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On 2025-09-05 12:15, LeftistDon'tMatter wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 11:38:38 -0500, super70s
> <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-09-05 14:35:20 +0000, Chris Voigtlander said:
>>
>>> On 9/5/2025 7:00 AM, super70s wrote:
>>>> On 2025-09-05 12:16:54 +0000, -hh said:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/5/25 00:40, Governor Swill wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 08:41:10 -0400, -hh
>>>>>> <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/3/25 18:38, pothead wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-09-03, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-09-03 15:07, pothead wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2025-09-03, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> ...to we Canadians, anyway.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://www.tradingplatforms.co.uk/research/the-worlds-smartest-
>>>>>>>>>>> nations-ranking-intelligence-in-2025/>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Canada: 10th.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> The US of A: Didn't crack the top 20.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> By IQ, Canada was 11th and the US...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ...25th.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In fact, there isn't a single metric there that has the US ahead of Canada.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And Florida...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ...ranks 13th in IQ...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> ...13th from last.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/average-iq-by-state>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And how much money is the Teacher's Union and DOE getting each year?
>>>>>>>>>> Obviously they are failing and have been failing for a long time.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Isn't it great that you know all the answers?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I see 2 agencies getting tons of money and I see students who are not learning.
>>>>>>>> There is nothing more to know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The DoE doesn't teach students.  Nor does it fund teachers Unions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We are wasting money that obviously isn't helping students learn.
>>>>>>>> Common sense.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nope. So much for pothead's attempt to logic correlation into causality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> American kids don't need education or life preparation.  They're
>>>>>> entitled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only the MAGAs are entitled.
>>>>> Everyone else needs to lower their head, bow, and leave the country.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -hh
>>>>
>>>> The right wants to use taxpayer money for vouchers instead of letting
>>>> those mostly already well off families fund their kids' private
>>>> education themselves.
>>>>
>>>> My red state instituted vouchers last year and they don't even bother
>>>> to track how much income families receiving vouchers have.
>>>>
>>>> So I don't need any lectures on wasteful education spending from the right.
>>>
>>> I can't see any reason why there should be government owned and
>>> operated schools. When we provide housing assistance to needy people,
>>> we don't force them to live in government barracks — we give them
>>> Section 8 vouchers and they go find a privately provided residence.
>>> When we give food assistance, we don't force people to shop in
>>> government commissaries — we give them SNAP and EBT cards and they shop
>>> in commercial grocery stores like everyone else. When we provide
>>> assistance for medical care, we don't force people to government
>>> clinics — we give them Medicaid and they go to private providers like
>>> everyone else.
>>>
>>> Schools should be no different.
>>
>> Sure privatize everything even schools, then you're accountable to no
>> one except the stockholders who are concerned foremost with profits and
>> not education.
>>
>> Private prisons are some of the most mismanaged and violent prisons we have.
> 
> 
> According to the leftist loonies, anyway...

According to just about everyone who doesn't own a private prison:

<https://time.com/5884104/prison-violence-dont-see/>

<https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/private-prisons-are-problem-not-solution>

<https://eji.org/news/prisoner-abuse-in-private-prison-transport-industry/>

<https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/bja/181249.pdf>

<https://systemicjustice.org/article/private-contracts-in-public-prisons-how-corporate-power-allows-for-the-exploitation-of-incarcerated-people-and-their-loved-ones/>

<https://www.vox.com/2016/8/12/12454410/private-prisons-violence-investigation>

<https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/e1606.pdf>