Post 9tHaOMbL7LelF5BHBw by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
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(DIR) Post #9tHYtpvVw7y9GJUsds by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:50:20Z
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1) I was reading an article on Slashdot (https://tinyurl.com/u3lmzq6) and it got me thinking. I'm in the "Democratik People's Republik of Hellinois", and we're on full lock-down right now. People are told to stay home, not go to work if you're not critical, etc.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtqG4hgPqI57Igq by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:50:33Z
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2) The company I work for is considered "critical infrastructure", and fortunately I'm a work-from-home employee anyway, so I'll keep getting a paycheck. Many, if not most, of our employees however are off-work now as the majority of the office is closed. But what about so many others? What about the economy that's about to get totally wrecked? I digress.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtqd7K0qbRXthbc by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:51:05Z
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3) The point is if this goes on for awhile, and in this deep-blue state it may go until the election, we'll see some dramatic systematic changes. We'll see kids home from school long-term, having to utilize online learning tools. We'll see more and more people working from home, in jobs that traditionally "required" you to be in an office, whether you REALLY needed to be there or not.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtr4PgWgKoCfV9U by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:51:14Z
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4) I think many companies will see the serious cost-savings that can happen by having most employees working from home, calculated as a lower per-employee burden-rate. I think we'll see more and more parents understanding the benefits and opportunities of home-schooling.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtrYBtoV8IYbHZA by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:51:29Z
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5) "Home-schoolers" have always been a fringe group as far as the government is concerned. Safely ignoreable. However, after long-term "school from home" situations like this, will more and more parents want to continue it? Will districts realize the MASSIVE cost-savings there are to dramatically expanding home-school opportunities? Here in Hellinois, the major driver of our $200+ BILLION debt is state-worker pensions.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtsBXXVycGb0hto by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-22T23:51:41Z
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6) We have no choice (per the Hellinois Supreme Court) but to pay the current pension obligations, but we CAN reform the system for teachers, state workers, etc that aren't on pensions yet. If we pushed 25% of kids state-wide to home-schooling, how much could we save in reduced headcount, pension payments, benefits, administration, facilities costs, busing, etc. What if 50% of kids home schooled? The opportunities for savings are REAL, and I believe dramatic.
(DIR) Post #9tHYtsebnREFikbvCy by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T00:39:10Z
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@MidnightEgyas "What if 50% of kids home schooled?"The number of ignorant sociopaths would skyrocket.
(DIR) Post #9tHZXbXgpuAMEXJfsG by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T00:46:23Z
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@Debradelai I can't disagree with you more. One of my three kids needed way more help than the craptastic schools Public schools here could offer,m so we home schooled her. She turned out quite well.During the process we met many other parents that were home schooling their kids, and explosive numbers of mentally deranged kids was most certainly not the feeling we ever got.Do you actually have any experience or numbers to back up that comment? Or is it just opinion masquerading as "fact"?
(DIR) Post #9tHaOMbL7LelF5BHBw by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T00:55:55Z
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@MidnightEgyas Your answer actually proves my point.I shudder at the education of a kid entrusted to a sophomoric sophist like you.Generalizing from the paticular, ad him in em and false premise all rolled into one.I pity your kids.
(DIR) Post #9tHaTP7NBifIUmZGRE by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T00:56:49Z
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@MidnightEgyas Your answer actually proves my point.I shudder at the education of a kid entrusted to a sophomoric sophist like you.Generalizing from the paticular, ad him in em and false premise all rolled into one.I pity your kids. And that is,a fact.
(DIR) Post #9tHbWPm9IbpzMGdjV2 by MidnightEgyas@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:08:35Z
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@Debradelai Wow. I respond in a reason fashion, and ask if you have facts to back up your comment. You respond by calling me names and making guesses to my education & experience level, and attacks on me personally. Yet you claim that I'm the one making "ad him in em" [sic] attacks. Pretty sure you meant "ad hominem", even though that usage would still be incorrect.Welcome to the block list buddy. Life's too short to deal with Internet trolls.
(DIR) Post #9tHbqKBJo7BxnfuG3M by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:12:10Z
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@MidnightEgyas Indeed.Life's too short to deal with bellicose trolls.A bientot.(Hold my beer)
(DIR) Post #9tHcOpoGikIxjta4ES by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:18:25Z
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@MidnightEgyas @Debradelai All he said was that your arguing skills need improvementMany around have "the Argument" down to a literal science.However we are like the guys in prison who have only one joke book. Each one is numbered and they all have them memorized. So they just randomly shout out the numbers and everybody laughs.New con comes in, hears all the numbers being tossed out. He tries one. Everybody boos and hisses. ??? "Nobody likes that one."
(DIR) Post #9tHcVc6u3MldHJWsaW by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:19:38Z
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@MidnightEgyas @Debradelai BTW our book is the Oxford unabridged in 27 languages
(DIR) Post #9tHctXjpxa5EfW9PfM by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:23:57Z
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@EarlThePearls @MidnightEgyas He's no longer with us.Day 21. Short fuse for bellicose morons.
(DIR) Post #9tHdhL2hR8PflxiZ9M by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:32:57Z
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@Debradelai @MidnightEgyas On his premise of saving boo coo bucks.The world needs more face to face contactNot lessA lot of the young people I meet cringe in fear if I strike up a conversation with them.They have not learned the art of the schmooze.And I don't have any off putting physical characteristics
(DIR) Post #9tHdnaFVoNbuflglLk by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:34:06Z
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@Debradelai @MidnightEgyas The trend towards isolating people into smaller and smaller groups needs to be reversed
(DIR) Post #9tHeIGujkUingPbXfc by Debradelai@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T01:39:37Z
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@EarlThePearls @MidnightEgyas Absolutely.Ah! But do you have the numbers to back that up?I'm still laughing.
(DIR) Post #9tHgIkJid50kmbdxUu by BlueDouche@noagendasocial.com
2020-03-23T02:02:08Z
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@EarlThePearls @Debradelai @MidnightEgyas LOL
(DIR) Post #9tHqS5DpH1hjlZyi0W by Patriotmom@social.quodverum.com
2020-03-23T03:55:52Z
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@EarlThePearls @Debradelai @MidnightEgyas They should not be so judgemental! 😅