Oh! You literally meant chintzy!!

Let’s just hope it doesn’t devolve into a situation like Chuck Fucking TODD hosting Meet the Press. Try to rest in peace, Tim Russert. :(

NPR is in my me-space, no matter which local I am listening to on a given day/trip. My heart clutches whenever I hear Republicans talk smack about my beloved NPR and they threaten their funding. Sometimes, for weeks or months on end, it’s the only way for me to really broaden my horizons when bogged down with the…

No love for Terry Gross and Fresh Air? Or Lynne Rosetto Kasper and The Splendid Table?

This model is bad at being a model.

Is that an uncovered bowl of rice or is it chicken?

Yeah, but how does she wash her cakes and pastries?

Maybe she’s sick from food stored on the floor— of her refrigerator.

That’s better than the name of the kid he has with Ashley Simpson, though. Bronx Mowgli, isn’t it?

Oh, I see. Those things are “different” because they disprove exactly what you said... that government literally never gives money to private businesses. Okay.

“What no government does is literally give money to private businesses to upgrade their own facilities”

I’m not talking about building codes, I am talking about educational standards, health standards and, yes, safety standards. It’s why I can’t open a school in my basement and teach kids nothing then hand them a diploma that’s worth the same as any other kid’s diploma.

As long as private schools are required to meet the standards of the state, they should be entitled to some state money. Otherwise, anyone could open a private school, tell the state to mind its own business, and give society kids who can’t read or do math.

That sounds like a great idea! Instead of my kid costing the taxpayers a thousand dollars for a few textbooks and a ride to school, she should cost them $11 thousand by attending public school!

... could have been spent on a $20 million indoor swimming facility, a $35 million track and football stadium, air conditioning and carpeting, new band equipment, top-of-the-line vehicles for teachers and admins to get from one end of campus to another.....

But, it actually does work that way, according to SCOTUS. Public schools can and sometimes should pay for things for private school students with tax money. Children with special needs receive services in their own schools through the public school district. Busing and text books loans should be provided by the…

The Supreme Court disagrees. Education, whether through public or private schools, is for the general welfare of the public. It’s why private school kids get special ed/ IE services in school. The services (and textbooks, busing, etc) benefit the children, not the school nor the ideology behind the school.

Don’t forget that the parents are taxpayers too.

Maybe because those students’ parents also pay school taxes?

Parents of private school students pay taxes to public schools like everyone else, on top of paying tuition. I don’t think it’s such a stretch to think that they should also get some benefit from their tax dollars.