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"Please, stop, it hurts, it hurts!"

"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."

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We just had an active shooter drill on Friday. I prefaced by telling the kids that we have procedures in place to ensure that, when someone comes to the school to try to kill us, that we need to huddle out of sight while I stand by the door with a baseball bat. I indicate some of the bigger kids, and designate them to take over once I am shot and killed.

I try to work some Steinbeck and the quadratic formula in, but it's hard to be interdisciplinary in a situation like that.

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I very heavily suspect that. There are indications of it in my own school district (I am a teacher), but I suspect they cover their tracks better than these MO people.

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I'm going to make a wild guess and say the same people that were all "Send the kids back to school, pandemic or no, remote learning is a sham" back in 2020 were the same people that greenlit this contract

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Flightless Antipodean fowl. Sells insurance.

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Kickbacks? I know the chronic issues we have in my rural NC county’s public school system have occurred from multiple levels of corruption, including personal associations and/or employment with some of the contracted companies the school board hired to do any given thing. That is buttressed by a long history of failing or unwillingness to do proper auditing.

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I have never been so sure of anything in my life that someone involved in this decision has some kind of financial interest in that company.

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Short term fix that I hope will go away once more teachers enter the profession. The sad part is, there won't be more teachers entering the profession if THEY FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES IN THE CLASSROOM.

But don't do nuthin' about your fucking GUN problem.

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Well well well, are we getting stuck between the promises to donors and the pissed-off voters you've screwed over for years and might be starting to catch on? If it isn't the consequences of their own actions...

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Maybe right below his head - oh wait.

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This is entirely about having control of what is taught, and how it is taught. Money is no object when you can have complete control of the narrative.

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How will an electronic remote teacher paddle a princess when she acts up in class?

Asking for Fox News

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You all seem to be missing the real advantage to the system Stride is selling: If a student picks up the right lesson from Dr. Seuss it is so much easier to just turn off a television instead of fire a teacher.

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They'll activate the school's ED-209.

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No CRT learning, only flat screen

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