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Algebra was invented by white men as repayment to Asians for agreeing to bomb Pearl Harbor.

Since I'm ranting: Have you heard those PSAs that tell parents to talk to their babies? Can you point out a woman who has a baby and doesn't talk to him? And, if there is one, do you think she'll be persuaded by a PSA? Man!

The same for parenting classes. Are parents or teachers better now that we have theory and classes. Oh, and yes, there's a lot of politics. One of the things every teacher reads is "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by a real Brazilian Communist.

Education is largely intuitive. People have been teaching since the beginning of people. So, you have a bunch of people who try to apply social science techniques to what is natural. We're all people who have been taught things--it's not like we're training monkeys. It's like taking a class in sales. Yes, there are things to learn, but it's not that difficult a concept. But, the kicker is that teachers' salaries increase with more classes. Colleges get paid. Teachers get paid. However, the correlation between teacher courses and performance is probably weakly correlated and probably not causal. I'm talking specifically about theory classes, not classes that teach practical things like lesson plans and discipline techniques. Now, I'm not 100% cynical. If teachers have a different experience, I respect that.

Teaching can be cushy or a very stressful experience, although most of that stress isn't from fear of losing your job. Sometimes I wish i could only deal with adults.

Most education courses are a scam.

That's actually the way it's done now. Every parent fills out a fafsa and financial aid adjusts.

Not that I've always followed my own advice but since high school my best friend and I would always say, "work hard and good things will happen." Generally, everything I have I earned and everything i don't have, i don't deserve.

Im not sure, but my feeling is that murderous, rapine ISIS would fall quickly. They'd do IED attacks, but wouldn't hold any territory.

Resentment can be an ugly thing. Mass resentment usually leads to evil. By the way, if you want to know about the values of a certain time, ALWAYS go to contemporary sources. Besides avoiding revisionism, it's usually pretty fun. Read "The Gift of the Magi" and see if that's how most people in a bad neighborhood would act today.

I'm thinking out loud and not really arguing so don't get upset. Besides income, there's a growing values gap. Far fewer poor people think they're going to marry than middle and above people. That wasn't the case years ago. People point out that men marry other elite earning women than they did years ago when doctors would marry nurses and women of wealthy men rarely worked. Manufacturing loss and some of the other things mentioned may have some validity.

...and it would be a good idea here too, I assume you mean. See, the NRA has a point

Use logic. The two arent exclusive. The people voted for a gun grab. If 49% of the people wanted to keep their guns, they were out of luck. If it happens in the US, it will be because of elected representatives and/or their court appointees.

America needs more good kids. Countries with low birth rates dont have lower unemployment. In fact, their economies deteriorate. Just like there are good and bad immigrants there are good and bad kids. We need good immigrants and good kids. If you want a larger middle class, uou support "middle class" values.

First clock boy and now this. Clearly Americans are the new Nazis and Muslims the new Jews.

You're right. They passed a law and people turned in their guns. The point I was making is that it's perfectly reasonable to suspect that many people in the US want to ban gun ownership.

People having kids isn't the problem. We need kids. The problem is that many of the kids turn out to be bad citizens who don't do things that make them productive. I don't know the answer to this, but I would like information of how much of the people not climbing from or falling into the lower class is because of poor habits. To get this information, we need to see how many people in the lower classes are single parents, uneducated, criminals, etc.

Capitalism is why we're the wealthiest country on earth with butt loads of universities, hospitals, and leisure. I'd be a little more grateful.

How do you know this? You really think that Fox news drives people to be terrorists? What news source did you get this from? I'm serious. Where did you hear this?

I didn't mention race. If there aren't enough jobs, why do we have immigration? A family member of my wife's came here illegally and got a job in like a week. Also, jobs expand and decline based on the performance of the country. I'd still look into who is dropping out of the middle class. Is it single mothers and skill-less immigrants who are swelling the lower class? If it's behavior-based, then all of us who try to live responsible lives can breathe easier and those who don't should consider doing so. If you want to come to intelligent conclusions, you have to break things down and think. If not, well, then you can parrot political talking points.

You're a liberal who is sometimes embarrassed by Democratic politicians. We've all been similarly embarrassed. You also seem to be most concerned with social issues revolving around sex, based on your choices. If you're truly not a Dem, however, you'd have to say where you disagree with the Dem platform.

I would search the house of the people who were Islamophobic against clock boy.