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This is my prediction for big tens and nationals but not to start the season 125 - Bouzakis 133 - Davino 141 - Mendez. 149 - Stiles. 157 - Cannon 165 - Birden 174 - Kharch 184 - Shumate 197 - Geog 285 - Feldman. i think this lineup takes second.

The kid is annoying. I just re-watched his 2024 U 20 tournament. After every win, he knows exactly where the camera is. Pointing, mugging, pounding his chest and makes sure he points to the heavens. But when Japan teched him there was none of that. No pointing to the heavens for the lesson?

Agree with this. mspart

Thank you for telling me about Harry Sisson. Lots of important news and solid insights!!! He's great!!! Adam Mockler is still better but I'm still subscribing to his channel!!

maybe d politicians in d cities will start policing their cities themselves. It’s not like they’re walking into Brady bunch cities where there aren’t issues.

You should be more concerned about what he is having to explain to Stiles....

My first thought on this is, if you wait until the drug addiction gets worse, because you aren't stopping the distribution, then the pharmaceutical companies profit even more than they already do on Narcan, etc.

I’ve said in different pockets in different threads In no particular order. It’s parents. 2/3 of poor black Chicago kids don’t have fathers in the house. The ctu which is a reflection of the t part of the u. And blue politicians don’t give a shit I tend to agree on the parental part. I grew up poor in the inner city… on the south side in a crap neighborhood and my parents would have kicked the daylight out of me (and did) if I got bad grades. I don’t know what holy hell they would have done to me if I was truant. The rule in my house. Less than a B in any class for any reason. Grounded until it was a B or better. No excuses. All summer. Tough shit. A whole semester. Tough shit. For the rest of your school life. Tough shit. End of story.

The only thing I’ve said here directed toward you was I agree 100% with your article. And your reply to me was quoting my post that is the complete opposite of ‘sitting on the fence” But please, tell us more about who’s gotten under whose skin . I look forward to reading your four or five times responding to this one post. Yes I can see that. Talk to anyone experienced in human behavior and they will tell you spending hours a day on an anonymous message board acting like a child just screams happiness and enjoying life. . I think you and RV secretly sit around the campfire together. Have fun!

The rhetoric you a currently use to talk about this group and the disinformation you are spreading about 'fathers' is actively convincing others to take up the same banner. That banner prevents compassion and sympathy for people that need help. Your place of privilege gives you the opportunity to demonize a group you feel as 'less than' you and undeserving of support. THAT is what you are doing to keep them in a hole that we all agree, they are in. Explain that away?

What is the connection with Joe and NIU? Pains me to say this as an NIU alum, but that's a big step down academically.

If you are making a counter point, please back it up with information or evidence? If not its just a feeling(emotion) and those are not valid in a debate. When I say 'we' I mean all of us in society. Both past and present. You've done it by knowing that there is a problem and not helping which is understandable because there are WAY TOO many problems for you to address personally OR seeing the problem and demonizing the people involved, making it seem as if they are unworthy of help/support OR not knowing about the problem(again that's not as bad because of the total tonnage of problems in this country) OR purposefully avoiding learning anything about problems to ensure your plausible deniability. I've done all these things. And as much as I would like to help I can only do so much. But having conversations with people that call them 'gang kids' is infuriating. Because it doesn't help and could actively convince others(who might be inclined to help) to not help. If you don't want them to be helped, ok. But at least be honest as to why? Because they are kids and kids deserve our compassion regardless of their situation in life.

1) your numbers are social media agenda driven BS, intended for blind sheep to run with and parrot. Can you cherry pick this district or that area to find those numbers…of course. But as for totality of American students across the country your parroting is not repeating accurate information. You can spend the next couple of hours finding social media posts to copy if you want to try and combat that but I’d suggest you not waste your time, it’s not convincing. 2) I’ve said in similar discussions on this board the #1 reason for performance decline is parents, and not at all a country full of teachers who don’t care, as you describe. For one, far too many parents these days take the easy route instead of the difficult route. Because allowing kids to play their games and thumb around in Instagram and TikTok is a lot easier than doing the hard work, disciplining their kids to be accountable for their learning, engaging in activities that enhance their learning, getting them outside for exercise, etc. And secondly, more and more parents are setting bad examples for their kids who are sucking up what they see their parents doing. For example, if a parent is spending hours upon hours everyday thumbing social media sites so they can copy and paste for gotcha moments to complete strangers on the internet 1) what kind of example is that setting for the kids and 2) how are they holding the kids accountable for their learning, engaging in activities with them to enhance their learning, etc. As I said, there are definitely a few bad apples in every bunch. But your post wasn’t talking about a few bad apples, your post pointed at the profession of teachers, and it’s bulls**t

Almost always but not always. Just like I said. Including the police union where I live.

This . Even the poor here are rich. It’s why everyone wants in here and will risk doing it unlawfully.

You still haven’t explained how I or anyone else on here has caused poor performance in our inner city schools like you claim we have. I’ll keep waiting for your explanation.

American poor are in the top 1% in the history of the world. American poor are in the top 10% of the world today. Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is misery shared equally, except by the ruling class

I’m not sure what either of those links prove. Please elaborate on what you’re trying to get across. Nothing I saw says fathers in the home isn’t a concern. 2006-2010 really?

It’s not so much that what the NG guard was actually doing in the particular instance that concerns me, it’s the opening of the door of putting the military on our streets for law enforcement activities, and the slippery slope that follows walking through that door. It’s the prospect of slowly normalizing the use of military troops to police citizens that concerns me. As for your question about military police my answer would be no. 1) Because it’s military troops policing citizens on American city streets, and 2) because MP’s are not trained in policing citizens/residents on American streets, they are trained in policing military troops on military bases, etc.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/study-black-dads-more-involved-in-childrenss-lives-than-other-groups/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf Here is an article and data to show that inner city black and Latino fathers are more involved with their kids than we all thought or are told.

You’re claiming that “we ALL” have/are causing the results of poor school performance in our inner cities. I’m claiming the lack of fathers in the home is a far bigger reason than anything else.

Public education's goal in the first place was to give everyone equality of opportunity. We can see now that this is not happening with the public schools. What do we want the public schools to do: Educate people so they can be productive in society or keep the illiterate so they have to be wards of the state for the rest of their lives? mspart

I never mentioned anything about the participation or lack there of from fathers. Can you help me understand where you are coming from by offering up some information about that comment and your point of view?

My cousin was a dancer. My neighbor was very tall and this guy I know once knew a teacher. He forgot the teachers name but that’s not relevant. I live in the inner city. And I grew up in the inner city. So farking what. None of that helps you make me understand why less than 20% can read. They don’t need more $ if the kids don’t want to learn. Or if their parents don’t give a shit. We’ve thrown more $ at them for 70 years. I’m not surprised you didn’t read the stat that we threw a ton more per head count at them in the last few years. Guess what. It doesn’t help. Throwing money at kids who don’t show up or want to learn is not good policy or good use of my tax money. Give vouchers to the 20% who show up to learn to go to good schools. Let the 80% eat generic fruit loops and go gang bang or whatever it is they want to do besides learn to read.

Google AI has already established that is almost always the case. Yes, police union representatives are almost always current or recently retired police officers who are voted or appointed to their positions to represent their fellow officers. You are being overly pedantic in a way that doesn't change anything. You also did this when you tried to distinguish between police officers being responsible for the negative public sentiment and the police unions. If its police misconduct itself to blame for the change in public sentiment then police officers are to blame. It its underlying union corruption to blame then since they are run by police offices, police officers are to blame. If you are trying to blame the relative small number of non-police officers that work as union representatives, I think you are just wrong. I don't these individuals exist in large enough numbers for that to be the case. Evidenced by the fact that you have yet to find even a single verifiable real world example of it. But even assuming you are right police still control the union and would ultimately be responsible for the actions of its representatives. And even if you disagree with that I think we can both agree that it is unlikely that the police unions preferentially put democrats in the positions not filed by police officers, so you're initial assertion that the democrats are to blame is incorrect.