Dept of Ed going away

[vraiblonde]

I'm all for running the crap bags away, they generally will go to where allows them to be crap bags, but they do have to go somewhere.

So? People get what they vote for. I'm okay with shitbags taking up residence alongside the libprogs. They clearly want that. If it were up to me I'd round up all criminal illegal aliens and dump them in sanctuary cities with an explicit warning that they are not to set foot outside it or to Gitmo they go. Then set up ICE/BP checkpoints to make sure they stay where they're wanted.

Let people have what they vote for.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

They can't get good teachers at the ghetto schools

In every low income neighborhood there's a mix of shitbags and decent working people just trying to get along.

I'm guessing the shitbags emigrated to more "progressive" areas that would allow them to ply their trade without bothering them.

Damn. Look at all those racist dog whistles And you call other people racists.

Those who live in glass houses ............

 

[PeoplesElbow]

So? People get what they vote for. I'm okay with shitbags taking up residence alongside the libprogs. They clearly want that. If it were up to me I'd round up all criminal illegal aliens and dump them in sanctuary cities with an explicit warning that they are not to set foot outside it or to Gitmo they go. Then set up ICE/BP checkpoints to make sure they stay where they're wanted.

Let people have what they vote for.

Eventually they end up some place that doesn't want them but is overwhelmed, this is usually when white flight occurs, only it isn't just white flight. The suburbs of DC use to not be the way they are now but were overwhelmed and most people just didn't want to deal with it.

 

[vraiblonde]

Eventually they end up some place that doesn't want them but is overwhelmed, this is usually when white flight occurs, only it isn't just white flight. The suburbs of DC use to not be the way they are now but were overwhelmed and most people just didn't want to deal with it.

White flight - when all they had to do was stop voting for Democrats.

They got overwhelmed because they didn't care that the DC council didn't care and the Mayor didn't care and the cops were ordered not to care. They voted for them anyway. So that's what happens when you don't care about your city.

Baltimore wasn't always a filthy crime infested shithole. All these used-to-be-great American cities.....you can literally see how they've fallen with the rise of Democrat leadership. The timelines match almost exactly.

Now freaking Ron DeSantis is all, "Hey disenfranchised NYers - come to FL where it doesn't suck!" and I'm like . Don't invite those idiots here to ruin this state like they ruined the one they now want to leave.

 

[Clem72]

For your consideration ...





Hahahaha. That's a fallacy if I ever heard one. If that were the case then Calvert County shouldn't have 50% of its students proficiency level in language and math being abysmal. Spending more money doesn't equate to a better education. Dedication to purpose with a proper curriculum and classroom discipline is what is needed more so.

Government spends what, $17,000 per student for mediocre results. And a home schooler might spend $1000 with those children getting a far better education.

They only spend $1000 if their time is worth literally nothing.

 

[Bann]

I neglected to imply that, but - yeah. No one wants to work in a ghetto school. When I lived in Lowell MA, I had two friends working in the high school there - and they each broke up knife fights.

But yeah, no one wants to work there. So what kind of teachers do you think they end up with?

I still tell that I briefly dated a woman in Montgomery County - not exactly ghetto but there are parts of it with ghetto KIDS. She had a kid throw a CHAIR at her in the classroom, and she shouted at him - and got pulled out and reprimanded. For shouting at a kid who in OUR TIME would have been EXPELLED.

Students have thrown chairs or perpetrated other types of violence against teachers in Calvert, too. I know teachers that have had it happen to them.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

Interesting, I wonder who is going to be setting policy for how the money is used.

I see the Dept of Ed "recreated" the very next D administration.

How else will they indoctrinate our kids?

 

[Hijinx]

I am old enough to remember when DC and Baltimore were good paces to live.
I remember the block busting that started the White flight.
Now I see whole states that are getting unfit to live in , our own State being one of them.
County after county falling , Prince Georges, Anne Arundel ,Charles Howard, Montgomery those counties that got inundated with the Usual suspects and their liberal allies and fell as they gained political power, and their numbers grew. And Yes. Democrats. What used to be the party of the working man has become the party of the entitled. I was once a Democrat. But i was young and foolish, and I outgrew it.

 

[Ramp Guy]

I grew up in Gardenville off of Hazelwood Avenue until I joined the Marines in 1966. My parents bought a small 2 bedroom house in 1950 and continued to live there until the early 80's, moving to the Bel-Air area into a condo. When I was separated from the Marines,1970. I lived in Hawaii (for 3 years) then was transferred back to Washington DC as part of my job promotion - Assistance Manager in a major hotel chain. Over the years while visiting my parent with the new wife, I saw the neighbor hood failing. Homes started to be abandoned, trash in yards as the residents started the "white flight" process. Our family (now 2 kids) moved to Southern Ohio in 1978 and the trips to Baltimore were few and far between. In the summer of 89 we were attending a family reunion at my sister's farm north of Bel-Air, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. As I was driving from the airport up I-95 my daughter asked we could drive by the house I grew up in. We did and I was so disappointed driving down the street pointing out my parent's old home. I'm sorry to say that we were the only white faces in the neighborhood and the looks we got were not welcoming! The house I grew up in was a wreck with a undriveable car sitting on the grass on its brake drums in the front yard. The elementary school I attended was full of graffiti, and the tree that was planted with a small stone memorial in 1969 to honor the neighborhood "Guys" that went to Vietnam was missing... sad!

 

[Kyle]

I grew up in Gardenville off of Hazelwood Avenue until I joined the Marines in 1966. My parents bought a small 2 bedroom house in 1950 and continued to live there until the early 80's, moving to the Bel-Air area into a condo. Went I was separate from the Marines,1970. I lived in Hawaii (for 3 years) then was transferred back to Washington DC as part of my job promotion - Assistance Manager in a major hotel chain. Over the years while visiting my parent with the new wife, I saw the neighbor hood failing. Homes started to be abandoned, trash in yards as the residents started the "white flight" process. Our family (now 2 kids) moved to Southern Ohio in 1978 and the trips to Baltimore were few and far between. In the summer of 89 we were attending a family reunion at my sister's farm north of Bel-Air, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. As I was driving from the airport up I-95 my daughter asked we could drive by the house I grew up in. We did and I was so disappointed driving down the street pointing out my parent's old home. I'm sorry to say that we were the only white faces in the neighborhood and the looks we got were not welcoming! The house I grew up in was a wreck with a undriveable car sitting on the grass on its brake drums in the front yard. The elementary school I attended was full of graffiti, and the tree that was planted with a small stone memorial in 1969 to honor the neighbors hood "Guys" that went to Vietnam was missing... sad!

Diversity is our strength.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

They only spend $1000 if their time is worth literally nothing.

Huh? I don't see the meaning.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I am old enough to remember when DC and Baltimore were good paces to live.

Really?

I had a great aunt that lived in Baltimore that was 102 when she died back in the 90s, my grandfather was significantly younger (kid #14) and I remember my grandmother saying what a crap hole it was after they came back from visiting her.

 

[Hijinx]

I knew people who lived there in the early 60's and it wasn't so bad.

 

[stgislander]

I knew people who lived there in the early 60's and it wasn't so bad.

Aunt and Uncle lived in Dundalk. He worked at the Beth Steel railroad. Great neighborhood. Even in the mid 80's.

 

[BOP]

Or the morons who initially claimed student lunch programs would be done away with - uhhh - DoE never administered those. Dept of Agriculture.

Or the Pell Grants would be gone - or that Special Needs programs would be scuttled - nope, going to HHS.

Linda McMahon said something like forty some cents on each dollar went to students - the rest, absorbed in the administration costs.
So half of DoE exists - to perpetuate DoE.

It's obviously NOT to educate students.

That is the function of any bureaucracy; self-perpetuation.

 

[BOP]

This is why all local politics matter.

Over here in Calvert we have worked extremely hard to get conservative members on the school board. And we did it. I'm not saying there are not problems because there are!

It's important to pay attention at the local level as to what's going on in your county because that stuff goes back to the state. Change is not easy to get, unless people are involved.

We have a very Democrat-run state government. Unless people get involved all the way from the bottom to the top it's not going to change

Yes we have, and yes there are.

 

[BOP]

For your consideration ...







Damn. Look at all those racist dog whistles And you call other people racists.

Those who live in glass houses ............

 

[BOP]

White flight - when all they had to do was stop voting for Democrats.

They got overwhelmed because they didn't care that the DC council didn't care and the Mayor didn't care and the cops were ordered not to care. They voted for them anyway. So that's what happens when you don't care about your city.

Baltimore wasn't always a filthy crime infested shithole. All these used-to-be-great American cities.....you can literally see how they've fallen with the rise of Democrat leadership. The timelines match almost exactly.

Now freaking Ron DeSantis is all, "Hey disenfranchised NYers - come to FL where it doesn't suck!" and I'm like . Don't invite those idiots here to ruin this state like they ruined the one they now want to leave.

They need to wall in those 3rd World, Demonrat hell-holes now, not later.

 

[SamSpade]

Where the people changed or just sent elsewhere?

I think that is the big difference.

It's called "gentrification" - and it involves getting all of the poor out of there - gutting the housing or otherwise rebuilding the entire neighborhood with modern housing, fixing streets, sidewalks and so on - and moving richer people IN. Happens a lot in crappy neighborhoods otherwise in highly desirable locations, like along waterfronts or close to downtown.

FWIW - even though PG and MoCo have awful sections - they also have some of the most luxuriant areas you'll ever see. PG has horse farms and areas with huge estates - Montgomery county has places like Chevy Chase and Potomac, and while Rockville has its crappy sections, it's also home to Georgetown Prep - where the richest kids in the country go. My parents lived in Cloverly, and their friends in Olney - extremely nice areas. My sister lived in Wheaton - a shthole. Right next to Kensington - a rich area where surgeons and lawyers live.

I've been to large cities like Philly and Chicago - both of them have ritzy sections - and some of the worst.

 

[vraiblonde]

It's called "gentrification" - and it involves getting all of the poor out of there - gutting the housing or otherwise rebuilding the entire neighborhood with modern housing, fixing streets, sidewalks and so on - and moving richer people IN. Happens a lot in crappy neighborhoods otherwise in highly desirable locations, like along waterfronts or close to downtown.

In this instance the poor stayed, only the criminals and shitbags got moved along. The area became nicer not because of any gentrification, but because the people making it crappy were gone.