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Yes, yes! Go there. Mass. is ok. Go there. Lots, and lots of people. You love people right? So go there, and stay there.

 

Sounds nice

 

We have some outstanding high schools. Univerity admissions officiers have ratings of our nation's high schools, because they need to decide what grades mean and what they should expect when they assemble their student body.

Those ratings are great if you can find access to them, as it can lead to finding schools to emulate.

Also, there are packaged high school models. International School is available and has a great cirriculum.

You can have a great public school too. You just have to pick a successful model, staff it with great teachers and let it operate like the successful school does.

All too often we let idiot politicians screw with education rather than allowing expers in education to do that.


High school isn't enough for most of the careers in high tech, clean energy, innovation, etc., etc - which is where our economy is going. Those directions simply require a lot more education.

 

Sovereign citizen maybe? Is that her real hair?

 

Te Repub way.

 

Why does twelve years of government education not give graduates any job skills? WTF?

 

States aren't sovereign. They gave up their sovereignty when they adopted the Constitution. Article 6 of the Constitution say, in part, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land."

 

My field of engineering is one. My 2nd career in technical sales is another. Japan has the best high schools in the world and they don't produce engineers or scientists or teachers or medical personnel. Our high schools teach what they need to know for what jobs a high school grad is targeted for. Now if you want to say they are not qualified for college at the university level, I will agree with you.

 

Really? What article and section contains this information?

 

I support the right of secession. The EC was a condition for many states joining the Union, and as such is here to stay. However, if you (coastal leftopia) want to leave, I seriously doubt FedGov has the stomach to militarily stop you. I know I will oppose any such intervention.

I do believe you'll be begging to be let back in after leftopia regulates itself into socio-economic gridlock, but we can cross that bridge if/when we get there. I say give it the ol' try!

 

Do you think the deficiency is due to the fact that they are run by the state?

 

First off, no. Your average lefty can't travel. Sorry, but lefties can't handle foreign countries. They tend to have all sorts of social norms that they can't deal with. They try every now and then, but inevitably fail. Sorry toots, but no going into the lady's room because today is your gender fluid moment of thinking your a woman, when your butt has more hair than a millenial guy has on his cheeks.

They do travel, but they are not capable of mixing with the locals.

Second, CA contributes dick. I promise, if the lefty states left the union, the rest of us would be better off. No more dealing with *****.

 

There isn't a treaty on that.

And, please note that I assumed what you are saying here.

I said that it's no wonder that states with different population densities, different economies, etc., etc., will result in different voting patterns. Did you notice how that was different from the post to which I was responding?

 

You're growing on me kid.

 

I was referring to the treaty between the sovereign states that constituted the union.

 

I heart you too. Smiley face. And kissy face.

 

We're a union of states not a national democracy

 

I think there is a big difference in what the people of Japan and the peope of America expect out of highschool.

Many nations are more focused than we are on ensuring a solied liberal arts education that can be built on with post high school education.

 

Bingo

 

And this post high school education is a government thing?

 

Our constitution is not a treaty between nations.

It's a statement of how our nation is to be operated.

 

Have you ever actually been to a rural area? Judging by your post I would say no.

 

Of course it's a treaty. How else could the several sovereign states establish a union unless it was via a treaty?

 

Exactly by having the states electors elect the president, individuals in larger groups were given less electoral power than individuals in smaller groups thus mitigating the power of the group and maximizing the power of the individual. In other words, the fewer voters an elector represents, the more electoral power those individuals have. Conversely, the more voters an elector represents, the less electoral power each of those individuals have. In this way, the electoral college disfavors groups and favors of individuals. The electoral college is akin to water tight bulkheads in a ship to keep one flooded compartment from dragging down the entire ship.

 

This doesn't work. The electoral college doesn't disadvantage groups at all. If every one of the citizens of Wyoming lived in one area as densely populated as New York city or Los Angeles their votes would still have the most power. At best you can say that the electoral college favors states whose population in relation to their physical size is relatively low … which kind of makes no sense as state borders were essentially arbitrary. I guess you could say that the electoral college gives a voting power advantage to people who live where most people don't want to live? How does that make sense? I'm not denying that the electoral college is the way things are. It's just that the more that I think about it the less reasonable it seems..