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·Education is expensive, it takes money from tax breaks for the well to do. Its a problem no government have found a solution to.
Education is expensive, it takes money from tax breaks for the well to do. Its a problem no government have found a solution to.
Summer is here, so I guess it's time to start hitting the pawn shops, yard sales, etc looking for old planes.
Plenty of people still know. I have a quart in my bar a roofing contractor distilled a few years back. And a friend who moved out to Route 81 started distilling this past year. Moonshine ain't dead in the Shenandoah mountains west of DC.
...although I believe many make a LOT more $ making/ selling meth...
Oh, the old timers still run it, they just aren’t making it back in the woods. Dear friend of mine is at least a 4th generation distiller of the clear liquid. He gave me a half gallon a few months back. Some of the best made in these neck of the woods.
Well, that's the problem right there, the more government gets involved in something the worse it becomes. Look at the Department of Education in the US, created by Jimmy Carter back in 1980, can anyone claim that education has improved since then? Same with the government getting involved in student loans....result, astronomical prices. Education doesn't have to be expensive, we have just chosen to make it so.
That is no law of nature, its just a talking point from all the guys looking for tax cuts. The same guys that buys our cheap corrupt politicians.
One more. People no longer know how to duck and cover…
I’ve been known to, on occasion, sneeze quite loudly. A few years ago my wife and I were downtown when one of my super-sneezes erupted. Some poor guy crossing the street ahead of me dove to a crouch on the ground and scanned around for the source of the “threat”. Everyone but him, including his girlfriend, thought it was pretty funny. But I did feel a bit bad wondering if he had issues with the sound of gunfire.
Maybe by choice, but the smart phones helped a lot. Knowledge is, "out" only acceptable behaviour is consuming without thinking. You may know; sports results, fashion brands and celebrities. Any thing more you are a nerd. Yea, I work in education![]()
I was just having this conversation with a colleague last week. The percentage of students who are functionally illiterate has sky rocketed in the past few of years. High school has to bring back some kind of rigor in the classroom, if not college is going to turn into what high school used to be. It's been four years and we can't keep expectations low and blame it on Covid any longer. It's a scary situation to watch unfold.
How do you find them performing on assessments and quality of work? I have some younger colleagues who use AI for research and summaries, but it seems to actually let them move more quickly, but with sometimes more superficial understanding. But, that sometimes might be an acceptable trade-off in some of their work.