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lionward2014
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re: Standardized testing in schools
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 1:17 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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That is completely irrelevant. It is a content knowledge measure. Teachers would become the tutors.
Do MLB scouts care if you got outside help besides your HS coach when they are scouting for the draft?
It depends on what you are looking for, but I think that analogy fails a few ways.
From the perspective of a parent, if I'm looking at a school to send my children to, I want to know how well the school does educating them as a baseline. I don't care that a small percentage did above and beyond because they paid extra for enhanced results. I might have an MIT worthy child that is worth that, but I may have another that is going to SLU and it's not worth spending the tutoring dollars on but still a solid baseline education is important.
From a university perspective, having a bunch of kids score well because they had tutoring on the ACT/SAT only to fail out because they don't have true core knowledge is not a good long term strategy for determining a freshman class. Now, in practice I don't think a lot of universities are doing that these days, but that is a different conversation.
So to your MLB scout analogy, sure they don't care if the prospect is good because they don't care about the underlying structure. A better analogy would be if you were looking for Braxxton's travel ball team and one kid got drafted because his parent's paid $10k for a hitting coach but the rest of the team had no real coaching and couldn't hit a curveball, would you still sign your kid up for that team?
ETA: This isn't to say standardized testing is perfect, it isn't, and it also has screwed up the way a lot of schools teach. lsu77 and SFP summed it up pretty well on the last page.
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re: Standardized testing in schools
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 12:49 pm to 03 West CoChamps
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Why not just use the ACT? Set a required score to graduate. Why do we need standardized test before that?
Because some people pay thousands of dollars for private tutoring for the ACT so it skews the results.
re: Standardized testing in schools
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 12:43 pm to prouddawg
Should standardized testing be the end all be all of judging a school? Absolutely not.
Does it provide valuable insight into how a school performs? Absolutely yes.
It being standardized helps to judge the results when you can control for other factors.
Does it provide valuable insight into how a school performs? Absolutely yes.
It being standardized helps to judge the results when you can control for other factors.
re: How much do you tip when purchasing coffee in a drive thru?
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 12:32 pm to JackieSonnier
Essentially $1. If it's the one with the percentage options whichever is closest to $1 that is over $1 if it is just one drink.
Essentially the same as I would if I was ordering a Miller Lite at a bar and paying cash.
Essentially the same as I would if I was ordering a Miller Lite at a bar and paying cash.
re: Why are people so obsessed with Israel-Palestine?
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 11:07 am to UFFan
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They never care about Sudan and Myanmar.
You sort of answer your own question
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If you ask most Americans (especially the type of Americans who go to pro-Palestine protests) where Sudan and Myanmar even are, most of them would probably guess that Sudan is the country south of Mexico, and Myanmar is two countries south of Mexic
People have heard of Israel, and even if they can't point at it on a map, know it's in the Middle East.
There are also just more Israelis and Middle Easterners in the US than Sudanese and Burmese.
There's for sure some antisemitism and Zionism involved as well.
re: Is this really Trump’s WH faith advisor or a fake? Hopefully it’s AI.
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 10:20 am to Demonbengal
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Trump does not understand true Christians which is what has led him to this choice.
Part of the grift for the Right is performative Christianity. It's insulting, but a large part of the base eats it up. Whether it's someone like Paula White, Candace Owens with her "Christ is king" tweets at Ben Shapiro, or Milo Yiannopoulos's "conversion" it's all just a bad look for actual believers.
Another part of why Charlie Kirk was so successful was that his faith came off as sincere, and he did a great job of navigating and incorporating it in his broader message that didn't alienate others.
re: What do all you Iran sympathizers say about this..
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 9:44 am to Scruffy
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Yes, and our foreign allies also sacrificed as well.
Now they don’t and demand that only we act, all while taking advantage of our good will.
Stop supporting freeloaders and leeches.
All the while talking shite about us.
re: What do all you Iran sympathizers say about this..
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 9:42 am to HarryHoudini
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Believes Trump also never completely obliterated their nuke program last summer
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Saturday, 19 July 2025 11:52 AM EDT
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President Donald Trump Saturday insisted that the United States military strikes "completely destroyed" three nuclear sites in Iran through last month's Operation Midnight Hammer
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"All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED," Trump posted on his Truth Social page. "It would take years to bring them back into service and, if Iran wanted to do so, they would be much better off starting anew, in three different locations, prior to those sites being obliterated, should they decide to do so."
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The network also reported that U.S. Central Command had briefed Trump on a larger plan for striking Iran that would have involved hitting three more nuclear sites, but the operation would have stretched out for several weeks.
It was rejected, however, because it did not match his foreign policy call against digging deeper into foreign conflicts and because it brought the possibilities of much higher casualties on both sides, according to NBC's sources.
LINK
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February 25, 2026, 7:00 AM
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"After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program and in particular nuclear weapons. Yet they continue, they're starting it all over. We wiped it out and they want to start all over again," Trump said.
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re: Don't smoke and drive, kids.
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/17/26 at 9:14 am to NOLATiger163
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A woman was injured
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The force of the blast was so significant that it literally blew the metal roof clean off of the Pacifica
She survived?!
re: DJT - who's dumber, Tucker Carlson or Joe Kent?
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/16/26 at 11:56 pm to southofyou
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DJT is far and away the dumbest and least informed POTUS in modern U.S. history.
In a world where Joe Biden was president, I don’t see how that’s possible.
re: Has the flamboyant volleyball player been discussed?
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/16/26 at 11:29 pm to lsupride87
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I would like to talk shite but that fiesty man has 10x the athletic ability of all of us combined
Him and KAT teaming up for some beach volleyball would be unstoppable and absolutely fabulous. :lol:
re: MN County DA issues arrest warrants for two ICE agents.
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/16/26 at 2:17 pm to Night Vision
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Mary Moriarity has issued two warrants to arrest two ICE agents for “assault” and is claiming “they can be arrested anywhere in the country.”
Insert "that's a bold strategy Cotton" gif
re: Trump Vows to Get to the Bottom of the Missing Scientists
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/16/26 at 2:13 pm to lake chuck fan
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I sincerely believe Trump intends to do this, but I have serious doubts about those in his administration (and the existing agents) desire to do so.
Either this is a massive coincidence, a massive failure of our intelligence community, or our intelligence community doing it. If it's options 2 or 3 the truth is never getting out.
re: Update | 10 republicans vote Yes on providing TPS to Haitians — read their names here.
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/16/26 at 1:51 pm to thetempleowl
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Does this matter? I thought tps was granted by secretary of homeland security.
I thought this was granted to the executive branch.
I didn't know Congress could do that.
Or are they saying that we think this should be done and it has no power whatsoever?
I actually am wondering the same, but haven't had the chance to look into it. TPS is from the INA so unless they are voting to specifically amend the INA, DHS has the ability to grant, extend, or terminate TPS not Congress.
re: Trump Commented, Shared Post Exposing All Of Pope Leo’s Far Left Marxist Deleted Tweets
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/15/26 at 11:56 am to scrooster
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Trump or your faith?
That’s a false dichotomy.
This would be true if the response was "we will worry about American politics and doing what we were elected to do."
Instead it's blasphemous memes, personal attacks, and "Catholics" telling the Pope he doesn't know theology.
re: Bank Citizenship Proof Exec order in process
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/15/26 at 12:27 am to CamdenTiger
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This would really work as a deterrent, as where does the Government send the entitlement checks, as it’s mostly electronic now, so probably why it won’t happen
This made me think, assuming birthright citizenship survives, all an illegal has to do is get a checking account in their kid’s name if they have citizen kids.
I wonder what the black market would be to open a checking account for someone and just give them the debit card to it?
This would be such a retarded EO.
re: Dianna Russini is stepping away from The Athletic (update)
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/15/26 at 12:00 am to hg
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Big Cat and PFT have been such pussies talking about this.
I mean they are friends, but they talked about it for like an hour with JOC Friday.
re: CSU-Northridge men's volleyball plays with attitude
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/14/26 at 11:51 pm to Jim Rockford
I would melt so hard if we lost to him. Prime KG couldn’t shite talk me better than this dude spiking on me and then sashaying away.
re: Gas is still cheaper in 2026 than in 1980
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/14/26 at 1:32 pm to FLTech
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Peak (mid-2008): ~$6.00–$6.15 per gallon in today’s dollars
Other high periods (inflation-adjusted)
Early 1980s (around 1981): ~ $4.8–$5.0
2012: ~ $5.0
2022 spike: ~ $4.2–$4.3 average
So because we aren't at our worst means we are doing well? I don't think that is a winning argument for the swing voters who voted to bring down pricing from the 2020-2024 inflation period.
re: CULTURE SHIFT: Catholic Faith SURGES in America as Patriots REJECT Woke Ideology
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/14/26 at 1:27 pm to loogaroo
Seems like a great time then to pick a fight with the Catholic Church, especially having the convert to Catholicism VP take charge in it.
re: 18 wheeler kills three including a 1 yr old child. Immigration status of driver unknown.
Posted by lionward2014 on 4/14/26 at 10:29 am to DeBoar
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How do you gather so much information to charge the guy but can’t determine his legal status?
The real answer if you are curious is that local PD don't really have a way of determining that. If it's a "sanctuary city" or "sanctuary state" and they can't communicate with ICE directly would be very hard to nearly impossible to figure it out. Now ICE would/should/could determine it in about 3 minutes, generally.
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