[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
rainjack wrote:
tom8658 wrote:
I also like how certain you are that every last person in the bottom tax bracket is a “lazy piece of shit”. Charming.
Those with one hand out, and the other flipping off the people paying for their “refund” most certainly are.
so is everyone in bottom tax brackets guilty of that? I think that was the premise of his comment.
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I certainly think it is much more common in the bottom tx bracket than it is in any other.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
rainjack wrote:
tom8658 wrote:
I also like how certain you are that every last person in the bottom tax bracket is a “lazy piece of shit”. Charming.
Those with one hand out, and the other flipping off the people paying for their “refund” most certainly are.
so is everyone in bottom tax brackets guilty of that? I think that was the premise of his comment.
I certainly think it is much more common in the bottom tx bracket than it is in any other.
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That’s just common sense, IMO.
[quote]tom8658 wrote:
The amount of money spent is a consequence of how the brackets are formed. [/quote]
Wow.
Like I said - very few people understand money. You prove that in spades.
[quote]Norwell Bob wrote:
rainjack wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
rainjack wrote:
tom8658 wrote:
I also like how certain you are that every last person in the bottom tax bracket is a “lazy piece of shit”. Charming.
Those with one hand out, and the other flipping off the people paying for their “refund” most certainly are.
so is everyone in bottom tax brackets guilty of that? I think that was the premise of his comment.
I certainly think it is much more common in the bottom tx bracket than it is in any other.
That’s just common sense, IMO.
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Of course it is…but calling EVERYONE in bottom tax bracket “lazy pieces of shit” is not…love how you all are skipping around that…but I get it.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
I have decided to share the wealth — I will now take points from my A and B students and give those points to those making less. The goal is for everyone to have a C+.
Of course, the idea is predicated on the A and B students continuing to work hard, and those with lower grades also resisting the temptation to loaf. If they don’t work up to their ability, I will institute my version of a ‘Secret Police’ and force them, through detentions and suspensions, to work to their very best.
I’m sure some parents and students will complain, but then I can simply say, “Well, you folks voted for just exactly the same thing when you voted for Obama. Why do you object to me using those very same principles in my classroom?”
It’s also so very perfectly logical.[/quote]
You’ll fail to pull it off. First, you’ve been a teacher way too long and are ‘part of the failing system’. Second, rather than reminding the parents of their vote, you need to remind them that since the founding of the Boston Latin School in 1635, schools both public and private have faced much ignorance and adversity. Despite that, America has led the way. But now, the failed policies of ‘No Child Left Behind’, while created with the best of intentions, have left us in with a murky future. And that we, not as black students or white students, overachievers or failures, but as Americans need to stand together to face down ignorance and stand as a beacon of hope to the world and future generations.
HH, you really need to learn to teach hope.
[quote]lucasa wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
I have decided to share the wealth — I will now take points from my A and B students and give those points to those making less. The goal is for everyone to have a C+.
Of course, the idea is predicated on the A and B students continuing to work hard, and those with lower grades also resisting the temptation to loaf. If they don’t work up to their ability, I will institute my version of a ‘Secret Police’ and force them, through detentions and suspensions, to work to their very best.
I’m sure some parents and students will complain, but then I can simply say, “Well, you folks voted for just exactly the same thing when you voted for Obama. Why do you object to me using those very same principles in my classroom?”
It’s also so very perfectly logical.
You’ll fail to pull it off. First, you’ve been a teacher way too long and are ‘part of the failing system’. Second, rather than reminding the parents of their vote, you need to remind them that since the founding of the Boston Latin School in 1635, schools both public and private have faced much ignorance and adversity. Despite that, America has led the way. But now, the failed policies of ‘No Child Left Behind’, while created with the best of intentions, have left us in with a murky future. And that we, not as black students or white students, overachievers or failures, but as Americans need to stand together to face down ignorance and stand as a beacon of hope to the world and future generations.
HH, you really need to learn to teach hope.[/quote]
I do teach Hope. She’s hot, on the BOYS Lacrosse team and keeps up with me doing pushups (and not girl pushups either). She did gymnastics for years and is a killer.
John Dewey destroyed concept-based education and substituted his ‘experiential’ crap. The result is a nation of about 70% dummies — which probably was Dewey’s goal all along, the prick. (He loved the Soviet Union, for ex)