Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(11-17-2018, 12:22 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(11-17-2018, 11:57 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I don't even vote for local parcel taxes anymore because I want to see all districts funded equally. But in my district parcel taxes always get 2/3 vote anyway and they are well-funded and perform well. I get their mailings and they seem to be proud of their accomplishments.

My sister, back in the 70s, attending the University of Massachusetts at the time, had to listen to a black girl saying how lousy the local Rockland MA school system was.  Naturally, Sally pointed out she had a 4.0 average at Zoo Mass, that how good a school was depended on how much work one was willing to put into it.  The instructors in suburban Rockland would work if a kid was putting some effort into it, but often would let kids not trying go.  You couldn't help a kid who was not trying.

But I would tend to agree.  While I never married, never had kids, I never begrudged the spending and taxes required to give kids the same chance I had back in the day.  You can lead a horse to water, and I made sure there was lots of water available.  I'm not so pushy on making the horse drink.

The way I view education is the same way your sister viewed it. We all need some form of basic education ( reading, writing, math and science) in order for us to function as members of an advanced society. We have moved so far left in some places that we have public schools in some places that are functioning more like daycare's than educational institutions, We have schools in some places that the teachers & school adminstraters are functioning more like social workers. Republicans do much to help those areas because those area's are damn near completely dominated by Democrats. Who gets the bulk the public money, the Democratic officials and the Democratic voters who work in those areas or the poor parents of the poor kids who are stuck in those area's? At some point, Democrats like you have to start opening minds to other ideas and approaches or accept the consequences with being involved with large scale failures that result in last scale riots and significant loss of life.