Teen Rap Feud, Gangs, and Murder in Chicago

I blame the Cubs.

 

In the end, it's all just a big distraction, because it doesn't matter. They have services to offer, they are collectively bargaining for what they are willing to offer those services for, and whatever both sides can agree to is what they deserve.

 

Because buildings still burn and crime still exists, I'm going to say that firefighters and the police are overpaid. The only fair way to determine civil service compensation is to compare it arbitrarily to my own, then subtract the difference.

 

Boo to YF for changing his avatar, no matter how noble the new one is. YF, You've got one of the most recognizable ones here. You're forcing me to do literally milliseconds of extra work to ID the poster.

 

Likely commemorative and/or temporary given the date.

 

Yes. The old one will be back soon.

And, I know what Circus means. It can be disconcerting when a regular changes their avatar.

 

I blame their plight on Scott Walker and The Koch Brothers who already did the heavy lifting in making it possible for Rahm to lay down the gauntlet.

 

Oh, I figured as much. NOT AS IMPORTANT AS MY EASE OF IDENTIFICATION.

 

Here's another way to look at it:

 

Poverty is an excuse for poor performance? No, poverty is a reason for poor performance. Anyone who has ever sent kids to a public school environment knows this, and every study confirms it. Poverty and lack of parental involvement are essentially one and the same. And parental involvement is the number one factor in child achievement.

If 60 percent of students graduate from high school, that means 40 percent of students' parents are falling down on the job, and teachers can't help that. Evaluating them poorly because those kids' parents don't give a shit is ridiculous.

 

Why even try teaching?

 

So how do you evaluate them? Or do shitty teachers just keep getting to hide behind the fact their students' parents don't give a shit?