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(DIR) Post #AlnrCvza4vOKCaIuzg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:28:28Z
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"They're going into schools. They're beating the hell out of our other pupils. We're giving them chairs and we're telling families that have had their children in that school you can't go to that school anymore."He's brought this up three times and people laugh and clap. The idea is that immigrants are taking all of the "seats" in schools & nice white American children aren't able to go. I think. I don't really know. Did he make this up himself?
(DIR) Post #AlnrU4kml0AkIWYc0u by dx@social.ridetrans.it
2024-09-08T19:31:33Z
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@futurebird Even if we lived in the world he fabricates, I still wouldn’t want him to be the one solving these imaginary problems
(DIR) Post #AlnrWJCtzSezhgm0zw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:31:53Z
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Everything he says about schools is so wild I don't even know where to start with it. Maybe this is about college admissions? Obviously it could just be a figment of his imagination. But, I'm experiencing a dissonance since it feels like these things just fly by unaddressed. Worse he's been priming the pump for election discontent complaining of "cheating" (How? Who? When? Explain.) and begging police to scare people at the polls.
(DIR) Post #AlnreHmRBAbxaxCMyG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:33:25Z
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@erosdiscordia I'm sorry I can't read your response I got beat up too badly trying to buy a loaf of bread.
(DIR) Post #Alns2X3Q2iFdurhebo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:37:46Z
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@joepie91 You'd think. But, this isn't an issue with schools in the us. K-12 residents get to enroll. Period. There isn't a limit on seats as there is with housing. That is still terrible, but is makes more sense than this does. I have never heard of a child being told they cannot attend a school in their district because it was "out of seats"
(DIR) Post #Alns8Tx8UDTk2EbLXs by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T19:38:50Z
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@futurebird potentially a wild distortion of https://sfparents.org/parent-guide-to-applying-to-sfusd/ ?
(DIR) Post #AlnsGBkw1djpuoZLtI by astroPug@hachyderm.io
2024-09-08T19:40:13Z
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@futurebird It’s a very bizarre lie.I assume it’s a Trump quote, because that’s kind of his wheelhouse. In that case, I see that he’s sticking to short sentences, to avoid confusing himself and start babbling incoherently.
(DIR) Post #AlnsI7a6WANPXyQOfY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:40:34Z
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@joepie91 Perhaps the issue is that to discuss this he'd need to mention class sizes. And Republicans do not care about class sizes. If there are more kids than expected we just teach more kids. All of them get to have seats. But, teaching 15 is better than 25. Everyone knows that the quality of the education is better when class are capped at 20 and average about 14.
(DIR) Post #AlnsSitedROQArcmrA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:42:32Z
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@Catfish_Man Maybe. But everyone still gets to go to a school. A school with 100s of other students. If it's not good enough for one child it's not good enough for all of them so we *could* discuss that.
(DIR) Post #Alnt9P3OHpO75IWvOC by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T19:50:14Z
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@futurebird yeah I mean he's completely wrong but that's a given
(DIR) Post #AlntNw14WrtLN1NIMi by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-09-08T19:47:11Z
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@joepie91 @futurebird part of the history of Republican grassroots organizing is, like, Orange County and San Diego PTA moms trying to figure out how to segregate their schools and keep Mexican kids out or at least away and less funded. They've been at this for half a century alongside abortion as key issues, always with veneers of "concern" and "respectability" and "parents'/students' choice" etc
(DIR) Post #AlntNwiJw4UDX9bpmC by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-09-08T19:50:05Z
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@joepie91 @futurebird to these people, much like the recent destruction of DEI and diversity in higher education, a single nonwhite person in a school is "a seat taken from a white person" and no higher logic is required. They fundamentally believe that the entire country belongs to them and them alone and want to deport or kill all liberals and nonwhites but will settle for a permanent slave labor underclass and punching bag
(DIR) Post #AlntNxQzG0DPlgVVOi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:52:51Z
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@wilbr @joepie91 I think this is what it is.
(DIR) Post #AlntcrD6gC8YoD7T2u by thecorodon@wandering.shop
2024-09-08T19:55:32Z
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@futurebird No idea if this is connected. I will say in Philly, the environment is dominated by exclusive charter schools and public magnet schools, with general admit schools treated (and funded) as schools of last resort. So there's definitely competition for limited school seats, and one of the major magnet schools was recently forced to have less discriminatory admission policies, which shook up the student body.
(DIR) Post #AlntvCY05VR4CGdhy4 by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-09-08T19:58:50Z
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@futurebird @joepie91 I'm not psychic but yeah just look at how normalized it is for any American to say "that's a good/bad school" and what they mean is "it receives a poor grade likely because it's underfunded or its students are underprivileged, but we won't talk about how school funding is tied to property taxes and thus literal rich vs poor neighborhoods, or how we could uplift our underprivileged neighbors"
(DIR) Post #AlntyqhjF3VDbsvfVY by thecorodon@wandering.shop
2024-09-08T19:57:26Z
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@futurebird Also from "They're beating the hell out of our other pupils. We're giving them chairs" I definitely thought of pro wrestling before I thought of what he probably meant.
(DIR) Post #AlntyrSsPlDTy6zJzs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T19:59:29Z
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@thecorodon "They're beating the hell out of our other pupils."This makes me think of a particular young person from Oklahoma who was failed by their school and their community.
(DIR) Post #Alnu5B3EVPciS60NRw by liferstate@mas.to
2024-09-08T20:00:16Z
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@futurebird This is off-topic but I can't stop thinking about how the first few phrases here (going into schools, beating the hell out of other students, we're giving them chairs...to beat the other kids with...?) sound like a bad recounting of a pro wrestling bout. The whole thing is the verbal equivalent of lining up his dolls and smashing them together to make them "fight."
(DIR) Post #Alnvlzk8WYwLms3OTI by fencepost@infosec.exchange
2024-09-08T20:19:38Z
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@futurebird my take is that it's dementia overlapping with the private school pushes from his past employees (DeVos) and the push to have public funding for parents sending kids to private schools. Basically it's all grist for the loote[R-dolladolladolla] folks
(DIR) Post #AlnvzikEWLfP7bdzGq by WearsHats@realsocial.life
2024-09-08T20:22:05Z
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@futurebird Seems like a natural extension of Great Replacement Theory?
(DIR) Post #AlnwZLOenzxP8NXRpI by tob@hachyderm.io
2024-09-08T20:28:31Z
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@futurebird "You know this problem that you have probably never encountered and if you have I am describing it incorrectly? No? Yes? Doesn't matter. I will take care of it. I will take care of it in a way that is perfect for you. Not them. I will stop them. They will be mad. They will say 'You can't do that.' But I will do it. And you will be happy and you will come up to me and say 'Sir. Sir. You saved my child's life.'"Every Trump speech.
(DIR) Post #AloEDKH462V6SOdcEy by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T23:46:15Z
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@futurebird My guess is "let's keep our traditionally white schools white." More racist dog whistle. When I was a kid, it was openly "anti-busing," sending kids some distance by bus to diversify student populations. They're bringing back all the old hits!
(DIR) Post #Alq0nvsakRqaTEfi9g by wndlb@mas.to
2024-09-09T20:25:26Z
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@futurebird methinks there was some CLASS in some elementary school somewhere that got overcrowded, and off he goes. That’s the pattern.I mean, everyone KNOWS that school nurses do sex reassignments… 🤣