Maybe we should just elect Trump president

sorry you feel like it's a douchnozzle comment to name drop Woody Mellor
I do think that strumer and the boys from Garageland were a little different

While I hate myself for saying it (because of my reverence for them)
the sex  pistols were KPOP and I'll admit it

but until I listend to the clash, I didn't give two shits about political things
My personal expeirence with them changed my perspective on I've been questioning authority ever since

the sex pistols were kpop?

I think its a great quote from Rollins…


the song Know Your Rights really has been playing in my head for weeks….

So is the U.S. morally superior to Russia?

US has a bunch of killers.

Trump is president despite not winning the popular vote and DeVos is Secretary of Education with a tie breaker.

Wow, just wow.

I hope she doesn't fuck up my kids education…they have a good thing going right now..


lets face it the Republican Party is garbage…. lets cut the bullshit about trying to work with them or understand them…only two republican senators were willing to vote against confirming a completely unqualified individual bent on destroying the public education system… how sad..

Watch it burn

gosh lookin at that list I see a few people i might have hoped voted no… but the truth is the Republican party wants to destroy public education.. so why be surprised I guess..sad times but we must realize this need not have happened and make sure we don't let our guard down again.. all that talk about how hillary and trump were the same…. how we ("We" as in the American people) didn't like either one.. how we'd have to pick the least worst of two evils… how crazy was that? What were people thinking? The difference is ASTRONOMICAL…..

I am really astounded to see the contrast in America between the two sides..its almost like civilization vs. barbarism or something (a very famous book by Sarmiento about it in reference to Argentina.. never thought it would apply to the US)…..I thought that kind of struggle was old news but here we are.. 2017… and a party that clearly wants to destroy public education is running the Executive, Legislative, Judiciary and controls most State Executives and legislatures…wow.

ggw wrote:
U.S. Falls to 36th in Latest World Education Rankings

U.S. places 28th in Global School Rankings

U.S. Education - 41st in Math, 24th in Reading, 25th in Science among Developed Nations

U.S. 17th in Global Education Rankings

U.S. lags Slovenia, Poland, Vietnam, and more than 20 other countries overall

all true..but the solution cannot be to abandon the public education system.. ..we need MORE funding and innovation (look to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or something) not less… these people want to argue that because public education is "failing" we should destroy it and somehow private education will make everything great..

hutch wrote:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

They've spent almost half a billion dollars promoting charter schools. 

ggw wrote:

hutch wrote:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

They've spent almost half a billion dollars promoting charter schools. 

is being for charter schools being against public education?

i dont' know.. i mean i'm for education and part of that must be public education..but that does not mean private schools should not exist or non-public schools should not exist…

i think we can and should have both

Just what we need, more schools drilling religious hokum into kid's heads.

hutch wrote:
is being for charter schools being against public education?

The public education status quo powers (NEA, AFT, NWLC, etc…) generally hate charter schools and support them only when they are essentially "magnet" schools that have no discernible difference from public schools (same teachers, same administrators, same philosophies).

I thought the plan was to pull money from public education funding and provide vouchers to rich people to offset the cost of private / charter schools.