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I understand completely what homeschooling is. Social interaction these kids get is purely up to the parents. It doesn't always happen. I've had kids who were homeschooled previously and socially you see a big difference... not positively. If you're a parent who homeschools... great job for making sure they interact socially, but kids in public or even private school with totally neglectful parents will still learn social skills. So cherry pick yourself as a reason homeschooling is the best route if you want, but it's cherry picking nonetheless. As for pretending I have 2 students who have been accepted to Harvard (they're white by the way) and the rest are pumping gas... I mean do you want me to list all the schools my students have gotten into? Do I need to mention my Westpoint, USC, and MIT graduates? Does it even matter to you all the students I've had who are now officers in different military branches? Or my students who now run their own businesses? But yeah, public schools suck because of the system and because of terrible teachers... keep believing that because you can cherry pick some bad public schools and some bad teachers.

I wasn't directing that at you, honestly. I named the posters I directed it at. Look, I don't get the point. I actually have always liked and respected you as a poster. Mosying on in here is like when I watch Fox News on occasion just to see what they're saying. I see it and read it and know you guys believe what you believe wholeheartedly. And I often feel the opposite. I feel strongly about Climate Change, In part because I live in Paradise and spend so much time in the ocean that it disgusts me when I see a plastic water bottle floating past me that I have to paddle over to and roll up in my rashguard. Or like yesterday a baseball hat some idiot wore into the water thinking he wouldn't lose it that was just floating on by me on its lonesome that I was forced to hold onto for the rest of my session. It upsets me as I surf out at Sunset Beach or Makaha to see so much coastal erosion that some houses at sunset are just a foot or 2 from falling into the sea. The last couple years are the first I'm hearing and seeing King Tides, which are extra high tides... heights a foot or more than our typical highest tide. I get annoyed when I smell the obvious coconut scent of sunscreen that isn't reef safe because even in my 15 years living here I dive and have seen the change in the reefs. You're clearly pretty convinced social inequality and climate change are unrelated, so I'd guess more links would just be crap you've already seen anyway, like https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2017/wp152_2017.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwic8uDWptvhAhVLIzQIHelbBo8QFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3wdF4cw0OylMCKioe_BSb_ or something like NASA's own statement that climate change and social inequality are connected: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-1-pdf/ Ethical considerations, and the principle of equity in particular, are central to this report, recognizing that many of the impacts of warming up to and beyond 1.5°C, and some potential impacts of mitigation actions required to limit warming to 1.5°C, fall disproportionately on the poor and vulnerable (high confidence). Equity has procedural and distributive dimensions and requires fairness in burden sharing both between generations and between and within nations. In framing the objective of holding the increase in the global average temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, the Paris Agreement associates the principle of equity with the broader goals of poverty eradication and sustainable development, recognising that effective responses to climate change require a global collective effort that may be guided by the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. {1.1.1} And then what? To me this isn't a discourse thing, it just is... it's completely logical that social inequality and climate change are inextricably linked because, well, very simply... money talks. And who has disproportionately the most wealth and opportunity for wealth in our society? White men. Thus logically race becomes a big part of the conversation. And you brought up gender, so you could say gender, too. It seems pretty clear people here have their own steadfast views, though. So I ask again... what did I just accomplish? There's a reason the Stadium Wall is full of Bills fans, not Patriots fans mixed in there. Those guys would be ridiculed endlessly. Seems the same here. This is pretty clearly a very conservative message board. We liberals would just be here for your amusement at best and derision at worst.

Aloha braddah! Much Mahalos!

Okay bro... whatever you say... Guess my 2 students who just told me they got into Harvard got an utterly crappy education at my school, which is a public school. You're right, though. Take your kids out of public school and homeschool them. They don't need real friends or social skills, anyway. The public school system needs fixing, that's for sure... not the kinda fixing DeVos is doing, though.

Thank you. And I meant no disrespect about other's professions, but my integrity and ability in my own was attacked. And for the record, I haven't had a summer off in 15 years of teacher. I worked Summer School for my first 14 summers. Living in Hawai'i is expensive and even though teacher salary numbers might look high to someone on the mainland, they aren't when you understand cost of living out here. This is going to be the first Summer I'll finally not be working Summer School because my wife and I are a little more financially comfortable. But we get 2 months, not 3.

LBSeeBallLBGetBall insulted my professional integrity and I said absolutely nothing about what anyone else here does for a living, just that many of you seem to be here a large portion of the day. And then... No self adoring medal of valor, just a reality of what I do and the demands of time in doing it if I want to be good at my job, so... I thought you were "done with (me)"?

Sorry... my time is better spent teaching our youth and planning curriculuum than spending the hours you guys spend here in your mutual admiration society. Addressing points to people who will never change their minds on something they're so stubbornly clinging to is pretty pointless, anyway.

If inundating with links of articles and tweets have no business here, why is it that they seem to happen here so often?

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/1526380054794835 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132516646495 https://www.opencanada.org/features/inequality-explained-7-ways-climate-change-and-inequality-are-connected/ https://inequality.org/great-divide/confronting-climate-change-in-a-deeply-unequal-world/ http://oxfordre.com/climatescience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228620-e-412 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/02/15/how-racial-and-regional-inequality-affect-economic-opportunity/amp/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/global-warming-american-south/532200/ https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=2106693b39454f0eb0abc5c2ddf9ce40 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/race-and-class-are-the-biggest-issues-around-hurricane-1798536183/amp Your counter? Hope I get something other than the Ad Hominem attack I'm expecting. And I'm sure you'll be able to very easily refute each and every one of those links (some clearly more credible than others) and not just attack one while trying to ignore the others. I have more... just not spending a lot of time on this with the schedule release today and finally watching the GoT premiere.

Your username sucks. I'd ask if you meant another NFL QB in history named Josh who was an established Franchise QB, but I just can't think of one. Yeah, your username sucks, and we're better than the Browns. Go back to their message board. But they aren't in NYC... they aren't even in NYS... they're in NJ...

Ummm... are games even able to be flexed in early November?

Not overly excited about the logistics of the Thanksgiving game. That game starts at 11:30 AM for me and we always go to the in-laws for Thanksgiving. We also always bring a dish. So we'll have to cook and then dinner usually starts at 1 or so. So basically, the Bills game is scheduled to coincide with all the family crap, which I need to likely be present for. And my wife's family has literally NEVER watched a Bills game with me, so I need to control myself. The Thanksgiving game sounds appealing at first, not so much for me. Plus, the week I'm scheduled to come back to visit WNY has one away game followed by a bye. Boo.

Clearly included gender equity, huh? Tell me more about what I said but really meant. By all means, ignore me.

The feeling is mutual In other words, you brought up gender, not me. Thanks for providing evidence of that!

Tell me more about what I think... please. Did someone say something about climate change being related to gender inequity?

I don't know... why don't you ask all the teams that have taken a Tackle #1 overall historically.

How many 1,000 yard seasons have there been for Tight Ends in the history of the NFL?

Pete Buttiguieg, an affluent white man, voluntarily became a reservist in the military and was deployed to Afghanistan for 7 months. Donald Trump, an affluent white man, used his affluence to dodge the draft. Buttiguieg lives Greatness. Donald Trump lies about how great he is. I don't think Buttiguieg is a viable candidate because he's gay and I don't think America is ready for that, but he'd be a much better President than Trump. I see this place is still overrun with negativity.

I'm guessing you haven't watched much or any movies in the last decade or so, then. Movies that are purely new ideas? Name 10 great movies in the last 50 years that meet your criteria--which as you know eliminates all of the Mario Puzo based Godfather films.

Thanks for acknowledging that. You might not be playing a hypothetical game, but you're still playing a different sort of game here... the scared shitless game. That's a game you could play literally with ANY pick at ANY position in ANY draft.

You said it seems the first thing people talk about with Hockenson is his blocking ability. The first thing--actually the first 2 things--Beane talked about when talking Tight Ends in general was blocking ability. Like I said, take nothing from that if you don't want to. Might be pure coincidence. As for his pass-catching, from the little I've seen (because I don't give a crap about College Football til the NFL offseason), he seems like a fairly sure-handed hands-catcher. In terms of so many things, he resembles Gronk and Kelce. Would you take a Gronk or Kelce with the 9th overall pick?

Nothing if you don't want to.

To quote Beane from his Presser just the other day "Well, Tight End is kind of a 3 part player, what does he bring as a run blocker, what does he do as a pass blocker, and then what does he do in the passing game, and so as we go through these Tight Ends, those are the areas we focus on."