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PMeg819
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The "My State Government is worse than your states" thread
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In Arizona we have the following:
1. The state's drivers licenses are not compliant with federal guidelines that are required for travel, so shortly you won't be able to travel via plane using them. You have to have a passport or other document. A bill to rectify the issue failed.
2. The governor's budget stripped a huge chunk of money away from education. A new, $5 million prison to be run by a private corrections company was approved. Guess if you aren't going to educate the kids, you've got to make sure you can incarcerate them.
3. We passed more abortion restrictions.
4. The governor is requiring a review of school cirriculum because Common Core is the devil.
5. Points 2 & 3 area already going to cost the state money in lawsuits. There was already a court case that said the state had to pay more money towards education, but the state is ignoring it I guess.
6. We were the ones that had the (failed) bill that banned transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choosing. So a MtF individual was not able to use the women's restroom.
There is more. But these people are so fucking backwards they shit out of their mouth and talk with their ass.
1. The state's drivers licenses are not compliant with federal guidelines that are required for travel, so shortly you won't be able to travel via plane using them. You have to have a passport or other document. A bill to rectify the issue failed.
2. The governor's budget stripped a huge chunk of money away from education. A new, $5 million prison to be run by a private corrections company was approved. Guess if you aren't going to educate the kids, you've got to make sure you can incarcerate them.
3. We passed more abortion restrictions.
4. The governor is requiring a review of school cirriculum because Common Core is the devil.
5. Points 2 & 3 area already going to cost the state money in lawsuits. There was already a court case that said the state had to pay more money towards education, but the state is ignoring it I guess.
6. We were the ones that had the (failed) bill that banned transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choosing. So a MtF individual was not able to use the women's restroom.
There is more. But these people are so fucking backwards they shit out of their mouth and talk with their ass.
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Re: The "My State Government is worse than your states" thread
"2. A recipient of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits shall not use
such benefits to purchase cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood, or steak."
IN just passed a law yesterday that allows businesses to refuse service for 'religious' reasons. It should be called, "Oh noes, teh gays can get gay married now because the supreme court said so, how can we still fuck them over."
There's a bullshit abortion bill out there.
And we still can't buy alcohol from the store on Sunday.
So now you can't buy steak, but you can still buy ice cream? So it's not about health or nutrition, then, it's about punishing people for being poor.
Let's just kill two birds with one stone and start feeding the poor to the other poor. Soylent green is people, yo.
I will say that I think it's ridiculous that the gas station by my IL's has HUGE SIGNS that says you can get your Monster and shit using your EBT, but there has to be better things to be legislated.
I do love that our state passed a medical marijuana bill. Apparently, it's going pretty good and growing like crazy.
So to refresh- pot is okay for "sick" people, abortions are bad, kids should be stupid, and we need more prisons. Arizona voters turn out- but its only the old people. Then everyone crows about how horrible our government is.
Yup, we like to sell Senate seats. And have ex- Governor wives show up on reality TV with Heidi and Spencer.
IL state finances are so bad that we cant pay for our pensions or any other government services.
Here we've just got a massive surplus and the state's major employers are laying off people left and right... and the Trust Fund Governor wants to increase gas taxes, increase the cost of going to State Parks, increase taxes on everyone because if you're poor you can afford to pay more anyway because kids in, yada yada yada... But anyway...
<soap box> Having had to deal with a kid "learning" the whole Common Core Curriculum... IMO - throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to that crap! I don't care what moronic political party got paid to implement the stuff, and/or continue it, it's got to go! Kids don't learn the fundamentals which sets them up for failure in the long term when it gets to the higher levels especially in Math. A fourth grader doesn't need to learn advanced Algebra when they can't even tell you off the top of their head what 3x6 is, let alone 3+6 because "speed work" is eliminated entirely, or long division and decimals when they haven't mastered straight division. It's a "one size fits no one" approach to learning instead of being able to adjust to the students both gifted and slower with some years just being complete reviews of the previous year which is its own setup for failure. So on that one - it should be reviewed and tossed out. Education before Common Core was broke, but CC wasn't the solution... Same goes for throwing out the standardized tests that tell everyone nothing about a student nor their performance nor knowledge, skills, and abilities other than their ability to take a standardized test. But alas, that type of stuff is why I got out of education before I graduated college (after doing curriculum work for several teachers as a consultant) because let the poor teachers teach, and, equip them with the resources they need to teach THEIR students the best, which WILL vary from district to district and class to class (i.e. a science teacher needs different resources than an English teacher than a Special Education teacher... and you can't base performance on a standardized test when one teacher has the Advanced kids and another has the heavily labeled kids...)
So I like that about CC. I like that it focuses on practical skills and how to solve problems, as opposed to rote memorization. DD is doing stuff with 10-groups right now, which I never did as a kid, and she can do more advanced math than I could at her age.