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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[kidcarter8]

Would depend on the depiction,  wouldn't it?   


You dont know.   We get it.

[luee]

Most remembered by me was his stand against Vietnam and LBJ. MLK refused to be bought off.

[facilitatorn]

Would depend on the depiction,  wouldn't it?   


You dont know.   We get it.

You’d be the last to know in your fug of impregnable ignorance.

[REDSTATEWARD]

Joe Biden has sucked up to teachers’ unions despite the frustration of American families held hostage by teachers refusing to teach.
Now it looks like the pandemic effect for K-12 education will be fewer union teachers going forward.




The U.S. Census Bureau reported in late March that 11.1 percent of K-12 students in the nation are now homeschooling, a significant jump from 5.4 percent when school closures went into effect in spring of 2020, and from the 3.3 percent of families who homeschooled prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The global COVID-19 pandemic has sparked new interest in homeschooling and the appeal of alternative school arrangements has suddenly exploded,” wrote Casey Eggleston and Jason Fields for the Census Bureau, which gathered data for an “experimental” Household Pulse Survey that measured the “social and economic impacts during the coronavirus pandemic.”

In November, Education Week also reported more than doubling of the homeschool population in the United States, with 58 percent of principals and superintendents naming homeschooling as being “a major contributor to enrollment declines caused by COVID-19—more than any other single reason.”
Of particular note in the Census Bureau data is that homeschooling rates are surging among black families, in which the proportion homeschooling increased from 3.3 percent in spring 2020 to 16.1 percent in fall 2020.

Kerry McDonald, a senior education fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), explained, “The black homeschool population doubled between 2008-2012, though it was still less representation among the homeschooling community than the black population in the K-12 school age population at large.”
“With what the Census Bureau data showed is that now there is an over-representation of black homeschoolers compared to black students in the overall K-12 population,” she added. “So, it’s about 16% black students now homeschooling, compared to 15% in the overall K-12 U.S. public school system.”

McDonald said more families homeschooling may be the start of a push for more school choice policies in general.
“Now we have active legislation in over two dozen states to expand school choice,” she noted. “So, I think that’s a huge win, and something that parents are increasingly supporting. RealClearOpinion came out with a survey last November finding that support for school choice had increased ten percent,” with 77 percent of parents in support of school choice.



https://www.federationforchildren.org/support-for-school-choice-surges-as-schools-start/

[kidcarter8]

Cant make it up...



https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-school-postpones-vote-on-changing-mascot-to-evergreens-over-concerns-of-ties-to-lynching

[REDSTATEWARD]

Cant make it up...



https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-school-postpones-vote-on-changing-mascot-to-evergreens-over-concerns-of-ties-to-lynching

LOL!
Cue Mel Brooks!

[LarryBnDC]

If it were poplar trees they’d have a point...

[kidcarter8]

LOSER coach loses to classy Van der Veer

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/arizona-coach-not-apologizing-middle-fingers-f-bomb-upset-victory-uconn

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31195627/stanford-holds-arizona-first-ncaa-women-basketball-championship-1992

[LarryBnDC]

A little context should be applied to Larry's constant reference to America's love affair with MLK Jr in 1967.

We had race riots in in the 1964-1967, in particular in NYC in 1964, LA (Watts-1965), Newark and Detroit in 1967.  As the most visible black leader and symbol for racial equality, and integration in a turbulent America MLK Jr. was clearly a target for a lot of anger and resentment from a lot of frightened white Americans. And Black Americans, who were also alarmed by the social changes taking place.

IIRC (from Larry's original polling data, which Larry forgot to post) that around 45-50% of African-Americans also had a negative view of MLK Jr.

BTW, in addition to fighting for racial equality MLK was also an early and vocal critic of the war in Vet Nam.

https://time.com/5042070/donald-trump-martin-luther-king-mlk/


A Harris Poll taken during King’s final year revealed that nearly three-quarters of the American people thought he was persona non grata, and almost 60% of his own people, black Americans, thought he was irrelevant.

In the last year of King’s life, he had fallen off from the ranks of the most-admired Americans. He was disinvited to the White House, forsaken by friends who had fortified him, abandoned by supporters who had sustained his work and witness, and dismissed by a media that had championed his cause.

King had a deep and abiding love for his own people, but many turned against him in the last year of his life. The scorn of being unwelcome to preach in black churches was particularly painful. King was being ridiculed by black elites like Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Ralph Bunche and even Thurgood Marshall. And for everyday black folk, and for the youth in particular, King’s message of nonviolence was falling on deaf ears. They wanted Black Power.


Sometimes the truth is so subversive and unsettling that people can’t handle it in real time. The terrain of history is dotted with prophetic truthtellers who we came to appreciate much too late. King’s vehement opposition to the war in Vietnam cost him dearly. We now know that King wasn’t so much alone as he was early. And he was right. Indeed, the last year of King’s life is a cautionary tale about what happens to a society that ignores its truthtellers — on racism, poverty, militarism, patriarchy, environmental degradation, white supremacy

Context and facts matter.

Well... that escalated quickly.

[facilitatorn]

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/4/2024315/-Here-s-what-happens-when-a-developed-nation-lets-in-too-many-immigrants

[LarryBnDC]

I posted a quote from his daughter.

Speaking of context, your original problem was I stated White America hated King until after he was dead and you disputed that with your usual vehemence.

Now you’re saying King was persona non grata... no shit.

[bankshot1]

I posted a quote from his daughter.

Speaking of context, your original problem was I stated White America hated King until after he was dead and you disputed that with your usual vehemence.

Now you’re saying King was persona non grata... no shit.

My original problem was your misleading bullshit. And I called you on it.

Larry you've used that 75% several times over the years to portray the white hatred of MLK, but you always ignored the fact that in '67, a year of riots and civil unrest of all sorts, about 60% of black America had a big problem with MLK too.

But you never mention that.

Nor that in 1964 (pre-riots, pre-Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act) the year that MLK won the Nobel Peace Prize, half of America admired him. And in the 1964-67, with the social changes, riots, and the war in Viet Nam, his approval fell from 50% to 25%.

And Larry the reason there is, as you say, "no shit" is because you are full of it.

[facilitatorn]

Loved or hated, King was right about most everything and still is.

[josh]

The Russian vaccine has let down Argentina's president:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/04/americas/argentina-alberto-fernndez-covid-19-sputnik-vaccine-intl-latam/index.html

We can only hope that he proves to be an outlier.

[bodiddley]