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2 hours ago, Chris farley said:

DERP

 

Sicilian/Scott/Egyptian here. EM-123 Paternal Haplogroup.   try again.

 

I'm the kind you eugenics folk hate.

 

 

Like star trek Scott?  He's awesome.  I liked this actor's performance.  And you might want to see a hematologist to get checked for inherited diseases:  https://www.sicklecellsociety.org/resource/sickle-cell-anemia-s-thalassemia-sicilian-children/

 

 

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6 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:

Your posts are getting more and more odd by the day. I liked it MUCH better when you were our resident pompous doctor, posting from your lakeside yoga classes. 😉

Imagine having a day’s worth of his posts, like today, unrolled into a single document. The level of unhinged babbling (aka winning) is stunning. An embarrassment. 

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5 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Did you move into the basement with BillSy? That’s his line! 😉

It’s a good line. And it’s an option

1 hour ago, Chris farley said:

its got a narrative to maintain. 

 

the state narrative that is.

 

 

And I have no idea where your narrative leads. Civil war I suppose. I have never and will never work for the state. I suspect I’ll get less back from SS than I put in and payed more tax than benefits I will receive. Can u say the same?

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7 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:

It’s a good line. And it’s an option

And I have no idea where your narrative leads. Civil war I suppose. I have never and will never work for the state. I suspect I’ll get less back from SS than I put in and payed more tax than benefits I will receive. Can u say the same?

LOL, you and your civil war narrative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Colorado teachers union instructing members to destroy evidence

 

When I first saw this this weekend,  I thought, “No way would they be that bold.”

 

 

Once you get into the meat of the story you find out that, not only were they bold enough to suggest it, they also were kind enough to give teachers specific “how-tos” circumventing both state and federal law, and parental rights.

 

They didn’t whisper them in a phone campaign, either. Flat out sent instructions in a union email.

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/09/04/rocky-mountain-high-co-teachers-union-instructing-members-to-destroy-evidence-n575438

 

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Things I have noticed accelerate over the past few years:

1) parents fighting for their children to be labeled disabled such as dysgraphia and auditory issues and literally going to specialists to ensure that the standard for their child is lowered. 

2) parents thinking that it is appropriate to contact college professors to "advocate" for their child while acting like their child is 11 not 21.

3) parents lying to their children about what they have accomplished. This might not be new but just more open about it. I had a student whose parents acted like their 3.5 weighted GPA is enough to go to Gainesville, when a 5.0 is not a guarantee. 

4) immediately suing a school district before even trying to fix it, basically trying to hit the lawsuit lottery.

 

It is all making teaching harder because as much I like 98% of the kids about 20% of parents think it is my job to help their kids more than them. 

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I have reply'd to this before but listened to it again . I have to totally disagree ! This teacher says this is not a parenting problem WRONG !! 

 

If this would have been brought to my old mans attention that i was (for no valid reason) hitting another kid, it would have been dealt with because my actions have consequences & he taught me that growing up . 

 

Another thing, if the teacher knew which kid took the strings off of the instrument or broke the drums the bill to fix it should be sent to the parent but in todays world the parent would say "my little Johnny would never do such a thing" And again there would be no consequences which is why this stuff is happening .

 

Parents are teaching children let me re-phrase that - parents now days are NOT teaching their kids in many situations that there are consequences to their actions & if they try to the consequences or punishment doesn't in any way match the crime . Time out, take away 1 of 30 hundred toys ? That may be in some way punishment for not picking up your dirty clothes or leaving out your toys but not much else .

 

Parents today are so worried about being more of a friend than a parent . Discipline is a thing of the past in a lot of families which can be directly attributed to a lot of the things happening today . And just the HUGE grey area of what is right & wrong, fact & fiction, this world has went to hell in comparison to years ago .

 

We live in a anything goes, every body gets a trophy, no rules type of world today where right is considered wrong & wrong is considered right the grey area far out weighs the black & white it totally blows my mind . I have seen it in my own family i have a sister that is part of the friendly parenting community where it is better to be a friend than a true parent .

 

I give props to those true parents that have some old school values & morals left (and that pay attention rather than have their heads stuck in FB, instagram, tweeter, or on a iPad) that when needed & only then discipline is used as a learning tool !! 

 

This is a huge reason why education in the US has went down hill ...

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13 hours ago, Orlando Tim said:

parents lying to their children about what they have accomplished. This might not be new but just more open about it. I had a student whose parents acted like their 3.5 weighted GPA is enough to go to Gainesville, when a 5.0 is not a guarantee. 

you're kidding right?  spent the month of Jan there one year doing Chemistry as an undergrad.  Good dept but most of the rest of the place is just one big party....

avg gpa 4.42.  https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/University-of-Florida-admission-requirements

had no idea it was this competitive...surprising.

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Johnson & Johnson is changing its logo after 130 years.

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The signature logo was “one of the longest-used company emblems in the world,” J&J declared in a 2017 website post.

 

But it started showing its age in an era of texting and emojis.

 

Many children no longer learn to write cursive in school, noted marketing consultant Laura Ries.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/johnson-amp-johnson-is-ditching-its-iconic-script-logo-after-130-years-heres-what-theyre-using-instead/

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