Melchizedek = Michael
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Define graphic novels? I like classic novels,biographies and history!
Florida book bans - the first step before burning
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Define graphic novels? I like classic novels,biographies and history!
TOP
Retired Teacher
You really don't understand education... at all...what did you "teach" in college? For how long?
It was extremely successful. It was the first national move towards healthier school meals. Current school meals are far from perfect, but you are no longer seeing ketchup being the only vegetable available. She deserves a huge amount of credit for improving things, not just in a few schools, but in almost all schools.
Not as big of a deal as school breakfasts. Just giving poor kids a breakfast, any breakfast is a huge deal.
The school meal program costs the federal government $30 billion, but only because it is so efficiently run. To make a big difference compared to that, you would need to be spending billions. Were you spending billions?
Melchizedek = Michael
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That sounds like a good idea. We give free lunches to poor students, but they must apply, which can be complex. But even the current system, free lunches for some, and much reduced price lunches for the rest, is very good.
They came up with it during WWI. Many of the draftees during WWI were in such poor health because of a childhood not eating right. The first idea was to just feed boys the good food, but then someone pointed out the girls would be the mothers of the soldiers in the generation after them.
In a way, the school lunch program was a defense spending program.
With his health and his age, trump serving time is a race against the clock.
So many good things are happening, but also so many bad things, like this, are happening.
It does not need to be full on Nazi fascists. It could be just Latin American fascists. The far right in Latin America loves sending right wing paramilitary units into schools. Or maybe I am just reading it worse than it is.
TOP
Retired Teacher
It was not successful... there have been many changes to the school programs but not because of her plan... and School Meal programs are not efficiently run but they are getting better
.. I did not spend billions...
Saint Guinefort
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Graphic novels are comic books for more adult audiences. Those are the ones where they construct the story using pictures like in comic books, but it's usually more adult themes and concepts.
If I did not doubt it before, that claim makes me doubt it. You lose a teacher midyear, you just lost the majority of an entire class' year of education. First realizing the teacher is gone, then short term replacing the teacher, after that long term replacing the teacher, and then getting the new teacher up to speed, all that takes a major amount of time. It destroys the school year, and those are tough to get back.
Schools will do just about anything to keep a teacher through the year.
Eagle_Eye
Well-known member
We aren't talking about turning anyone anything. We are talking about what I feel are inapproiate books in the class room. A class room if for learning not societal engineering.
As to your question can a gay be converted to becoming straight? It's the same fucking answer.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
It's clearly a concern. People can identify trends but not predict the future.
That said, if Floridians want to turn their state into a RW shithole like both LA and NYC have become LW shitholes, I support their right to choose.
Eagle_Eye
Well-known member
And who are the most susceptible to manipulation in our soceity? That is the main point in my argument.
TOP
Retired Teacher
Why would a school keep a teacher who doesn't want to be there? If they quit mid-year I imagine there wasn't very much education taking place the first part... the situation that you're describing is if a teacher is lost mid-year to illness or death or another emergency...(that is a difficult situation but not impossible to deal with if there is a strong faculty and administration...)... not a teacher who gives up mid-year and quits...You really don't understand how schools work...
ThatOwlWoman
Not Nice
I did not know that.
There was, at least when my kids were going, a stigma against the free lunch kids. Making food free for all would remove that stigma.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Do you think any books on sex are appropriate for juniors or seniors? How the reproductive system works? The consequences of pregnancy? STDs?
ThatOwlWoman
Not Nice
The proof of that is the pandemic. Shut-downs in schools and elsewhere began in March of 2020, more than halfway through the 2019-20 school year. Despite virtual learning, education suffered from K up through 12 due to the disruption of in-class time, the chaos of trying to convert in-person teaching to virtual learning, and the fact that a lot of kids just didn't bother attending virtually. It's not a lot different than Ms. Smith quitting in March and leaving the school scrambling to find subs, and/or dividing the kids up among other classrooms where they may be behind what those kids were learning compared to what Ms. Smith was teaching.
The fact that FL ranks #1 in teaching position vacancies is the proof in the pudding that the state does not have a good environment for retaining educators.
And yet she did not get the nomination in 2008? With both the Democrats and Republicans, the leadership can easily be vetoed by the base. It is far better to have the leadership on your side, but it is not essential.
Being hyper-technical, but Biden will be 81 on Election Day of 2024. trump will be 78 years old. They made a lot about Biden falling off his bicycle, but that he likes to ride a bicycle, and can ride a bicycle, at his age means he is in good health. Meanwhile, a few years ago, trump was unable to walk a hundred yards, and insisted he needed a golf cart. trump gets exhausted with even short walks.
They are both old for a President, which is something, because Presidents are generally old. Parties tend to keep candidates who have won. It is very unusual to not renominate a sitting President. You may say that does not apply to trump, but his base considers him a sitting president who won the 2020 election.
It is rare to even have a major challenge to a sitting President. The last time I can think of that happening was Carter in 1980, and even Carter's challenges were not enough to really derail his renomination. Only once in all of American history has an elected President been refused the nomination of his party: Pierce in 1856.
So if Biden is refused his party's nomination, it would only be the second time in 236 years.
Biden might chose not to run, or might die before the election.