Richland Washington School Board Vice Chair Audra Byrd threatened to fire any school employee that wears a button supporting the recall that she faces, but can she actually do it?
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The other night, Tucker Carlson discussed the ongoing campaign of otherization directed against Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Upfront, I’ll say that I’m afraid I have to disagree with some of the
outrance things that she has said. I’ll also say that it is not my role to enforce the kind of false and petty purity tests on Republican officials that saw the worst of the establishment GOP types at National Review and The Dispatch and other places willingly hand the nation over to Joe Biden because Donald Trump offended their tender sensibilities and sent mean tweets. (READ Republicans Need to Stop Falling for Media’s ‘Condemn the Politician’ Games). Furthermore, when the Democrats decide to purge their ranks of raging, slobbering anti-Semites and some of the most vile racists to appear in public life in the last 20 years (yes, if you hate people based on their race, you are a racist, I don’t care what your Critical Race Theory consul
simply cannot afford to change. the schools would have no choice but to close classrooms, fire teachers, or do something to make it happen because, quite simply, what s at jeopardy is the state school fund, which is about 80% of money needed to run the schools. reporter: at roseburg high school alone, the estimated cost to replace the feather logo on athletic facilities, books, t-shirts, uniforms, and more is between 340 and $600,000. estimates vary for the other 14 schools. it really saddens me to think that we re weighing against here the civil rights and discrimination against some students, against the cost that it might be to change these to change these images. i don t think they re you know, if you ask me to put a price tag on civil rights, i don t think i could do it. reporter: to keep the mascots
week caused by the see quester. apart from that, given how sluggish the recovery really is, who in their right minds would support the sequester that is already proving to be the worst self-inflicted wound that any nation could ever conceive for itself and its economy? well, you certainly are not mincing words, and i appreciate that because the economic logic of what you re saying is impeccab impeccable, so there must be politics in here. i know you re shocked. look. i ve always thought that at least for some policymakers, and maybe most, that they re not thinking about economics. they re thinking about an anti-government ideology which always says more cuts are better, smaller government is better, whack away at social insurance, whack away at the safety net, whack away at the discretionary spending. fire teachers. yeah. exactly. and, you know, if you re left with a problem on the economic side, i done kn t know, blame t
are rated satisfactory or better. i would like to see more criteria so long as it s a system that holds teachers accountable for performance. the test exists x right? right. the problem is, it would be nicer to have more well rounded evaluations. that s not the policy on the table. it s a huge percentage of these evaluations based on test scores. what we know about test scores is what they are a measure of is socioeconomic. children in areas of high poverty, we are talking about using tests to hire and fire teachers, we are talking something dangerous. when you look at the national standardized tests used in and around the world to rank countries in terms of educational outcomes, the united states is at the top. when you factor in the students