Smallcapped1
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@andrew_wiggen @CyborgPeds Only the Dan Ryan. That is a wild road to drive. Everything else fairly tame compared to NJ, ATL, BOS
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@CyborgPeds Chicago is the most insane driving in the country at baseline.
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@porterstansb Teachers wont fail anyone anymore. Too much red tape and difficult meetings/calls go along with it. D- and move on
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What happened to the schools? This is what the principal won't tell you. They can't punish the black kids. And they can't fail them, either.
The decisive moment came in January 2014. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder jointly issued what is now known as the Obama Dear Colleague letter on school discipline. The letter informed every public school district in the United States that racial disparities in suspension and expulsion rates would henceforth be treated as presumptive evidence of discriminatory discipline, whether or not the district intended any such thing, whether or not individual suspensions were racially motivated, whether or not the underlying behavior that triggered the suspensions was racially distributed.
The result was predictable: A 2018 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that in the years after the 2014 letter, school districts across the country reported sharp increases in classroom disorder, teacher assaults, and student injuries from fights.
The same doctrine, applied to academic standards, produced the same catastrophic results. In San Francisco in 2014 — the year the Dear Colleague letter came out — the school board voted to remove algebra from all middle schools in the district. The rationale, offered openly by the board’s members, was that black and Hispanic students were not passing algebra in eighth grade at the same rates as white and Asian students, and therefore that eighth-grade algebra was itself a form of structural racism. The board did not attempt to raise the performance of black and Hispanic students. The board eliminated the standard. If the standard produced a disparate impact, the standard had to go.
Over the next decade, San Francisco watched the obvious consequences unfold. Math proficiency declined across the district — including among black students, whose proficiency fell from 11% to 4%. Enrollment in advanced high-school mathematics classes collapsed. Affluent white and Asian families, who could afford to, placed their children in private tutoring or private schools, meaning the racial gap in math achievement widened.
In March 2026 — 12 years later — the San Francisco school board finally voted to reinstate eighth-grade algebra. The New York Times covered the reversal as a kind of quiet embarrassment. A Stanford economist told the paper that San Francisco had tried to achieve equity not by raising the floor, but by lowering the ceiling. The paper did not ask him why anyone had thought that would work.
It worked, my friend, exactly the way it was designed to work. If the measure of justice is the elimination of disparate outcomes, then the elimination of the standard that produces the disparity is the shortest path to justice.
That every student ends up less educated is not a bug in the system. It is a feature.
The doctrine is not about raising the floor. The doctrine has never been about raising the floor.
The doctrine is about tearing down anything that produces a disparity — because the disparity itself, not the underlying cause of it, is what the doctrine defines as the injustice.
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Who do you think will be behind Pearl Jam's drum kit at Ohana Fest this September? @PearlJam @TheOhanaFest
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@Route2FI Stuck in a weird spot when you drink water too. The impact isnt small…but its not enough to never drink it again
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You’re stuck in a weird spot when your net worth is somewhere in the $500k to a $1m range IMO. It’s not small, but it’s not “set for life” either.
You clearly notice the money, because it improves your lifestyle. You can pay off debts, spend more freely, and enjoy things like travel or better food.
But at the same time, it’s not enough to quit working and live comfortably for the rest of your life due to the massive inflation, and especially if you’re still relatively young.
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@HADbroadcast @OleTimeHardball If Eric Davis never got hurt he coulda been Willie Mays. Lotta ifs
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@OleTimeHardball You think if not for his surgery and time missed, he would have eclipsed 300 wins...that's if he never suffered his injury to begin with.
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@Auburnite @BigCam1990_ So when Chuck criticizes lebron….should it not be allowed since Bron is so much better than Chuck?
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@BigCam1990_ If it made even a little bit of sense, it might've hit different. Rockets Chuck is far superior to peak Dray. That's just facts.
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@texasrunnerDFW “The hardest time to buy is ALWAYS right now.” -Warren Buffett
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@Jellyjon_91 @TheBlogfines Thats not a good thing. We need baseball fan intetest to thrive elsewhere too.
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@TheBlogfines On a random Wednesday in May. While other parks look like ghost towns
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@OnyxOdds Its so jarring to see bad Kobe stats detailed on here. We have kind of washed all the bad facts about him away
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@Jacoby_33 @JesseRogersESPN It was likely ready to go…that was just the straw that broke the camels….meniscus
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Injury happened sitting down to play with his kids
Jesse Rogers@JesseRogersESPN
Cubs P Matthew Boyd to have surgery after a left meniscus injury, per Craig Counsell. Timetable unknown right now.
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@OleTimeHardball Eric Davis would have been the Lebron of baseball. No weaknesses
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@DocBallerday23 @Taylor_McGregor Alcantara is not seen as a top prospect. Wouldnt fetch a top end starter.
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@Taylor_McGregor Move alcantra before the deadline & go get a ace
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#Cubs Matthew Boyd is getting surgery on his meniscus. Will be out for the foreseeable future.
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