Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Strat wrote:chud gets it

Yeah, but that was just obscenity. The trick is to subtly slander trump voters in the process of making that joke by implying their porn driven feelings of sexual inadequacy lead them into electing this clown.

Trump voters dont 1) get humor 2) understand subtlety

Bi_3 wrote:

Trump wrote:"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"

Nobody knew this.

digster wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Trump wrote:"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"

Nobody knew this.

It's kind of incredible. This is pretty much the only thing everyone agrees on when it comes to health care.

"I just think we need to support our president," said Vivian Phillips, a 60-year-old retired schoolteacher who drove more than seven hours from her West Virginia home to Atlanta, where about 200 people gathered on an overcast day.

In Denver, about 150 people met on the steps of the state capitol to voice their support for the president, sing patriotic songs and listen to speakers.

In Brea, California, in traditionally conservative Orange County, about 60 people stood outside a shopping mall chanting “Build the wall” and “God bless America, God bless Donald Trump” and carrying sings that read “Trump loves you” and “Trump all the way.”

In Mandeville, Louisiana, outside New Orleans, almost 100 people, many dressed in the red, white and blue colors of the American flag, gathered at a pavilion to voice their support.

Spoiler: show

Voucher proponents argue that offering students the opportunity, through public financing, to attend private rather than public schools produces significant gains at two levels: that individual students gain from attending a more effective (private) school, and that students remaining in public schools gain because increasing private school competition for public school students pushes public schools to improve.

Most studies test the first of these claims. In the late 1990s, voucher experiments were conducted in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio (Howell et al. 2000). The New York experiment, which involved low-income students entering private schools via vouchers in grades 2–5, was the only one that showed significant gains in test scores for any group of voucher students after three years, and gains appeared only for black students in a single cohort (Mayer et al. 2002). However, a closer examination showed that these gains had been overestimated and were not statistically significant because part of the baseline group of students had not been included in the sample of students analyzed (Krueger and Zhu 2004). The experiments in Dayton and Washington, D.C., had such large “losses” (students with vouchers who left voucher schools during the evaluation period) that no valid estimates of voucher effects could be made.

A later voucher plan in Washington, D.C.—the Opportunity Scholarship Program—was funded directly by Congress and began in 2004. It, too, was targeted at low-income students. Students who volunteered to participate were randomly awarded vouchers to private schools, the majority of which were religious/Catholic schools. Those students offered or using vouchers in the two cohorts evaluated (students entering the program in 2004 and those entering in 2005) showed no significant reading or math gains over those who did not receive scholarships/vouchers, but high school graduation rates were significantly higher for those students in the sample who were in ninth grade or higher and therefore could have graduated in the period evaluated (Wolf et al. 2013). The most interesting policy aspect of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, however, was the relatively few placements (1,700) offered to students via the program by the 90 to 100 private schools operating in the district during this period (Washington, D.C., had about 70,000 public and charter students in 2004), and the high rate of school-switching among voucher recipients (Carnoy 2009).

The most recent voucher programs evaluated are in Indiana and Louisiana. The Indiana program began in 2011 and offers vouchers to low- to middle-income students to attend private schools. Parents can supplement the publicly funded voucher with private funds. About 34,000 students took vouchers in 2016––2017. An evaluation of the Indiana program that compared time trends of voucher students’ test scores with the test score time trends of similar students in public schools showed significantly lower math and reading gains on the state test for voucher students (for a summary, see Dynarski, 2016). A statewide voucher program in Louisiana begun in 2008 and also aimed at low-income students now has almost 8,000 voucher recipients attending private schools. It, too, has been evaluated. Researchers used a quasi-experimental method and, again in this case, found that voucher students in private schools scored significantly lower in math and reading on the state test than the control group attending Louisiana’s public schools (Dynarski 2016).

The Argonaut wrote:In Soviet Russia, the pussy grabs you!

McParadigm wrote:

digster wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Trump wrote:"Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"

Nobody knew this.

It's kind of incredible. This is pretty much the only thing everyone agrees on when it comes to health care.

Simple Torture wrote:I'm grading exams and won't be watching the address tonight, so I expect some good commentary to come back to, RM.

LetMeSleep wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:I'm grading exams and won't be watching the address tonight, so I expect some good commentary to come back to, RM.

LetMeSleep wrote:#MakeAmericaGradeAgain

Simple Torture wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:#MakeAmericaGradeAgain

One student wrote: "He still looks like a child while his friends get periods and boobs" (which is actually the correct answer).