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Chat thread 95: old people can't hang anymore

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Ate dinner on my patio and got bite by a mosquito for the first time this year. Ts & ps please.
 
DeaconBrews said:
well you better hop to it because somebunny has a wild hare to get you to move to watership down
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I loved Watership Down when I was a kid. Still have a copy of it on my bookshelf.
 
Liquid Karma said:
Don't strain yourself against that straw man.
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Biff was the one bringing up right wing social worker talking points. I’m arguing against him, not an imagined person. He seems to genuinely care more about damaged property than dead ppl but maybe he doesn’t and he’s just bad at posting his thoughts idk.
 
WRS said:
I loved Watership Down when I was a kid. Still have a copy of it on my bookshelf.
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I read it to my kids. It is a feat to read that out loud. By far ( and unanimously) the favorite of all the books I read to them.
 
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Brasky never should've left Raleigh: just saw they're opening a Torchy's Tacos there.
 
Some real bad shit went down in Watauga yesterday. 2 deputies dead.
 
Just wanted to make the observation that there are a lot of non-diversity issues that make some urban schools really shitty.

I say this from experience, as we are one of those families that just made a move out of metro-Atlanta and a solid chunk of our decision had to do with improving schooling and having a better environment in which to raise our kids.

Some examples off the top of my head:
*Wealthier families taking their kids out of public schools and into private schools (which really took off around here when the pandemic started)
*Overcrowding
*Politics influencing every decision
*Huge gap in quality of physical facilities, even within a single district (though this admittedly could be due to diversity issues / politics)

My main point is that I don't think it is accurate to say that anyone who makes a move from an urban area to a more rural area is hindering their children's ability to cope with life.

And in our case, we definitely moved from a wealther area to a much less wealthy area.
 
Wealthy families pulling their kids from public schools is a “non-diversity issue”?
 
BeachBumDeac said:
Wealthy families pulling their kids from public schools is a “non-diversity issue”?
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For the district we were in, it was a function of the public schools not being open while the private schools were. So there were a number of families that liked the public school, but wanted their kids to go in-person. So they pulled their kids from the public school and put them in private school. Obviously, that wasn't an option for everyone. But it has HUGE implications now that they schools are starting to reopen... Those were families that were heavily involved in the public school that now don't give a shit.

I guess you can call that a diversity issue. It's really more of a class thing.

But I was only talking about it in terms of the pandemic. Obviously a bigger issue when talking about those decisions being made outside of COVID.
 
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