GhostOf301 said:

For the sake of giving credit where credit is due. The board owes gratitude to @Dattier and I say this without sarcasm. We used to have a pretty balanced group in these discussions, but many people have quit engaging. Which is probably a healthy decision. The ones that are left are conservative for the most part. Datt knew it was going to be obnoxious here after Trump kicked the cackling commie's ass. But he still comes here and battles like a warrior for his side. That deserves a good level of admiration whether we agree with him or not.

So, CHEERS! Datt. Here is to making America great whether you like it or not.

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Mac9192 said:

Login to view embedded media This seems crazy, but hey, these times are crazy. The other rumors are some of the people maybe named in high positions.

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Dattier said:

Yeah, I could go out now with my sick leave. There's a hitch in the system, though, where in order to get the career license you don't have to renew, you have to go the full 30 years w/o using sick leave toward the total, and I'll need that for either subbing or teaching part-time.

I didn't mean Driver's Ed isn't legit, just that coaches practically have a closed shop.

I started teaching in '96. The only thing that has really caused me to think the kids have changed is Covid. Other than that, what change there is has been gradual and the biggest changes have been in me. The Internet wasn't really much of a thing for my first few years. Cell phones weren't much of a thing until a few years after that. They are both curveballs that have affected schools, for sure. I imagine teachers in the '50s said the same thing about rock & roll. Shoot, there's a Socrates quote about it: "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise [sic] their teachers." And the kids we've taught over the course of our careers will say the same thing about their own kids' generations.

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smashmouth5 said:

Being a cafeteria manager must make you a great mom. Mine was a cafeteria manager at my high school and finished up in elementary. The kids at the high school loved her and called her momma when they came through the line. We found a box where she had placed all the school pictures she was given by them.

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Dattier said:

Dividing people into nuts and not nuts based on whether they hung out with your mom. Gotcha. But I'm outta line for stating my expertise on public education and linguistics.

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christophero said:

I hate to be that guy, but we really won't know anything until we play the top 20 teams.

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Dattier said:

New rumors? Like what?

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smashmouth5 said:

Wins over the Cheats and the Puppies! Take care of Wake and that should certainly help in state recruiting. GO DUKE!

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LetsGoDuke83 said:

Completely blew a 12 point lead

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christophero said:

I hate to be that guy, but we really won't know anything until we play the top 20 teams. Kentucky has been blowing teams out as well. I think we grind out a close one.

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Dattier said:

Yeah, I could go out now with my sick leave. There's a hitch in the system, though, where in order to get the career license you don't have to renew, you have to go the full 30 years w/o using sick leave toward the total, and I'll need that for either subbing or teaching part-time.

I didn't mean Driver's Ed isn't legit, just that coaches practically have a closed shop.

I started teaching in '96. The only thing that has really caused me to think the kids have changed is Covid. Other than that, what change there is has been gradual and the biggest changes have been in me. The Internet wasn't really much of a thing for my first few years. Cell phones weren't much of a thing until a few years after that. They are both curveballs that have affected schools, for sure. I imagine teachers in the '50s said the same thing about rock & roll. Shoot, there's a Socrates quote about it: "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise [sic] their teachers." And the kids we've taught over the course of our careers will say the same thing about their own kids' generations.

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GhostOf301 said:

I believe him, B. I don't know why, but I do.

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Dattier said:

It was nothing: "In 2020, 66.38 percent of the eligible voting population turned out, with 159,738,337 ballots counted across the country, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. There were 240,628,443 eligible voters that year.
As of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, fewer people had turned out than four years ago—64.54 percent of the 245,741,673 eligible had cast ballots for a total of 158,549,000."

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Arizona: "Arizona Republicans concluded their audit of the 2020 presidential election Friday and said in a letter to the Attorney General that the review's overall tally matched results from November."

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Georgia: "In a state where Republicans controlled every branch of government, [Republican Secretary of State] Raffensperger stood up to Trump on the call.
Brad Raffensperger (on call): We have to stand by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right.
Trump's lawyers brought shocking tales of fraud to the legislature. But investigations by the state police, FBI and Raffensperger's office found none was true.
Brad Raffensperger: They said there were 66,000 underage voters. There were zero. Then they said that there were 2,423 non-registered voters. There were zero.
Scott Pelley: But you're a Republican. He was your president.
Brad Raffensperger: I work for the people of Georgia. I respond and I work for the voters of Georgia. My job is to run a fair, honest, accurate election."

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Michigan: "The GOP-led state Senate Oversight Committee said in a 55-page report released Wednesday that citizens should be confident that the election’s outcome represents the “true results.” Democrat Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump by about 155,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points, in the battleground state.

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Nevada: "There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Nevada, at any point in our state’s history," Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar wrote in a statement with the release of the report. "That has not stopped the Secretary of State’s Office from receiving a major increase in questions about election fraud and integrity."

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Pennsylvania: "Pennsylvania's top election official said Sunday that the commonwealth's 2020 elections were "accurate," while saying Pennsyvlania is "not susceptible to any sort of widespread voter fraud" — and he said officials are preparing with heightened security to combat threats as Election Day draws near.
"Time and time again, in many dozens of cases in 2020, every one of those cases upheld that our elections were accurate and that we're not susceptible to any sort of widespread voter fraud or anything like that," [Republican] Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Al Schmidt said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

2020 was investigated thoroughly in Wisconsin: "The legal bills for a Republican-ordered investigation of the 2020 presidential election continue to pile up, with the total cost to taxpayers for the probe now topping $2 million, according to a recent report."

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Dattier said:

We? We could have turned the page on him after the 2020 election but you didn't want to. There's no telling how much more he would have done in 8 straight years in office. There's no telling what he will do in the next 4 years.

If I'd had my way, we'd be looking at President-elect Tim Kaine after 8 years as VP. Congressional Republicans would be holding their 93rd investigation into President Hillary Clinton's actions that led to the deaths of 39 Americans during the Covid pandemic.

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