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Nope. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/editorials/2012/01/27/three-rules-staying-out-poverty/15877394007/ The Brookings Institution has spent a great deal of effort studying this issue. And presidential candidate Rick Santorum has been quoting their findings on the campaign trail. Brookings whittled down a lot of analysis into three simple rules. You can avoid poverty by: 1. Graduating from high school. 2. Waiting to get married until after 21 and do not have children till after being married. 3. Having a full-time job. If you do all those three things, your chance of falling into poverty is just 2 percent. Meanwhile, you'll have a 74 percent chance of being in the middle class. Applies to everyone These rules apply to all races and ethnic groups. Breaking these rules is becoming more commonplace, unfortunately, for all racial groups.

If you taught economics in a blue state, you are inferior to Florida kindergarten teachers. PERIOD. I don't pout. I just present facts and back them up with reliable sources. And when a goose stepper responds unfavorably, I put that !diot in his/her place.

Really? So it is just that you don't want little girls to be able to talk about their periods with their teachers. It is improper for a teacher to discuss ANY such items with a little girl below a certain age and grade. A teacher could properly handle this by contacting the parent and making them aware of this. Here in Florida, we take a dim view on pedaphelia (which is why the state didn't vote to elect Biden, by the way) . There are certain subjects you DON'T discuss with kids below a certain age, unless that discussion involves their parents. I had assumed, given Florida is Republican, that the Carrie thing was an option. I was willing to bend a little, as insanity is often a reasonable defence when id!otic people make id!otic decisions, but no, eh? So far, Florida only had that incident with the Broward County school shooting (mostly because the sheriff wouldn't allow his men to end it early). No Carrie Whites here. And none will be produced by this law. It just means that teachers will NOT take the place of parents. If a small girl needs to ask a teacher about menstruation, that FLorida teacher will immediately contact the PARENT. That's the way it should be, unless you think maybe teachers should have the right to have sex with third and fourth graders.

Very true. In America, poverty is always a CHOICE.

So because you are an actual "teacher" your opinions are automatically right and a lowly substitute's opinions are automatically wrong. Obviously you aren't a Florida teacher. So far, the goose steppers here responded to the first post with ARTICLES of their own, from left wing hate sites like CBS News, and I didn't see you wagging your fingers at them? (Oh, and in 98, I DID teach English at a small Orlando community college. I gravitated to substitute teaching because I didn't want to spend a ton of money on an MBA just to teach college, and substitute teaching pays more. And again, subbing is not my full time job. Because this is a political message board with assorted Hitler Youth here, I learned an important lesson not to share the full time job. One time, some animals from the left actually showed up to where I worked.) I try to (and usually succeed) in locating FACTUAL sources, which makes me different from the left wing goose steppers here.

If you think Florida is a shithole, GOOD. That means you're not going to move here. Please do us a favor and convince the other TEN MILLION blue staters to do the same and stay put. We don't need or want their dumb a$$es here. The left wing goosestepping opposition to this bill is the same as the sex education (teaching kindergarteners about oral and anal sex). The liberals cannot trust the parents to do this. Kids can "discuss" anything in school they want. But teachers fifth and fourth grade levels and down have to confine their opinions to the ACADEMIC subjects they are required BY LAW to teach. It's up to the PARENTS of those little girls to instruct them in the usage of tampons, kotex, etc. I don't think anyone in Florida is worried that a telekinetic named Carrie White is going to discover her period in high school and use her super powers to burn down a gym during a crowded prom.

I have been working as a substitute teacher in three Florida counties since 1999. As far as all teachers are of any "ilk," there are no TWO SCHOOLS that are of any "ilk" Each school is like a separate country, in the way it does things, it's culture, EVEN ITS TEXTBOOKS. Florida teachers are very independent and views all over the political spectrum. (I learn this by sitting in the teacher's lounge during lunch, taking two SHUTTHEFCKUP pills and listening to the real experts-THE TEACHERS--talk. Perhaps you should, too. Maybe you'd learn something.) They may agree on a few things: (causes of student misbehavior in class, parental negligence of their kids, etc) As far as linking to articles for whatever proof, you have liberals here linking to CBS, CNN, NPR and other extremist left wing hate sites and pretending they are news and fact. I find RELIABLE factual sources. There is a difference.

Uh, EXCUSE me for a moment. Is CBS News (the network that actually put forth FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS in order to influence a presidential election) suggesting that ALL girls in the fifth or fourth grade are ORPHANS and ALL live in orphanages? NONE of them have mothers? Seriously? (GEE! AUNTI EM. BACK IN THE DAY LITTLE GIRLS WERE INSTRUCTED ON MENSTRUATION BY THEIR MOTHERS, PRIVATELY AND PROPERLY.) This is why CBS news is tanking in ratings. it's just plain FULL OF SHIT.

One who spoke up. Do you really think that teacher is the ONLY one who believes this commie crap?

So you are going to take the word of the SECOND WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, an ignorant redneck on his death bed, who apparently cares more about his fcking legacy than the country his presidency A$$ FCKED? Seriously? Ronald Reagan DID NOT have the government clearance to broker any kind of deal. And had Carter been reelected, those hostages would have died of old age, surrounded by those criminal rag heads in Iran. Get your head out of your a$$ .

Excuse me, BAT GUANO FOR BRAINS. Swimming the Rio Grande does not qualify for APPLYING. Applying occurs in the LEGAL IMMIGRANT'S HOME COUNTRY. (To give you third grade dropouts an example, a Honduras citizen would be considered a HONDURAN. Honduras is his/her home country.) They simply apply at the local American embassy, for either immigration or asylum and FCKING WAIT THEIR GODDAM TURN!!! The animals who swim the Rio Grande are NOT immigrants or applicants for asylum. THEY ARE FCKING CRIMINALS.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-cops-get-last-laugh-after-cackling-shoplifter-brags-shell-never-be-caught Las Vegas cops get last laugh after cackling shoplifter brags she'll 'never' be caught A Las Vegas shoplifter was caught on video bragging she'd never be caught and laughing as she brazenly snatched items off store shelves – but soon got busted by city police. "They’ll never catch me," the woman said while stealing from a convenience store on South Las Vegas Boulevard in January, the video shows. The woman could also be heard laughing as she walked away. In a Wednesday Facebook post, Las Vegas police announced Waters was located on March 16 a few blocks away from the Las Vegas Strip and arrested. "As a reminder: don’t steal things," the police department wrote. Stupid b!tch should have gotten off her fat lazy ass and got a job.

THE DONALD wielded a lot of power as a businessman, having single handedly building a ten billion dollar international real estate empire. Miami in some ways resembles most of California: A playground for the super rich and sheer poverty/crime hell for everyone else. You couldn't get me to visit that hellhole even at gunpoint.

I STILL don't know why Trump is even bothering to stay in politics. He needs to rebuild his company and go back to that great life he walked away from to serve his country. I know his family would love it if he would just walk away from this shit.

DeSantis signs the Stop Woke Act Ridding classrooms of “critical race theory” has been a major theme of DeSantis’ tenure. The term, which refers to an academic examination of institutional racism in the United States, usually applies to college or graduate studies. Thanks in large part to the activism of the writer Christopher Rufo, critical race theory has also in recent years become a catchall term for instruction on race. DeSantis signs Parental Rights in Education bill One of the most contentious legislative fights of DeSantis’ tenure ended with a stroke of the governor’s pen. House Bill 1557, which critics called the “don’t say gay” bill, was aimed at asserting more parental control over schools. Among other things, the bill banned instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, and restricted such instruction in older grades. The governor wades into school board races DeSantis has pushed for a greater politicization of school boards, arguing elections should be partisan and that members should have term limits. (He signed a bill mandating 12-year term limits in 2022.) In 2022, the governor took his advocacy to another level, endorsing a slate of more than two dozen candidates for local school board seats. His political committee spent more than $2 million across the races. “All we were doing — it wasn’t rocket science — we were just educating our voters about who shared our values and who didn’t,” DeSantis said of his political efforts. His picks did quite well: 24 out of 30 won office. DeSantis goes after professor tenure When a professor at a university achieves tenure, they become extremely difficult to remove. As a result, tenure is a coveted status among academics, and a major sweetener for universities looking to recruit. The idea is to give professors job security to ensure greater academic freedom. DeSantis tries to remake higher education DeSantis in 2023 appointed several new conservative members to the board of trustees of the small liberal arts New College of Florida in Sarasota. The appointments, which his office called an effort to “recapture higher education” in the state, included Rufo as well as a dean at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian college in Michigan. DeSantis has also picked former state Sen. Ray Rodrigues, who has repeatedly backed the governor’s priorities, to be the chancellor of the state’s university system. Ben Sasse, the new president of the University of Florida, is a former Republican U.S. senator. And most recently, DeSantis selected Richard Corcoran, the conservative politician who once led DeSantis’ Department of Education, to be New College’s next president. This is a FLORIDA story, about how the greatest governor in Florida history maintains Florida's record HIGHEST standards for student achievement in the country.

Boys and girls, back to the article and away from the childish distraction from the forum's imbeciles. THIS is what should be discussed. 10 times Ron DeSantis changed Florida education The governor dives in on school choice “If the taxpayer is paying for education, it’s public education,” DeSantis said in 2019. Even for Florida governors, who’ve all supported school choice programs in the 21st century, that was a radical stance. It showed how strongly the governor supports giving students scholarships to attend private schools. Later that year, DeSantis approved a bill creating a taxpayer-funded voucher system. (Previous school choice models relied on tax credit-funded scholarships.) Florida eliminates Common Core At one point, Florida leaders were big fans of the Common Core set of education standards. More than a decade ago, Bush helped lead the effort to create the standards and get them adopted by some 45 states. DeSantis’ COVID school fights In March 2020, like governors all over the country, DeSantis ordered schools closed for in-person instruction in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But in what has become perhaps the signature decision of his first term, the DeSantis administration announced in July — amid a surge in documented cases of the coronavirus — that it would mandate schools to reopen for in-person instruction at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. The reopening was condemned by the Florida Education Association, the state’s largest teacher’s union, which argued the governor did not give districts a chance to reopen safely. But by Sept. 24, 2020, nearly half of all students were back in the classroom for in-person instruction, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. By the next year, even many of DeSantis’ Democratic critics were admitting he made the right call. Transgender athletes get banned from girls’ sports A bill to ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ scholastic sports looked dead in the Legislature. But in the final days of the 2021 legislative session, the measure was attached to a largely unrelated bill, then hastily passed by Republican lawmakers. Advocates hoped for a DeSantis veto. They did not get one. Math textbooks get banned DeSantis made national news in 2022 when his Department of Education banned more than 40% of the textbooks submitted to the state by publishers for review. At the time, the department said the materials violated state laws prohibiting critical race theory, Common Core curriculum and social-emotional learning. (The latter term refers to a set of lessons that encourage the development of emotional skills along with more traditional curriculum.) (Continued in next post)

Absolutely. Florida is becoming the standard the country should be following. DeSantis is the perfect leader for this state.

Not hardly. In the 80s and 90s, he was a flaming liberal who donated to Democrat campaigns. Most of the true conservatives (like Ben Shapiro) were afraid Trump was going to turn into another Obama and further a$$ screw this country. Roy Cohn? That nutjob homo? Seriously? Trump and Cohn aren't even the same species.

I hope you're right. Still, they shouldn't be doing this shit now. They should be uniting the Republican Party and moving to get the rest of the Nazi Democrats out of Congress.

I've always gone on record for saying that Governor DeSantis needs to finish his second term and not leave Florida to the mercies of any meth head Democrat who might be able to steal an election. There's NOTHING for the country he can accomplish by running for president. He needs to support Trump (who is the best president of the 20th Century) and get this man his THIRD landslide victory, (hopefully the third one not being stolen as well.) There will be plenty of time for Governor DeSantis to run for President and win in a landslide and continue Trump's historic policies that gave America the best economy of the 21st Century.

There's nothing personal freedom about people who are fired for their jobs for not using the proper pronouns to appease the freaks. That's just pure NAZISM.

This is nuts. This rift between those two historically great men is going to end the country by allowing another goose stepping Democrat to be illegally installed in the presidency, and we'll then become Venezuela.

The failing left wing biased Washington Post? And you wonder why people call you liberals !diots. Trump brought MANUFACTURING JOBS. A lot of them were lost when the economy was shut down by the Obama virus, but the economy was coming back before Unelected Joe stole the presidency.

Ah, a GORBASM from the early 90s. Rush Limbaugh had a ball with knuckleheads like you, trying feebly to give Gorbachev the credit. Reagan inherited an expanding Soviet Union, who had committed troops to Afghanistan, (mostly because JImmy Carter had proved to the world he was a weak, incompetent powderpuff. https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/how-ronald-reagan-won-the-cold-war He directed his top national security team to develop a plan to end the Cold War by winning it. The result was a series of top-secret national security decision directives that: Committed the U.S. to “neutralizing” Soviet control over Eastern Europe and authorized covert action and other means to support anti-Soviet groups in the region. Adopted a policy of attacking a “strategic triad” of critical resources –financial credits, high technology and natural gas – essential to Soviet economic survival. Author-economist Roger Robinson said the directive was tantamount to “a secret declaration of economic war on the Soviet Union.” Determined that, rather than coexist with the Soviet system, the U.S. would seek to change it fundamentally. The language, drafted by Harvard historian Richard Pipes, was unequivocal: America intended to “roll back” Soviet influence at every opportunity. Following these directives, the administration pursued a multifaceted foreign policy offensive that included covert support of the Solidarity movement in Poland, an increase in pro-freedom public diplomacy (through instruments like the National Endowment for Democracy), a global campaign to reduce Soviet access to Western high technology and a drive to hurt the Soviet economy by driving down the price of oil and limiting natural gas exports to the West. A key element of Reagan’s victory strategy was the support of anti-communist forces in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola and Cambodia. The “Reagan Doctrine” (a name coined by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer) was the most cost-effective of all the cold war doctrines, costing the United States less than a billion dollars a year while forcing the cash-strapped Soviets to spend some $8 billion annually to deflect its impact. It was also one of the most politically successful doctrines in Cold War history, resulting in a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan, the election of a democratic government in Nicaragua and the removal of 40,000 Cuban troops from Angola and the holding of United Nations-monitored elections there. And then there was SDI—the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dismissed as “Star Wars” by U.S. skeptics, it put the Soviet military in a state of fear and shock. A decade later, a top Soviet strategist revealed what he had told the Politburo at the time: “Not only could we not defeat SDI, SDI defeated all our possible countermeasures.” The American president who effectively wrote finis to the Cold War was Ronald Reagan. He entered the Oval Office with a clear set of ideas he had developed over a lifetime of study. He forced the Soviet Union to abandon its goal of world communism by challenging its legitimacy, regaining superiority in the arms race and using human rights as a powerful psychological weapon. By the time Reagan left office in January 1989, the Reagan Doctrine had achieved its goal: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet system, publicly acknowledged the failures of Marxism-Leninism and the futility of Russian imperialism. In Margaret Thatcher’s words, Ronald Reagan had ended the Cold War without firing a shot. There has been NO president in history to achieve such a goal. Trump came close when he ended violence in the Middle East, but an illegally installed pedophile Unelected Joe reversed ALL that progress.

The ONLY reason that prosecutor is suborning PERJURY by putting a LIAR before a grand jury is because the DemoNazi Party is TERRIFIED that Trump will run and get reelected in another landslide. Nazi Pelosi ILLEGALLY impeached LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP twice for the same purpose: To thwart the will of the people who overwhelmingly reelected him in a landslide and saw that victory stolen. Trump was a better president than ANY DEMOCRAT IN HISTORY. And you goose steppers are TERRIFIED that he will return that office, fix the UNELECTED JOE CLUSTERFCK that has destroyed our economy and make it very difficult for any more of Adolf's family to hold the office of president.