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Little air pollution from industry.

I have actually conducted a poll among my group of friends and Roman numerals seem to drop off among those born somewhere between 1984 and 1987. Apparently the schools stopped teaching them around that time thereby reducing their importance to only Super Bowls and Wrestlemanias.

Poll question: Do you support children learning Arabic numerals?

There's actually a minor threat being made by some at OSU to take it private due to anti-intellectual antics in the Statehouse since only around 8% of its revenue comes from the state. In the '70s it was over 20%.

^Well that was when Pataskala was still "Pat-a-skalla" and was "full of hillbillies" according to local stereotypes LOL

They want that to change. Also keep in mind that at American non-profits 1-2 people are still allowed to get rich or else there wouldn't be nearly as much NGO activity here.

Sports. Music. Common tasks. Proximity. Familiarity. All proven to bring people together.

A lot of this anti-public school rhetoric comes from the fact that really rich guys see all this activity going on at schools without monetization and see the multi-million dollars spent each year by school districts that is unavailable for them to get in on the action. This drives them insane. I actually think far more self-made rich guys are on the autism spectrum than we think because we think of businesspeople as social creatures while those on the spectrum are stereotyped as not. This makes them go to their think tank and lobbyist buddies to come up with ways for them to jump in on this activity.

Over the past 40 years Right Wing think tanks have gotten extremely adept at manipulating the crap out of people who don't go to college while having much less effect on those who did. So there is still an argument for high college attendance rates.

Insistence on monoculture due to lack of education within their peer group. Inability to deal with ambiguity and unfamiliar situations.

They don't get to. When they are pushed so far down on Maslov's Heirarchy of Needs by poverty there isn't as much opportunity to work on academics or betterment of their position.

Well, Blast Processing sounded kind of made up.

The "brain school" I went to that served me properly was extremely diverse due to Columbus' population of highly-educated well-paid immigrants laser-focused on education. The rural high school I went to was nearly 100% white and focused on a blue-collar monoculture of the skilled trades and automotive (the only reason I'm separating automotive is that it has a lot of sales and management jobs that don't require schooling and certifications). That place had nothing to offer except for people who chose that exact path. So people are idiots if they think going to an all white school is going to be good for their kid. Lack of diversity will make you kid unable to function in the country of the future that will be way less white.

My high school county has a very low college graduation rate. 18%. And it's no surprise that people scattered when college was in Portsmouth. There wasn't a set pathway out of Portsmouth to my surprise since historically the set pathway was Columbus for over 100 years.

Modern life has proven some things that people 25-35 years ago (including myself) didn't really expect from a world where "everyone goes to college" as we saw from 1998-2008. 1. Not everyone went to college 2. Your high school personal network often ends up being far, far more influential and important to your career and personal life than your post-secondary ones. Why? People from college scatter afterward yet most of your high school network is still right down the road like they always were. They've been in town grinding away and networking in your absence while you were off meeting people from North Dakota and Vietnam. Literally only 4 of my friends from college live in Columbus (that number was one when I moved back to town in 2009). One friend from grad school lives here out of the two graduate programs I completed from different schools (and he wasn't even in my program; we were both on the radio station). Facebook really hammers the point home for you since everybody from high school wants to be friends but people from college are much more picky. And for me grad school was during the MySpace/Facebook switchover where a lot of people got lost.

Culturally there are few Catholics in the areas you mention. The next closest Catholic school is Notre Dame in Portsmouth. Any Protestant but more like nondenominational schools are small but there are a lot of them. Generally they are not major powers in sports.

I can guarantee you people were more materialistic in the '80s. Minimalism still dominates and people are way, way less classist as compared to then.

What do you mean that people without a fully developed sense of empathy (merely due to their brain development stage) might make bad cops?

I don't mean to hammer you about this since it may seem that way because I'm quoting you twice. But what if I said to everyone that Appalachia is the most powerful cultural force in Columbus out of all of them? Cultural forces in Columbus are manifold such as Ohio State, the Midwest and its farm culture (which has faded radically here in my lifetime), our wealth of immigrants (many highly educated) from a large number of nations and state government. But with such a large portion of the city's population claiming some Appalachian heritage, Fairfield and Licking (and maybe even Pickaway) Counties excluded from the ARC only due to bordering Franklin, nobody in town noticing Appalachian and even Southern accents when they hear them and the entire South and West Sides being Appalachia Lite I feel Appalachia is on top. Most people don't see the way the nondenominational churches straight out of Greenup have proliferated some parts of town since they are insular and aren't in the areas people need to go to. But they're there and without taking things too far off topic would certainly like to have the money to start their own schools.

Yeah some meathead comes home pissed off because he didn't get laid and punches some holes in the drywall it's "whatever". I can go in and cut out where he tried to patch it with beer cans and a piece of cardboard while crying the next day thinking his life is over with a drywall saw, cover it over with some tape, mud and a patch panel in like an hour. Ceilings with interlocking tiles straight up suck to repair since it's the hardest jigsaw puzzle you ever did, they never make them in the same texture for like more than four years and they get grimy fast so now the new tiles are too white which means you have to paint the whole ceiling. That damage is usually caused by water rather than disappointment and red-faced rage.

^Oh Appalachia, where commercial buildings can become worthless and get the "what if I had my own warehouse" treatment.

Whatever happens, the "good schools" will still be located in the rich parts of town and the "bad schools" will still be in the poor areas because of the personal networking in the area even if the schools are private. Not every parent or kid can spend an hour plus in the car every day.

Get thee to the Uncool Crescent. No you won't see a bazillion charter schools in Dublin-Worthington-Westerville but the West, East, South Sides and Morse Road have them in spades.

Oh so like when Kelso became a cop on That '70s Show

Thing is, yes in Cleveland and Cincinnati Catholic schools are the default idea of a religious school. But in Columbus and much of the rest of the state Catholic schools aren't all that popular so private schools shift to cold-blooded capitalist charter schools located in abandoned Best Buys, drenched-in-Alabama-accent fire-and-brimstone schools, snake handling ones in trailers and the few highly selective brain schools.