Things are not well ... and we agree that we do not have the best possible system. Changes to the system may indeed offer an improvement. You seem to not think so and that's your right. We disagree.
We do not have the best possible system - that’s easy to agree with. But the cause of that - and the fix for it - are not a single thing. And I never said there is no improvement to be made.
What's your reasoning for negativity in stating that this new approach doesn't have any reasonable expectation of making some improvement in the current situation?
BTW ... no need to answer as we are off topic and we are not going to agree. I have no desire to debate this any further ...
Things are not well ... and we agree that we do not have the best possible system. Changes to the system may indeed offer an improvement. You seem to not think so and that's your right. We disagree.
What's your reasoning for negativity in stating that this new approach doesn't have any reasonable expectation of making some improvement in the current situation?
More accurately number 2 is “Let’s destroy it, say ‘see?? It doesn’t work,’ and then privatize it so it can still not work and be more expensive, but make the right people very rich”
More accurately number 2 is “Let’s destroy it, say ‘see?? It doesn’t work,’ and then privatize it so it can still not work and be more expensive, but make the right people very rich”
Which is similar to (3)(b)(ii): “Let’s say ‘see?? It doesn’t work,’ and then create a bureaucracy it so it can still not work and be more expensive, but give the right people good paying jobs.”
It's all about the Benjamins, and power . . . measured in Benjamins . . ..
(And of course there is (3)(b)(iii), but I might get the thread - or myself - censured if I quote Eisenhower.)
The way you're all getting bent out of shape about rural/southern vernacular as if it's the first time you've ever heard it tells me you need to get out a lot more.
I was once told, language has been and still is constantly evolving. The problem started when the dictionary was created. A dictionary should not be viewed as a rule book, but more a snapshot in time of a language.
We have always fantasized about time travel, but truth be told if we traveled more than a few hundred years backwards or forwards we probably wouldn't be able to communicate even in our own language.
Apparently, unbenownst to me I have a word of the day at work. Doing my best @hindsight2020 impersonation to expand my employees vocabulary. The word today was apparently sycophant.
Not a high bar at the weld shop where words are usually 4 letters.
The way you're all getting bent out of shape about rural/southern vernacular as if it's the first time you've ever heard it tells me you need to get out a lot more.
I was once told, language has been and still is constantly evolving. The problem started when the dictionary was created. A dictionary should not be viewed as a rule book, but more a snapshot in time of a language.
We have always fantasized about time travel, but truth be told if we traveled more than a few hundred years backwards or forwards we probably wouldn't be able to communicate even in our own language.
Langage is certis evermore wexinge, and þou unnethes mihtest gon a þousand yer in either wey and comprehende muchel of aught. Ac sikerly, we dwellen in a tyme but so newe þat þe swiftnesse of techne chaunginge is ful gret, þerfore we sholde most lykly nought neden to passen ful fer into þe time to biholde somme wonderly chaunges.
^^^ That's English, more specifically Middle English from 600-900 years ago. Given context, you might be able to kinda understand it a little, but if that context were also in Middle English, good luck.
Make it 900-1200 years ago and you get this:
Sprǣc is witodlīce singallice weaxende, and þū nēah eallunga ne meahte gān þūsend geara on ǣgþerne weġ and understandan fela ǣniges þinges. Sōþlīce, we libbað on tīman swīþe nīwan þæt þæs cræftlīcan hweorfednesse gǣt seor, swā þæt we swīþost ne þurfon gān tō feorr on þā tōweard tō sēon þā hwīlīc wundorlīc wrixlung cume.
Again... English!
So, pay attention when they add words to the Oxford English Dictionary each year. Skibidi is probably going to be in there soon, and who knows what new words will show up in the next hundred or thousand years.
Language is definitely constantly evolving, and you almost certainly couldn't go a thousand years in either direction and understand much of anything. Luckily, we live in a time just modern enough that the pace of technological change is fast, so we most likely wouldn't need to go too far into the future to see some really impressive changes.
Kind of like rebuilding a crashed airplane. It may be necessary to completely disassemble the airframe to rebuild it to a flyable condition. Just like an engine making metal. It may need to be completely torn apart to find out where it's broke.
Once it's apart it's easier to find the problem areas and rebuild it to an operable condition.
Just to add fuel to this little bonfire: there's almost nothing .gov does that improves education....especially fed.gov. I'm all in favor of removing improperly acquired federal power and bureaucracy and returning it to local control.....of course, the number one problem with educashun isn't the teachers....it's the parents who don't give a rat...
Many folks on POA complain about bureaucrats in OKC making decisions about a pilot's medical when they've never even seen the pilot.
Similarly, it seems to me that DC bureaucrats are equally unqualified to make better decisions about a school than the local folks who see the situation close-up and live with it day to day.
I'm in favor of local control and eliminating as many layers of bureaucracy as possible.
Similarly, it seems to me that DC bureaucrats are equally unqualified to make better decisions about a school than the local folks who see the situation close-up and live with it day to day.
I'm in favor of local control and eliminating as many layers of bureaucracy as possible.
I'm of the belief that a great deal of that better education is through family structure and parents not taking a passive approach that is common here.
Unfortunately, no action or inaction of government will do anything to change that passiveness.
Kind of like rebuilding a crashed airplane. It may be necessary to completely disassemble the airframe to rebuild it to a flyable condition. Just like an engine making metal. It may need to be completely torn apart to find out where it's broke.
Once it's apart it's easier to find the problem areas and rebuild it to an operable condition.
Just to add fuel to this little bonfire: there's almost nothing .gov does that improves education....especially fed.gov. I'm all in favor of removing improperly acquired federal power and bureaucracy and returning it to local control.....of course, the number one problem with educashun isn't the teachers....it's the parents who don't give a rat...
Teachers are about the only thing holding our education system together. Lots of parents suck (and to be fair, our society isn't exactly setting them up for success), admins are chasing the latest buzzwords, states are changing curricula to fit their own perceived reality, the funding system puts the most money where it's least needed... But yeah, just throwing a nuke at it all is NOT going to improve any of those things.
The conversation we should be having about education is funding two more years of it - Everyone gets to either go to a technical or community college for free for two years. We'd have a much better prepared workforce and a lot of younger people spending their extra money and boosting our economy. Instead, we're moving backwards.
Not specifically grammar. But a comment regarding reporting the accident rather than the facts concerning the accident itself.
"A single-engine turboprop airplane crashed shortly after noon Saturday in a Brooklyn Park neighborhood, near the end of its flight from Des Moines en route to Anoka County-Blaine Airport." (My emphasis.)
