No, and not sure where you read that. Red states have plenty of failing schools and plenty of needs to have more choice. And yes, I do see the growth of the teacher union strength vis a vis parental strength as a leftist problem.
Nope. said the absolute complete opposite of how you phrased my words whatever they were. And a school could be twenty families getting together and pooling their student voucher funds and opening a storefront or space down at local church that does not need the space during the week. And I talked about rural areas such as Maine and montana where kids are already riding buses an hour and half each way who could bring some classes back to their communities.
"I can't go to school 'Cause I ain't got a gun I ain't got a gun 'Cause I ain't got a job I ain't got a job 'Cause I can't go to school So I'm looking for a girl with a gun and a job Don't you know where you are Lost in America" From Alice Cooper's Lost in America.
It has everything to do with having access to alternatives to violence in schools which is at pandemic levels along with lesser but debilitating behaviors such as harassment, bullying etc. But we get your repetitve message. You are only concerned about mass shooting because they tend to occur over in Whitey-TightyVillage School. The only area where you are concerned. If it occurs out on the sidewalk in Chicago. It's just another day. But, hey, that's not a national problem. That's their problem in your Whitey-Tighty mind.
You’re wrong and closed minded. I am very concerned about gun violence. And unlike you who is trying to sell the most worthless excuse of an idea claiming the problem is cultural I have offered evidence to show it is actually a matter of availability. That’s what the data tells us and data is how you actually solve big problems. I have expressed my thoughts on the gun violence issue and have explained it intercedes with poverty issues and I have also shown data and shared my thoughts based on that. The point is just because you cannot address issues where it is appropriate does not mean others do not. You obviously have a thrill going up your leg for charter schools lately so you’re trying to throw it out as a solution to every problem open for discussion. The problem is it doesn’t make any sense. And I think at some level of consciousness you understand that because now your trying mix in unfortunate issues of rape and high crime neighborhoods to massage it into seeming to make some sense. And maybe it does make some sense for underperforming school to have charter alternatives, I’m not against that to some degree in my state. But the gun issue is a national issue, unlike school choice which are… state and local issues.
No. You are uninformed. Where I have I referred to charter schools. They could be part of the mix, so I might have mentioned it in passing in some thread but no proposal of charter schools. Although dem plantations such as NYC current emphasis on closing them down to prevent anyone from achieving excellence or not being peanut-buttered in with the mass of failing students is certainly something to be concerned about so we could go there if you wanted.
Fair enough. Excuse me, voucher program, not charter schools. A true difference. Still does not address the problem of school shootings.
Mass school shootings are here to stay because we love our guns too much and there are too many kids that know how to navigate around the laws to gain access to a gun. In the particular case that prompt this thread (Oxford, Michigan Shooting)...just ask Mom or Dad to buy the firearm for you. Not difficult to do considering there are thousands of Parents willing to buy firearms for their children...even for children not old enough to legally have access to a firearm outside of the home. Seriously, school shootings have been occurring since 1840s. Back in those days, the schoolmasters were killed...not fellow students. The sad part, it wasn't illegal to kill your schoolmaster...students or Parents were not arrested even after many eyewitnesses to the shootings. School Shootings and Mass School Shootings... it's in the blood of America and it's normalized or accepted as the norm even by people in Congress. In fact, we have Congress people that harass survivors, family members of students killed, and now even celebrate their assault weapon ownership on Christmas cards just to be funny. Why be surprised ??? Violence is celebrated, cheered, and laughed out even when it occurs in sports. Seriously, soon we will start seeing "Mass Shootings" at high school football games as payback for losing the game. wrbtrader