm a big Jackson Browne fan but...yeah Boulevard is a pretty solid 80's jam.

it's an earworm that I cannot endorse.

Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (KRtlO)

42 Black educators: "Everything bad is caused by white people's racism, including yours."

White student: :What are you talking about? I'm not a racist."

Black educators: The worst kind of racism is denying that you're racist. Your punishment is to be humiliated and beaten up every day at school, unfairly be given low grades because of your race, and be constantly brainwashed with anti-white curriculum designed to lower your self-esteem."

White students: "OK, you win, now I'm racist."

Black educators: "See? We told you all white people are racist."

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (pMi6S)

43 When it comes to teachers' union politics, inner city minority students are the biggest losers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (0Htd1)

44
Teaching reading before age 5: Wrong

Sex reassignment surgery before age 5: Great

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (HZi96)

45 It's right in the Name - TEACHERS UNION

It Benefits Teachers.

Anyone who thinks otherwise was obviously 'taught' in a public school.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (F/35S)

46 From the teachers I know, they need someone in their corner who aren't the students (a lot of them are horrible) and aren't the administrators (voted in by the students' parents, and by activists).
So I'm not anti-union here.
A problem that needs solving is the phenomenon of the bad teacher who is friends with the administration. A lot of those suckups will distort the union away from protecting the good teachers.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

47 37 >>I can't say I'm a big Jackson Browne fan but...yeah Boulevard is a pretty solid 80's jam.

My appreciation for Jackson Browne starts and ends with 'Doctor My Eyes'
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:27 PM (fVmgO)

'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

48 Abolish public schools and let the states figure out education.
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Also: Monday mornings and Friday afternoons.

Posted by: Crusader at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (TN0g+)

49 I was reading well before I went to kindergarten. When we did whatever for reading in kindergarten (abcs or who knows) I went with another teacher and was doing second grade reading.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (MGB5H)

50 It should be illegal for Maryanne Wolf to be within 100 yards of a child.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (od0dV)

51 Now's not the time to bring up Common Core, is it?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (mlg/3)

52 i heard that stupid song so much. they played it all the time on my classic rock radio station (WPLJ in NYC). And it just doesn't rate.

I'd rather they played the David Johansson's House of the Rising Sun/We Gotta Get Out of this Place medley six thousand more times (and I don't love that, either).

Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

53 Albert Schanker an early teachers union head said " when students start paying union dues they'll be my first concern" . Ain't no different today

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (j1Y/l)

54 Nothing that has anything to do with government should be unionized. Nothing.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (HFcKg)

55 The content across the board on this post is infuriating. The WEF noticed how you can brain wash youths into pushing your message (via Climate Change nonsense, racism nonsense, and the like)...so they say, give me some of dat. Then that woman at the end who is flat out lying about medical issues associated with reading early, so as to deceitfully support her own Social Justice nonsense. Juaquin's mom ain't teachin his ass to read, so William can't neither.

My personal opinion is that we already have enough barely functioning illiterates in this country. Let's not encourage any more.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (dIske)

56 darn i should have saved that for a Mystery Click

Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

57 Nothing that has anything to do with government should be unionized. Nothing.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (HFcKg)

Agree 110%.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

58
Progressives claim to be concerned for the poor. Except that their every policy proposal is a catastrophe for the poor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:30 PM (HZi96)

59 Both my kids could read at least a basic level before kindergarten, son moreso than my daughter. Oddly enough, it was Sesame Street (the original version) that sparked their interest. That was supposed to be the point, that children had a basic knowledge of letters and numbers upon entering kindergarten. At least that was claimed back in the early 80's.

Posted by: Lirio100 at July 31, 2025 05:30 PM (ky7/T)

60 >>'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'

I should add the caveat that ALL of his early LPs sound fantastic. Great musicians, great recordings, great production and mastering.

Just not my cup of tea, stylistically.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:30 PM (fVmgO)

61 Jackson Browne smacking Daryl Hannah around while singing "She's got to be somebody's baby" was rather surreal. But "Lawyers in Love" was a better song than I gave him credit for when it first came out.

Posted by: Crusader at July 31, 2025 05:31 PM (TN0g+)

62 Abolish public schools and let the states figure out education.
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The problem is that the states started the problem. Things weren't just fine until the Feds got involved. Why Johnny Can't Read dates from the 50s. And John Dewey was earlier than that.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2025 05:31 PM (od0dV)

63 >>'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'

Hah I'm not the only one.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:31 PM (VofaG)

64 My biggest problem with Browne is that his progressive activism overshadowed everything else he did.

It's like Jane Fonda. I can't even wank to her in Barbarella because she pisses me off so much. And she has a banging bod, or did. But her personality just kills it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

65 My mom caught Hell when I was in first grade because my grandmother (her mother) had already taught me to read. (Yes, it was with Winnie the Pooh.)

Later, in 4th grade, same grandmother found I'd loved The Red Headed League, so she gave me the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. My teacher told mom to take it away because it was too advanced for me.

For some reason, I have never trusted the schools. The last step in my plan is sowing the ashes with salt.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM

When my parents got divorced we moved to the big city and I had to go to an inner city school at the start of high school. It was a fvcking nightmare. Math class was basic 4th grade math and I had already had algebra the year before. english class was all of us sitting around a table reading 8th grade textbooks aloud, and half the kids couldn't even do that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (e5NfL)

66
"It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated."

- Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (HZi96)

67 >>I'm not the only one.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:31 PM (VofaG)

With mixed emotions?

No.

Posted by: Mick Jagger at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (fVmgO)

68 I sort of do wonder if we abolished schools at this point, would the kids be better off, or worse?

This is too bad, because I think I come from at least 5 generations of teachers. My mom loved teaching mathematics, and she loved mentoring new teachers.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (rbvCR)

69 These union teachers are fucked in the head.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at July 31, 2025 05:33 PM (L0k+X)

70 'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

Fast times, you say?
Moving in stereo still causes a stir

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2025 05:33 PM (Hx0tZ)

71 I had to go to an inner city school at the start of high school. It was a fvcking nightmare. Math class was basic 4th grade math and I had already had algebra the year before. english class was all of us sitting around a table reading 8th grade textbooks aloud, and half the kids couldn't even do that.
Posted by: Mister Scott

You're describing what universities are like nowadays.

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:33 PM (pMi6S)

72 I had a kid reader at 3, 4, 5, and 7...a good teacher knows that kids need to learn every day. How they learn is up to the way they choose to learn. My early reader (girl) ended up learning a lot by reading. My late reader (boy) ended up learning a lot through doing and through video. In the middle, I had the "normal" girl and the boy who needed to take in only so much (like 45 minutes max) and then draw out his learning in personally created "Bad Piggie" books - I had hundreds by the end of that 1st learning year of his.

Stifling the learning of the child who obviously takes in information in typed form is idiocy in order to accommodate the child who takes it in non-typed form. Why preference one to the other - instead, teach them both and help them make up for their deficits while you do...

My one and only homeschooling rule was you had to learn something new every single day...that's what we should want schools to be doing for kids...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 31, 2025 05:33 PM (tOcjL)

73 Underrated Jackson Browne "That Girl Could Sing"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (j1Y/l)

74 >>Moving in stereo still causes a stir

Mayhaps the Best Cars Tune.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (fVmgO)

75 >>>>>'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'

But what about the charisma of Robin Zander?

Posted by: DeMone at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (KRtlO)

76 What was actually painful was sitting there in class while little Johnny Dumbass, I think that was his name, took ten minutes to read five words, “the fa fa fa fast do o o dog r ra ran do do down”

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (cduTK)

77 Bunch of assholes in here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

78 Mississippi went from always being at the bottom of the education rankings to right near the top in less than 10 years. It was mostly fueled by one part of their education law. No kid moves to 4th grade if they can't read and math at 3rd grade level. None. No more passing the problem long. No more trying to fix it in hs. That's all it took.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (XZ6f8)

79 Teach me to learn.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (63Dwl)

80 Who cares. It's Detroit. That kid Prly going to prison anyway.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:26 PM (MGB5H

Probably.

Detroit actively bribes kids to show up on the day they get counted for federal funding. Commercials run on the air. They do everything to get the kids there that day.

If parents received that money, schools, out of survival, MAY, change. In reality, the good teachers could leave the system and make a nice living teaching kids who want to learn.

South Korea has tons of private schools for English and Math because the parents don't trust the system and want their kids to get a leg up on the competition.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (jvJvP)

81 Back in the early 2000s, the NEA, post a strategy to destroy home-schooling and private parochial schools, It scrubbed it due to backlash then too. This sort of crap has been going on for a century or more.

Posted by: RS at July 31, 2025 05:35 PM (rk5vz)

82
Just not my cup of tea, stylistically.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:30 PM (fVmgO)

I like his song Load Out/Stay. When the backup singer hits those notes, won't you stay...instant chills.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 05:35 PM (gpah0)

83 70 'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'
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Fast times, you say?
Moving in stereo still causes a stir
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2025 05:33 PM (Hx0tZ)

Oh my yes.

I honestly want a copy of the 1981 book. It was a different world back then.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:35 PM (xcxpd)

84 I repeat. There should be trade high schools and college prep high schools. Have the same extracurricular activities.

And I think the trade HS would be college prep for Engineering majors.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:35 PM (VofaG)

85 When Girl F. started grade school her school was half Chinese and half white.

The principal told the parents at orientation, "Parents, do not drill your children on their letters and numbers, let them enjoy summer. We will teach them letters and numbers." And all the white parents nodded.

Then the secretary stood up and gave the Cantonese translation of what the principal had just said. And all the Chinese parents laughed uproariously at such a ridiculous idea.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:35 PM (JvZF+)

86 "It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated."

- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I could read Hillaire Belloc and Ambrose Bierce all day.

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:36 PM (pMi6S)

87 75 >>>>>'Somebody's Baby' gives me a twinge, mostly how and where it was used in 'Fast Times'

But what about the charisma of Robin Zander?
Posted by: DeMone at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (KRtlO)

Is this some kind of Cheap Trick?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:36 PM (xcxpd)

88 english class was all of us sitting around a table reading 8th grade textbooks aloud, and half the kids couldn't even do that.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2025 05:32 PM (e5NfL)

In first grade we were all on "Run, Spot, Run". We had to sit in a circle and read it aloud. I read it so fast that the teacher said I could sit at my desk and read whatever I wanted to while the rest of the class stuttered through it. She's still one of my favorite teachers.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 31, 2025 05:36 PM (k9OZB)

89 "teaching reading prior to 5 is "really wrong""

That's what the elementary school teachers told my parents back in 1961.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:36 PM (klf3J)

90 86 "It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated."

- Hilaire Belloc
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I could read Hillaire Belloc and Ambrose Bierce all day.
Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:36 PM (pMi6S)

His pilgrimage to Rome is fascinating reading. And I'm far from being RC

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91 44
Teaching reading before age 5: Wrong

Sex reassignment surgery before age 5: Great

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:28 PM (HZi96)

I'm so sorry that this is true.

Notice that "social justice" is part of Miz Wolf's title. I bet that's the only part she really knows, hence reading bad, b.s. necessary and good.

Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 05:37 PM (wLjpr)

92 "...she announced a partnership with the globalist World Economic Forum to craft a new curriculum for America's schools."

Here's my proposal for a new (actually, old) curriculum:
A. Reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic as it was 100 years ago.
B. Geography.
C. Basic biology (plant and animal), chemistry, physics (including basic meteorology). Basics. Describing and explaining what they are and how they ARE the real world.
D. Phys Ed as it was 50-60 years a go,
E. American Civics as taught 60 years ago.
F. American History as taught 60 years ago, updated to include more about the Civil War and about 20th Century US history, adding civil rights movement - without CRT crap, and several other adds and changes (truth about Vietnam, for example).
G. World History.
H. Economics - personal and idealized macro
I. Home Ec and cooking for both boys and girls - sex segregated classes
J. Music Appreciation
K. High School Electives: Art, electronics, history, band, literature; whatever the typical electives were in the 70s.

I can dream, can't I?

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2025 05:37 PM (aBgBM)

93 >>Don't White Pill me, Ace.

It's called a roofie. Careful what you drink.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 05:37 PM (viF8m)

94 If parents received that money, schools, out of survival, MAY, change. In reality, the good teachers could leave the system and make a nice living teaching kids who want to learn.

South Korea has tons of private schools for English and Math because the parents don't trust the system and want their kids to get a leg up on the competition.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.7 % at July 31, 2025 05:34

Yes. Of course if the parents get the money the outcomes for those interested in learning will be better. And the trouble makers can go make trouble and not worry about showing up on count day. (They do that in all big cities. They send truant vans around to round them up in some. But only that day)

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:38 PM (MGB5H)

95 >>>We must destroy them.

We need no BS school choice, where any federal money follows the student, not the watered down BS in the BBB.

Posted by: Muhammad Muhammad at July 31, 2025 05:38 PM (i24o9)

96 The activists initially claimed that the migrant, whom they identified as “Paco,” was an innocent businesses owner in Olympia, Washington, who was “abducted” off the streets by ICE officers on June 24. They had raised about $12,000 to help the migrant with legal fees and other expenses before the campaign was deleted.

Posted by: SMOD at July 31, 2025 05:38 PM (nRImN)

97 Typical Phone Call from the School to my Father:

"What do you mean he got up and left the class?"

"I see. Do you know where he went?"

"You found him in the Library? Reading?"

"And this is my problem...why?"

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:38 PM (fVmgO)

98
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, dropped a bombshell last week at the union's annual convention in Washington, DC.
In a speech that could have been ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel, she announced a partnership with the globalist World Economic Forum to craft a new curriculum for America's schools.

-----

She's got a big bottom!

Posted by: School Kid at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (ES1Rb)

99 Albert Schanker an early teachers union head said " when students start paying union dues they'll be my first concern" . Ain't no different today
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (j1Y/l)
=====
There's a scene in Sleeper where Woody's character informs us that Albert Shanker had at some point in our future, set off "The Bomb"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (JvZF+)

100 >>> 54 Nothing that has anything to do with government should be unionized. Nothing.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (HFcKg)

Even *I* said that!

Posted by: Zombie Commie FDR at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (ULPxl)

101
Bunch of assholes in here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

*breaks beer bottle on Aetius's head*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (HZi96)

102 Who cares. It's Detroit. That kid Prly going to prison anyway.
Posted by: BruceWayne

The people in Detroit who actually care about their children's education are fucked, and the MEA wants to keep it that way. If the MEA has their way, citizens of the Detroit Public Schools would not be allowed to send their children to private schools, parochial schools, or charter schools.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (0Htd1)

103 I can dream, can't I?
Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2025 05:37 PM (aBgBM)
Your plan is a good one.
- something no politician ever said.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (LHPAg)

104 Again, people don't go this far wrong without a concerted effort to create these kinds of people, and then put them into positions where they have actual power.

And no, it's not communist. It's worse than that.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

105 When you hear “Research suggests”, you know you’re about to hear some bullshit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (b4o9z)

106 Bunch of assholes in here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yo!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (gKWVE)

107 Michael Schenker > Albert Schenker

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (fVmgO)

108 Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (0Htd1)

Oh I know. I was mostly just slagging on Detroit. Cause Detroit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (MGB5H)

109 And no, it's not communist. It's worse than that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

Star Trek fans? The Irish?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (b4o9z)

110 Bunch of assholes in here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

*breaks beer bottle on Aetius's head*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 05:39 PM (H
-----------
That escalated quickly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (WvZaB)

111 But back onto reading, I actually wasn't an early reader. No idea why, considering how important books are to me now. But the first thing I ever read and understood was the Spiderman comic strip in the paper. Odd.

But once I could read, I took off like a rocket. Like, I literally always had a book on me and I'd read constantly, even in class. But I read what I wanted to and that was 'a problem'...

Anyway, had some great teachers and some not so great but I'm sure I was a handful at the time. Very stubborn. Smart but lazy.

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112 Bunch of assholes in here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Commenting present.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (MGB5H)

113 Canker Sore > Albert Schenker

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (VofaG)

114 I may be getting over my skis here, but my observation is that teachers are some of the dumbest people drawing breath.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (47/pr)

115 >>Bunch of assholes in here.

*Raises Hand*

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (fVmgO)

116 Anyway, had some great teachers and some not so great but I'm sure I was a handful at the time. Very stubborn. Smart but lazy.
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Fist bump

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (MGB5H)

117 92 It's a nice dream, but it won't work until we reinstall discipline in the classrooms. One reason US education is lagging that of other advanced countries is we have a sizable fraction of students who live only to raise hell, who distrust and detest education, but we have no will to expel them from the process so that other students can learn. We blame the process for their behavior and ignorance, instead of blaming the hopeless 'students.'

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (klf3J)

118 >>I may be getting over my skis here, but my observation is that teachers are some of the dumbest people drawing breath.

If you can't succeed, Try Teaching!

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (fVmgO)

119 Ooof. I’m going to get crucified for this.

Kids under age 7 learn best when they are self guided. Boys especially should not be forced to sit and trace numbers and letters.

Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE. Go to National Parks. Walk around the street, observe. Ask them what interests them.

Bugs
Plants
Cracks in the pavement
Mud puddles
Cookies at the grocery store
Why it’s harder to walk uphill than down
Mountains
Trees
Stars
Cloiuds
Seasons
Food

Let them pick what they are interested in. Then guide them towards reading about said interest.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (mT+6a)

120 And no, it's not communist. It's worse than that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)

Star Trek fans? The Irish?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2025 05:41 PM (b4o9z)

To the extent the Irish have pitchforks and cloven hooves, yes.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (dGCAG)

121 nice dream, but it won't work until we reinstall discipline in the classrooms. One reason US education is lagging that of other advanced countries is we have a sizable fraction of students who live only to raise hell, who distrust and detest education, but we have no will to expel them from the process so that other students can learn. We blame the process for their behavior and ignorance, instead of blaming the hopeless 'students.'
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (klf3J)

Equitable punishment. It's all the rage.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:44 PM (MGB5H)

122 Next, the AD Council.

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Posted by: The Ad Council at July 31, 2025 05:44 PM (vFG9F)

123 Odd. My first memory was my 4th birthday and I had a pin that said, "I'm 4 Years Old Today!" So I have no memory of a time when I couldn't read.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Did President Polk send you a nice card?

Posted by: f at July 31, 2025 05:44 PM (G5+As)

124 119 Ooof. I’m going to get crucified for this.

Kids under age 7 learn best when they are self guided. Boys especially should not be forced to sit and trace numbers and letters.

Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE. Go to National Parks. Walk around the street, observe. Ask them what interests them.

Bugs
Plants
Cracks in the pavement
Mud puddles
Cookies at the grocery store
Why it’s harder to walk uphill than down
Mountains
Trees
Stars
Cloiuds
Seasons
Food

Let them pick what they are interested in. Then guide them towards reading about said interest.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (mT+6a)

My Mom read to us, all the time. That's what put the bug into me, I think.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:44 PM (xcxpd)

125 So glad many people in my neighborhood are home-schooling. I pulled the trigger just now and signed up for a home owners ins policy that Progressive was selling but is actually HomeSite, with seems to be actually Am.Fam. Committed to buy Progressive Auto to get more discount too.

Dad had a really great coverage ins plan. but they were jumping the rates to 8.5K/year and IMO it amounts to highway robbery to pay that much. Plus the company has been pissing me off. Dad had his own vehicles and policy but they put him as the driver on my vehicles and 16 months after he passed away the company STILL has him listed as the primary on the home policy, they only added me to the policy and only in November last year did they finally remove him and his vehicles I'd told them were gone from the auto policy portion. Jerks.

Because I have too many horses, some companies won't even issue a policy so I just took the plunge and signed on for this one. I was more than half tempted to just not have any insurance, no mortgage forcing me to have it.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 31, 2025 05:44 PM (bP/i4)

126 My first love was teaching. I got my masters in Ed. Never used it.

Went into the medical field instead.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:45 PM (mT+6a)

127 Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE. Go to National Parks...
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (mT+6a)

That way they learn early to hate the Chinese.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:45 PM (dGCAG)

128 Premature launch-ruined the joke, sorry!

Posted by: f at July 31, 2025 05:45 PM (G5+As)

129 114 I may be getting over my skis here, but my observation is that teachers are some of the dumbest people drawing breath.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (47/pr)

I'm sure you have all heard this one --

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who cannot teach, administrate.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2025 05:46 PM (aBgBM)

130 Premature launch-ruined the joke, sorry!
Posted by: f at July 31, 2025 05:45 PM (G5+As)

Try thinking about baseball next time.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:46 PM (MGB5H)

131 Hey, nerdygirl! Love your nic.

Mostly because my wife is a nerdy woman.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 05:46 PM (77rzZ)

132 >>Because I have too many horses, some companies won't even issue a policy so I just took the plunge and signed on for this one. I was more than half tempted to just not have any insurance, no mortgage forcing me to have it.

I just got cancelled. Fire Risk.

I live between a River, a Creek and the local Fire Department is close enough for me to hit it with a poorly aimed rock.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:46 PM (fVmgO)

133 "Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE."

Kill your TVs. Monitor the kids' online comms.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (klf3J)

134 Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE. Go to National Parks. Walk around the street, observe. Ask them what interests them.

Let them pick what they are interested in. Then guide them towards reading about said interest.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (mT+6a)

Or if not a reader, DOING and seeing said interest. A kid who likes food can help make cookies and learn with a plastic knife to cut bananas. A kid who likes stars can sit outside and find them and learn constellations.

I admit we did a cats/dogs unit here, and I convinced the local K-9 force and the local animal shelters to give us (and a few other homeschoolers) a tour and wrote to the seeing eye dog groups and they sent a comic about their dogs. And yes, we watched some videos and read some books (about famous dogs and dog breeds, etc)...and got our own pet.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (tOcjL)

135 Those that can’t administrate run for office.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (b4o9z)

136 >>That way they learn early to hate the Chinese.

And the German Tourists.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (fVmgO)

137 Want to do something to really improve the U.S.? Interpret the law that forbids the CIA to operate in the U.S. to mean the bastards can't be in Langley VA, but need to be moved to Antarctica or Puerto Rico, or Benghazi. Much of what is wrong with the country would be cured by that simple action.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (Da7Vv)

138 Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE."

Kill your TVs. Monitor the kids' online comms.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (klf3J)M

Make them cook dinner. Clean the house. Mow the lawn. I think I got off track.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:48 PM (MGB5H)

139 Anyway, had some great teachers and some not so great but I'm sure I was a handful at the time. Very stubborn. Smart but lazy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 05:42 PM (xcxpd)

Fist bump
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:43 PM (MGB5H)

My saving grace was my competitiveness. Are you measuring me about something and giving out a rating? Okay I'm in. Though I'll do just enough to put me in the top tier.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:48 PM (VofaG)

140 119 Nurse, that’s great. I agree with you entirely.

Kids need to develop their own interests.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 05:48 PM (77rzZ)

141 Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE."

Kill your TVs. Monitor the kids' online comms.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (klf3J)M

Make them cook dinner. Clean the house. Mow the lawn. I think I got off track.
Posted by: BruceWayne"

Get 'em a BB gun.

Posted by: The Ad Council at July 31, 2025 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

142 And the German Tourists.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (fVmgO)

Truly, the Germans are better behaved than the Chinese, but smell infinitely worse.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:48 PM (dGCAG)

143 Maryanne Wolf says that brain myelination needs to reach a certain stage, and that teaching reading prior to 5 is "really wrong" and that she would ban teaching reading prior to 6 nationwide if she could.

The myelin sheath development thing is useful to know so that teachers don't preemptively declare your kids stupid or learning-disabled (usually boys, apparently they tend to get their myelin sheaths later than girls do).

Using it to prevent everyone from learning as soon as they can is just as inhumane as saying the later-developers will never learn.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM (a+4eV)

144 I remember watching Batman before I could read and demanding mom read the fight scene action to me.

"Oof. Bam. Pow."

Hey mom, how about putting a bit more energy into it?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM (JvZF+)

145 >>Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE."

Or, and just hear me out for a second here...

Send them to the Mines.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM (fVmgO)

146 My saving grace was my competitiveness. Are you measuring me about something and giving out a rating? Okay I'm in. Though I'll do just enough to put me in the top tier.
Posted by: polynikes

I was more "if I can get a B+ without trying at all, isn't that more impressive than an A?"

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:50 PM (MGB5H)

147 There was an article in the Detroit Free Press on Hillsdale College, and one fellow classified it as a "cult" that deified the founding fathers, with a curriculum that brainwashes students (it teaches the classics and critical thinking, among other fringe ideas).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 31, 2025 05:50 PM (kpS4V)

148 Send them to the Mines.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM (fVmgO)
----

It's good to learn a trade.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 31, 2025 05:51 PM (kpS4V)

149 >>I was more "if I can get a B+ without trying at all, isn't that more impressive than an A?"

My disposition was ruined when I realized that as an 8th grader I could go to work and make more money than my teachers did.

Granted, I was steeped in the trades from the age of 9-10...but I genuinely resented the income it was costing me to attend school.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (fVmgO)

150 Uh oh. A club I belong to has just released a "Language Guide". I'm afraid to look.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (vFG9F)

151 Well now, maryanne wolf can lick my fucking nads in Macy's window. I was one of those that was reading by the time I hit kindergarten, thanks to mom, and because of that I started grade school earlier than what was normally allowed because my birthday missed the cut off date. I didn't have to wait the extra year. They pulled me out of kindergarten after a month and stuck me in 1st grade. All hail Go Dog Go. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (snZF9)

152 I live between a River, a Creek and the local Fire Department is close enough for me to hit it with a poorly aimed rock.
Posted by: garrett

I'm between a rock and a hard place.

Posted by: Sad Sack at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (G5+As)

153 There was an article in the Detroit Free Press on Hillsdale College, and one fellow classified it as a "cult" that deified the founding fathers, with a curriculum that brainwashes students (it teaches the classics and critical thinking, among other fringe ideas).
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 31, 2025 05:50 PM

Never taken a single penny from the feds. And has become insanely hard to get into. And Kat Timpf graduated from there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (MGB5H)

154 I was more "if I can get a B+ without trying at all, isn't that more impressive than an A?"
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:50 PM (MGB5H

B+ is definitely acceptable under that scenario and I was right there with you.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)

155 Send them to the Mines.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM (fVmgO)
----

It's good to learn a trade.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 31, 2025 05:51 PM (kpS4V)

Worst case scenario, they develop black lung before they're 9, so you don't have to pay for them to go to college.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (dGCAG)

156 And has become insanely hard to get into. And Kat Timpf graduated from there.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (MGB5H)

Who is also insanely hard to get into.

Believe me, I've tried.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:53 PM (dGCAG)

157 Big Mouf Bass takes a victory lap.

Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA
More than 30 Angelenos lived here in Van Nuys this morning. Now, they are moving inside — some for the first time in YEARS.
This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

158 That suck, I suppose you might be able to appeal your cancellation Garrett. Sometimes the companies will relent if folks jump through hoops to prove that they are not a risk even though the area is considered high risk.

I largely blame idiot state legislatures for the $$$ insurance rates. They put in regulations making the companies have to pay replacement costs instead of the amount the home owner is paying for and make it way expensive to rebuild with 'green energy' mandates and high permit costs, and so on, I mostly blame the wine moms, aka AWFLs for pushing for those regs.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (bP/i4)

159 I was super competitive.

I learned more about physics in the gym than I did in the classroom. And more about anatomy and physiology. And more about how the human brain works through stress and fear.

Then, a student really wants to learn and read and observe and predict.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (mT+6a)

160 >>Stay at home with your kids. Read to them. Take them OUTSIDE."

Or, and just hear me out for a second here...

Send them to the Mines.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:49 PM

How much can they dig really? Their tiny hands are perfect for picking the lint down at the cotton gin.

Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

161 Teach the children but not the British children.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)

162 How much can they dig really? Their tiny hands are perfect for picking the lint down at the cotton gin.
Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM

They can get in dem small cracks.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (MGB5H)

163 My parents got calls from teachers pretty regularly. The one time it was a problem was when President Reagan was shot and I leapt from my chair and shouted, "Did they get him? Did they get him!"

Not cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (JvZF+)

164 This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

How many of those are veterans? Yeah, I thought so.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (k9OZB)

165 Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA
More than 30 Angelenos lived here in Van Nuys this morning. Now, they are moving inside — some for the first time in YEARS.
This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)
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Now do Pacific Palisades.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (WvZaB)

166 Public schools are pretty much babysitting/indoctrination service centers with a helping of free food to boot. In our district, I am told some kids are sent home with food even on the weekends.

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 05:56 PM (QA89Y)

167 How much can they dig really? Their tiny hands are perfect for picking the lint down at the cotton gin.
Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (jc0TO)

It's a work program. We give them spoons.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:56 PM (dGCAG)

168 157 Big Mouf Bass takes a victory lap.

Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA
More than 30 Angelenos lived here in Van Nuys this morning. Now, they are moving inside — some for the first time in YEARS.
This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)
——-

Cost?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 05:56 PM (1fKd8)

169 >>How much can they dig really?

They make up for their physical inadequacies with raw, unbridled enthusiasm.

If they want to be fed.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:57 PM (fVmgO)

170 I was 17 when I started college.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 05:57 PM (FoHMn)

171 And the German Tourists.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:47 PM (fVmgO)

Both sons spent summers working in Yellowstone. Younger son spoke enough German to make the Krauts happy. But both sons really disliked the Chinese.

Posted by: Mike the Narf, Possibly White at July 31, 2025 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

172 >>Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (JvZF+)

I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (fVmgO)

173 But both sons really disliked the Chinese.
Posted by: Mike the Narf, Possibly White at July 31, 2025 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

Probably had a joke played on them.

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (QA89Y)

174 Detroit Free Press on Hillsdale College, and one fellow classified it as a "cult" that deified the founding fathers,
____

I suspect that saying some positive things about the founders when all you've heard from your 'educators' for years is that they are at best 'problematic', is sufficient to be accused of deifying them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 31, 2025 05:59 PM (Dv3i1)

175 Yeah, ban reading not books. Makes sense.

Posted by: Max Power at July 31, 2025 05:59 PM (q177U)

176 Both parents worked . I was a key latch kid. The most my parents were involved in my schooling was signing my report cards. They led by example and it helped that I never wanted to disappoint them.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:59 PM (VofaG)

177 I've probably said this before - my kindergarten teacher just could not believe I could read, because after all I had just started school and therefore had not been taught by a professional how to read. My mom said, "Got a newspaper? Hand it to him." I proceeded to read whatever the hell was on the front page that day; probably something about Gerald Ford falling down again....

Posted by: PabloD at July 31, 2025 06:00 PM (LZLEA)

178 Big Mouf Bass takes a victory lap.

Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA
More than 30 Angelenos lived here in Van Nuys this morning. Now, they are moving inside — some for the first time in YEARS.
This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

Great, so you save 30 and create 200 more with your insane bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 06:00 PM (snZF9)

179 I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (fVmgO)
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Suddenly feeling better about myself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 06:00 PM (JvZF+)

180 "Experts."

What CAN'T they get wrong?

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (IBQGV)

181 Public schools are pretty much babysitting/indoctrination service centers with a helping of free food to boot. In our district, I am told some kids are sent home with food even on the weekends.

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 05:56 PM (QA89Y)

I'll repeat the tale told here and elsewhere. In determining how much time to allot to home school instruction (1-6), we estimated about 4 hours, after subtracting all the overhead. We were disabused of this notion by a teacher friend, who advised it should be more like 2 hours.

All the rest is indoctrination, socializing (creating herd animals who respect muh authoritah), babysitting, and grooming.

It was a real eye-opener.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (i24o9)

182 Mississippi went from always being at the bottom of the education rankings to right near the top in less than 10 years. It was mostly fueled by one part of their education law. No kid moves to 4th grade if they can't read and math at 3rd grade level. None. No more passing the problem long. No more trying to fix it in hs. That's all it took.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:34 PM (XZ6f

NJ is number 1, Mississippi is number 34.

https://tinyurl.com/yu96ta5m

Other sources have NJ as 3rd, Mississippi at 39th.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (5xuJ/)

183 157 Big Mouf Bass takes a victory lap.

Mayor Karen Bass@MayorOfLA
More than 30 Angelenos lived here in Van Nuys this morning. Now, they are moving inside — some for the first time in YEARS.
This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

Giving the peons some data, huh? How about some true statistics along with your numbers, commie? Such as, how many homeless have you moved 'inside' during your 2 years in office? What percentage of total LA homeless have you moved inside? How many of those moved off the streets moved back to the streets? Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (aBgBM)

184 We were told to shut up during the JFK funeral procession.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

185 I suspect that saying some positive things about the founders when all you've heard from your 'educators' for years is that they are at best 'problematic', is sufficient to be accused of deifying them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

So you also take your kids to a Veterans Graveyard to place flags and clean up. They will ask questions.

Why are we here?
Who died?
Why did they die?
Why should I care?

History is interesting even to the littles if you make it real.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (FoHMn)

186 This is how we’ve decreased homelessness in Los Angeles 2 years in a row for the first time and we will NOT stop.
____

ICE is going to decrease homelessness for a fraction of the cost.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (Dv3i1)

187 >>Suddenly feeling better about myself.

One of the Teachers in my school was a runner-up for Christie Mcauliff's seat.

So...they had been fluffing the whole 'Teacher in Space' thing for months prior.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (fVmgO)

188 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (JvZF+)

I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (fVmgO)

You guys have issues.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)

189 I've probably said this before - my kindergarten teacher just could not believe I could read, because after all I had just started school and therefore had not been taught by a professional how to read. My mom said, "Got a newspaper? Hand it to him." I proceeded to read whatever the hell was on the front page that day; probably something about Gerald Ford falling down again....

Posted by: PabloD at July 31, 2025 06:00 PM (LZLEA)

They got wise when I started asking for reading books instead of coloring books, or blocks. I wanted go dog do dammit. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (snZF9)

190
It's shocking to me...I know I'm easily shocked...that anyone would go into teaching with the idea of holding kids back from reaching their full potential,

and wouldn't welcome dividing students into fast, average, and slow groups so that everyone gets the best education that they're capable of having.

But, apparently that's the case.

Some kids are slow maturers, some kids are fast. Some kids are motivated. Some kids aren't.
Some kids are just plain dumb. Some kids are brilliant. Pretty much every education system in the world besides ours recognizes that with testing that determines whether you move forward into higher education or get directed into apprenticeships and the like that more than likely suit them better.

We need something along those lines.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (iJfKG)

191 >>> B+ is definitely acceptable under that scenario and I was right there with you.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)

Same. I always finished the days homework in the minute or two before class started. It was all correct but entirely illegible so I coasted through.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (cduTK)

192 I was more "if I can get a B+ without trying at all, isn't that more impressive than an A?"
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 31, 2025 05:50 PM (MGB5H

B+ is definitely acceptable under that scenario and I was right there with you.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 05:52 PM

I coasted in my senior year and somehow managed to get on the national honor society while missing 42 days of school. I ain't super smart I just went to high school with a bunch of dumb kids and the grading curve was so loaded towards me and a dozen or so other kids just doing basic work it was a walk in the park.

My history teacher didn't care if I was there or not he would give me the class assignments and homework and let me turn them in whenever I wanted to.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (e5NfL)

193 I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett

Need
Another
Seven
Astronauts

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (jUzef)

194 "Angelenos."

No, thanks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 06:03 PM (JvZF+)

195 Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

The Moody Blues, Nights in White Satin sucks too...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 31, 2025 06:03 PM (3Ope8)

196 You guys have issues.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)
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7th grade social studies teacher called to demand I stop asking so many questions in class.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (JvZF+)

197 84% of black public high school graduates in America can't read at grade level.

Until the NEA even pretends to be embarrassed by that fact, no one should believe anything they say about wanting "equity" or "equality."

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (j6Ika)

198 Elizabeth Warren fell on her ass in the chamber today.

Damn Day Drunks.

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (QA89Y)

199 I was in a reading contest in 2nd grade with another kid. By the time school was out for the year we were both reading at 6 grade or even a bit higher.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (Hq2ht)

200 As the outer towner, laid down dying he shoots the town bully.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (AnDLK)

201 If you can't succeed, Try Teaching!
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:43
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And if can't teach, teach P.E.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 31, 2025 06:06 PM (hoCmQ)

202 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (JvZF+)

I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (fVmgO)

You guys have issues.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)

Timing, mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 06:06 PM (i24o9)

203 84% of black public high school graduates in America can't read at grade level
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Uh-oh I think you just did a racism!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 06:07 PM (JvZF+)

204 Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 05:55 PM (JvZF+)

I got sent home for laughing at the Space Shuttle explosion.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 05:58 PM (fVmgO)

You guys have issues.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)

Timing, mostly.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 06:06 PM

*rimshot*

Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

205 104 Again, people don't go this far wrong without a concerted effort to create these kinds of people, and then put them into positions where they have actual power.

And no, it's not communist. It's worse than that.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 31, 2025 05:40 PM (dGCAG)
It's shaitan.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 06:07 PM (LHPAg)

206 Some kids are just plain dumb. Some kids are brilliant. Pretty much every education system in the world besides ours recognizes that with testing that determines whether you move forward into higher education or get directed into apprenticeships and the like that more than likely suit them better.

We need something along those lines.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2025 06:02 PM (iJfKG)

Hey! The country needs congress critters too, ya know.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 31, 2025 06:07 PM (5xuJ/)

207 The commernists screw you again.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/IhnhmVfEcK4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 06:08 PM (L/fGl)

208 SaltyCracker has a good Irish Stabbing Video that just posted.

Nice Irish Lad stabs a Cop right on camera.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:08 PM (fVmgO)

209 Ever notice how good school districts never seem to need more money? It’s always the shit ones hiring $400,000 a year administrators.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at July 31, 2025 06:08 PM (y6jSU)

210 It's shaitan.
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 06:07 PM (LHPAg)
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Driving it all, yes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2025 06:08 PM (JvZF+)

211 We had this machine in the 5th grade that made you read along at a certain speed and afterwards, you'd take a quiz to see if you could read and comprehend the material. I distinctly remember reading a story called the Stutz Bearcat

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 31, 2025 06:09 PM (3Ope8)

212 84% of black public high school graduates in America can't read at grade level.

Until the NEA even pretends to be embarrassed by that fact, no one should believe anything they say about wanting "equity" or "equality."
Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (j6Ika

Until the black community stops using ' acting white' as an insult nothing is going to change.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:09 PM (VofaG)

213 It's shocking to me...I know I'm easily shocked...that anyone would go into teaching with the idea of holding kids back from reaching their full potential,

and wouldn't welcome dividing students into fast, average, and slow groups so that everyone gets the best education that they're capable of having.

But, apparently that's the case.

We returned from overseas and had the kids in what we were told were exceptional public schools. My son didn't test as "gifted and talented" when they did the 4th grade evaluations, but he read at a 10th grade level (for public school, so bear that in mind.) They would not put him in GT, nor would the school provide enrichment for him because "it wasn't fair." His fantastic teacher allowed me to do a reading/writing class with him that allowed him to read at his level, write about the books, and do spelling from the books as well as etymology of the words. He thrived. In fifth grade, same school, his new teacher screamed at me that it was unfair to other kids who didn't have a mom to help them, and my son could learn enough in her class.

Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 06:09 PM (wLjpr)

214 I hated school. I mean, hated it. I was a terrible student, but smart enough to do the bare minimum each year. I graduated with a 2.3 average. Hell, good enough for me.

And yet, I was writing my letters at age four. Reading happened a little later, by osmosis. With my artist brain, writing was like drawing.

I did draw a lot too, animals and dinosaurs, mostly.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 06:09 PM (0aYVJ)

215 198 Elizabeth Warren fell on her ass in the chamber today.

Damn Day Drunks.
Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 06:05 PM (QA89Y)

Injuns can’t hold their liquor.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at July 31, 2025 06:10 PM (y6jSU)

216 We need something along those lines.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2025 06:02
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Didn't they call that "tracking" in 60's- early 70's? That's bad juju and rayciss now.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 31, 2025 06:10 PM (hoCmQ)

217 208 SaltyCracker has a good Irish Stabbing Video that just posted.

Nice Irish Lad stabs a Cop right on camera.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:08 PM (fVmgO)

and some dumb white woman tries to stop the Police.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 31, 2025 06:10 PM (FCrpy)

218 I'm down with let the parents educate their own children, in whatever form they choose, home school, private school, school of hard knocks, anything put taxpayer funded schools. Get rid of all taxation for schools.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2025 06:11 PM (rvwwT)

219 >>and some dumb white woman tries to stop the Police.

Two of them!

Fucking insanity.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:11 PM (fVmgO)

220
That expert is an utter idiot. My uncle got shoved into a orphanage at the age of 4 and they had nothing to do with him but put him into first grade. He learned to read.

My niece taught herself to read by the time she was 4. I joke you not. Between Sesame Street and us always reading to her (especially alphabet books I guess) she learned to put sounds together.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2025 06:11 PM (zCv9W)

221 Underrated Jackson Browne "That Girl Could Sing"
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Yeay, Verily !!!

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 31, 2025 06:12 PM (3ZUWJ)

222
That expert just destroys me. What happened to "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"? It's also a terrible thing to delay.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2025 06:12 PM (zCv9W)

223 I did draw a lot too, animals and dinosaurs, mostly.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name

If your mother REALLY LOVED YOU, she would have transitioned you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 06:13 PM (mT+6a)

224 Chirrun' should be taught an early age to focus on fundamentals.

Posted by: Weasel at July 31, 2025 06:13 PM (kKRwe)

225 >>If your mother REALLY LOVED YOU, she would have transitioned you.

lulz

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:13 PM (fVmgO)

226 211 We had this machine in the 5th grade that made you read along at a certain speed and afterwards, you'd take a quiz to see if you could read and comprehend the material. I distinctly remember reading a story called the Stutz Bearcat
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 31, 2025 06:09 PM

I think there must be something wrong with me, I don't remember much about school when I was that young. I do remember being put in a special class and it was me and the two smartest kids in class and they gave us food and made us guess which shape was on a card we couldn't see. They gave us tests. I thought there was a mistake with me being with the smart kids.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 06:14 PM (gpah0)

227 224 Chirrun' should be taught an early age to focus on fundamentals.

Posted by: Weasel at July 31, 2025 06:13 PM (kKRwe)

How to properly clean their gubs?!

Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 06:14 PM (wLjpr)

228 Yet every morning, the little yella school buses will roll forth and parents will put their most prized possessions abord to be taken away to a government school to be molested, groomed, indoctrinated and mentally raped.
Stop The Madness.

Posted by: Abolish The NEA And Government Schools at July 31, 2025 06:15 PM (R/m4+)

229 I learned to read before starting first grade by reading Archie and Richie Rich comic books.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)

230 Speaking of teachers . . .

https://is.gd/CBIBeB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 06:15 PM (L/fGl)

231 Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 06:14 PM (wLjpr)
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Why, yes!

Posted by: Weasel at July 31, 2025 06:15 PM (kKRwe)

232 I'm a teacher. Fortunately in a right-to-work state, so I don't have to contribute to this.

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 31, 2025 06:15 PM (sJHOI)

233
they gave us food and made us guess which shape was on a card we couldn't see. They gave us tests.

Sounds like some CIA operation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

234 I didn't realize Buster Poindexter was just a character until I was fairly old.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (xcxpd)

235
I think there must be something wrong with me, I don't remember much about school when I was that young. I do remember being put in a special class and it was me and the two smartest kids in class and they gave us food and made us guess which shape was on a card we couldn't see. They gave us tests. I thought there was a mistake with me being with the smart kids.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 06:14 PM (gpah0)

I did that test too! I thought it was stupid, but I did it a bunch of times.

Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (wLjpr)

236 Teachers can't help it if the kids are stupid.

Posted by: Case at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (q3kYF)

237 they gave us food and made us guess which shape was on a card we couldn't see. They gave us tests.
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Your teacher was Peter Venkman?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 06:17 PM (WvZaB)

238 Maryanne Wolf has one of the world's most punchable faces.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 06:17 PM (guCHD)

239 ALL WE EVER WANTED

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=5lVxjr6BH1I

Posted by: BAUHAUS at July 31, 2025 06:18 PM (fVmgO)

240 If your mother REALLY LOVED YOU, she would have transitioned you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 06:13 PM (mT+6a)

Well, I did think being a t-rex would be cool.

Later I wanted to be Crazy Horse.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

241 My theory is this:

THe Left is trying to "mint racists" because there just isn't enough actual racism in the US to justify their ideology. Solution: So outrage and humiliate white kids that they become racists, and bingo you then point out how everyone really is racist now.
Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2025 05:22 PM (pMi6S)

---------------

I have thought this for a while that they must want to enrage white kids and their parents to react to protect themselves and view everyone else as a danger. They have done it.

Posted by: Decaf at July 31, 2025 06:19 PM (unUNN)

242 I distinctly remember reading a story called the Stutz Bearcat
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

Binturongs have been described as bearcats, but strangely have never been featured on the Evening Cafe Thread.

Posted by: Binturong Advocate at July 31, 2025 06:19 PM (G5+As)

243
I did that test too! I thought it was stupid, but I did it a bunch of times.

Posted by: moki at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (wLjpr)

What was that? I remember being confused, like you guys made a mistake I don't belong with these two.
I only have faint memories of it. I think they gave us snacks because there's no way I would have wanted to be away from my friends.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 06:20 PM (gpah0)

244 Binturongs are awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (77rzZ)

245 I was bending silverware in the school lunch room in Kindergarten.

Posted by: Little Uri Geller at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (G5+As)

246 One thing that drives me crazy about education, is all the theories they pontificate on. If your new math teaching style doesn't work, oh well, I guess the kid will just be behind in his math...for the rest of his life.

Eat a bag of dicks NEA. We KNOW what works. Do that till WE tell YOU otherwise.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (gDhA9)

247 244 Binturongs are awesome.
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (77rzZ)

And you guys taught me that they smell like popcorn.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (gpah0)

248 Heh. Still no news coverage of Britney Greiner being banned from the WNBA after they found out "she's" actually a man. The Russians certainly knew for years, as they kept "her" in the men's prison...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (t/AMM)

249
Fuck that reading "expert". And tell her to brush her gorram hair. She looks like she showers once a week, whether she needs it or not. And her patchouli oil purchases easily outstrip her vegan food budget.

I learned to read at about 3-4 yrs old. Just because she's a cretinous illiterate slag doesn't mean I have to be one too.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 31, 2025 06:22 PM (y9nCu)

250 "Elizabeth Warren fell on her ass in the chamber today."

She leaned against some small table that couldn't hold her, and she fell back, sat right on it. Hopped right back up, but never tried to help put the table back in place ... some other woman was working on that chore.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2025 06:23 PM (vbXSk)

251 I'm surprised you guys remember learning to read, I don't remember that.

I used to say I was sick that day when I don't know something but it won't work with this.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 06:23 PM (gpah0)

252 OT

Last of the Mohicans really was one of the best soundtracks of all time. Shitty movie, but epic soundtrack.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

253 Trey Goudy becomes loud and upset on Fox just now at the suggestion that folks on the right want to see the Obama crew in handcuffs.

"There are many ways to hold people accountable that don't involve handcuffs!" he shouted.

Uhm Trey, not if you want to prevent these crimes from happening again. You'd think that an ex-prosecutor ought to understand that taking away a perpetrator's cocktail party invites to the DC inner circles is not going to be punishment enough...geez.

Posted by: Boswell at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (BGfwC)

254 >>Last of the Mohicans really was one of the best soundtracks of all time. Shitty movie, but epic soundtrack.

Score.

Soundtrack GOAT is Repo Man.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (fVmgO)

255 Two songs I like but disagree with their message. 1) Brian Setzer, Drive Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder and numerous artist, here the Swing Ninja featuring the Speakeasy Three, When I Get Low, I Get High.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acb-js00c40

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (L/fGl)

256 We has manderstorey classes in all Brattleboro schools about Gay Pride and Men-maid Global Warming.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (vL1lZ)

257 Hell, Scout could read when she was born!

Posted by: Jim Finch at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (cPGH3)

258 >>"There are many ways to hold people accountable that don't involve handcuffs!" he shouted.

We would have accepted 'Blindfolds', too.

Posted by: Judges say at July 31, 2025 06:25 PM (fVmgO)

259 THe Left is trying to "mint racists" because there just isn't enough actual racism in the US to justify their ideology.

Nah. Whether you attribute to culture and/or other factors, there are demographics in the US that cannot compete with others academically or otherwise.So if you are going to level things out, the only way is to do so is to destroy various groups that have better achievement (jews, asians, whites). You can only have the kind of equality they want (of result) by destroying, not creating.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 06:25 PM (guCHD)

260 Soundtrack GOAT is Repo Man.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (fVmgO)

Runner up: River's Edge

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 06:26 PM (0aYVJ)

261 Any modern soundtrack not written by John Williams isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 06:26 PM (77rzZ)

262 233
they gave us food and made us guess which shape was on a card we couldn't see. They gave us tests.

Sounds like some CIA operation.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

Pre-K Ultra

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2025 06:26 PM (QA89Y)

263 We would have accepted 'Blindfolds', too.
Posted by: Judges say at July 31, 2025 06:25 PM (fVmgO)

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12.7 Dshk

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

264 Teachers can't help it if the kids are stupid.

Posted by: Case at July 31, 2025 06:16 PM (q3kYF)

That is their reason for existence.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 06:27 PM (i24o9)

265 Red the whole thing?

Make me.

As someone who has taught, I know who/what these assholes are and are all about.

End ALL public sector unions. If you take a paycheck from the taxpayer, you have ZERO BUSINESS belonging to a union.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:27 PM (WeMfR)

266 Great-grand daughter #1 is three: her mother reads to her every day. Great-grand daughter can count, identify shapes and colors, has an advanced vocabulary for her age, and loves books.

Apparently this is a bad thing, according to the self-proclaimed expert scrunt.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 31, 2025 06:27 PM (pJWtt)

267 Any modern soundtrack not written by John Williams isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 06:26 PM (77rzZ

Bulg, I get the 'swing my dick and see what I hit' on this but here you are just wrong. Be it the LotR movies or tons of soundstrack/scores from James Horner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

268 Heh. Still no news coverage of Britney Greiner being banned from the WNBA after they found out "she's" actually a man. The Russians certainly knew for years, as they kept "her" in the men's prison...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 31, 2025 06:21 PM (t/AMM)

A nasty man doing nasty things with nasty people.

Posted by: Just Nasty at July 31, 2025 06:29 PM (R/m4+)

269 >>Runner up: River's Edge

#2 on my list is usually Pump of the Volume.

Because, Bad Brains featuring Henry Rollins(nsfw):

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xmCkDRyliRk

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 06:29 PM (fVmgO)

270 I was already reading when inside the womb

"In case of emergency, break glass"

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 31, 2025 06:29 PM (DsA2n)

271 Parents should be able to go back to the old ways, before industrialization required centralized public schools.

Homeschooling can work, but most people don't have the time or inclination to teach their children.

Private schools are expensive and you can't be sure if they're going to teach the same crap that public schools do.

I say go back to hiring private tutors.
Make an Uber-like app for teachers for hire.
Rate them on how well a job they do for your kids.
These tutors can then visit a few students a day at home and make a decent living teaching without the hassle of unions and government, hopefully.

It's just an idea, but one whose time, I believe, has potential.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 06:29 PM (6ydKt)

272 (I’m just happy TX is a RTW state, and that this extends to the classroom.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:29 PM (WeMfR)

273 We would have accepted 'Blindfolds', too.
Posted by: Judges say at July 31, 2025 06:25 PM (fVmgO)

I agree that someone somewhere is going to have to pay dearly for this...and losing one's freedom is a pretty common solution to crimes like those suggested as having been committed.

Losing one's free pass to Wally World's Tuesday Night Clown Cavalcade just ain't gonna cut it...

Posted by: Boswell at July 31, 2025 06:30 PM (BGfwC)

274 A teacher friend once described teaching as "sticking a loaded shotgun in a hen house and pulling the trigger".
You'll hit some dead on and graze some and miss some altogether.

Posted by: sal at July 31, 2025 06:30 PM (f+FmA)

275
You can only have the kind of equality they want (of result) by destroying, not creating.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Hatchet, ax and saw.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 06:30 PM (63Dwl)

276 Candace Owens NOOD

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)

277 Last of the Mohicans really was one of the best soundtracks of all time. Shitty movie, but epic soundtrack.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 06:23 PM (zZu0s)

I just finished watching it on the plane about an hour ago.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at July 31, 2025 06:30 PM (Hq2ht)

278 Make no mistake. They want stupid, pliable people.

It’s far more difficult to hypnotize & indoctrinate healthy genuinely educated individuals from intact loving families. That’s why they hate you, because you are immune (hopefully) to their parlor tricks.

I recall well when the “we don’t believe in rote memorization”. Or flash cards. They hate people who can read as well. It is nothing short of demonic.

Rote memorization of facts, names, dates, etc is part of a classical education. With a command of history, one has a ready made database as it were, without looking things up. This has proven extremely useful over the years in ways impossible to describe. Trivia, seemingly useless information, that I have retained for whatever reason, has proven a key piece of more than one puzzle, and saved my life on more than one occasion. It is not the same as being able to look something up on the internet

For one, they don’t want students to know history, because they very much intend to repeat it. The entire education apparatus is apparently headed and significantly staffed by radical saboteurs.

Burn it down, start over. At least get your kids out of government run schools.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2025 06:31 PM (gAmkp)

279 Trey Goudy becomes loud and upset on Fox just now at the suggestion that folks on the right want to see the Obama crew in handcuffs.

"There are many ways to hold people accountable that don't involve handcuffs!" he shouted.

Uhm Trey, not if you want to prevent these crimes from happening again. You'd think that an ex-prosecutor ought to understand that taking away a perpetrator's cocktail party invites to the DC inner circles is not going to be punishment enough...geez.
Posted by: Boswell at July 31, 2025 06:24 PM (BGfwC)
Rooster hails from a kinder and gentler Pre Orange Man period when the grift was frequent and easy. Fun times when betrayal of your voters held no real threat for pretend ‘Congressmen’ .The fact that Rooster is on Fox and has an audience while sounding like he enjoys getting his fudged packed by the Dem jackals…tells us Fox , and Rooster, are mostly irrelevant in our Brave New Orange World.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 31, 2025 06:32 PM (FCPbW)

280 271 Parents should be able to go back to the old ways, before industrialization required centralized public schools.

Industrialization did not require public schools. But the idea became popular for, as it says, in the TX DoI, 1836, the Mexican government failed to provide for any system of public education though it has almost boundless resources (the public domain), and though it is an axiom in political science that it is idle to assume a people will retain the capacity for self-government unless educated and enlightened (I paraphrase).

Now, about how that is working out…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:33 PM (WeMfR)

281 In the seventh grade I wrote a book synopsis and gave a report on it in class. It was due in 30 minutes when I started it, and was all made up. Complete b/s. I got an 85. Was damn lucky there was no such thing as internet in 1960.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 06:35 PM (LHPAg)

282
My theory is this:

THe Left is trying to "mint racists" because there just isn't enough actual racism in the US to justify their ideology. Solution: So outrage and humiliate white kids that they become racists, and bingo you then point out how everyone really is racist now.
Posted by: zombie

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That's a famous one. Also expressed as "The demand for racism in this country exceeds the supply."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2025 06:36 PM (zCv9W)

283 That expert is an utter idiot. My uncle got shoved into a orphanage at the age of 4 and they had nothing to do with him but put him into first grade. He learned to read.

My niece taught herself to read by the time she was 4. I joke you not. Between Sesame Street and us always reading to her (especially alphabet books I guess) she learned to put sounds together.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2025 06:11 PM (zCv9W)

As the youngest of three, I had both my sisters AND my parents encouraging me to read from a very young age. So the “pump was primed” well before I got to kindergarten. I always read well above my grade level as a result.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:36 PM (WeMfR)

284 Nice Irish Lad stabs a Cop right on camera.
Posted by: garrett

and some dumb white woman tries to stop the Police.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Is it possible that the Emerald Isle has Karens worse than the ones in the USA? Maybe we need a rating scale, 1.0 is standard USA, Ireland would be 1.2 on the scale.

Note, Irish women can't qualify for AWFL status, being there are no Affluent Irish. Thought I do expect to see plenty of AWFLs at the Dublin OH Irish Festival this weekend.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 31, 2025 06:36 PM (Dv3i1)

285 280 271 Parents should be able to go back to the old ways, before industrialization required centralized public schools.

Industrialization did not require public schools. But the idea became popular for, as it says, in the TX DoI, 1836, the Mexican government failed to provide for any system of public education though it has almost boundless resources (the public domain), and though it is an axiom in political science that it is idle to assume a people will retain the capacity for self-government unless educated and enlightened (I paraphrase).

Now, about how that is working out…
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:33 PM (WeMfR)
Mirabeau B. Lamar, Father Of Texas Education (with the help of Texas Freemasons).

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 06:38 PM (LHPAg)

286 Industrialization did not require public schools. But the idea became popular for, as it says, in the TX DoI, 1836, the Mexican government failed to provide for any system of public education though it has almost boundless resources (the public domain), and though it is an axiom in political science that it is idle to assume a people will retain the capacity for self-government unless educated and enlightened (I paraphrase).

Now, about how that is working out…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 31, 2025 06:33 PM (WeMfR)

Industrialization required workers who could sit or stand still for hours to work in factories, etc. So they developed our schools based on those needs over a century ago.

Our educational system was modeled on Prussia's schools at the time.

Schedules, discipline, curricula; all borrowed from a highly militant culture that was well on it's way to preparing to conquer Europe at the time.

I don't think it works for a 21st century economy.

We don't have to have tutors and homeschooling, but something has to be done for a system that benefits fewer and fewer children and young adults at the expense of teachers unions and leftist indoctrination.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 06:45 PM (6ydKt)

287 As the youngest of three, I had both my sisters AND my parents encouraging me to read from a very young age. So the “pump was primed” well before I got to kindergarten. I always read well above my grade level as a result.
——-/

You still don’t get it. This is exactly what they are trying to stop. Get it in your head they want to drag everyone else down, not build anyone up.

They aren’t stupid advocating these policies, they are wicked smart, depending on your viewpoint, what are the actual objectives? These are policies an enemy would advocate, something well understood 35 years ago.

“What would they be doing different?” went the refrain. And it’s 10 times worse now.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2025 06:56 PM (VA1KP)

288 We’ve known for over 10 years through repeated research in child development that there are ages that are prime for learning certain information, such as reading. It is true that children can best learn to read around 7 years of age, or first grade. But there are children who learn to read on their own, especially if they see their parents reading, their parents read to them every day, and they have access to picture story books that have beginning reading words in them. In Sweden they don’t formally teach reading until first grade. They have the highest literacy levels in the world. Look up their forest schools. The learning is amazing. As a speech language pathologist and a mother, it angers me to see 3-5 year olds being forced to sit at tables doing ABC and phonics worksheets, rather than learning through active play. By the time they reach first grade, the joy of learning has been worksheeted out of them. Read read read to your children and keep them off all screen time for as long as possible.

Posted by: Annie Rose at July 31, 2025 07:26 PM (RBnU7)

289 The educational system has been failing for years.

Our lifestyle is so technologically bound now that we can no longer support it with domestic resources.

Hence, unpleasant things are happening that people get upset about here.

We must force the changes necessary otherwise we will lose our edge.

We need a domestic supply of doctors and engineers and such. Sure it's great to advocate the trades, but it doesn't take a near lifetime of quality education to acquire the skills for those jobs.

Posted by: pawn at July 31, 2025 07:34 PM (QB+5g)

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