Though if you flex your school choice and get your child into the right charter school, they can learn math in Mandarin.

Could it be because there are 180 languages spoken in the New York City school district?
#62 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 06:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Instruction Languages: NYC offers hundreds of bilingual and dual-language classes teaching core subjects in English and one of 12 primary languages, such as Spanish, Bengali, Haitian Creole, Japanese, and Polish"

Here in Houston they do 4 main languages for a city with 140+ spoken languages. Republicans hate HISD.
In the burbs, CFISD, Katy ISD, which Republicans love, you get English or you get Spanish. That's it.

"The average American teacher makes $72,000, but one in three are so broke they're taking on side hustles like Uber driving"

#57 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-02 06:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

"The average U.S. household income is $126,700, while the median household income is $87,460 according to recent U.S. Census Bureau data."

That would actually make them the breadwinner. Ever considered they take these jobs because it's better money and benefits than they'd make in other industries?

New season of Abbot starts next week.

Which Abbot teacher character do you both hate the most? Jeanine who carried her deadbeat boyfriend for a season or two, the woke white guy, or the mafia connected broad?

Speaks managing to ---- on all current teachers lol. Definitely don't trust these poors with our future! You can only trust people with money.

Have you even given the guy a single penny? Not even the dollar the constant spam messages ask for, 1/100th of that?

No, of course not. You can stop pretending you care.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-02 03:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

One of the most emotionally fragile here. Every day Texans wake up and watch the same commercials over, and over, and over.

You have no ------- idea what's happening here, you have no skin in the game. Begone nerd.

The most weak minded and polarized members of a political party don't believe people in the same party really vote that way, because they need constant virtue signaling and affirmations. They need to grow up and mature.

lol! Suuure you are.

#17 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-10-02 02:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is what's confusing you. I don't bitch and vent uselessly online. I send money to good candidates like Talarico, and turn a blind eye to flipflopping on certain issues because that's what it takes to win.

And if you hate it, there's things you can do about it, like participate in the party on any day besides election day.

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-10-02 01:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

Child, I'm a Democrat. Not sure why so many of you are afraid of the label? Tired of being tied to gross incompetence? Embrace it. It's the best we've got.

I've never been affiliated. But I see absolutely no reason to vote for a Republican. None.

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-10-02 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Unless you are voting Lib or Greenie, that makes you a Democrat.

"They'll" "their". Anybody in this thread not a dem?

I repeat:
We
#38 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-10-01 06:24 PM | Reply

Are ignoring all the context that Mosaddegh had already destroyed democracy in Iran bypassing their parliament, ruling through decrees, dissolving the Majlis, and undemocratically taking plenary powers before Ajax happened. Ajax couldn't have happened without him already destroying democracy in Iran.

And speaking of Iran, their puppet Hamas has really fallen off. They havent fired a rocket at Israel in 366 days.

Iran had two democratic periods, 1906 onward to about nineteen forty was a democracy, but it was also explicitly islamic. "Democratic Sharia".

Thirteen year period installed by allies after conquest, i don't believe anybody could reasonably think that's a sustainable govt.

Google "Operation Ajax" in 1953.

#37 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-10-01 06:22 PM | Reply

Go back to 1906, pre Allied invasion during WW2. Ajax is post Uk-USSR invasion. Are we really forgetting that the allies conquered iran in world war 2 for oil?

They weren't a theocracy until we got involved.

#31 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-10-01 05:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

#fakenews

It was a hybrid theocracy-monarchy called the Qajar govt. The legal system was entirely based on Sharia.

"A unique compromise existed where the clergy governed the public face of Iranian life controlling education, social rules, and the courts, while the monarchy handled the military and tax collection."

Truther alert lol.

Exactly what the Russian bots said when people saw the conspiracy claims and questioned the speed and coordination of it.

Exactly what the Russian bots said within an hour of the first alert. Plane was barely on the ground.

737 MAX 8, hit mach 0.98 in the dive nearly going supersonic in a plane not meant to do that, far beyond its required design limits, had its rudder ripped off by the forces without losing its entire tail and successfully landed.

Sooner or later we're going to be talking about real money.

Barack Obama (2009"2017)
Total Increase: ~$9.3 trillion over two terms.
Percentage Growth: ~70% total (54.6% in the first term).
Main Drivers: Recovery spending from the 2008 Great Recession, automatic stabilizers, and ongoing defense/discretionary budgets.
Donald Trump (2017"2021, First Term)
Total Increase: ~$7.81 trillion in four years.
Percentage Growth: ~39.1%.
Main Drivers: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and emergency COVID-19 relief packages (like the CARES Act).
Joe Biden (2021"2025)
Total Increase: ~$8.45 trillion in four years.
Percentage Growth: ~30.5%.
Main Drivers: American Rescue Plan pandemic recovery, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and rising interest costs.