Ineffable_Matt

In an interivew for the 1991 book Songwriters on Songwriting, Paul Simon said "We're long out of the age of melody. Long out of there and we probably won't be going back into it." Everything became about beats and rhythym, for better or worse (worse, IMHO). Melody isn't totally dead, you just have to go searcing for it.

Someone need to Three BIllboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri this thing, just putting up there all the awful crap the Georges do.

Thank you both for the clarification. It just seemed like everything that could prevent this from happening was happening lol.

JFC what do these guys have to do to get this thing built? Throw in their first borns? Have Marie handle the leasing?

This makes zero sense to me. We are told repeatedly that Cleveland Browns Stadium construction was slapdash at best and that the damn thing is falling apart. What is the point of spending 300+ million, on top of the 140+ million, to still not have an up to date stadium?

This occured in Valley VIew, not Ohio City. ETA: Or did it? That artice sucks.

Yeah. Three victories guarantees it. Or two and the Knicks not winning out.

Is this in Louisville?

Need to line Superior with these MFers!

We need so many more glass towers to combat all the beige...

But he is talking about other programs, guidance counceling, etc., not teacher pay. We say teachers deserve to be paid more, and its mostly for hazard pay (a point on which I think we all agree). But simply paying teachers more money to endure the troubles associated with not being able to cherry pick the student body doesn't solve anything. Neither does throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Reductio ad absurdum is unbecoming. Public schools are a microcosm of our society, ergo addressing the problem through that lens is prudent. Throwing bad apples in prison for the past however many thousands of years hasn't eliminated crime.

They must be using some big straws!

Do you have any receipts for this, or is this just, like, your opinion, man? Teachers getting attacked is horrible and inexcusable, full stop. Essentially, you keep asking, "What can we do to stop it?". And your answer is to simply get rid of them. But we also need to know why it happens. If your car breaks down, you don't just immediately replace the engine, you troubleshoot and go try to fix the actual problem. Loose analogy, I know, but I think the Spartan solution does far more harm than good in the long run. Do you really think all these kids are born with an abject hatred of teachers?

Agree with both, lol. Also, it would be cool to have some of the same Theatre-type signage on the South side of the street to balance things out, as in @GISguy's pic.

Damn, that was a sweet dunk. Also, Levert has really found his groove these past two months.

Now you've gone and made me feel really old lol, Olmsted Falls class of 2000. FWIW, my BIL teaches AP and regular history at Solon High School. He's Polish Catholic, and I've not once heard him lament the demonization of Christ in the classroom. Teaching to the test, however, is another, and much more important, story.

I would say you are doing the same with secular, public schools. I say this as a graduate of a Blue Ribbon public school: trust me, the curriculum was almost entirely focused on Western civilization and primarily focused on white Christians. There was not a pervasive Anti-Christian sentiment, period. I'm pretty sure you're joking, but would we be having this silly internet back and forth without the concept of Zero (a decidedly not-Western contribution to civilization)?

Some kids just are not wired for school, and I think we all understand that. But a lot of these "disruptors" are acting out not because of their resistance to learning, but myriad social issues, including poverty, hunger, broken homes, etc. Saying "F 'em" and not providing any help isn't going to do any good whatsoever. Perhaps the answer isn't more money, but a rethinking of what is provided when we talk about a public education. More emphasis on vocational training for those so inclined (which would obviously include some disruptors) would help. So would providing breakfast, lunch, and dinner for those who need it (hey, thats sorta like three hots and a cot, which should appeal to those in favor of the school-to-prison-profit pipeline /s). I think schools should be open for 18-24 hours a day, and should be a place of refuge and support.

I guess my point was who cares if its subsidized with public money since it's a public school. The real difference in that whole part of your argument is that postsecondry school is entirely optional. K-12 public school districts don't get to pick and choose their students; they have an obligation to educate all children in their district. Catholic shcools do not have that obligation. The Church can afford to subsidize the schools without public funds. I never said the schools were subsidizing the Church. But that education isn't public. If they took in any kid who wanted to attend, regardless of religious affiliation or whatever else they base admittance on, then that would be a different story, right? A public school is open to the general public, while a Catholic school is not. The same can be said for those who assume and assert that the history of Western Civilization is ignored or demonized or whatever by secular schools, or those who only seem to care about the Catholic contributions to Western Civlization. This begs the question: Is learning about other civilations a bad thing? Hint: its not.

Totally agree. especially since CIFF is there permanently now. They couldn't have gotten this done back in November?

1. The Ohio State University is not a religious school. 2. The Catholic church is a business. Any money they make from education is gravy. 3. Separation of Church and state? I'm pretty sure Western civilization started before Christ. But I also believe, along with all the censorious woke commissarts, that dinosaurs are older than 6,000 years. Also, wasn't Christ a pretty woke dude?

Yup. So does having executives make 1000x+ what an average worker at the company does. Capitalism is great.

This is Boombastic news!

They did not spend 3.5 billion on the bucks. They bought a percentage of the bucks, and the purchase price set the valuation of the franchise at 3.5 billion.