'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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I have to recommend Dahlia Litwick's Supreme Court Dispatch on yesterday's oral argument for the strip-search case [link]
But Breyer just isn't letting go. "In my experience when I was 8 or 10 or 12 years old, you know, we did take our clothes off once a day, we changed for gym, OK? And in my experience, too, people did sometimes stick things in my underwear."
::laughs and laffs and laughs and laffs::
That settles it. I swear, if I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling. No way in hell should a *school* be allowed to conduct strip searches on kids. No fucking way. If the kid's crime is sufficiently serious that a strip search needs to be conducted, obviously it needs to be handed over to law enforcement, who have appropriate procedures in place (and can be sued for wrongful arrest if the case is flimsy and they were being stupid).
I swear that Dahlia's humor is the only thing that gets me through some of the opinions coming out of the Court. I know that I am not alone.
It's parents, I think, who will have to band together and effectively overrule the Court here and push to create policies in the school districts that dictate what happens to their children and when, instead of leaving those decisions in the hands of administrators.
That settles it. I swear, if I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling.
Sure, because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it.
t /kneejerk
Math people, I have a statistics/averages type question that's too much for my addled brain. Say you have a contest with five finalists and the method of scoring the finalists is assigning a simple 1-5 ranking.
Nine judges give a contestant a #1 ranking, the other three give a #5. How do I go about figuring out the average for that contestant? I'm probably making this more complicated than it needs to be in my head.
because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it
In other arenas, that would be leverage. Shame that with stakes so damned high it's not.
Sure, because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it.
Fighting a public school system can be emotionally draining, not just for the parents, but more importantly, for the student who's being directly affected by it.
Sometimes, pulling them out is the best solution.
Signed, former public school teacher and homeschooler.
Nine judges give a contestant a #1 ranking, the other three give a #5. How do I go about figuring out the average for that contestant?
((9 x 1) + (3 x 5))/9.
Okay. I was making it more complicated. Thanks, ita.
I have the same kneejerk reaction when I hear this from people, and, also, "teaching is hard - what makes you think you'll be good at it?" It's because I come from a family with a lot of professional teachers, I think, that it gets my back up when people assume anyone can do it.
Andi, you should be outraged at the questions at oral argument, yesterday. Just how the opinion will be written, and where they'll draw the lines remains to be seen. But RBG's dissent should be a thing of beauty.