High C

Just finished Haunted. I really drug through it because it never clicked. Basically 400+ pages of a writer trying to gross me out.

Starting 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill tomorrow.

Did an edit on the OP to reflect what I’ve read in this genre this year.

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Standardized Test create a whole school year pointed towards teaching to the test. It is one of the thousands of things in education that sound good in theory but don't work in practicality.

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30 years in a public school classroom and this is the biggest issue. Test scores have become the be-all end-all of public education and it shouldn’t be that way.

They would be more effective in monitoring learning if the students were actually held accountable for their own scores in some way. Many years ago in Louisiana it was determined that “high stakes” testing was too stressful and created too much anxiety for these babies, so they can basically blow the tests off with no repercussions. How can it be an effective tool to measure learning when the only ones accountable for student progress are the teachers?

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To scrap it? No

To criticize it? Somewhat. There are biases and the tests can always be improved.

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Piss off, Sir Know-It-All. You’re out of your lane. I know that’s never bothered you before, just a little heads up.

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We so racist we allow black dudes as dumb as this bitch to lead our cities.

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I pay no attention to the terms “racist” or “racism” anymore. Blacks and white progressives have applied it to anything and everything that they claim not to want or like.

We’ve reached a point where black people have chosen to predicate their entire existence on being victims. How do you ever improve your lot in life if you’re always the victim?

Deserves to be posted multiple times:

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I am taking the emotion out of it for you.

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Nah, if you were concerned about the emotion, you would have focused on the first two paragraphs of my post.

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It is hilarious to watch redneck Protestants just attack an entity they do not understand. Literally, they’ve been told from the pulpit what belief. The Catholic Church truly tries to live out what the gospel teaches, and that includes immigration and loving my neighbor. Which is a tough thing for protestants in the south.

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I’ve always been amused by this Catholic arrogance when it comes to Protestants. The implication of “redneck Protestants” is clear. Brother, if you are redeemed by the work of Jesus Christ, we are quite the same.

It’s also pretty funny to say that Protestants are told from the pulpit what to believe. The Protestant Reformation was driven by Catholic corruption along with the idea that people should be able to study the scriptures themselves and not have their beliefs dictated to them from the pulpit (the invention of the printing press played a big role in this).

So, please step down from your Catholic high horse. This Pope is showing himself to be a globalist, leftist politician in robes.

Seeing a bunch of these “you help me, and in return I kill you” incidents recently.

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The whole trial by jury thing only works in a largely homogenous society… and it’s way worse now than it was then

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SFP bat signal to come in here and tell us about everyone’s rights and muh Constitution.

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I take back anything negative I’ve said about TMZ

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If they are going to sincerely go after these corrupt bastards, I agree.

Younger posters will have to jump in here for me. Is TMZ taken seriously enough by the public to pull this off? I’ve always thought that they were just an entertainment gossip rag that occasionally had some serious content.

Could this please not be another little day or two story that disappears as quickly as it appeared? That would be great if there are actually teeth to this.