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New College ascends “best college” rankings - New College of Florida
Two leading “best college” guides—U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review—have recognized New College of Florida for its superb academic experience.
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https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2023/01/31/florida-new-college-conservative-trustees-00080541. But nope. Rankings and education don’t matter in DeSantis world. All he cares about is if they subscribe to his political theory. Watch those rankings plummet….Great rankings, great school it sounds like.New College ascends “best college” rankings - New College of Florida
Two leading “best college” guides—U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review—have recognized New College of Florida for its superb academic experience.
You are so incredibly funny! Your entire life revolves around only people that subscribe to your political theory and you have the nerve to post that? I know everyone loves you though LMFAO
Ronald Reagan once said, "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
I'm not sure of the point you're making? Are you somehow claiming that Zeke posted an article that wasn't accurate? What exactly do you feel isn't true?
Why exactly would zeke's post make you laugh your fool ass off?
Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana schools
A bill in the state Legislature seeking to regulate science curriculum in public schools got its first hearing Monday. The legislation’s sponsor says by banning scientific theories, the policy aims to prevent kids from being taught things that aren’t true.
www.mtpr.org
He’s a stalker and not a very bright one at that. Never responds to anything except with insults. No content whatsoever.
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Ronald Reagan would be appalled at today’s Republican Party. And you posting this is well, let’s just say a bit ironic.
Now do John Kennedy would be appalled at today's Democratic Party.
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That's a dumb bill by a person who doesn't really understand how science works or what the terms mean. I'm guessing it goes down in flames, as it should.Yes let’s try to ban scientific theory. Excellent idea.Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana schools
A bill in the state Legislature seeking to regulate science curriculum in public schools got its first hearing Monday. The legislation’s sponsor says by banning scientific theories, the policy aims to prevent kids from being taught things that aren’t true.www.mtpr.org
and Ike, even Nixon, would have been appalled at Reagan, who totally gutted the working the middle class just so the rich could get richer, at the working and middle class's expense.
the working and middle class still haven't recovered from Reagan, and now China owns us.
the mentally ill camped out on our city streets instead of in institutions where they were and belong, should be called Reaganville.
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He would be more appalled at the Democrat Party and how far left it has gone. I do agree with you that the progressive Republicans he would have a problem with.
He spends his days and nights scouring threads for posters he doesn't like. He'll then insert laughing emojis or pick fights. You're right - - there's never any substantive content. More often than not there isn't even any original writing. He'll change a few words of the enemy poster's comments in an attempt to create an insult that invariably falls flat. Bizarre and pathetic.
Might possibly reject. One of the main issues I have seen with the grant is that it is temporary but it creates permanent positions. I can't remember the timeframe but for example, they provide $5 million to the school for 3 years to hire additional counselor support. After that 3 years is up, the school district has to come up with the additional several million dollars to cover the positions from that point forward. Accepting the grant is accepting they will need to make a decision down the line to either:
A)raise taxes to cover for the additional staff
B)cut other programs/positions to find offsetting savings in the current budget or
C)Lay off the new staff when the grant expires
Outside of that, the school district has an issue trying to bring in more therapists in this environment given the release of memos indicating they would be willing to hide things like kids expressing gender dysphoria from parents. The new school board got voted in in a basic electoral wipeout on those kind of issues and I don't think they are going to take the money given they have both a fiscal and a social argument against it.
@Bulk VanderHuge I am just speaking for myself on this, but I think the school systems in the Indy area, the townships and suburbs in particular, cram too many kids into giant schools. Fishers has a population of 101,000 and Carmel 100,000. Fishers has 2 high schools and HSE serves an area of Hamilton County around Fishers/Noblesville that is among the last available to develop. Carmel is more boxed in. Carmel is comparable in size to South Bend. South Bend has 4 public high schools. At a certain point I think the mega schools make it so that some kids feel like a number.
Oh, for sure. If you have kids going into HS, it’s important to get them involved in something. Both my girls did show choir, and one did CC , too.
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Absolutely. Of course, I say this as a kid who attended a school with less than 400 in the entire high school.
But with more schools comes higher costs. If your district is afraid of paying extra counselors, how would they respond to a whole extra school or two?
I went to a small - less than 500 - HS myself. I can't imagine going to one of these mega schools.
My nephews went to Lawrence Central and I think they break their classes down into smaller units, so they take classes with basically the same kids all the way through HS. So, even though they graduated from LC, they were part of a smaller educational unit. I don't know quite how that works, but their parents - physician and a nurse - were both pretty happy with it.
Yeah, oldest is 8th grader so he will be at Fishers HS next year. He is an introvert so we were already looking at stuff on the parent night they had last week to get him interested in.
I think it is an opportunity cost argument moreso than straight dollars and cents. We are a district where money isn't too big an issue and we are also a district where the usual things we discuss about failing schools is a big deal either. In other words, this isn't an underprivileged area where parents can't afford to get the kids help who need it.
So it is kind of like a company offering to pay for you to put an Olympic size pool in your back yard for a few years. Then you pick up the costs. You already have a regular size pool and you could probably afford the upkeep on the Olympic size one and it may help your one kid who swims for the school team, but you don't need that thing in your back yard and what you would spend on upkeep takes away from the remodel project you want to do on your house, paying for retirement, and taking that 20th Anniversary trip to Europe.
The district has built 2 or 3 new schools over the past 5 to 10 years. So the money could be there if necessary but I think a bunch of people don't (like me) don't believe it is. Frankly, I think the current culture talks kids into being neurotic and this just plays into that.
My daughter is incredibly outgoing and social as a 6th grader but hasn’t taken to any hobby. It’s frustrating to me. She’s a horrible athlete. Crapped out on soccer then gymnastics. Told me just the other day she doesn’t want to do violin anymore. That’ll be the second instrument. 8 years of instruments. So we are going to try drama this summer. Not sure what’s left. Coding?
I don't know if he's musical or not, but band or choir might be an option - lots of good looking girls, too.
I was in plays in HS, but if he's not into that, there are a lot of stage-hand type jobs he could do. Set creating/painting and basic grunt labor are always needed and he can meet a lot of kids that way.
Honestly, they have an E-sports club at his school and looking at it from a strictly social thing to just hang out with people, I was like "Do that."
He really likes football but he is shorter for his age (like one of shortest in his class) and he has my middle school/HS metabolism. I was 5'11", 135 lbs when I graduated HS and could not put weight on. Being his size would get him murdered in 6A football.
We were looking into cross country too.
Yeah both sound good. I don’t care what my daughter does. I just wish she’d find something
Nah, she'll meet a bad boy and start dressing in all black. She can work on her tattoo display.
Every dad's nightmare, isn't it?
She's only in 6th grade - she's got time to figure it out. I know, in my daughter's case, it was all about what her friends were doing. I spend a crazy amount on a French Horn, which she quit playing after her freshman year. Her best friend ran cross country, so she decided to do it and wasn't horrible at it, so she did that and ran the 1600 and 3200 in track. Her Jr. year she just decided out of the blue to do diving, since she didn't want to swim. Again, her friends were on the swim team. She played youth soccer, but wasn't that great.
You just never know. All you can do is encourage her to do what she wants and try different things.
She's in 6th grade. Best she could beat 10 minutes by the time she get in HS. lol
All kids are different and motivated differently. Like I said, about the only thing you can do is encourage her to do what she loves and give her opportunities to find out what that is.
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Singing and drama might be good choices. Dance? (DONT DO IT!!!!!) You two should watch Glee together. Editing Tik Tok clips? That could lead to something in movie/TV editing, directing, etc.
Does she like to read? Draw? Put drippy outfits together? She'll figure it out.
Yes she loved glee! Loves fashion. For sure. I’m hoping drama. Her mom and my ex stoker were dancers. Both knew not to take her down that path
