I think framing the conversation as "poor kids deserve better" is problematic. We all saw during the pandemic just how much people from all classes depend on schools. Kids from upper economic homes aren't eating any better than the poor kids. In general, we're failing all kids with our typical diets. A processed cheese stick is a processed cheese stick no matter how "healthy" it's being marketed as.
I don't think I have an opinion on this. My kid picks a PB&j sandwich every day for lunch, except for Fridays where he gets pizza. If I were to pack his lunch I guarantee lunchables would be in heavy rotation, along with other easily available snack foods.
I've always thought that there should be a stronger connection between schools and the government/agricultural community. We pay farmers to keep their fields fallow. Why not grow that food and use it in schools?
[mention]circa1978 [/mention] thanks for that! Do you see any solutions?
Many people talk about how wonderful BBC is….and I just don’t know that state-sponsored news is the way to go. While I appreciate that their international reporting is pretty unbiased, when I lived in the UK I found a lot of bias in their national reporting. Not what they said necessarily, but more about what they chose to report on (and not to report on). But media companies are obviously driven by profit….or at least must stay solvent.
My opinion as a former journalist and regular Slate reader is that it would fall into far left. It also inserts opinions into just about every piece. I would never consider it an unbiased news source, although I do read it daily.
This is exactly it. They're not a news source at this point, most of their articles read as editorial and opinion pieces. Which is fine, but people have to realize that every piece they post is going to have a considerable biased slant.
I pretty much hate this time of year through February.
However, I could go for going for a drive in the mountains and getting lost in a snowstorm where the shelter I find is an impeccably holiday decorated B&B lodge. I'd happily be snowed in there, and enjoy several hot toddy's by the large fireplace.
I'm seeking recs for podcasts like Scamanda or The Wedding Scammer that track a single scammer through the birth of the scam till their (hopefully) downfall.
DS is in Kindy. Our main concern was that he was behaving in class and that his behavioral needs were being met via his IEP so that he didn't start throwing chairs. The teacher did say that DS has a higher level of reading ability than his peers, and that she tested him out of her own curiosity not something they normally do.
I'm surprised sight words are still being counted as that mode of teaching reading had been phased out a couple of years ago. Mostly because sight reading doesn't correlate to comprehension.
And if we want to do a comparison to the US, I can pull up the psychological trauma of the US troops killing Iraqi kids for throwing rocks and/or thinking they had bombs. It lead to substantial othering in the military. I believe they had to change engagement after it became widely known.
We can't do a rational thought process because at the core, the Israeli military does not think of the Palestinians as human. All it takes is looking at the documented cases from several respected international agencies of the Israeli army raping/killing/maiming citizens.
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Do you know how many reports I found when just researching the average age of Gazans of Israeli snipers shooting kids playing? It was overwhelming.
You don't sanction and explain away the maiming and killing of children for decades without something being deeply wrong.
All the evidence was ignored because of the deeply ingrained racial hatred of Palestinians.
If we want to compare it to 9/11, then let's compare it to 9/11. The US government ignored the warnings because they didn't think the terrorists were smart enough to organize an attack at that scale.
What should the Israeli government have done? Taken the threat seriously.
It's weird having a conversation on this board where we talk freely about racial and systemic oppression and how that influences decisions in the government and society top down... but then can't discuss it when it comes to the Israeli government.
Underpinning all these failures was a single, fatally inaccurate belief that Hamas lacked the capability to attack and would not dare to do so. That belief was so ingrained in the Israeli government, officials said, that they disregarded growing evidence to the contrary.