In Reply to: He's actually done a lot for education, one of the first things he did. posted by Thelonious Dunk on 2012-05-03 10:35:35

• For all the problems we have going on right now in America and throughout the world, one sticks out  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-02 22:38:37 (222 views)
• schools need more funding but the world is full of stupid people, not just uneducated ones  -  Heath  2012-05-03 15:16:57 (87 views)
• as to spending, govt. or otherwise, key is to recognize the diff. between productive investment  -  Max  2012-05-03 12:18:05 (108 views)
• and imo it goes back to the parents and citizen. you get what you want and a summer home, big boat  -  Lefty  2012-05-03 08:47:19 (108 views)
• It's not that simple  -  ajbry  2012-05-03 07:33:37 (156 views)
• Tenure for teachers is a fallacy. A good principal can fire anyone...  -  Abe  2012-05-03 19:37:07 (82 views)
• that's a bigger problem. How many good principals are there?   -  DC Warrior  2012-05-04 08:06:24 (73 views)
• Obama's mostly pushing associate degrees for work retraining  -  nate  2012-05-03 10:19:14 (158 views)
• Obama never actually said that, though.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 08:36:43 (139 views)
• You're right -- my mistake  -  ajbry  2012-05-03 09:08:23 (126 views)
• California's decline in funding way predates the recent downturn.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 12:51:33 (92 views)
• Related - Harvard and MIT putting free courses online   -  gribble the mispost master  2012-05-03 11:43:03 (88 views)
• MIT's courses have actually been online for almost a decade now   -  buzz  2012-05-03 11:58:00 (89 views)
• I just skimmed the article but it sounded like you could take the class and take exams online now  -  gribble the mispost master  2012-05-03 13:16:38 (87 views)
• Yes   -  buzz  2012-05-03 15:16:31 (85 views)
• He's actually done a lot for education, one of the first things he did.  -  Thelonious Dunk  2012-05-03 10:35:35 (105 views)
• He has not been a good president for k-12 public education.  -  Abe  2012-05-03 19:39:32 (77 views)
• true, my kind words come mostly from his higher education policies.  -  Thelonious Dunk  2012-05-03 21:10:54 (77 views)
• This isn't solely about Presidents  -  ajbry  2012-05-03 11:04:15 (100 views)
• You said Obama is just talking but not doing anything.  -  Thelonious Dunk  2012-05-03 11:11:15 (100 views)
• If you take it literally, sure   -  ajbry  2012-05-03 11:17:37 (89 views)
• Teaching credential is not really grad school.  -  Thelonious Dunk  2012-05-03 12:02:30 (111 views)
• +1. Nobody wants to look at each and every factor. They simply  -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 08:08:42 (110 views)
• The biggest problem is assholes like you thinking that you  -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 06:09:29 (167 views)
• I'm not concerned with what yo have to say. It is your kind that are pushing us into the abyss.   -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 10:11:43 (107 views)
• It is "my kind" trying to save the country from "your kind".  -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 11:13:12 (123 views)
• LOL. Says the little man curled up in his shell wishing he could go back to 1958   -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 16:17:37 (83 views)
• "my kind" is human. does "your kind" have extremely developed tentacles or something?   -  bongo  2012-05-03 12:45:00 (82 views)
• No. I am extremely open minded, actually.  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 12:22:37 (100 views)
• "And of course you don't want to hear anything that runs counter to your opinion."  -  dude  2012-05-03 11:22:50 (105 views)
• Says Exhibit A   -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 08:01:51 (115 views)
• LOL, fuck you  -  Flashfire  2012-05-03 07:57:47 (141 views)
• Your constant man-fantasies aside, try explaining yourself.   -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 08:44:23 (104 views)
• Everyone here is far more educated than you are  -  Flashfire  2012-05-03 09:12:22 (120 views)
• No, they aren't, and even if they all had six degrees, degrees  -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 11:17:20 (108 views)
• There's something to that.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 12:52:35 (108 views)
• thanks for outing yourself as an anti-intellectual POS lol   -  jtown  2012-05-03 12:50:07 (91 views)
• So testing your hypothesis where is your success? You can't even find a permanent job lol  -  extremely developed tentacles  2012-05-03 11:44:59 (91 views)
• ROTFLMAO   -  Flashfire  2012-05-03 11:41:35 (93 views)
• The rich want a 3rd world structure to America  -  Hoser  2012-05-02 23:37:12 (152 views)
• BS.   -  gsw_hoops  2012-05-03 08:43:24 (104 views)
• The less educated our nation is, the easier it will be of convincing them anything.  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 00:30:21 (120 views)
• Re: The less educated our nation is, the easier it will be of convincing them anything.  -  Hoser  2012-05-03 09:30:21 (107 views)
• kind of like saying that drugs have a lot of the blame for people becoming addicts.  -  bongo  2012-05-03 10:27:58 (100 views)
• Yes   -  Shallow Hal  2012-05-02 23:31:28 (103 views)
• Couldn't agree more. We are being SOOOO short sighted when it comes to education  -  Jim Barnett  2012-05-02 23:28:27 (136 views)
• I agree with those points. We need school funded one way or the other, and I truely  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 00:15:40 (116 views)
• Agree with one caveat... it's not the government fucking you, it's the rich elite  -  buzz  2012-05-02 23:28:09 (241 views)
• Was just gonna say the same thing.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 08:02:55 (128 views)
• it's not even ALL of the rich elite, it's CEOs of the mega-corps and the industry groups  -  DC Warrior  2012-05-03 12:44:29 (97 views)
• Good point.   -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 12:58:57 (101 views)
• No doubt corporations are a huge problem as well.  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 00:12:24 (132 views)
• One is a much bigger problem than the other in this historical moment   -  buzz  2012-05-03 00:36:34 (120 views)
• It helps perpetuate things for people in power.  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-02 23:01:01 (156 views)
• The gov. can be pretty ignorant sometimes, but they can't surely be  -  Captain Hindsight  2012-05-03 00:09:15 (137 views)
• "The government."  -  Earl j. Slick  2012-05-03 08:09:18 (128 views)
• there's a direct corrollation btw being uneducated and having socially conservative values.  -  jtown  2012-05-02 23:29:56 (136 views)