Man, the synopsis to the Kindergarten Cop reboot sounds horrible. 
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Obviously anyone with a useless degree from Yale or Harvard should be dumped at the state line.
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The police aren’t limited to hogtying and handcuffing; they also have Tasers and pepper spray at their disposal. And a sidearm to, you know, protect the kids.
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Will the schools teach anything but indoctrinate folks into the cognitive dissonance of the political right, where they on one hand will be prompted to cherish small government and harbor a distrust of the government while simultaneously holding the military/police in high regard?
In a word: no.
All cops will do is just hogtie and arrest the kids rather than actually dealing with them as kids.
Exactly. DeSantis is moulding Florida into a “strict father” State. If you don’t follow The Rules you get whipped. When we were stuck in Alabama for two years as kids (a long time ago) my brother smarted off to the teacher and was literally taken to the boiler room and beat with a rubber hose. Expect to see the return of this “right” to beat kids at school, especially if their complexion rates too dark on the Melaninometer™. Similarly this right will extend to at-home physical abuse. Spare the rod, you know.
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Actually in a time of war you’d probably be automatically placed in a senior position.
It’s only a matter of time before this guy will be allowed to teach 2nd grade so he can get time off his sentence
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Smart kids will be left alone, they’ll mostly self study and be fine.
Rich kid will be fine, their parents wouldn’t allow such stupidity in their child’s class.
It’s going to be hard on middle-class kids, the ones that if given proper instruction and a good mentor can work their way up and do well.
Children from poor families will continue to suffer. It’ll be even worse. Some headlines will come out showing an uptick in classroom violence, maybe a few stories of teachers and students fighting. I suspect at least one story of a former solider leading a school gang to sell drugs and guns for extra money. Dozens of stories of sex abuse.
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The goal is to make public schools so controversial, private schools will appear to be the only rational option. Betsy DeVos, who made her money in the Private School realm was the major artillery in that strategy once Trump appointed her as Secretary of Education. (It’s hard to call her a player when she was primarily a tool.). Poor kids will have broken or non-existent public schools, rich kids will be sent too private schools - where deviations from reality will be even more starkly aligned according to politics. middle class parents will accept anything to keep their kids in school at all.
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Deputies said as they arrived at the scene, Hoskins approached them while only wearing underwear, yelled something along the lines of “I condemn you” and threw a Bible, hitting a deputy in the face.
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Although, to be “fair” to DeSantis, he’s a fascist asshole who is actively trying to destroy education because his brand of conservatism requires people to not know anything… (and yeah, I rather suspect he’d be happy for cops to not get any training either).
Yeah, police training in the USA, in general, is a joke. On average, barbers require more than twice the training of police officers. Florida is actually about average (or even on the high side), as a number of states only require 10 weeks worth of training. (Apparently Hawaii legally requires no training at all to be a cop - it’s entirely up to the individual departments to provide training.)
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So most of the right wingers are some kind of god people and god gives you certain gifts that you’re supposed to appreciate. If someone appreciates their god given brain and goes on to higher education why are they then suddenly so offensive to the right? I suppose it’s because they learn to think for themselves, to perhaps use critical thinking that doesn’t fit the lockstep formula. I know it doesn’t make sense but the contradiction still just blows me away. The right are so scared of people who think for themselves that they willingly sacrifice their own children to keep then in control of the ideology. Amazing.really.
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well, in the book, only veterans could become citizens, and the class was a propaganda exercise designed to encourage students to take that bargain seriously.
“Yeah,” he answered, “so does mine. But it’s my life.” I thought about it during the last session of our class in History and Moral Philosophy. H. & M. P. was different from other courses in that everybody had to take it but nobody had to pass it—and Mr. Dubois never seemed to care whether he got through to us or not. He would just point at you with the stump of his left arm (he never bothered with names) and snap a question. Then the argument would start.
The other classes would be taught by persons with more conventional expertise-- and not necessarily by citizens.
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The dirty secret of wealthy private schools is that many of kids are idiots. The schools give away tons of scholarships to smart kids to bring up the schools scores. This dynamics ( rich and dumb vs. poor and smart) leads to very perverted schools and by perverted I mean a havens for sexual assault.
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Having met some traumatized students in college who survived those schools and shared their horror stories…
The other sad part of their stories were substance abuse and widespread cheating, which put those kids at a disadvantage in every competitive environment they encountered in the future. Money enabled most to fail upwards, though.
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I don’t know why I’m surprised to say this but…
South Park called it:
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I have to remind myself that US firefighters are not like the British Fire Brigade. If the Tories tried this here we’d probably end up with FBU reps teaching primary school kids about Karl Marx and strikes.
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I hope if he gets very ill, he eschews a pointy headed surgeon with all that book learning and gets a gutsy no nonsense cop with street smarts to do his surgery.
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A quick Google search says the exam they still have to pass ain’t no picnic.
I’d like to see a follow up of how many people passed the exam with only an associate degree.
I have plenty of real world experience but I would not want me teaching my own child how to read and write.
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Yeah, also good luck getting them to spend hundreds of their own dollars each year buying supplies for the classroom not covered in the budget.
That one’s bugged me my whole life. My Mom’s a retired teacher with a Master’s Degree, what’s that about not requiring skills and knowledge. I witnessed how draining hearing statements like that can be for teachers. She loved her job, but also told me many times growing up to not become a teacher.
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