@JillFilipovic Agreed! And if they’re found to be deficient do we just throw more money at them the way we do public schools? Because that’s definitely a successful model.
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carrie
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Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@CaliRN619 We just moved from Houston TX to small town living in Arkansas. Mostly because I can’t see anyone else’s roofs. Not seeing stuff you don’t want to see is a big deal.
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Hubby and I visited Sanibel Island in Florida this weekend and what I DIDN’T see was more impressive than what I DID see.
I didn’t see homeless people camped on the beach or boardwalk. I didn’t see needles and drug paraphernalia laying around. I didn’t see human feces on the sidewalks. I didn’t see criminals looting stores or attacking people. I didn’t see any of the things that have become the norm in California.
Thank you @GovRonDeSantis for fostering a clean, safe, beautiful paradise and being the governor that America needs.
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I’m an alcoholic. I got sober in July 2022.
When I first got sober, I was a mess. I started walking every day in an effort to get healthy and clear my head. From the very first walk, Carl refused to let me go alone. This little farm cat would trot right beside me for the entire 10,000 steps. No matter what, he simply wasn’t comfortable with me walking by myself.
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After 24 hours of name nominations and a few more that I had under consideration, how do we feel about the final 10 names?
If there’s one you like, just shout it out:
1) Buddy
2) Chester / Ches
3) Clarence
4) Bruce
5) Preston
6) Churchill
7) Oliver / Ollie
8) Benjamin / Ben
9) Percy
10) Opie
Dustin Kittle@dustinkittle
I guess this cat is here to stay ~ On a name, I have a name I think I like, but I will accept name nominations for the next 24 hours to be sure you cannot sway me; Proceed.
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@Amiejokes2much Best of luck to you! I never thought I’d love country living as much as I do but really it’s just going back to what living in the mid 80s to mid 90s was like. Good times. God bless!
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@csquaredtx Sounds amazing!! We’re looking for 10 acres and either build or buy. Either way, I’m getting out of the city
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If you MUST move to Texas please do your research and talk to people that live here. They’re lying to so many that prices are more affordable and blah blah. I’m only speaking about Dallas and other big cities. If you move to the country you should be ok. But where I’m at (Dallas/Richsrdson) our property taxes have increased by 41.87% in the past 5 years. Our roads are shit. Construction is a constant. Dallas has corrupt leadership spending billions on unnecessary parks and trendy looking outdoor shopping strips. More apartments are going up and if they allow section 8 folks you know what to expect after that. Just do your homework. Texas isn’t all what it seems anymore. There’s a reason why myself and so many others are getting out and heading to smaller country towns.
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@Amiejokes2much Oh definitely! We have 8 gorgeous acres outside a town of 7,000. The big town of 60,000 is 25 minutes away so everything you need. Our property taxes are 1/3 what we paid and car/home insurance is half. We love it here.
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@csquaredtx We have friends that moved to Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee. They said they wished they’d done it sooner.
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My favorite kind of abortion is the kind that's safe, legal, accessible, and none of your damn business to regulate.
And no amount of fearmongering by describing what goes on to a half-ounce fetus with no consciousness, self-awareness, or feeling of pain is going to change that.
Brandon Gill@realBrandonGill
Which abortion is your favorite? The one where the unborn baby's body is crush and sucked out with a hose or the one where the baby is cut apart with a knife? Please enlighten us.
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@JradRabel And Lawler’s and all 29 republicans who have signed off on it, but it won’t, and that’s the problem.
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This bill should end Salazar’s political career
Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain
Reminder that Maria Salazar's amnesty bill includes a provision that prevents allegations of gang membership in state or federal databases from being use to determine whether or not someone is in a gang for amnesty purposes
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@ClintStoerner I’ve pretty much hated him for two years but I love him tonight.
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I quit McCullers a couple weeks ago, feel like I stuck around longer than most.
With that said, I wonder how many of my fellow quitters are watching tonight & are back in already… I am 100% back 😂😂
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@WhitePapersPol @smallgovlizard You know, I agree with you, of course, but it’ll be another 15 years before we win this issue. I’m afraid that’s too late.
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This conversation on denaturalization did not exist six months ago, now it is going mainstream on the right. A fantastic development.
Once we have won on the issue of those who lied to get American citizenship we must denaturalize those who got citizenship while on welfare.
The Michael Knowles Show@MKnowlesShow
"If you lied on your naturalization form, you should be denaturalized and deported." Rep. @AndyOgles (R-TN) joins the show to talk about the severity of the migrant crisis:
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Newly released deposition videos are providing a never-before-seen look at two of the people responsible for the largest mass termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history. abcnews.link/p5u6o3A
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@LoneStar_Laura @mcheartwood @TRobinsonNewEra We moved from TX to AR in Sept and couldn’t be happier! Property taxes are 1/4 and insurance is 1/2 what we paid in TX. Oh, and the demographics are immensely better!
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@mcheartwood @TRobinsonNewEra I haven't decided if OK or Arkansas, or just way out to east Texas piney woods. My town was 8K people when I moved here, now it's 100K. Anywhere even close to Dallas is becoming unlivable.
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Texas white flight.
As the demographics of America shifts massively through mass Islamic immigration.
Texas has been hit hard, parts of it unrecognisable as the United States, unsafe, undesirable, and natives are fleeing, leaving behind generations of memories.
We take a look around the Lone Star state to see for ourselves the change and listen to @abberz09 story of why she fled.
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@hughhewitt @JohnCornyn @POTUS @SenateGOP Texan here. He is the worst betrayer of his voters. We all hate him. He’s going to lose finally, and we’ll celebrate.
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As expected. And @JohnCornyn needs to win because (1) he’s a great senator, (2) a strong supporter of @POTUS and (3) a lay-up win in a must-win race. AG Paxton could lose this seat and with it the @SenateGOP majority. If that majority is lost, not one Trump nominee for the bench much less a SCOTUS nominee will advance to the floor for a vote and President Trump will be fighting off both chambers for two years. Be smart, Texas Republicans.
Dave Wasserman@Redistrict
I've seen enough: Sen. John Cornyn (R) and Ken Paxton (R) advance to a GOP runoff in #TXSEN.
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@chiproytx Respectfully, Your PAUSE act wouldn’t do anything to him. What is your plan to deal with him if you become AG?
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Unlike many Democrats, he admits his racism against white people and call to “take over this country.” He should resign or the TX House should strip him of any power. Another reason to pass my PAUSE Act. Stop importing people who hate you.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off: "Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country."
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Birthright citizenship is the fiction that the children of illegals, if born here, are citizens. But Democrats take this mad delusion even further: they claim that if an illegal smuggles a minor past the border they and the child get to stay here and collect welfare for life. No.
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@PolitiBunny We recently moved from Houston, TX to a small town in north central Arkansas. We absolutely love it here!
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Why isn’t one of the supposed rightwing states passing a state tax on remittances?
A 50% tax would be enough to remove illegals from your state and disincentivize H1Bs, etc.
This should be a primary goal of state-level GOP activism.
Don’t want something like the Somali fraud happening in your state? Want the illegals gone? Make money transfers overseas prohibitively costly.
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Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
Illinois
New York
They're all being destroyed by mass migration from third world countries who hate us.
Ohio is the only state that is controlled by Republicans that is actively destroying themselves.
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@MarioNawfal Could he do the same to Texas? Illegals get a discount to colleges in Texas too.
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🚨🇺🇸 TRUMP ADMIN SUES VIRGINIA FOR GIVING IN-STATE TUITION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHILE AMERICANS PAY FULL PRICE
It’s official: the Trump administration is taking the state of Virginia to court, filing a lawsuit to block the University of Virginia from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens, a move that directly challenges how states distribute taxpayer-funded benefits.
The argument?
You can’t reward illegal entry into the country with discounted college tuition while American citizens from other states are getting financially wrecked just to attend the same university.
The lawsuit says Virginia is violating federal immigration law by extending in-state rates, funded by Virginia taxpayers, to people not even legally allowed to be in the country.
Make it make sense.
If Trump wins this case, it could blow a hole through the entire left-wing playbook of sneaking illegal immigrants into taxpayer-funded perks, from tuition, to healthcare, to housing.
While citizens drown in student debt, Virginia thought it’d be a great idea to give illegal aliens a tuition discount, but this lawsuit is a direct challenge to that logic, and a bold shot across the bow of every other blue state doing the same thing.
America First means putting Americans first, always.
Source: @AZ_Intel_, The New York Times
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