The Role of Government (Formerly Net Neutrality Thread)

[BenjaminW]

Public schools are indoctrinating kids dumbing them down with common core.

I couldn't agree any more with you.

 

[narad]

Public schools are indoctrinating kids dumbing them down with common core. You wouldnt believe how many kids cant even read a clock or tie their shoes in todays times. Public education is gov't indoctrination.

I couldn't agree any more with you.

How is the common core "indoctrinating" students? I have criticsms of the common core, but you're just using conspiracy lingo with no facts. For one, common core has nothing to do with the specific curriculum -- it's simply a set of national milestones for each grade. We've always had grade-based milestones, just varying in scope and sometimes varying state to state or district to district. And I can assure you, these milestones have little to do with tying your shoes or reading a clock.

btw, for basically all southern/mid-west states, common core sets more rigorous curriculum goals than were present before.

 

[StevenC]

To be fair, as much as I say it's great, my school didn't teach me to tie my shoe laces.

 

[narad]

To be fair, as much as I say it's great, my school didn't teach me to tie my shoe laces.

Your Irish school system might be highly acclaimed by so-called "international assessment", but at least I know what this means:

#murica

 

[StevenC]

Your Irish school system might be highly acclaimed by so-called "international assessment", but at least I know what this means:

#murica

I never said anything about clocks. I did that in school when I was 5 years old. Do you guys even graduate from finger painting at that stage?

Edit: To demonstrate, that clock reads Guinness Time.

 

[Drew]

Meanwhile, we go into debt every time they print money.

Ok, I should be a gentleman and let this slide...

...but the Fed doesn't print money. That's the Treasury you're thinking of, that prints money and issues debt.

 

[Unleash The Fury]

https://www.theverge.com/platform/a...rkey-claire-mccaskill-net-neutrality-cra-bill

 

[KnightBrolaire]

I never said anything about clocks. I did that in school when I was 5 years old. Do you guys even graduate from finger painting at that stage?

Edit: To demonstrate, that clock reads Guinness Time.

isn't all the time Guinness time in Ireland?

 

[MFB]

For those who were proposing a government built infrastructure and making the internet a utility provided by the city, apparently some places have done just that already

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/ne...s-looks-longmont-broadband-lessons/753336001/

I understand their concerns about changing technology, but fiber has been the sort of 'high-end internet' for what, a decade now? Hell, it's what Google is using for their high-speed services. I feel like it's going to stay that way in the time it'd take to get them up and running (Longmont is just over 3 years in the making), and more on top of that.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...5_9q9fpOJfSNoACRYBmJAqbr7ZHXIVhvd7D_gXWsZ2mQA