Racism - Always and Forever

I was going to edit my post to say something to that effect, but, yes, it should move.

 

No.

im talking about voting as a choice, not an action.

 

There’s a lot of data there at the state Department of Education level. I’m familiar with the Missouri data. We have a standardized test (MAP) that disaggregates student scores by race, subsidized school lunch (financial) status and IEP. We also had a desegregation order in place that allowed non-white students attending predominantly non white schools and districts (usually poor and working class) to attend middle and upper middle class primarily white schools. When you control for economics, the black students did not perform appreciably better in the “good” districts than they did the “bad” districts. This goes for students living in those districts and students transported from their neighborhoods to those districts. NYT also had a really interesting study on black-white achievement gaps within districts and schools.

Tying this back to racism: the gap is driven by “color blind” public policy that has a disparate impact on Black and Latino people. Most highly developed countries deal with this on some level, but the low position of our safety net here makes it more apparent.

 

When was the last time a right wing policy was proven to be better?

 

Better for whom? People in general or the people who give them lots and lots of money?

 

tell me what strata of society is happy with their lives as a result of left wing policies

 

Retirees who have a safety net thanks to social security and medicare.

 

all right, but apart from social security and Medicare what have the Democrats….

yes, but for long and at what cost to our debt?

 

There have never been left wing policies in these here United States, so we'll never know.

I guess the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were "left wing policies" and, well, they helped the lives of millions of African Americans and improved the lives of everyone.

If the Child Tax Credit extension was a "left wing policy," in cut childhood poverty in half.

 

IT HAS ZERO EFFECT ON "OUR DEBT."

The "effect" comes from the fact that every Presidential administration since Reagan has borrowed against the Social Security trust fund.

THAT is where the "debt" originates and that is the only place it has for the last 40+ years. It is the government borrowing our money from us to pay governmental expenses and then WE have to pay it back with interest.

Yes, for the first time, we are about to dip into the trust fund to pay out for retirees, but that could be EASILY remedied by raising or lifting the Social Security income cap.

Social Security is completely self funded, as is Medicare.

Now, if you want to talk about Medicaid and SSI, that would be a different story, but has made the lives of tens of millions of poor people well livable, which makes it worth it.

 

Probably.

It doesn't solve the problem, though. With "school choice," parents move kids away from "bad schools" (the ones full of troubled, poor kids) and on to schools with less troubled kids.

So yeah, the kids that moved will likely do better, but that does absolutely nothing for the troubled, poor kids. If anything, it makes their schools even worse because it creates brain drain. The few kids from stable enough homes with parents that care enough get moved away so only the really poor ones stay.

 

If I was a coach, the "red flag"* would also be flying. Why the ******** would I need to know this?




*PHRASING!!!!!

 

Uninspiring emails, unelectable ovaries, and drones.

We built this shitty
We built this shitty on rock and roooollllll

 

Makes total sense. How else are you supposed to know if one of them gets pregnant (and has an abortion)? I mean, the school wouldn't want to jeopardize the health of the fetus by allowing the athlete to continue competing. That would just be morally wrong, given the rights of the fetus trump female rights.

 

The article is behind a paywall so I couldn't tell if this is the state forcing the schools to get this data, or if it's the schools themselves doing that on their own.

This is extremely f*cked up either way, but if it's the state asking for this data then it's even worse IMO.

 

Here you go!
https://archive.ph/3EBxS

 

This sort of information has commonly been requested (optionally) as part of general health screening for sports physicals in many states and districts. I even remember this being on a state form for my sports physicals decades ago. Third party access to the information is the big problem.

If I was in an abortion restricted state, I wouldn’t share that information for my daughter even if it was mandatory and confidential. With disclosure to unidentified parties? That’s criminal parenting in my book.

 

Do you have something to hide?

 

It would mean your daughter didn't play.

The clock ticks while this stuff gets decided. No way does a parent deny child these fleeting moments. I hope the young ladies are willing to give up their extracurricular activities for the right thing, but I doubt it. The numbers will be made up by scrub scabs if it even comes to a boycott.