Meanwhile in Florida...

[old goat]

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” GK Chesterton. Of course believing in god is just as crazy as all that other shit, but whatever.

[neufox47]

A sizable percentage of people seem to have always believed crazy shit...

Yea, I remember reading about all the stereotypes and superstitions that an average person from the 1700s would believe in. We’d think of them as the craziest person we know.

[riser4]

Yet another reminder to avoid Florida: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/fl...ens/index.html

[KQ]

Yet another reminder to avoid Florida: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/fl...ens/index.html

I keep having evil thoughts about a FLA sinkhole, Trump and DeSantis...........

That said, that incident is one I've never been able to forget. Can't imaine the horrors that man sees at night when he closes his eyes.


Meanwhile..... ain't it great that FLA did away with abortion?


Sheriff says baby dies after teen mom put fentanyl in bottle

[riser4]

More nightmare fuel: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/11874...ongest-florida

[J. Barron DeJong]

Florida striving to have the worst educated kids in the country:







https://twitter.com/johnknefel/statu...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

[skaredshtles]

Florida striving to have the worst educated kids in the country:

https://twitter.com/johnknefel/statu...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

[riser4]

We need to build a wall around Florida. To keep Florida in Florida.

[TBS]

Meh, couple more years and it will be leveled by hurricanes and underwater

[skaredshtles]

We need to build a wall around Florida. To keep Florida in Florida.

Kinda like a big Thunderdome...

[J. Barron DeJong]

Texas isn’t giving up without a fight.



https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/stat...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

[skaredshtles]

Texas isn’t giving up without a fight.



https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/stat...sR_NcRK2VkCfkg

[JayPowHound]

We live in one of the top 10 school districts in Mass, the top state for education in the country.

Our middle school doesn't have a librarian. Honestly they are kind of outdated at this point with kids accessing almost everything electronically, no?

If kids are looking for something physical from the library (rare) the ELA teachers help facilitate.

Also if you read the article the headline of "turning libraries into discipline centers" isn't really the case.

Just sayin...

[J. Barron DeJong]

We live in one of the top 10 school districts in Mass, the top state for education in the country.

Our middle school doesn't have a librarian. Honestly they are kind of outdated at this point with kids accessing almost everything electronically, no?

If kids are looking for something physical from the library (rare) the ELA teachers help facilitate.

Also if you read the article the headline of "turning libraries into discipline centers" isn't really the case.

Just sayin...

From what I’ve seen in our kids elementary school, the librarian does a great job getting kids interested and keeping them interested in reading. Some hyperbole in the headline, but this is the issue:

“You don’t close libraries in some of the schools in your most underserved communities, and you’re keeping libraries open in other schools,” said Turner.
“Our less fortunate students are the ones that suffer the most; primarily because many of them live in situations that are reading desserts. They don’t have access to the reading materials. They don’t have a choice in the reading materials that they are given to read,” said Newsum.
The district said libraries will now be available to students who are dropped off at school before classes begin or after school before they go home.”

[JayPowHound]

From what I’ve seen in our kids elementary school, the librarian does a great job getting kids interested and keeping them interested in reading. Some hyperbole in the headline, but this is the issue:

“You don’t close libraries in some of the schools in your most underserved communities, and you’re keeping libraries open in other schools,” said Turner.
“Our less fortunate students are the ones that suffer the most; primarily because many of them live in situations that are reading desserts. They don’t have access to the reading materials. They don’t have a choice in the reading materials that they are given to read,” said Newsum.
The district said libraries will now be available to students who are dropped off at school before classes begin or after school before they go home.”

No doubt the inequity is an issue. I was just being snarky because I didn't like the headline.

Our elementary schools all have Library as a subject matter "special" / "related arts" class, kids go once or twice a week and that's fantastic. Moreso in secondary I find the libraries are less useful as kids are online for more and more of their content.

Of course all the kids in our high school have MacBooks, so I acknowledge that I'm clearly coming at this from a very privleged pov.

[rideit]

Meh, couple more years and it will be leveled by hurricanes and underwater

You are missing the point. We need to wall them off now so they can’t escape. Otherwise they will move up here.

[m2711c]

rideit gets it…

[subtle plague]

Didn't anyone chuckle at the reading Desserts?
Especially in this context

[waxman]

Didn't anyone chuckle at the reading Desserts?
Especially in this context

came here to type the same thing, tell me more about these "reading desserts"

[rideit]

Great, now I want Key Lime Pie.

[riser4]

Yet another reason to avoid Florida: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/healt...ida/index.html

[spanky]

Yet another reason to avoid Florida: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/healt...ida/index.html

Build the wall!

[jmedslc]

Florida Man Is Now Averaging One Federal Indictment Per Month

love the tagline... https://jezebel.com/donald-trump-ind...ain-1850697549

[boltonoutlaw]

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” GK Chesterton. Of course believing in god is just as crazy as all that other shit, but whatever.

I'm glad you added your own thoughts; mine were similar though Chesterton gets it wrong: When men choose to believe in God they have abandoned reality and are ready to believe anything to skip the line

[riser4]

Build the wall!

Yup.