Eh. It takes the will of the people to go along with this BS. My whole family is on the “build your own arsenal” side. I asked them if there should be laws against private citizens (I used George Soros as an example, just to make it more real for them) gathering enough artillery to start their own armies, and they…

Listen, I don’t really care what gun control is enacted; it wouldn’t affect my ability to buy a gun, but I can’t help but thinking that focusing on assault weapons is misplaced. Not that I begrudge anyone working on that, but as a practical matter assault weapons are responsible for a minuscule number of deaths in…

Sorry but I just need to vent. If I see one more news story on this where they neglect to mention that this attack was directed at a Gay Nightclub, I might scream. So many news shows are clearly avoiding the fact that it was directed at the LGTQI community and is a hate crime. They keep saying “Nightclub” and that’s…

What is wrong with this country? Why are we too stupid to stop handing out assault rifles and high capacity magazines as if there could possibly be a legitimate purpose for owning one? Why can’t we put a shock collar on Fox News as an entity and just zap them every time someone blames this on Obama? Why can’t we…

Sadly in this day and age it is so hard to find a truly safe accepting space. I’ve found it here.

Please keep in mind that Omar Mateen has been on FBI radars since 2013 for possible connections to ISIS terrorist activity: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/…

In California, gun control legislation was tightened after a call to arms by the Black Panthers. Republicans were against gun control until the idea of African-Americans arming themselves was disseminated, and suddenly restrictions became feasible.

Surely the core of the problem is how American schools are funded. They get their budget from local property taxes, yes? That is such an obvious recipe for generational inequality that I can’t believe it wasn’t deliberate. In Australia, education is run by a branch of the State government. They fund all public…

NJ is the WORST that. I’m a minority mom living in Trenton Nj and my kids go to the public school here. Why are we paying close to 10k in property tax but white Sally over in East Brunswick who pays 10k in property tax gets a blue ribbon school? Oh I know because our tax dollars have to pay back the government for all…

Only if you look at Northeast Asians.

The University of California system doesn’t outright discriminate against Asians, but there’s an interesting trend where Asians have to tend to outperform all peers (including whites) for similar spots in universities. If I remember correctly, admission to Cal and UCLA required Asians be approximately one standard…

Extremely fair point. But I don’t think gentrification ends White Flight, it just redefines it. Instead of leaving places where the minorities and poors are, it prices out the minorities and poors so they can’t afford to stay. Same book, different cover.

My dad is as conservative as it gets, but his one progressive value is his views on education segregation.

A lot of the Ivy League schools. While Asians do indeed make up a disproportionate share of students at elite universities, that share is actually far lower than it should be based on applicant quality.

she got into a very good university, but it was clear that she could have gone to one of the best if she’d gone to one of the nearby private schools and gotten her diploma there

As an African American woman, whose mom’s parents moved from inner city Philadelphia to the NJ suburbs and whose dad’s parents supplemented his education (to great sacrifice of their own) in Jim Crow south so that he could have the choice to attend Harvard one day, no my beliefs do not extend that far. I feel as…

Great Finnish to that comment.

In my heart, I wish private schools were illegal and that we followed the Finnish model of education. But when it comes down to it? I will give my kids whatever advantage I can afford to give them in this flawed system of ours. If that means applying to charter or magnet schools with better test scores, so be it.

Or we could divorce the funding of schools from the property values of where they are located. It makes no sense that School A, enrollment 100 students, receives more money than School B, enrollment 100, just because they happen to be 15 miles (or less) away from each other. Ashleigh and Carolyyn and Aiden aren't more…

Look, call me selfish or a bad liberal but my kids are being sent to a place where they’ll be safe, where they’ll be well-educated and where they won’t have to deal with over-stressed, underpaid and disinterested teachers.