THE MORNING RANT: It’s Been a Tough Month for the Left-Wing Education Establishment

The various bloated bureaucracies that incorporate the name “Education” into their organizations are having a bad couple of weeks.

After decades of broken promises from establishment Republicans to eliminate the Department of Education, President Trump is actually moving forward and doing so…with the Supreme Court’s blessing. About 1,300 public servants in the department are being let go, and this is just the start.

This is a beautiful headline I thought I’d never live to see. “Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue” [NPR – 7/14/2025]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

And once again, although we always heard Republicans such as Bush/Cheney/Ryan/Romney campaign on cutting the Department of Education, they never did a thing toward that goal while in office. But now it is Donald Trump who is actually doing it. Coincidentally, the “true conservatives” in legacy “Conservative, Inc” media outlets continue to slander Trump as being “not a conservative.” They continue to hold out hope for another Bush or Cheney to bring back their preferred version of polite conservatism, which is really just capitulation to the left.

Aside from the Department of Education, there is more good news. MAGA conservatives in Congress are introducing a bill to revoke the National Education Association’s charter. The NEA is the largest labor union in the U.S.

“Republican lawmakers to introduce bill to repeal largest teachers union's federal charter” [Fox News – 7/15/2025]

North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris and Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn revealed on Tuesday in The Daily Caller that they will each introduce the National Education Association Charter Repeal Act in their respective chambers. The bill aims to revoke the federal charter for the largest teachers’ union in the country.

Speaking of teacher’s unions, the president of the politically strident American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, took the opportunity on July 4th to showcase her inability to handle elementary-level spelling and grammar.

She first posted this amazing tweet, and apparently tried to edit it several times before finally giving up and deleting it. Her tweet read: “Hoping this 4rth of July the sun starts peaking thru again”

In just eleven words there were three misspellings, as well as an absence of any punctuation.

BREAKING: Randi Weingarten just deleted this post. pic.twitter.com/6WsOocoNFF
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) July 4, 2025

Ms. Weingarten eventually settled on this tweet, which as of now is still posted at Twitter, but she apparently gave up on trying to figure out how to spell “4th” correctly:

*****

Related, sort of, I stumbled upon this flying around social media, and it gave me a chuckle.

The evolution in teaching math since the 1950s:
1. Teaching Math In 1950s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?
2. Teaching Math In 1970s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math In 1980s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math In 1990s: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number that represents twenty.
5. Teaching Math In 2000s: A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok.)

With a few exceptions, my teachers in the 1970s and ‘80s were exceptional instructors who were deserving of the respect and admiration that was given to teachers back then. I knew nothing about their personal lives, nor did they discuss them. It really saddens me what has happened in the ensuing decades. Back then, teachers taught, students learned, and the only flags displayed in our classrooms were the state flag and American flag.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Good morning

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:00 AM (kVWpQ)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at July 18, 2025 11:00 AM (+Nsu7)

3 Nobody nooded.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:00 AM (VofaG)

4 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (w3u3d)

5 Morning!

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (uxAXv)

6 Informed the others

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:01 AM (kVWpQ)

7 All the Doge cuts might be small when measured against our debt but, they are coming directly out of the hides of our enemies.

MOAR!

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:02 AM (jc0TO)

8 I've had simple math problems coming up on youtube lately. I found out I'm pretty good at math, even after decades of using a calculator, but I'm still not good at showing my work. Why did I have to show my work if I got the answer in my head, Mr. Ward? Why?

Posted by: huerfano at July 18, 2025 11:03 AM (n2swS)

9 The Left hate America just like good for nothing, non-reformable delinquents hate their parents.

They would commit patricide if they could.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:04 AM (VofaG)

10 Hold on now, I thought maths was optional on this smart military blog.

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 18, 2025 11:04 AM (uxAXv)

11 My favorite math questions are those that occassionally leak out where the kids are asked to figure out the profit of drug dealers and hookers.

Those are the best.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (jvJvP)

12 Randi Weingarten, who I believe was educated about the same time I was, sure is stupid.

I hope none of that rubs off on me.

The stupid. Not Randi.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

13 @Buck: Similar experience here with my teachers. They stayed out of your personal life, and they didn't foist theirs on you. They dressed well, showed up on time, and did their job. Much respect.

I look at what's there now that the kids are placed in close proximity to, and ... oy vey.

And what's with this sending kids up to the next grade when it's obvious they didn't learn what they needed to in the current grade? When did "Hold them back because they failed" stop being a thing? All you get at the end is someone who is so horribly steeped in failure and shame that it's tough to get them to ever want to learn again.

Man things have become crazy...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (O7YUW)

14 I saw a discussion online about potential careers for kids in high school. Someone mentioned teacher. To which someone else said no Trump has gutted the Dept of Education there will be no more teaching jobs soon. Or something to that effect.

I was thinking it’s a snark comment. But it wasn’t. It opened up a whole discussion about how Republicans hate education blah blah blah.

These people truly think without the DoE or federal there will no longer be any schools.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (h+GbG)

15 This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Math at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (lPvx2)

16 Top 17?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (gRqLE)

17 TRUMP’S ALLEGED EPSTEIN BDAY LETTER: The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the “blockbuster” story alleging a letter Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday included some tawdry elements previously worked for Main Justice (his only prior reporting experience listed in his bio).

Main Justice was Glenn Simpson’s wife’s publication. Simpson founded Fusion GPS, which was paid by Hillary Clinton/the DNC (through Perkins Coie) to produce the Steele Dossier at the center of the Russian hoax against Trump.

Both Glenn Simpson and his wife, Mary Jacoby, worked for the Wall Street Journal before launching their own enterprises.

Trump is now suing the Wall Street Journal over the “blockbuster” letter story, arguing that it’s bogus and they never showed him it so he could comment.

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

18 Heh.

Posted by: Grayman27 at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (gRqLE)

19 The Left

2+2 = 5

The Criminal

20+20 = 20 concurrent

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (VofaG)

20 Great, Buck. You got math all over the blog.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (kgE5c)

21 Math not maths frikken autopen

Posted by: Polka will never die at July 18, 2025 11:07 AM (uxAXv)

22 I had some pretty good teachers in school. A few stand out. Geography teacher in 9th grade. He made learning about plate tectonics fun, lol.

History teacher in 10th grade. Broke down the cause of WW1 in really interesting ways. Kept me engaged. I learned a ton that year.

I’m sure these two teachers don’t exist in today’s era. First off white men so they need not apply. Second nothing about how WW1 impacted black youths or how the lgbtq community was hurt by the movement of plate tectonics.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:09 AM (h+GbG)

23 I'm starting to suspect that Randi Weingarten posts on this blog under the name Mary Cloggenstein.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 11:09 AM (JkO4W)

24 The aggravating issue to me on the Wall Street story is the same to me as the Kavanaugh story.

I fail to see what the big deal is at all even if 100% true.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:09 AM (VofaG)

25 When I was in public schools, I had the last of the really smart women teachers who chose that profession as it was a respectable trade in the '40s.

I was lucky.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

26 >>Her tweet read: “Hoping this 4rth of July the sun starts peaking thru again”

Ayn Rand rolls in her grave and says, "Was I right, or what?"

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (GbwPZ)

27 It is most disturbing that Randi Weingarten wants to share her inner thoughts.

She is guilty of crimes against humanity and she should be hanged.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (JvZF+)

28 20 Great, Buck. You got math all over the blog.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 18, 2025 11:06 AM (kgE5c)

In memory of Jay Guevara, it is to be alllowed ...

Posted by: browndog checking the AoSHQ Style Guide at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (TTAGa)

29 I heard a rumor Trump also said pussy once.
Impeach!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (h+GbG)

30 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:09 AM (h+GbG)

You reminded me how I learned to spell geography correctly when I was in the first grade.

George East’s Old Grandfather Rode A Pig Home Yesterday.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)

31 She also didn't capitalize Sun. When referring to our own sun (not capitalized when referring to a class of burning gaseous bodies), it is a proper noun.

Posted by: ERF at July 18, 2025 11:11 AM (qqD/x)

32 27 It is most disturbing that Randi Weingarten wants to share her inner thoughts.

She is guilty of crimes against humanity and she should be hanged.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (JvZF+

Just as long as she's not sharing her inner thighs.

Now that would be a crime against humanity!

Posted by: browndog paws over eyes at July 18, 2025 11:11 AM (TTAGa)

33 The funniest thing about that math comparison is that for the 50's through 90's they were referencing elementary school level classes, but the 2000's is from a college curriculum.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:11 AM (kVWpQ)

34 My daughter had a history quiz about ...

1) Who were the first people to come the Philadelphia area ?
2) When did the Swedes come to the Philadelphia area ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (RHGPo)

35 I was told there'd be no math here!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (g8Ew8)

36 is most disturbing that Randi Weingarten wants to share her inner thoughts.

She is guilty of crimes against humanity and she should be hanged.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (JvZF+)

Weingarten is a Facist !!!

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (VofaG)

37 Trump and his allies finally get it that all agencies like the DoE is nothing more than a fat bloated tick on the asshole of our country that needs to be mercilessly lanced. It's amazing that we've been battling the DoE for almost 50 fucking years. Not even Ronaldus Maximus could strangle the demon in its infancy.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

38 4rst!!!

Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (lPvx2)

39 I will cut Randi a little slack (not much, though) for "thru". Sort of OK for very informal stuff and texting. Terse and unambiguous. But really should not be used in material for publication, like a Tweet.

But "4rth" is right out. That's only two characters short of spelling it out: "fourth". Pretty lame abbreviation. Not to mention that the abbreviations of ordinal numbers are basically set in stone, and should be learned by second grade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 11:12 AM (vqu7a)

40 I had some pretty good teachers in school.

Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

41 >>All the Doge cuts might be small when measured against our debt but, they are coming directly out of the hides of our enemies.

MOAR!

Yes!
Saw State Dept. spokesman interviewed last night:

Good news: 1300 were RIF'ed, but an additional 1800'ish took early retirement offer -- twice as many gone as I had read!

Bad news: This 3000 is ~15% of their staff, so many more remain.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (GbwPZ)

42 "The bill aims to revoke the federal charter for the largest teachers’ union in the country."

I'll shit myself if this happens. I doubt it will. But I can hope.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

43 Remembering a local pizza joint, now defunct, their "Loggers Special" was around $20.

Posted by: Rex B at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (+xk6Q)

44 Darnit. Read the content.

Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (lPvx2)

45 I actually LOL'ed at 2 of those examples. I noticed decades ago how bad the math instructions were. My dad, a German engineer, could compute 4 decimal places in his head. Me, I could handle 2 or 3. My younger brother, 13 years younger than me, couldn't do math problems in his head at all. He was an initial member of the New Math generation.
I enjoy confounding todays youths (at the cash register) by tendering coins or small bills to "smooth out" the transactions. The looks are their faces are priceless.

Posted by: Wingnutt at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (CLU0g)

46 30 Hmmm. I would’ve thought that just remembering “geo” plus “graphy” would be easier.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

47 Math and I said goodbye to each other right around the time letters started getting introduced into the equation.

My brain could never comprehend it.

I still remember getting back a test where the teacher wrote, "The answer is correct but I have no clue how you got there."

Mind you, I showed all my work.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (KbCG3)

48 I just recently watched To Sir, With Love .

What a really good movie. I had no idea the Shogun novelist , James Clavell was the Director.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (VofaG)

49 I do not idealize teachers. Most of them are in it for the vacations.

My 10th grade AP European History teacher put his handwritten notes up on the overhead projector. Class time was composed of him reading his notes aloud while we were expected to copy them in our notebooks. Lazy fvck.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (JvZF+)

50 9
‘ The Left hate America just like good for nothing, non-reformable delinquents hate their parents.

They would commit patricide if they could.’

I’d commit Lefticide if I could.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 18, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

51 My bride happens to be a teacher. Those of you who have met her, at the MoMe last year before we were married, can attest that she is just an ordinary person in appearance and has no extremist opinions that I can tell. None that are extremist for this place, anyway.

Should you wish to see for yourself, we will be at the Texas MoMe this year.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 18, 2025 11:15 AM (2Insx)

52 Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)

Well you’re just smarter than me

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)

53 I’d bet serious money Randi has used the word tooken before.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:16 AM (h+GbG)

54 Three trannies want gender affirming surgery. Each surgery costs $150,000. How many blow jobs must they sell at $20 to afford surgeries for all?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

55 She misspelled “peeking.” What a stupid broad.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

56 "This 4rth of July that's what I'm fighting for."

Fighting?
Your are a wildly overpaid, pampered elitist.
You biggest fight is to not eat a second dessert at a catered event.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:17 AM (GbwPZ)

57 Ms. Weingarten eventually settled on this tweet, which as of now is still posted at Twitter, but she apparently gave up on trying to figure out how to spell “4th” correctly:

If I had screwed up the first attempt so badly, I'd have made very sure there were no errors in the second attempt.

1) A sentence does not begin with "And".
2) "A beacon of light" is a phrase, not a sentence.
3) "This 4rth of July that's what I'm fighting for" needs a comma after July. If I were grading strictly, it would be "that for which I am fighting", but that's a bit much.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

58 51 My bride happens to be a teacher. Those of you who have met her, at the MoMe last year before we were married, can attest that she is just an ordinary person in appearance and has no extremist opinions that I can tell. None that are extremist for this place, anyway.

Should you wish to see for yourself, we will be at the Texas MoMe this year.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 18, 2025 11:15 AM (2Insx)

MY DIL is a HS teacher.. She's liberal as hell but a wonderful teacher...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

59 Recently, nine underage girls were sexually harassed by a group of Syrian men at an outdoor swimming pool in Geinhausen, Germany.Shocking, isn’t it? I wish it was. The men touched the young victims’ hair, thighs, and breasts while they were in the water.Incredibly, the mayor of Gelnhausen, Christian Litzinger of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, attributed the assaults to "high temperatures" causing the migrants' tempers to flare. I knew it! Climate change is to blame! Those poor Syrians were driven mad by the German heat, not just the young fräuleins.

"Body Heat" (1981):
It's a hot summer. Ned Racine is waiting for something special to happen. And when it does... He won't be ready for the consequences.
The called it love. The DA called it murder.
She taught him everything she knew - about passion and murder.
As the temperature rises, the suspense begins.

Posted by: SMOD at July 18, 2025 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

60 Oh, and she used to own firearms. Before that tragic boating accident, anyway.

Who knew canoes and kayaks are unstable?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 18, 2025 11:19 AM (2Insx)

61 There are millions of teachers in the US. Obviously there will be some decent ones. But the vast majority are left wing lazy pieces of shit who can barely read themselves.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:19 AM (h+GbG)

62 >>If I had screwed up the first attempt so badly, I'd have made very sure there were no errors in the second attempt.

Bring back sentence diagramming!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:19 AM (GbwPZ)

63 Our Miss Brooks was my teacher.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

64 40 I had some pretty good teachers in school.

Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (kVWpQ)

65 Good article, and you didn't even mention the NEA being unable to spell the word fascism (they think it's 'facism').

Posted by: the lower depths at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (+b4rY)

66 DIL is a HS teacher.. She's liberal as hell but a wonderful teacher...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)

How do you know if she’s wonderful or not? Legit question. She could be a wonderful person but how do you know her teaching abilities?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (h+GbG)

67 > Math and I said goodbye to each other right around the time letters started getting introduced into the equation.

My brain could never comprehend it.
--------
Test Q: X is a variable. Solve for X

Me: X is a bird.
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F -

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

68 Had a wonderful math teacher in jr. high who taught our advanced class algebra. Then in high school another wonderful math teacher who taught us introductory calculus. That high school teacher later got fed up being forced to teach remedial math to students who couldn’t even balance a checkbook: he wound up teaching at the local university.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM (TZq+F)

69 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?
Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (kVWpQ)

She just radiated competence.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM (PiwSw)

70 Our Miss Brooks was my teacher.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 11:19 AM (63Dwl)

That was Eve Arden, wasn't it? I remember her voice could cut glass.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM (vqu7a)

71 "Body Heat" (1981)

-
Best rule against perpetuities movie of all time.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

72 69 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?
Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (kVWpQ)

She just radiated competence.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM (PiwSw)

Sounds like she was a bright spot in your education

Posted by: It's me donna at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (VE6XX)

73 When Johnny is incapable of counting the number of times he's told, fondling other boys is perfectly acceptable, remember to thank a teacher.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (/U5Yz)

74 I’ve heard nuclear teachers are a blast to be around.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (h+GbG)

75 These people truly think without the DoE or federal there will no longer be any schools.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:05 AM (h+GbG)

Those people are the problem. They are clueless idiots. They insist that they are intelligent and informed but are complete imbeciles who only know what demoncrats want them to know. They have no knowledge of reality.
And they are everywhere. They are your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the geezer at the legion hall, the nice lady at the grocery store checkout, and the Karen that whines about the flowers at church.
We outnumber them but we don't engage. "umm, scuse me there, but the Department of education was created in the 1970's and kids were being educated before it existed." or ... "haha, oh wait, you're serious?!?!! The country existed for two hundred years before the dept. of education was created. Are you seriously saying that no one got an education before the 1970's?"
As Jean Luc said, repeatedly, Engage!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (2J/Lj)

76 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?
Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (kVWpQ)

She just radiated competence.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM

A fusion of looks and brains.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (jc0TO)

77
Those poor Syrians were driven mad by the German heat, not just the young fräuleins.

It isn't very pretty what a town without pity can do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

78 Moar edukation is gooder tho. So this is badder.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2025 11:23 AM (TdYBy)

79 Find x.

There it is!

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

80 76 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?
Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:20 AM (kVWpQ)

She just radiated competence.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 11:21 AM

A fusion of looks and brains.
Posted by: toby928 a

The chain reaction will be fabulous.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:24 AM (/U5Yz)

81 Nixon created the Dept of Education. And since he is the mostest worstest evilest president ever, surely we need to shut down his evil creation.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:25 AM (h+GbG)

82 Time for me to go meet the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 11:25 AM (vqu7a)

83 iS r cHildeRn lArniNg?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 18, 2025 11:25 AM (dE3DB)

84 [Time for me to go meet the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 11:25 AM

Tell him Hey for me.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

85 I had a high school history teacher who prounounced Versailles as "Ver-sal-as".

Why he was a football coach, how did you know?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 18, 2025 11:26 AM (PiwSw)

86 Nixon created the Dept of Education.

No, it was Carter.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

87
Sounds like she was a bright spot in your education
Posted by: It's me donna

Gotta wear shades.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

88 "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education."

Oh thank you so much for letting the Executive Branch do its job.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (99eI0)

89 81 Nixon created the Dept of Education. And since he is the mostest worstest evilest president ever, surely we need to shut down his evil creation.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

He also created the EPA in 1970. Such great Republican presidents we've had the last 75 years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (/U5Yz)

90 My wife might get a wee bit peeved if I try to find my X.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (kVWpQ)

91
I am surprised Weingarten did not go with

"... the sun Peking through ..."

She would have gotten an extra fortune cookie from her CCP overlords

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (Tv15w)

92 >>There are millions of teachers in the US. Obviously there will be some decent ones. But the vast majority are left wing lazy pieces of shit who can barely read themselves.

Yes, still some good ones, but the bad ones are so much worse than anything we've had to deal with in the past. Years ago, at my son's school's Grandparents Day, the student teacher was chatting with my mom about my son's interest in history. She enthusiastically recommended Mom get him Howard Zinn's "People's History" as a Christmas present. Mom said something like "That book will never enter my daughter's house!," which stunned the student teacher. They are so far Left it doesn't even occur to them we could actively reject their propaganda.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (GbwPZ)

93 Nixon did the EPA. Carter did Energy and Education.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (u4lRw)

94 Carter created it? Oh shit I always thought it was Nixon.

Well then even more reason to nuke it. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (h+GbG)

95 Gotta wear shades.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2025 11:26 AM

Lead lined condoms.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:28 AM (jc0TO)

96 This gives me a well-educated fully-biologically-male boner.

Posted by: Die DOE! at July 18, 2025 11:28 AM (TbWk/)

97 Me: X is a bird.
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F -
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Bird is the word.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:28 AM (vV6Uu)

98 82 Time for me to go meet the day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2025 11:25 AM (vqu7a)

Would you like a letter of introduction, or is that too 19th century for you?

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:28 AM (kVWpQ)

99 89 81 Nixon created the Dept of Education. And since he is the mostest worstest evilest president ever, surely we need to shut down his evil creation.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

EPA. But he also laid the groundwork that led to Bill Clinton and his globalist pals spreading our cheeks for China. So there's plenty to hate him for.

Posted by: He sucked at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (TbWk/)

100 59
‘ Those poor Syrians were driven mad by the German heat, not just the young fräuleins.’

Yeah. I’ll bet Germany is the first place they ever encountered heat.
I think the reason is that they’re from a sick, retarded culture that has no respect for women.
The Germans are so goddamn gutless and continue to refuse to do the right thing.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

101 When I got my Eagle Scout, I threatened to denounce the local Republicans who were supposed to speak at my award breakfast. My parents got my Social Studies teacher to convince me not to. He was a fascist as well but I respected him.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (JvZF+)

102 88 "The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that it would allow the Trump administration to resume dismantling the U.S. Department of Education."

Oh thank you so much for letting the Executive Branch do its job.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 11:27 AM (99eI0)

Yeah this bugs me as well.

What the headlines should say is “supreme
court tells left wingers to fuck off and let the duly elected president do his job”.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (h+GbG)

103 A fusion of looks and brains.
Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM (jc0TO)

Her degree was actually in math. All the female instructors at nuclear power school were hot AF... for some reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

104 Randi Weingarten gets an “A” for effort on that tweet!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (nrfI8)

105 Randi Weingarten, took the opportunity on July 4th to showcase her inability to handle elementary-level spelling and grammar.

She first posted this amazing tweet, and apparently tried to edit it several times before finally giving up and deleting it. Her tweet read: “Hoping this 4rth of July the sun starts peaking thru again”

In just eleven words there were three misspellings, as well as an absence of any punctuation.

Dear Randi,
Name one positive metric that went up for students since the DoE was created. We'll wait.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (k3Vs9)

106 The Germans are so goddamn gutless and continue to refuse to do the right thing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM

We are at the Hun at our feet stage.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (jc0TO)

107 Not the Bee

The cheaters at the Coldplay concert are now a viral meme. Here are the best ones:

https://tinyurl.com/yvvm7pt9

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (k3Vs9)

108 >> Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?

>>She just radiated competence.

A fission of beauty!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (GbwPZ)

109 He was a fascist as well but I respected him.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (JvZF+)

I think you mean facist.

Posted by: Leftist teacher at July 18, 2025 11:31 AM (VofaG)

110 Is this something or another treasonous act to be swept under the carpet?

https://tinyurl.com/3bzu6793

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:31 AM (/U5Yz)

111
Get you facts straight, for crying out loud.

Nixon did not create the Department of Education, Jimmuh Carter did.

The United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (also known as HEW) was a cabinet-level department of the United States government from 1953 until 1979. It was administered by the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1979, a separate Department of Education (ED) was created from this department, and HEW was renamed as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 18, 2025 11:31 AM (Tv15w)

112 My US history teacher in high school docked me a point on an otherwise perfect test because I wrote “to” instead of “too” (or vice versa) in an answer to an essay question.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

113 Dear Randi,
Name one positive metric that went up for students since the DoE was created. We'll wait.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (k3Vs9)

What’s a metric?

Posted by: Randi at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (VofaG)

114 The whiners need to be reminded that the "education" department stopped educating decades ago and went into the indoctrination biz.

Indoctrination doesn't lead to employment anywhere else but HR, paid protesting and welfare.

And we've go plenty of that to go around right now, thanks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (Q4IgG)

115 "But the vast majority are left wing lazy pieces of shit who can barely read themselves."

The bad teachers make it tough for the 1% that are good to do their jobs.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (99eI0)

116 I needed an obscure part for my car. It was faster to ask Grok to find it than it would have been to search for it myself. It can search eBay faster and more accurately than eBay search can. I gotta get used to this new way of thinking: AI First.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (J4/Z5)

117 Those people are the problem. They are clueless idiots. They insist that they are intelligent and informed but are complete imbeciles who only know what demoncrats want them to know.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 18, 2025 11:22 AM

Part of the problem with many of "those people" is that they don't read more than the titles of bills or the executive summary of papers. Put your lies there and it doesn't matter that the truth is revealed elsewhere in the document. It's not that they have no understanding, it's that the understanding is as shallow as a puddle.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (2Insx)

118 >>MAGA conservatives in Congress are introducing a bill to revoke the National Education Association’s charter. The NEA is the largest labor union in the U.S.

DO IT!

The teachers unions are the biggest contributors to Democrat candidates, IIRC.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:33 AM (GbwPZ)

119 I like the visage of a pretty woman. So, yes, I am a facist.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

120 Dear Randi,
Name one positive metric that went up for students since the DoE was created. We'll wait.

Self-esteem.

Posted by: Randi Weingarten at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

121 The Germans are so goddamn gutless and continue to refuse to do the right thing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

Their version of the "right thing" is sometimes not exactly the right thing.

Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (lPvx2)

122 Not the Bee

The cheaters at the Coldplay concert are now a viral meme. Here are the best ones:

https://tinyurl.com/yvvm7pt9
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:30 AM (k3Vs9)
__________

I hate Coldplay and think Chris Martin is a closet homo. But I have to say, he nailed the commentary on these two scumbags.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

123 Hmmm.

'Peaking' Like Everest.

4rth. I am not even sure on this one. Maybe she hit the r on either the t or the 4?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (bss/y)

124 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?

Soon she'll collide with reality.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:35 AM (/U5Yz)

125 The bad teachers make it tough for the 1% that are good to do their jobs.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (99eI0)

Right?
- Egg and Ham FBI Agents

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:35 AM (h+GbG)

126 >>Soon she'll collide with reality.

Isotope not!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (GbwPZ)

127 So the nuke instructor was a bombshell?

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

128 Thank you for posting Jay Guevara's obituary.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (77W69)

129 Who was president 36 months ago?

SUNNY HOSTIN EXPLODES ON LIVE TV: “This is like a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!”

On The View, Sunny Hostin slammed the Trump administration after it was revealed that nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million starving children—was DESTROYED instead of delivered.

Why? The food sat in storage until it EXPIRED due to bureaucratic delays and a massive shakeup inside USAID. Once it expired, officials claimed it was no longer safe for consumption—so they burned it or buried it.

Hostin didn’t hold back: "Food is a human right. This is criminal.” While global hunger skyrockets, $800,000+ in aid was literally turned to ash on American taxpayers’ dime.

Humanitarian Daily Ration

Shelf Life: 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit

https://tinyurl.com/4yxpc6s6

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (k3Vs9)

130 Randi Weingarten is probably in her 70's and didn't spend very much time actually teaching . As with Albert Shankar ( sp?) before her ,she got out of teaching fairly quickly to get into the more lucrative work of being in union leadership. I don't know how bright or stupid she actually is, unless one considers a leftist to automatically be stupid in all academic areas. On the other hand, I'm a somewhat intelligent person and I wouldn't want my intelligence to be judged by my typing ability on the internet. And yes, I think the decisions she advocated during Covid were a disaster for kids in school.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (hDBOA)

131 Spelling is a petty prejudice of the bourgeoisie! After the revolution, everyone can spell however they feel. Also words will have whatever meaning each comrade wishes them to have.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

132 The majority of male teachers in my school system were veterans, WW2 or Korea. Female teachers were probably married to vets. Our high school PE teacher made it a priority that we got a lot of good ol' fashioned close order drill. In the late 60s that came in handy for a lot of us. The coolest thing was our 10th grade English teacher, good guy, the girls loved him, that made the announcement he was leaving teaching. I ran into him in Vietnam, First Lieutenant, A4 Skyhawk driver.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (gm9Sb)

133 Proposition: People of an average (or less) intelligence should stay off social media.

Heck, even extremely smart people can look stupid on social media (I’m looking at you Elon)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (WdMlw)

134 Part of the problem with many of "those people" is that they don't read more than the titles of bills or the executive summary of papers.

—

They don’t even do that. Their info comes from someone on TikTok telling them what the bill or EO does.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (h+GbG)

135 112 My US history teacher in high school docked me a point on an otherwise perfect test because I wrote “to” instead of “too” (or vice versa) in an answer to an essay question.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

Your teacher must have been related to a bunch of mine. Grammar was graded on all tests, not just English. My school had stock in red pens.

Posted by: moki at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (wLjpr)

136 I went through Texas public schools from the late 70s-1989. Plano ISD. I received an outstanding education that prepared me exceedingly well for a highly demanding and competitive environment in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas. Dr. Wayne Hendrick, the man who built the Plano schools of that timeframe, did a phenomenal job creating probably one of the top 5 school districts in the state, but he retired in 1990.

My wife and I were excited to put our first daughter into Plano schools in 2003. Just 14 years later, but they had been transformed out of all recognition. Already by that time, they were thoroughly penetrated by wokeism and institutional rot. Even 4-5 year olds were exposed to all manner of immorality and there were numerous onerous and silly regulations.

After one year, we decided we were going to homeschool all our kids, and have ever since. 5 kids are all the way through high school, but we still have about 9 years left (ulp) to finish homeschooling our youngest. It's been a joy, and it's not for everyone, and certainly has its drawbacks, but with the state of schools today, we had no choice.

Posted by: Sloucho at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (GD3mD)

137 The bad teachers make it tough for the 1% that are good to do their jobs.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 18, 2025 11:32 AM (99eI0)

Cops aren't much better.

Posted by: Whole barrels are rotten at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (TbWk/)

138 Why? The food sat in storage until it EXPIRED due to bureaucratic delays and a massive shakeup inside USAID. Once it expired, officials claimed it was no longer safe for consumption—so they burned it or buried it.

Why not feed it to pigs?

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

139 I hate it when the “th” at the end of an ordinal number is written as a superscript.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

140 The Germans are so goddamn gutless and continue to refuse to do the right thing.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 18, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

Their version of the "right thing" is sometimes not exactly the right thing.
Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 11:34 AM (lPvx2)
____

It ain't daughters of the elite getting raped and abused by swarthy stinkmeisters. You think Steinmeier's kids are hanging out at public pools? Because nobody that matters is getting hurt, nobody cares. Not much different from USA.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

141 139 Concur.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 11:39 AM (J4/Z5)

142 5. Teaching Math In 2000s:

6. Teaching Math in 2025: Davonte buys a kilo of coke for $70,000. How many times can Davonte step on a kilo of coke before his shit is too weak and someone caps his ass because of it?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:39 AM (k3Vs9)

143 124 Why am I not surprised a nuclear scientist would receive glowing praise?

Soon she'll collide with reality.

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I won't get entangled in this unpunny mess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 18, 2025 11:39 AM (JkO4W)

144 29 I heard a rumor Trump also said pussy once.
Impeach!!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:10 AM (h+GbG)

You are gonna confuse Maxine Waters - she won't know whether to say 45 or 47, and that might be too much for her at her age.

Posted by: moki at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (wLjpr)

145 Question One:

An unemployed Stephen Colbert decides to become the martyr the left is demanding and decides to try to get shot by an I.C.E. agent.

Luckily, he is hanging around a bunch of illegal aliens, including 2 murderers and 3 rapists. I.C.E. pulls up.

A crazed Colbert takes out a gun, runs into the street babbling incoherently about Trump, Hitler, FACISM and starts firing a gun, poorly, on the agents from 2,624 feet away.

One agent pulls out his Glock 19 and fires a bullet travelling 1,312 feet per second.

How long does the bullet take to reach Colbert?

Bonus Points.

A crazed, unemployed Christiane Amanpour, also seeking martyrdom, screams out at a fallen Colbert "You f@c$ing PUSSY!" and grabs his gun.

She runs 1,312 feet closer to the I.C.E. agents, kneels and starts firing at them, poorly. The I.C.E agent returns fire.

How long does the bullet take to grant Amanpour her hero status? Dumb bitch.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (jvJvP)

146 >>> 129 Who was president 36 months ago?

SUNNY HOSTIN EXPLODES ON LIVE TV: “This is like a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!”

On The View, Sunny Hostin slammed the Trump administration after it was revealed that nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million starving children—was DESTROYED instead of delivered.

Why? The food sat in storage until it EXPIRED due to bureaucratic delays and a massive shakeup inside USAID. Once it expired, officials claimed it was no longer safe for consumption—so they burned it or buried it.

Hostin didn’t hold back: "Food is a human right. This is criminal.” While global hunger skyrockets, $800,000+ in aid was literally turned to ash on American taxpayers’ dime.

Humanitarian Daily Ration

Shelf Life: 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit

https://tinyurl.com/4yxpc6s6
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (k3Vs9)

Not to mention she still thinks normies are going to buy the notion that it is *our* responsibility (and not *hers*, I'm sure the stupid cvnt didn't offer to donate anything) to feed the entire fcking world.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (ULPxl)

147 On the other hand, I'm a somewhat intelligent person and I wouldn't want my intelligence to be judged by my typing ability on the internet. [i\/i]

You're commenting on a blog. She's tweeting, knowing that many millions of people will see her "thoughts", and her advocacy of spending billions of taxpayer dollars. I'd be a bit more careful under those circumstances.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

148 Why not feed it to pigs?
Posted by: toby928

It was supposedly sitting in Dubai. Dubai has laws against feeding expired food to even animals.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (k3Vs9)

149

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

150 112 My US history teacher in high school docked me a point on an otherwise perfect test because I wrote “to” instead of “too” (or vice versa) in an answer to an essay question.

Posted by: Bulg

Docked a point? Public school luxury.
My Catholic school nun teacher would have slapped me in the back of the head with a hickory pointer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:41 AM (/U5Yz)

151 A math teacher at my high school was the one who taught me, at the ripe old age of 17, not to trust education unions. He was the head of the local union and was a complete communist asshole. I used to hear him talk about Marx. A real jerk...Marx too.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2025 11:41 AM (W/lyH)

152 Posted by: Sloucho at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (GD3mD)

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I too am a product of Plano ISD (73-85). It's sad to hear how far it has fallen.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 18, 2025 11:42 AM (2UnvF)

153 147 On the other hand, I'm a somewhat intelligent person and I wouldn't want my intelligence to be judged by my typing ability on the internet. [i\/i]

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2025 11:43 AM (bss/y)

154 If yew can reed this, thank a teechers' yewnion reprasintative.

Posted by: Paco at July 18, 2025 11:43 AM (mADJX)

155 Teaching Math In 2000s:

6. Teaching Math in 2025: Davonte buys a kilo of coke for $70,000. How many times can Davonte step on a kilo of coke before his shit is too weak and someone caps his ass because of it?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:39 AM (k3Vs9)
_____

Davonte is an idiot and will be capped for spending 3x market price on that kilo!

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

156 150 112 My US history teacher in high school docked me a point on an otherwise perfect test because I wrote “to” instead of “too” (or vice versa) in an answer to an essay question.

Posted by: Bulg

Docked a point? Public school luxury.
My Catholic school nun teacher would have slapped me in the back of the head with a hickory pointer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 18, 2025 11:41 AM (/U5Yz)

***

You two?
Mine would have used the red pen and bled all over the paper.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2025 11:43 AM (W/lyH)

157 Prepare your schadenboners:

USA Today: Fired Education Department workers say the 'fight isn't over'. She's worked there for nearly two decades, helping prevent students from experiencing the bullying she faced growing up with disabilities.

Technically, she still has her job for now. Her position was protected by another court order in a separate lawsuit to reinstate fired Education Department staffers, specifically at the agency's Office for Civil Rights. OCR, as Gellman-Beer calls it, works to resolve allegations of discrimination and harassment brought by students and teachers at colleges and K-12 schools.

The entire regional office she led in Philadelphia was among seven that Trump shuttered in March. Hundreds of OCR staffers were let go.

Despite President Trump's insistence that the agency must close, he just gave it a load of new responsibilities. Robert Jason Cottrell, who was a data coordinator in the Office of Postsecondary Education:

"My biggest fear is that they’re going to try and contract this stuff out to get it done. I don't know if that's going to work."

Rachel Gittleman was fired from the Federal Student Aid office, which lost the most workers...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 18, 2025 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

158 And once again, although we always heard Republicans such as Bush/Cheney/Ryan/Romney campaign on cutting the Department of Education, they never did a thing toward that goal while in office.
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As someone may have already pointed out, Bush ran on becoming "the education president" and vastly expanded the Department of Education through No Child Left Behind.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 18, 2025 11:44 AM (v/hkI)

159 Something good:
The sum total in May of all net foreign acquisitions of long term securities etc ...inflow of $311.0 Billion … while net outflows were $22.1 Billion.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (vV6Uu)

160 Hostin didn’t hold back: "Food is a human right. This is criminal.” While global hunger skyrockets, $800,000+ in aid was literally turned to ash on American taxpayers’ dime.

Humanitarian Daily Ration

Shelf Life: 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit

https://tinyurl.com/4yxpc6s6
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (k3Vs9)
____

Anyone want to bet the food was never bought at all and the money was just stolen?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

161
After one year, we decided we were going to homeschool all our kids, and have ever since. 5 kids are all the way through high school, but we still have about 9 years left (ulp) to finish homeschooling our youngest. It's been a joy, and it's not for everyone, and certainly has its drawbacks, but with the state of schools today, we had no choice.

Posted by: Sloucho at July 18, 2025 11:37 AM (GD3mD)

You did have a choice, you just made the right one, hon. Well done you, and your wife. It's not easy, it's not cheap, and you have to assess your priorities for short vs long term gain. This was a solid investment!

Posted by: moki at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (wLjpr)

162 SUNNY HOSTIN EXPLODES ON LIVE TV: “This is like a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY!”

Your face is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

163 Government worker unions are absurd.

Private sector unions, theoretically, work to improve the bargaining position of workers against business owners. And therefore government sector unions work to improve the bargaining position of government workers against...the taxpayers.

But they already have the vote. So this gives them what is for all intents and purposes two votes. One at the general election and then one in union negotiations.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (t0Rmr)

164 Yes Buck THIS story about the DOE is the big story everyone in America is talking and thinking about.

Buck chooses not to mention that the 1300 cut is less than 10% of the total workers at DOE

Blue states are
More highly educated
Have higher incomes
Are healthier
Have lower suicide rates
Pay less to DC than they receive
Have higher rates of crime and incarceration
Have highest divorce rates

Yet red states are always trying to tell blue they know the correct way to govern

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 18, 2025 11:46 AM (bHZwv)

165 On the other hand, I'm a somewhat intelligent person and I wouldn't want my intelligence to be judged by my typing ability on the internet. [i\/i]

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

*golfclap*

I meant to do that.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

166 163 That's a good point.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 11:46 AM (J4/Z5)

167 When my Silent generation old man would get loaded and on high horse, he'd say that his Catholic prep school education was superior to a college education (I got my bachelors in 1993, so he was alluding to me).

I never had the heart to ask him to discuss acid-base titrations.

But, Buck, I'm with you. My public high school education in math and sciences was very good...and I didn't have the specter of sexually frustrated nuns and brothers threatening to beat the shit out of me, which I guess made the Silent generation such upstanding men.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 18, 2025 11:48 AM (qwx/I)

168 Bush won because he wasn't a Democrat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:48 AM (vV6Uu)

169 Covered here earlier (linked at Instapundit)?

https://is.gd/Ftm8IG

@Will_Tanner_1
The origin of these is China

CCP-connected researchers just got caught smuggling wheat blight into the Upper Midwest, where most of our wheat is grown, in an act of agroterrorism

They’ve also released a bug that killed 95% of the Florida orange groves

This is what Unrestricted Warfare looks like
[image / linked tweet(s)]

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This is also Somehow Our Tax Dollars, isn't it...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:48 AM (ULPxl)

170 Shut up, Dunce. You literally know nothing.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:48 AM (jc0TO)

171 Teaching math in 2025:

If an odd number wants to become even then we need to let it or it might kill itself.

Posted by: ... at July 18, 2025 11:49 AM (Qr870)

172 Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

You should have invited her to go fission.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew8)

173 Math....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 18, 2025 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

174 Democrats win. People become disgusted with them and vote for any Republican. Republican's continually shoot themselves in the foot, people grow tired of clowns and forget how disgusting Democrats are and vote them in again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:50 AM (vV6Uu)

175 "My public high school education in math and sciences was very good"

Mine too, elementary and HS. During the 1960s, STEM was exciting for youngsters, what with the moon race and all.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 11:50 AM (J4/Z5)

176 Government worker unions are absurd.

Private sector unions, theoretically, work to improve the bargaining position of workers against business owners. And therefore government sector unions work to improve the bargaining position of government workers against...the taxpayers.

But they already have the vote. So this gives them what is for all intents and purposes two votes. One at the general election and then one in union negotiations.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2025 11:45 AM (t0Rmr)
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True, but it's even worse than that. In private sector union negotiations, you have two camps on opposite sides of the table -- business and labor -- each with opposing goals and self-interested bargaining positions.

In public union negotiations, there aren't two camps. The politicians "negotiating" against the unions are in fact dependent on the unions for votes, money, and clout. Government and public unions basically gang up together and fuck the taxpayer.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

177 Yeah, control of education is control over society. It's why the Marxists made a bee line to taking it over.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 18, 2025 11:50 AM (xcxpd)

178 >>> 172 Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

You should have invited her to go fission.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew

But the goal would be fusion, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (ULPxl)

179 Dear Math,

I fucking hate you!

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (2J/Lj)

180 Fusion is always 10 years away.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (jc0TO)

181 @169

>> This is also Somehow Our Tax Dollars, isn't it...

Say, has anyone seen Fauchi and Dazak lately?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (XV/Pl)

182 Humanitarian Daily Ration

Shelf Life: 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit

https://tinyurl.com/4yxpc6s6
Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:36 AM (k3Vs9)

Alternate headline if theynwould have handed it out.
"Trump admin gives EXPIRED!! food to the poor and underserved."

It was Ree ree reee!!! either way this one played out. A "no win" situation.

Posted by: Reforger at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (lPvx2)

183 What does it mean to revoke the federal charter of the NEA? I doubt that it means that the NEA is going to cease to exist, although I would love to see that happen.

Posted by: Ralph at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (8WZD4)

184 Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic

You should have invited her to go fission.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

But the goal would be fusion, right?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

He wanted to split her atom.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (k3Vs9)

185 Imagine going through government indoctrination centers posing as public schools and thinking you are educated.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

186 In junior and senior high schools, I’d do the math in my head and just put the answer down on tests and homework. I’d get detention for not showing my work. My mom went to the principals of both schools to stop that. Then I got up making fun of my inferior math teachers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (17s+e)

187 169 Covered here earlier (linked at Instapundit)?

https://is.gd/Ftm8IG

@Will_Tanner_1
The origin of these is China

CCP-connected researchers just got caught smuggling wheat blight into the Upper Midwest, where most of our wheat is grown, in an act of agroterrorism

They’ve also released a bug that killed 95% of the Florida orange groves

This is what Unrestricted Warfare looks like
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They should be hanged in public and our special people should pay a Mossad visit to China.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (vV6Uu)

188 Say ... whatever happened to the India-Paki dispute over that terror attack that was supposed to go nuclear? That story disappeared real fast, didn't it?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

189 Yes indeed blue states are more educated. Like California!!

“California, unfortunately, does not fare well vis-à-vis other states. Edunomics says that while California has elevated per pupil spending by 102% since 2013, reading comprehension has remained flat while math skills have dropped, based on federal academic tests.”

lol

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:53 AM (h+GbG)

190 There must be penalties for bad behavior or it will continue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:53 AM (vV6Uu)

191 I almost never saw my teachers outside of classes. I do remember seeing my second grade teacher once outside of a store, lighting up a cigarette, which shocked me.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 18, 2025 11:53 AM (Vfq+S)

192 Rural America can't survive without AWFLs telling them what to think!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

193 I had a physics teacher in high school who moonlighted at Fermilab. Looking back, I can imagine how dull it must have been to instruct 16 year olds on Newtonian laws but he still did it well.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (qwx/I)

194 Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic

Was she Russian? https://tinyurl.com/3m2pkvwf

🎶 He's got it bad, bad bad...
He's hot for teacher! 🎶

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (JCZqz)

195 public union negotiations, there aren't two camps. The politicians "negotiating" against the unions are in fact dependent on the unions for votes, money, and clout. Government and public unions basically gang up together and fuck the taxpayer.
Posted by: Elric

That’s a bingo.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (h+GbG)

196 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:40 AM (ULPxl)

The Left in the past has rather people starve than to give them GMO food.

The other lack of self awareness on that issue is while they disparage GMO food as dangerous they wanted to make mRNA vaccines mandatory.

I can’t hate the Left enough.

Posted by: Randi at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (VofaG)

197 Randi Weingarten is a wererat. Convince me otherwise.

Posted by: acethepug at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (JrV+L)

198 Best teacher I ever had (as in 'changed the way I thought about things very significantly') was Robert Evans in undergrad Econ 101. Rocked my world.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (J4/Z5)

199 I almost never saw my teachers outside of classes. I do remember seeing my second grade teacher once outside of a store, lighting up a cigarette, which shocked me.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

A couple of us saw our 8th grade teacher doing his yard work once. Only way we knew where he lived.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 18, 2025 11:55 AM (k3Vs9)

200 Off ignorant sock

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:55 AM (VofaG)

201 When I was stationed in Turkey, I got really good at converting kilometers to miles in my head. That’s about the most advanced my math skills ever got.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

202 >>> 197 Randi Weingarten is a wererat. Convince me otherwise.
Posted by: acethepug at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (JrV+L)

Huh... she's the head of the Rodent Liberation Front?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:55 AM (ULPxl)

203 ROUS? I don't thing they exist.

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 11:56 AM (jc0TO)

204 has remained flat while math skills have dropped, based on federal academic tests.”

lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Funny thing. One does not need to speak another's language to teach basic math.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 18, 2025 11:56 AM (vV6Uu)

205 Every couple of years there is a bond measure in my county for more education money. Unions and the school Board are always working together to get those measures passed.

Even though theoretically the two groups are on opposite sides. One is the employee one is the employer. Doesn’t matter. They work together to fuck taxpayers into making them all rich.

And it works. Those bond measure always easily pass. Cuz for the children, man.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 11:57 AM (h+GbG)

206 Weingarten isn't just the head of the NEA, she also sits or did sit on the boards of a number of NGOs. She was easily clearing $1 million/year, probably significantly more.

She doesn't give a damn about kids or education. She cares about money and power.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)

207 Randi Weingarten is a wererat. Convince me otherwise.
Posted by: acethepug at July 18, 2025 11:54 AM (JrV+L)

Huh... she's the head of the Rodent Liberation Front?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:55 AM (ULPxl)
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She's not cool or attractive enough to be a wererat

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

208 In junior and senior high schools, I’d do the math in my head and just put the answer down on tests and homework. I’d get detention for not showing my work. My mom went to the principals of both schools to stop that. Then I got up making fun of my inferior math teachers.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (17s+e)

I saw some graffiti in my college library study booth .

E= mC2

C+ next time show your work

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 11:58 AM (VofaG)

209 What bother me most about what I see in my sons school is the utter lack of high standards and expectations for work being done on-time. Assignment are regularly allowed to be turned in late without penalty, often given back to be reworked without penalty and even tests can be retaken on occasion if a teacher feels the student could have done better. When I hear students brag about having a 3.5 I can only think: how could anybody have a GPA less than that?

Posted by: Ripley at July 18, 2025 11:58 AM (GUOwU)

210 191 I almost never saw my teachers outside of classes. I do remember seeing my second grade teacher once outside of a store, lighting up a cigarette, which shocked me.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 18, 2025 11:53 AM (Vfq+S)

All my teachers in elementary school smoked. The building was no smoking. We leased the bottom floor, and the top two floors and owner was an industrial design firm. The teachers parking lot was next to the playground, and we could all see them smoking in their cars. Made me not ever want to smoke...yellow teeth, bad smell. The Simpsons was very on point for the 80s and 90s elementary school teacher.

Posted by: mishdog at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (mbNBu)

211 She doesn't give a damn about kids or education. She cares about money and power.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 11:57 AM (viF8m)

Sooo... Typical demoncrat on a day ending in y.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (2J/Lj)

212 We had a girl's PhysEd instructor who also taught "Health." Meaning sex ed. Short, blond with quite the set of knockers.

Also a Redskinette (cheerleader).

Not the brightest bulb, but that's not why she was there for those two classes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (Q4IgG)

213 California spending on public schools has skyrocketed, while their test scores have plummeted. I think they are now the worst in the nation, certainly in the bottom five.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (Vfq+S)

214 188 Say ... whatever happened to the India-Paki dispute over that terror attack that was supposed to go nuclear? That story disappeared real fast, didn't it?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 18, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

Pakistan ended up nominating Trump for the Nibel Peace Prize for helping to resolve it. (A few days later, Trump bombed Iran.)

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (kVWpQ)

215 What I do see now is a lot of required parental involvement ( mostly in the better districts) .

My working parents involvement was limited to signing my report card.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 12:00 PM (VofaG)

216 The only math class I enjoyed was geometry. Loved doing proofs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 18, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

217 213 California spending on public schools has skyrocketed, while their test scores have plummeted. I think they are now the worst in the nation, certainly in the bottom five.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (Vfq+S)

I bet they’re top 5 for any tests involving lgbtq studies or “why the white man is evil” studies.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 18, 2025 12:01 PM (h+GbG)

218 My lesbian gym teachers all seemed to take a liking to me too, moreso than the closeted gay male gym teachers and coaches. Probably because I have somewhat delicate features which belie a dark side.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 18, 2025 12:01 PM (qwx/I)

219 >>Pakistan ended up nominating Trump for the Nibel Peace Prize for helping to resolve it. (A few days later, Trump bombed Iran.)

And then Netanyahu nominated Trump for a Nobel.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

220 California schools have always been poor but had good maturing. When my mom moved from Colorado to California I was 9 and in fourth grade. They said Cali schools were the best. But in Colorado I was learning French in fourth grade. In Cali that was not offered until 7th, which I unfortunately didn’t take. Also I didn’t learn much new in Cali until the 7th grade. Cali was at least three years behind Colorado schools but they had hot lunches. The extent of school superiority. You didn’t hang to bring a lunch box.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at July 18, 2025 12:01 PM (17s+e)

221 @176. I've been saying the same thing for years. But most people don't want to talk about anything to do with unions.

Posted by: Case at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (ilX37)

222 Damn, that woman is barely literate.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

223 219 >>Pakistan ended up nominating Trump for the Nibel Peace Prize for helping to resolve it. (A few days later, Trump bombed Iran.)

And then Netanyahu nominated Trump for a Nobel.

It's my guess that Trump would use it as a doorstop.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

224 For CS, math, and physics, I think Grok would make an excellent teacher/tutor. I learn from it as it assists me with coding. Not just new coding tricks, but new things about the problem domain.

This works only for those who crave to learn of course. Many of the kids in public schools not only hate education, but actually suspect that it is a tool used to oppress them.

Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (J4/Z5)

225 Algebra is a very important life skill imo.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (VofaG)

226 222 Damn, that woman is barely literate.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (fV+MH)

She's also barely a woman.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 18, 2025 12:03 PM (KbCG3)

227 178 >>> 172 Best teacher I ever had was my math teacher at nuclear power school. Incandescently hot redhead... something about numbers also.
Posted by: I used to have a differenvt nic at July 18, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

You should have invited her to go fission.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 18, 2025 11:49 AM (g8Ew

But the goal would be fusion, right?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 18, 2025 11:51 AM (ULPxl)

I bet she was nice, but a little quarky.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2025 12:03 PM (0CU3H)

228 RE: 5. Teaching Math In 2000s: A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it's ok.)....

And mostly importantly, explain how you believe this will impact the Palestinians of Gaza and what you believe should be done to eliminate this racist, nazi, Zionist threat to our precious forestry.

Posted by: Tom at July 18, 2025 12:03 PM (368KJ)

229 Cali was at least three years behind Colorado schools but they had hot lunches. The extent of school superiority. You didn’t hang to bring a lunch box.

You'd have had to pry my spaceship lunch box from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

230
She's also barely a woman.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 18, 2025 12:03 PM (KbCG3

Define "woman."

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 13.7 % at July 18, 2025 12:04 PM (jvJvP)

231 On Thursday’s episode, Late Show host Stephen Colbert announced that the next season of the long-running talk show would be its last. CBS’s decision to cancel the program was a “purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night,” the company said. Shortly after the episode aired, Kimmel took to his Instagram Stories to make his opinion known. “Love you, Stephen,” Kimmel wrote over a video of Colbert’s announcement. “F--k you and all your Sheldons, CBS.”

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Damn Sheldons!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 12:04 PM (L/fGl)

232 I have somewhat delicate features which belie a dark side.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Me too! Everyone thinks I'm innocent, sweet and demure, so they drop their guard and let all their racist and sexist hate show, and then I SHUT THOSE CRACKER FASCISTS DOWN!

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at July 18, 2025 12:04 PM (JCZqz)

233 Hardly even gets mentioned but Trump also helped negotiate a peace deal between Rawanda and Congo, a war that has been going on for years.

Not a bad record for 6 months.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2025 12:04 PM (viF8m)

234 There's going to be a surge in violence as all these ex Federal employees fight for street corner twrritory.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (gWRQ1)

235 Mumble mumble years ago when I was in HS, it was an absolutely shitty educational institution; this was way before woke existed. It was a small rural midwestern district and the teachers mostly sucked and didn’t care. You know what? It didn’t matter… my HS years were absolutely glorious and I went on to state university and got a STEM degree and went on to get a PhD. That’s why I roll my eyes when I hear anyone going on and on about how important education is…. Just tell your kids to be curious and read a lot

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (FNvF+)

236 When I was getting my engineering degree I had to take math all the way up to Differential Equations. But over the years I've forgotten most of it. I thought about trying to learn it again but it would be more of a hobby type thing than anything of real value for me other than hopefully keep my mind sharp as I get older.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (Vh9CX)

237 @234 -- snapping their fingers aggressively in zoot suits.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (qwx/I)

238 hortly after the episode aired, Kimmel took to his Instagram Stories to make his opinion known. “Love you, Stephen,” Kimmel wrote over a video of Colbert’s announcement. “F--k you and all your Sheldons, CBS.”

Methinks Jimmy knows who is next on the chopping block.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

239 214 Pakistan ended up nominating Trump for the Nibel Peace Prize for helping to resolve it. (A few days later, Trump bombed Iran.)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 11:59 AM (kVWpQ)

Looks like I had a Weingarten moment there. Nobel, not Nibel.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (kVWpQ)

240 Nude Ace

Posted by: toby928 at July 18, 2025 12:07 PM (jc0TO)

241 I went to school in Louisiana. People in NYC looked down on that.

I tell the Deep South bashers now if they know which states the two youngest builders of a nuclear reactor are from.

Posted by: polynikes at July 18, 2025 12:07 PM (VofaG)

242 Mean tweet alert!

https://is.gd/maFan3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 18, 2025 12:08 PM (L/fGl)

243 The line of reasoning that "some color" states are better or worse than "other color" states is so stupid it takes my breath away.

These are artifices without any real world effect or practical meaning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 18, 2025 12:08 PM (JvZF+)

244 "Define "woman."
Posted by: Stateless "

Squeezes the toothpaste in the middle.

Posted by: eleven at July 18, 2025 12:08 PM (fV+MH)

245 234 There's going to be a surge in violence as all these ex Federal employees fight for street corner twrritory.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 18, 2025 12:05 PM (gWRQ1)

Yet, Ayatollah Khamenei has a better chance of getting a Peace Prize than Trump does. (See: Arafat, Yasser.)

Posted by: tankdemon at July 18, 2025 12:10 PM (kVWpQ)

246 This works only for those who crave to learn of course. Many of the kids in public schools not only hate education, but actually suspect that it is a tool used to oppress them.
Posted by: Can't Make gp's Shimmy Shake On Tea at July 18, 2025 12:02 PM (J4/Z5)

In the case of public school that wouldn't be far from the truth.

Posted by: Brainwashing isn't education at July 18, 2025 12:14 PM (TbWk/)

247 Grumpy and Recalcitrant ---

>>> And what's with this sending kids up to the next grade when it's obvious they didn't learn what they needed to in the current grade? When did "Hold them back because they failed" stop being a thing? All you get at the end is someone who is so horribly steeped in failure and shame that it's tough to get them to ever want to learn again.

Here's an answer:

I want you to visualize an elementary school packed with 1000s of kids ranging in age from 6 to 26...that's why no kids are held back more than one or in extreme cases two years.

In my state, kids can fail math but if they can barely read then they get advanced. They can be illiterate but if that can manage a passing math grade they get advanced.

You can only cook the books if the visuals match.

Posted by: Not your IT guy at July 18, 2025 12:43 PM (1GAVH)

248 205: "Every couple of years ..Those bond measure always easily pass. Cuz for the children, man."

Your legislature could solve this problem easily. Mandate that all school district in your State --must-- hire parents on personal service contracts to provide for their children's education if (a) the parents apply for the contract and (b) the child scores at or above age-level expectations on standardized tests of Reading (any language) and Math on or before the start of the contract year.
Count the children as enrolled in the school that they would otherwise attend.
Set the value of the contract at some fraction 2/3 < a/b < 9/10 of the district's per pupil revenue.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatick at July 18, 2025 01:10 PM (fgkXD)

249 My recommendation? Do not try to fix the $1.7 trillion per year US K-PhD credential industry. Let it rot.

K-12
GED at any age. Call paid child labor "apprenticeship training".
Post-secondary
Mandate that the five service academies open online branches which (1) admit everyone who applies, (2) charge no tuition, (3) employ no faculty, (4) conduct no classes, (5) define courses by their syllabi, (6) offer credit by exam, (7) license independent agencies to administer exams at a fee to be negotiated between the student and the exam provider.
Let competition between Sylvan Learning Centers, the Kumon Institute, and the University of Phoenix drive the cost of a college degree down to the cost of books and of grading exams.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatick at July 18, 2025 01:23 PM (fgkXD)

250 I understand that Xi in China is already essentially deposed, and the triumvirate that has replaced him is waiting for the August convocation (?) to have him announce that he wants to spend more time with his family, and breathing.

A non-fatal succession would be a big step forward for the CCP, they claim, but Xi is widely suspected of assassinating his former Premier, so that ain't a done deal. And apparently the military that used to love him wants him gone, and are probably quite flexible about how it happens!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if some group of oligarchs helped Pooty-poot arrive at the same lofty idea!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 18, 2025 01:41 PM (PQOq3)

251 This is way late, but when I was about 21 I was at a party - and my 2nd grade teacher (and her husband) were present. I had a legit drink with my 2nd grade teacher. RIP, Mrs. M.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 18, 2025 01:41 PM (NcvvS)

252 My teachers in the 1989s and 1990s on the other hand were mediocrities going through the motions, with few exceptions. Or they were out and out evil people.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2025 05:01 PM (vm8sq)

253 31 She also didn't capitalize Sun. When referring to our own sun (not capitalized when referring to a class of burning gaseous bodies), it is a proper noun.
Posted by: ERF at July 18, 2025 11:11 AM (qqD/x)

Proper nouns are rarely if ever capitalized anymore. Drives me crazy.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2025 05:03 PM (vm8sq)

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