A viable protest of decent size in my city that I can join. Even a few hundred people would be enough. Organized enough that I hear about it a week out and can shift my plans to be there.

If every student needed the same amount of support, that would be correct. But that is not the case.

Public school districts are required by law to provide whatever is needed for a student’s education. That even includes some students beyond the age of 18.

That includes everything from academically gifted students to English language learners to special needs students who require full time, 1x1 caregivers. I’ve personally worked as a substitute teacher in some of those special needs classes.

All of those specially educators and the facilities needed all cost more than an average general education kindergarten teacher.

When parents of kids who are average of slightly above average and don’t have a lot of special needs (read: often the more affluent families) pull their kids out, the ratio of kids with more meds changes.

Again, that extra support is required by laws passed by this same Tennessee legislature.

And you also ignored the issue of voluntary parent fundraising they is the lifeblood of many schools. That’s a massive gap that is made worse when affluent families pull their kids out.

Educational funding in most of the USA works a bit like insurance and/or a healthy social system. Everyone pays in based on their means - creates a pool of resources - then kids get assistance/education based on needs.

The trick here is that a lot of the kids with the most need are from families with the least means. So if the ratio of kids who need extra help/resources goes up because rich families all pull their kids out, then the schools won’t have enough funding to cover the needs of the kids that are left.

That’s exacerbated by the fact that schools in most of the USA (and definitely TN: I live in Nashville) are woefully underfunded, and rely in fundraisers and parent support groups to fill the gap in funding so teachers can have even basic supplies. Again, if most of the affluent families leave, there will be fewer parents of means there to help fill the gap.

It’s another example of rich families wanting to be able to opt out of helping poor ones.

Meta gave the donation, not Zuck personally? Somehow that seems extra sleezy. Not only a payoff, but using someone else’s money to do it.

Your explanation says that a post with 100k actually has 20k. What this guy is saying is that it does actually have 100k.

No doubt it’s a bit different. But it was still splitting and both did have established western boundaries.

Tennessee split from North Carolina. Georgia split off Mississippi and Alabama

There’s a chance that Musk has bought himself enough influence to turn conservatives on climate change. I don’t know if I expect it, exactly, but there’s a chance at a scenario where there is at least some progress there.

Granted Musk will mostly use it to enrich himself, but if he at least stops then from repealing green subsidies and the like, that’s movement in the right direction.

Non-X link for those who don’t want to give them traffic

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-youll-never-see-me-again-loses-to-biden-2020-9

Pretty much just kerosene. So not the best, but not horrible. It just uses LOX and RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) for fuel.

Baroque classical

So given the median savings in the USA is about $8000, it would feel like $25 does to most of us.

She’s worth $28 billion. Unfortunately she will miss $100 million like the rest of us would miss $50.

“lack of experience in the area…”

Boeing dwarfs SpaceX in experience building spacecraft.

Mercury and Gemini spacecraft were both built by the McDonnell Corp. That company merged with the Douglas Aircraft company (which built the 3rd stage of the Saturn V rocket) becoming McDonnell Douglas in 1967, which merged into Boeing in 1997. Boeing itself co-manufactured the space shuttle orbiters with Rockwell.

On paper and judging from experience and history, if you were going to pick a single company to build a spacecraft, it would be them. Not some brand new company run by a space-obsessed software engineer.

Clearly Boeing has huge cultural issues and has for a while.

Just saying if you wanted to go off experience alone, they’re the best there is.

That is a notable change from “we’re just double checking things on the Starliner, which we think we can fix. We expect them to ride it home soon” that has been the message for a long time. Now it’s “we’re looking at all options”.

Or what has been called one of the most historic and tumultuous years of a century (1968)… Yeah.

Now I gotta look up 1973. Never heard it mentioned in this context…

Answer:

• Roe vs Wade
• Vietnam War officially ended, US pulls out of Cambodia
• OPEC oil embargo started
• Wounded Knee occupation
• Major flooding of the Mississippi River
• New tallest building in the world (Sears Tower)
• Nixon goes to China and US opens official office in Beijing
• Battle of the Sexes tennis match
• Secretariat wins first triple crown in 25 years, smashing records
• “The Miller Test” for obscenity is established by the US Supreme Court
• Two notable commercial airline crashes with fatalities (both in Boston, interestingly)
• Egypt and Israel sign peace accord
• Much of the Watergate scandal played out in 73, though Nixon didn’t resign until August of '74

That’s what the saying means. It doesn’t mean perfect isn’t good. It means perfect is great, but don’t let it stop good.

They technical don’t make airframes or doors either (and still don’t until their buyout of their supplier goes through).

If that’s real, that would be after he was struck, right? The bullet is to his left, and he was shot from his right