Yeah, not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about people who refuse to accept evidence. Of any kind, about anything. It’s becoming distressingly common, that people reject facts or evidence as things that exist. It’s about how they feel. These people routinely hang juries.

I’m beginning to think that requiring unanimous decisions is a bad idea. I feel like we’ve got a culture that is so “post fact” and conspiracy laden that there is a good chance someone believes it’s all a lie, no matter what “it” is.

Well, I’m a taxpayer in DC and public education is a civic responsibility. Public education policy is dictated by the representatives of the people. So yes, we, as in stakeholders in DC public schools.

Exactly. We don’t want to channel kids into dead end jobs, but college so we can say we got the into college isn’t great.

Some better, some worse. There have been at least two significant attempts to overhaul UDC since then. Plus the addition of a community college track. The public schools are also radically different. Some much better and some the same or worse. Plus, the whole charter school thing. Parents in lots of neighborhoods try…

Also things have changed radically since the 1980s.

NoVa Community College and PG County Community College are close, priced about the same for DC high school graduates and have far better success rates. That’s just one example.

Nothing on the face. But I don’t trust DCPS adminstration to put kids first. Getting this story was probably more important than any particular kid. There is lots off ends justifies the means logic.

It was a terrible graduation rate and does not support students. Several people I know have mentored kids who were there and it was not good. Like giving students bad information about requirements and that kind of thing.

That doesn’t indicate anything that was actually tailored to the individual student. The school had lots riding on this and given everything I know about DCPS shenanigans, I suspect noncollege options weren’t acceptable.

We need plumbers, skilled Carpenter and HVAC techs

One semester of college and debt is worse than no college and no debt. I hope the students got good one on one support. I support everyone who wants to go to college going, but pushing everyone into college is a failed model.

I really hope we aren’t setting some of these kids to fail. The fine print say lots of them were admitted to the University of the District of Columbia, which has a open access AA track. It also has a reputation of being not supportive of students.

With a degree.

I suspect lots of them were admitted to the University of the District of Columbia. The AA track is open access.

This one of those headlines that I see and think “please let it be a horrible​ accident, please let it be a horrible accident.” But not. Of course not.

In the US it’s legal terminology, but for some people it’s the preferred term. For some people it’s not. I think there are regional and political divides too.

There is a program in Wisconsin that has had some moderate success. Https://www.wpr.org/mendota-juvenile-treatment-center-shows-progress-treating-child-psychopaths

Reading the State Department travel warning for North Korea makes it pretty clear. So while, no we don’t know how horrible it is, it’s definitely pretty clear that it’s risky for Americans.

Only in the sense that saying “this is why you shouldn’t play golf in a thunderstorm” when someone gets hit by lightening playing golf in a thunderstorm is victim blaming.