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New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Quote:This past week, the Iowa legislature passed House File 215, a bill that changes the way homeschooling is regulated. In short, it removes a good chunk of state oversight, leaving the education of homeschooled children completely in the hands of their parents — and Christian homeschooling families couldn’t be more thrilled (emphasis theirs)
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...-children/
Well done, you fucking Idiots (I am talking about the State)
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Quote:basically, if Governor [Terry] Branstad signs this law
So the issue comes down to "how stupid is Branstad." He's a republicunt so my guess is "very."
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 2:38 pm
This is the kind of shit that is sending our country to hell in a hand basket. Of course, these uneducated shitwits will just blame it on the gays.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Enter the nit-wit offspring of uneducated morons who will either teach them fairy tales or nothing at all. I guess I'm staying away from Iowa. No big loss. No offense, Iowans.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:03 pm
I thought Obama won the state of Iowa? I never understood how a state can have a republican governor, and yet vote for a democratic president, it doesn't make any sense. I think it was the same with Wisconsin as well.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Add that to the long list of things you do not understand.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(May 28, 2013 at 3:03 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: I thought Obama won the state of Iowa? I never understood how a state can have a republican governor, and yet vote for a democratic president, it doesn't make any sense. I think it was the same with Wisconsin as well.
There's a few reasons that I can think of off the top of my head.
Presidential and gubernatorial election cycles aren't in sync (i.e. there can be a multi-year gap between when the president and a state's governor is elected). In areas where elections are decided by a few percentage points, the ramifications should be obvious. Iowa elected it's governor in 2010, a non-presidential election year.
Over a third of voters nationwide identify as independent (Gallup, 2012). Not everyone votes along party lines.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2013 at 3:24 pm by ideologue08.)
(May 28, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Add that to the long list of things you do not understand. Well, you are much much older than me, so yes you will obviously understand a lot of things I don't. With age comes wisdom, well, at least most of the time.
(May 28, 2013 at 3:14 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: There's a few reasons that I can think of off the top of my head.
Presidential and gubernatorial election cycles aren't in sync (i.e. there can be a multi-year gap between when the president and a state's governor is elected). In areas where elections are decided by a few percentage points, the ramifications should be obvious. Iowa elected it's governor in 2010, a non-presidential election year.
Over a third of voters nationwide identify as independent (Gallup, 2012). Not everyone votes along party lines. Those are good reasons, it will affect the turnout I agree if governor elections are not held same year as presidential elections. But people should surely care about who their governor is, I mean a solid blue state like Wisconsin had two elections, a normal one and a re-call, and both were won by Scott Brown! How that can happen is totally beyond me, either the electorate just didn't care or they genuinely thought that a republican governor was the preferred choice despite voting overwhelmingly for Obama. Both options are confusing.
It doesn't work like that in the UK, everything is pretty much consistent here. The areas that vote Conservative in the general election all have Conservative held councils etc.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:33 pm
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(May 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: Those are good reasons, it will affect the turnout I agree if governor elections are not held same year as presidential elections. But people should surely care about who their governor is, I mean a solid blue state like Wisconsin had two elections, a normal one and a re-call, and both were won by Scott Brown! How that can happen is totally beyond me, either the electorate just didn't care or they genuinely thought that a republican governor was the preferred choice despite voting overwhelmingly for Obama. Both options are confusing.
My best guess is that states which are solidly blue or red in Presidential elections do not have as much minority party turnout in the big cycles. Why go out and vote for Obama if you live in Mississippi, or Romney if you live in California? Those kinds of people are more energized when they are presented with local, winnable, elections and thus, will turn out to vote for a Senator/Rep/Governor where they would otherwise just sit at home and watch the other guy win their state.
This, for me, is the most compelling argument for getting rid of the Electoral College, though once Texas turns blue in ten or fifteen years, it's not going to matter very much because Republicans will never win a national election again once that happens.
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RE: New Legislation Will Allow Iowa’s Homeschooling Parents to Not Teach Their Children
May 28, 2013 at 3:44 pm
(May 28, 2013 at 3:33 pm)Ryantology Wrote: My best guess is that states which are solidly blue or red in Presidential elections do not have as much minority party turnout in the big cycles. Why go out and vote for Obama if you live in Mississippi, or Romney if you live in California? Those kinds of people are more energized when they are presented with local, winnable, elections and thus, will turn out to vote for a Senator/Rep/Governor where they would otherwise just sit at home and watch the other guy win their state.
This, for me, is the most compelling argument for getting rid of the Electoral College, though once Texas turns blue in ten or fifteen years, it's not going to matter very much because Republicans will never win a national election again once that happens. That's a good theory tbh, it makes sense. If I lived in California, I sure as hell wouldn't bother voting for Romney, it's a waste of effort. In fact, even here in Britain, I live in a very conservative town, it's a safe seat for the Conservative MP so sometimes I just don't bother voting at all, it's a waste of time.
Once Texas turns blue it's game over yeah. I mean if Florida somehow stays blue, the Dems don't really need Texas at all, but if Texas turns blue, the Republicans will have to move to the centre-left basically and the United States will be like the United Kingdom.
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