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2009-11-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Tee hee. Funny guy, that one.

Meanwhile, the elephant in the room continues to be ignored by Tweedledum and Tweedledee and their media enablers.

What could that elephant be? Take a look at CA public school scores by ethnicity and see if you can guess.

Hint: guess which group

a) scores about 65% below proficiency--and keep in mind that the "proficiency" bar is set extremely low in CA-- in language arts and about 75% below proficiency in math (and close to 90% below proficiency in high school science and advanced math)

b) has seen its share of the total CA public school enrollment DOUBLE during the last 20 years, ie the period when CA schools collapsed and slid from best in the nation to 49th

c) now comprises 50% of CA students overall and ca. 65% in Los Angeles

And then ask yourself one simple question: why are we doing this to ourselves? For what social benefit?

Decadence defined.

Posted by lex 2009-11-18 00:56|| 2009-11-18 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, don't pick on them. The text books are in English, after all.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-18 01:15|| 2009-11-18 01:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Gets even worse, Gorb. Per the San Jose Unified School District's supe, at least one-third of the hispanic illegals and their parents cannot read or write in English or Spanish.

Posted by lex 2009-11-18 03:00|| 2009-11-18 03:00|| Front Page Top

#4 "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Posted by gromky 2009-11-18 03:17|| ]">[ ] 2009-11-18 03:17|| Front Page Top

#5 He believes if people supported Prop 8 but not this measure, they are hypocrites.

There is no hypocrisy in the attainment of power. Power is self justifying. Just ask any special interest group.

Actually, what's at work is democracy in that the majority, finally in history, get to define their culture, not minorities, be they elites or cults.

The scorched earth approach would be to do away with all state recognition of marriage as an instrument of imposing obligations on any third party. Substitute contract binding the parties, but no one else. The state simply acts as arbiter of any dispute and protector of any procreation that is not of adult age to protect their own interests.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-18 08:34|| 2009-11-18 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Like a dog license: good for 5 years, renewable annually thereafter.

Posted by lex 2009-11-18 09:56|| 2009-11-18 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 It seems the longer that Hispanic Children stay in state schools the lower their result.

Truly Social Education fits the normal meaning of social. i.e. to reverse the meaning of the next word.

Californian State Schooling has net negative productivity, truly a triumph for the State.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-18 11:21|| 2009-11-18 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems the longer that Hispanic Children stay in state schools the lower their result

Indeed. The link above is for ALL hispanic students in the CA public schools-- not just recent immigrant hispanics, or illegal immigrant hispanics, or economically-disadvantaged hispanics.

It's obvious from the data that this demographic factor explains probably 80% or more of the collapse in CA public school performance in recent years. And yet the issue isn't even discussed, let alone addressed with honesty.

Posted by lex 2009-11-18 11:45|| 2009-11-18 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Could be they're trying to confuse Kaliphornia voters who will most likely see another measure on next year's ballot that would repeal Proposition 8, which itself was only passed last year. They don't waste any time, do they? But just imagine all those gays stuck in marriages in a state where divorce is illegal and the only way out is to murder your "partner".

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-18 12:40|| 2009-11-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 That's why the concept of open marriage was invented a couple dozen millenia ago, Ebbang Uluque6305.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-18 13:25|| 2009-11-18 13:25|| Front Page Top

#11 TW, I love it when you talk naughty.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-11-18 18:18|| 2009-11-18 18:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Mr. Wife quivers when I use "millenia" in a sentence, too, GolfBravoUSMC. But I'd always thought he was laughing.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-18 19:22|| 2009-11-18 19:22|| Front Page Top

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