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Floating Teachers and Shared Classrooms

03 Thursday Oct 2019

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education, schools, teachers

More joys curtesy of the government schools. When sharing means not caring.

Classroom sharing has become increasingly popular in public schools across the U.S. in recent years. It occurs when teachers utilize the same room at different times throughout the day to teach in schools where there is a shortage of space. Rather than purchase trailers or build additional wings in their buildings, many districts ask their teachers to share their rooms. It’s perceived as a cost-effective alternative and as a way to maximize available space within the building.

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While it may appear to be financially cost-effective for schools to ask their teachers to share classrooms, there is indeed a high price tag attached to this approach.

Here are 3 reasons classroom sharing is a very bad idea in public education:

1. Teachers prefer their own space.

2. Students’ needs are disregarded.

3. It creates a bully school culture.

Read that article. Above, point two is the most important and point three doesn’t refer to what or who you might think. Schools that have this problem generally have many, many more. Come to think of it, Tom Ironsides experienced some of this “fun.” You’ll read about that soon.

The Bright Shiny Service Economy

01 Tuesday Oct 2019

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economics, liars, lies, manufacturing, recession, servcies

The recession is becoming palpable, moving out of bond curve graphs and into the factories.

A gauge of U.S. manufacturing showed the lowest reading in more than 10 years in September as exports dived amid the escalated trade war.

The U.S. manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index from the Institute for Supply Management came in at 47.8% in September, the lowest since June 2009, marking the second consecutive month of contraction. Any figure below 50% signals a contraction.

The new export orders index was only 41%, the lowest level since March 2009, down from the August reading of 43.3%, ISM data showed.

“We have now tariffed our way into a manufacturing recession in the U.S. and globally,” said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.

The Bleak Advisor is likely a liar or an idiot. Other lies are told. Amazingly, about the only authority figure hitting on a little truth is the Trump. Thank God for the impeachment hoax! Otherwise, with a severe downturn coming, he might not be re-electable. And anyway, why does this matter??? I recall, some 30 years ago during my third-rate government high school “education,” someone telling us that in the happy future of tomorrow all employment would be in the easy, computerized service sector. Nothing produced, a shame since everyone would have tons of spending money from their high-tech fantasy jobs.

If we had an Index of Official Lies, the baseline would be a hockey stick curve in perpetuity.

Gigi Hadid for Congress

01 Tuesday Oct 2019

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conservative, cucks, fortitude, GOP, models

A 100-pound (HOT!) runway model demonstrates more fortitude than every member of the GOP not named Donald Trump.

A crasher stormed the runway at Chanel’s spring 2020 presentation Tuesday morning at the Grand Palais.

Dressed in a black and white tweed outfit topped with a black hat, the spectator climbed onto the set, which was built to look like Paris rooftops, as models took their finale walk.

Show-goers and security were stunned as the crasher made her way to the end of the runway and was confronted by supermodel Gigi Hadid.

Hadid, 24, who was posing as part of the show’s finale in front of the photo pit, appeared to speak to the crasher sternly and then, after placing a hand on her shoulder, escorted her off the runway.

Good conservatives would still be standing there, smoothing their bow ties and talking about a compromise with the crasher.

The Shirt Index

29 Sunday Sep 2019

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economics, finance, inflation, JCPenney, sorcery

The WSJ has a story about what would have been, in any other age, the epitamy of economic insanity – financing sneakers and sweaters. Read that, it’s … great.

I looked for a sweater comparison, over time. The best I could (easily) come up with were men’s shirts at JCPenney.

2019:

Screenshot 2019-09-29 at 12.02.44 PM

1980:

Screenshot 2019-09-29 at 12.00.57 PM

(Regular price is still less expensive than the 2019 sale and less than 60% off the non-sale 2019 model – plus one got the disco-safari theme…)

1958:

Screenshot 2019-09-29 at 12.09.05 PM

(See where this is going?)

1928:

Screenshot 2019-09-29 at 12.10.15 PM

(That’s in cents, not dollars…)

Today, one can finance a new, regular-priced shirt for several payments, each equal to about the total cost of a 1980 shirt, which was still 15 times more expensive than the same thing fifty years earlier. “Inflation” ain’t the word anymore.

These are cheaply manufactured goods whose nominal production costs have fallen (in and of themselves) due to technology and offshoring, etc. Still, regular price to regular price, the modern equivalent is fifty times more expensive than the same thing 90 years before. Averaging the (easily) available IRS data on average incomes from 1920 and 1929, the 1928 American annual wage was about $2,200. Apples to sweaters, the average American, now, should be earning $110,000 per year. Yet, somehow the BLS reports that the true 2019 pay is only $47K, which itself seems a tad high. You’re 57% behind the price of shirts at JCP. Thank God there’s the Goodwill Store, right?

Sorcery is the gift that keeps on taking.

The Anxiety: A Nation Destroyed

28 Saturday Sep 2019

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anxiety, justice, nation, State, War

The remains of the state might be divided, but the underlying nation is toast. The resulting human toll is, both comically and tragically, to be expected.

  • Survey reveals about two in five Americans are stressed out by the political climate, and one in five say they’re even losing sleep.
  • Nearly a third of those surveyed feel views expressed on cable news channels are driving them “crazy.”
  • Study author believes problem is akin to a public health crisis in the country.

LINCOLN, Neb. — The past few years in American politics have been tumultuous, to say the least. Personal political beliefs aside, there is no denying that the U.S. has grown especially divided in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory. Between social media bots, partisan news coverage, and the president’s frequent Twitter posts, it has never been harder for the average American to avoid being bombarded with some type of political message on an almost hourly basis.

It isn’t a stretch to assume that at some point all of that polarization would have a negative effect on the collective well being of the nation, and a new study conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has effectively confirmed this assumption. According to researchers, the current U.S. political climate is literally making Americans physically sick, damaging friendships, and driving many people “crazy.”

A fifth and a third, etc., all over Tweets and cable news. Just wait until the M777s start singing…

A failed state trades things like civility and justice for insanity. I just read the verdict in an amazing state criminal case. The attendant sentencing blew my mind in its cruel depravity. I looked at the underlying statute and realized that even when an evil government nominally attempts to pacify a real problem, to craft measured or tempered solutions to appropriately deal with particular circumstances, that all it does is perpetuate the ruse. The utter BS from the media was designed (carefully) to distract the public’s attention. The plan worked perfectly. Those literally going crazy in the face of this horror may really display markers of normalcy. I’ll bet 2% of them – not 2.5 or 3% – wake up, shake it off, and move forward.

And, the rest? If they think it’s bad now, …

Craves Power and Access

27 Friday Sep 2019

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Big Club, Epstein, evil, power

Jeff Epstein was the lawn jockey in front of the Big Club. He fell over but the clubhouse still stands.

The butler who managed Jeffrey Epstein’s posh Paris pad claims he waited on a rotation of famous faces including Prince Andrew, Bill and Melinda Gates, as well as Steve Bannon, according to a report.

The butler, who only identified himself as Gabriel, has come forward about the convicted pedophile’s celebrity guests during his 18-year career working at the $8 million pied-à-terre, FranceInfo reported.

“I served crowned heads, diplomats, businessmen and politicians,” he told the outlet.

Among the powerful guests he listed were former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Prince Andrew, who would crash several nights at the apartment while Epstein was out of town, according to FranceInfo. The royal has since admitted he “regretted” his friendship with Epstein.

How many dens did the poor billionaire have?! Paris, NYC, Palm Beach, USVI, and where?, Arizona? Probably more. Each formerly filled with the most despicable trash on the planet. One wonders where they’ve all slunk off to now. The answer is probably wherever that “access” lies.

After some bad news…

26 Thursday Sep 2019

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economics, economy, stagnation

More bad news. About the kitchen table economics.

Though the gap between the richest and poorest expanded, the nation’s median household income topped $63,000 for the first time – though after adjusting for inflation, it’s roughly the same as it was 20 years ago.

The persistent rise in inequality has become a central topic in the 2020 presidential race, with candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren calling for a wealth tax. This week, Sanders announced his plan for a wealth tax as high as 8% on the ultrawealthy, which would raise $4.35 trillion over a decade, according to analysis by economists who consulted with the Warren and Sanders campaigns.

“There should be no billionaires,” Sanders tweeted to announce his plan. “We are going to tax their extreme wealth and invest in working people.”

Yes, yes. It’s all minimum wage and the billionaires holding us back. Totally not the funny money financial sorcery!

If the people weren’t jealous and stupid, they could see through Bernie’s rhetoric. The rich, even those of sorcerous origins, don’t swim around in pools of cash like Scrooge McDuck. That extreme wealth is what keeps working people working. The effective zero percent increase in buying power is something he could latch onto – if he wasn’t part of the problem. Same with Warren. Maybe ditto for Trump. And, if one thinks anything to do with the minimum wage has any bearing on … I’ll just let that go.

Should I ever seek the office of Emperor, I’ll put all this (and more!) in my “issues” section. Until then, you have this Highly Respected Web Log.

A preview from “The Substitute” coming later this evening!

Age of Un-Reality

26 Thursday Sep 2019

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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decline, lies, Paul Craig Roberts, reality

We’re in it. PCR explains the damage done.

When I look at public education today compared to the one I got, there is no resemblance. We were taught to think for ourselves and that a free country required free minds. Today a free mind is the last thing a public school permits.

 Because free minds are free to think. To think about things like the ridiculous Trump-Ukraine hoax. Doing so can be a little fun. Google ‘”Hunter Biden” Ukraine’ and the following pops up:

Screenshot 2019-09-26 at 10.42.16 AM

Trump “false claims” and “propagandists.” Sure.

Scrolling down, to the first article that covers any substance involving the terms sought (Bloomberg), still reveals deflection towards Trump. The hoaxiest of hoaxes.

Swamp Media is not your friend nor based in reality.

We May Never Know

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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decline, demographics, whites

It must have something to do with colleges, dope, or suicides. Certainly, the root is nothing related to 1965. The decline proceeds.

The number of white working-class Americans dropped below 40% of the population for the first time last year, reflecting demographic shifts that could pose a challenge for President Donald Trump’s election in 2020.

White Americans without a four-year college represented 71% of the population in 1975. Their decline as a share of the population is expected to continue and they will no longer be the largest demographic group by 2034, according to a blog post Tuesday from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

There’s no single cause for the decline. More Americans are seeking a college education, and leading causes of death — including the opioid epidemic, alcoholism and suicide — are hitting working-class whites hardest. And birth rates for whites are slowing compared with nonwhites.

“Whatever the cause, the decline of this group will undoubtedly continue to have lasting economic and social consequences for the U.S.,” researchers Bill Emmons, Ana Kent and Lowell Ricketts wrote in the blog post, which focused on the demographic trends and didn’t mention the political implications.

Lasting consequences. They at least have that part right.

College Makes You Dumber?

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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college, decline, education, vocabulary

Basically the finding of a newly published study.

We examined trends over time in vocabulary, a key component of verbal intelligence, in the nationally representative General Social Survey of U.S. adults (n = 29,912). Participants answered multiple-choice questions about the definitions of 10 specific words. When controlled for educational attainment, the vocabulary of the average U.S. adult declined between the mid-1970s and the 2010s. Vocabulary declined across all levels of educational attainment (less than high school, high school or 2-year college graduate, bachelor’s or graduate degree), with the largest declines among those with a bachelor’s or graduate degree. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses separating the effects of age, time period, and cohort suggest that the decline is primarily a time period effect. Increasing educational attainment has apparently not improved verbal ability among Americans. Instead, as educational attainment has increased, those at each educational level are less verbally skilled even though the vocabulary skills of the whole population are unchanged.

Someone should build a graph showing the relationship between declining verbal skills and increasing student loan usury.

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