As the Associated Press reported last month, California's Assembly Bill 1266 gives students in public K-12 schools the right "to participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities" based on their self-perception, regardless of their birth gender.

JCMan8 wrote:

Your "facts" are wrong.

dojan wrote:
In the case of a liberal there is a two-word term for this which starts with "useful".

In this case there is a two-word term which starts with "useful".

dtjcview wrote:

Good speech from Bloomberg.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/us/bloo ... eech/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Monroe wrote:
Next you'll be telling me that the Hollywood elite are closet Republicans!

devilsadvocate wrote:
You can see her discussion of those that are "constructively white" below.

caj11 wrote:
Seems so many of those people want to emphasize that Martin was black, but none of them emphasize that Zimmerman was latino.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religio ... m/history/history_1.shtml

The Sikhs fought oppression from Islamic, Hindu and Christian countries for centuries, only to come here and fall victim to local ignorance.

Why would they travel to a place where they are not wanted, this would only prove dangerous for both the aggressors and the opressed. Didn't groucho Marx state I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

That post came across as ignorant, intolerant and contradictory. Member of that Bayonne club?

Monroe wrote:
Government needs managers, not activists with specific agendas, right or left.

And Cuomo spanked de Blasio again today, when it's reported he'll support payments for charter school rent if Kaiser Wilhelm tries to screw them more. After all, the NY Governor, the US Secretary of Education, and President Obama all support charter schools because of their successes.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/03/cuomo-ba ... ols-evicted-by-de-blasio/

Monroe wrote:
Only 1% of workers earn minimum wage, and many of those are teens. Raising the minimum wage won't lift anyone out of poverty when it's all said and done.

Just know that the lowest earners have benefitted from Obama's economy, in that he's doubled the money available for food stamps during his Presidency-we now spend over 100 billion dollars a year, it was about half that. The number of people receiving food stamps has gone up 70% in the Obama economy.

nyrgravey9 wrote:
My favorite is watching left wing jerkoffs use talking points to call out right wing jerkoffs for using talking points.

F*cking fools.

nyrgravey9 wrote:
For the last time...I've never, and probably will never, watch Fox News. Why is it that lefties immediately lump opposing thought into Fox News territory?

Come on, stop thinking so simply and understand that the average person is more complex than just left/right.

Br6dR wrote:
Wishful thinking. People are.dissatisfied with government period. You wont find me defending the Obama Admin. I think most of our leaders in both parties are owned by corporations.

YouniqPilates wrote:
What is your 2014 resolution?
Mine is not to make any.

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Monroe wrote:
Guess who's fleeing from the Democratic Party now in droves? Women.

If you don't have a case just make shit up. It's the Republican way.

Nationally Obama's poll numbers are nosediving most among women.

Locally, Christie did very well with women.

lol, I'm making up the Quinnipiac University polls?

A poll that says women are leaving.the Democratic Party.for the Republican Party in droves? Link?

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The "spending per student" includes immigrants, so the spending itself is still high, so dilution probably isn't the issue. As far as welfare goes, there might be something to that, but it's tough to imagine other countries don't have the same issue.

From reading various sources, it seems that money is being wasted on items not directed at improving education. Smaller class sizes doesn't seem to corrrelate to education improvements. The US has an extremely high spending on non-education items like Sports. The US does invest in early childhood education, but that program doesn't seem to reaped dividends as it has in other countries.

I think some of the things that are broken are:
- Little fiscal accountability. The billions of dollars of spend is managed by locally elected moms and pops. Local government isn't the right way to run a multi-billion dollar industry.
- No competition for teaching jobs. It seems there is little initial and ongoing standardized teacher training and assessment, performance incentives, career development, etc. The teaching industry seems geared to attract and retain the worst. Paying teachers more, but removing obstacles such as tenure might be the way to go.
- Misdirected parental participation - according to authors such as Amanda Ripley, parents in the US engage as much other countries in ed-related activities, but it's not directed to helping the kids learn. Cheering the school team at the weekend doesn't help the kid count.
- Bar is set too low. Lessons, homework, tests don't challenge the students to think critically, and are more designed to "learn-by-rote".

The focus should be on education and the educators, and not the excuses. Standardized student testing and more competition and choice provided by charter schools are steps in the right direction.

Great post. It's amazing a lot of people in this country whine about healthcare (which is valid) while at the same time deny that US education is in bad shape overall and find all kinds of excuses, like xenophobias blaming everything on immigrants.

If you're taking a poor shot at me-I'm just trying to figure out how we can improve our own inner city kids education. Most of the countries that send millions of their citizens to be educated, fed, housed, and have their medical problems fixed on our tax dollars are much less likely to do the same with illegals who visit THEIR country.

Suggesting that our own children get a better education is a bad thing AND xenophobic? Why don't you support the children of the USA; black, brown, white, red, and yellow?

dtjcview wrote:
The "spending per student" includes immigrants, so the spending itself is still high, so dilution probably isn't the issue. As far as welfare goes, there might be something to that, but it's tough to imagine other countries don't have the same issue.

From reading various sources, it seems that money is being wasted on items not directed at improving education. Smaller class sizes doesn't seem to corrrelate to education improvements. The US has an extremely high spending on non-education items like Sports. The US does invest in early childhood education, but that program doesn't seem to reaped dividends as it has in other countries.

I think some of the things that are broken are:
- Little fiscal accountability. The billions of dollars of spend is managed by locally elected moms and pops. Local government isn't the right way to run a multi-billion dollar industry.
- No competition for teaching jobs. It seems there is little initial and ongoing standardized teacher training and assessment, performance incentives, career development, etc. The teaching industry seems geared to attract and retain the worst. Paying teachers more, but removing obstacles such as tenure might be the way to go.
- Misdirected parental participation - according to authors such as Amanda Ripley, parents in the US engage as much other countries in ed-related activities, but it's not directed to helping the kids learn. Cheering the school team at the weekend doesn't help the kid count.
- Bar is set too low. Lessons, homework, tests don't challenge the students to think critically, and are more designed to "learn-by-rote".

The focus should be on education and the educators, and not the excuses. Standardized student testing and more competition and choice provided by charter schools are steps in the right direction.

JoeGee wrote:
Ever notice how political elects that are not born with silver spoons in their mouth are always bashed for life issues instead of their political view points?

Monroe wrote:
So, Pebble, you're a fan of bi-partisanship, reaching across the aisle to make common sense deals? I can only conclude you're a Governor Christie fan, who does just that! Remember, the best deals between parties tend to have both holding their nose over the final result. Do I think Christie is in favor of in-state tuition for illegal aliens? Nope. But he for sure wasn't going to give Sweeney the ability to fund free tuition money in the form of grants either for the illegal aliens.

Same thing on tenure reform. Christie didn't get everything he wanted, but the deal got done.

I wish our nation's chief executive would take a page from Christie's book in this regard.

Christie didn't get everything he wanted, but the deal got done."

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I also think you're full of it when saying Obama hasn't reached across the aisle. He has. You need to remember that the other side of the aisle has an arm too that needs to reach across as well. Bush didn't do it. This Congress certainly hasn't.

Wake me up when the Republicans even try...

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I dont know the western name is but the Chinese name is "mei dong" which may be a combination of the words for America and East. It is a chain if grocery stores in plainsbro, Plainfield, Middletown and Piscataway. The chain already has the jersey city location printed on their shopping bags but I threw out already so not sure of its western name. The store hasn't opened as of last week when I went by it out of curiosity.

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dojan wrote:
...This country has become so polarized with a President who refused to make small talks across the aisle...

I'm sorry but if you think this started with Obama, your understanding of history is about deep as a shot glass of water.

nyrgravey9 wrote:
Also, there are more dems at the top of the millionaire politician list.

DAMN! I said I wouldn't comment on this stuff.

My bad, that was the last one.

Let's get a JC political debate group going. Zeppelin Hall???