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Funny. My mom grew up on a farm outside of Blanket, and the rest of her family was scattered from the Brownwood/Early metropolis to San Saba, Goldthwaite, and on down to Bertram. So, anyway, what the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Got it. My first six years were spent in Seagraves, and my dad's mom lived in Denver City. The rest of my public school years were in Big Spring, and I got my undergrad at Tech. So, I'm pretty familiar with the various dynamics of the area. Despite all flatland appearances, those towns on the Llano Estacado aren't fully homogenous.
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bolverk replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
I vote to document your trip here since it already has the traffic and, well, you're primarily there to help the war effort. Any side adventures are just gravy but also a nice reprieve from the all the bad shit. Edit: Now, if you get lucky, and by that I mean the vicarious 'we,' then you should already know where to post that content. -
Yeah, we had much the same experience visiting other districts. Our school had to borrow the YMCA's pool for swim meets, and the legend goes that our rickety football stadium was a hand-me-down from another district, which was disassembled and put back together where it is now. Visiting Andrews for away games and inevitably comparing facilities always lead to embarrassment. If I had to guess, it sounds like you were in the Lubbock Cooper district back in the day, when it was a poor cotton-farming area that's now booming and is *the* up-and-coming district up there, with its fancy new second high school. Frenship would also apply, I suppose, depending on your age. I think they just got a second high school, too.
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He should change his username to Pangloss.
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Don't bother. You're responding to GRU, who's posting a tweet from the same guy who kept predicting Europe would freeze that first winter after the start of the Russian war on Ukraine. GRU loves that guy's Xitter account.
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TFGβs first 100 days: βYou are not the keeper of our pot of gold; you are a temporary leprechaun."
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s) Midland, Pecos, Wink. It's all Permian Basin oil. Mineral value is added to regular dirt value when it comes to property taxes in Texas, so you get some rinky-dink rural school districts in the Permian Basin with astronomical property tax bases and very few students that have to be educated. That money goes back into statewide coffers in much the same way that Austin ISD has to - just at a different scale. In the district I attended back in the 1970s-1980s, the boundaries barely reached the city limits. Hell, in parts of town, other districts actually cut into the town proper (still do), which means my district didn't benefit at all from the oil getting pumped out of the ground. We were "property poor," but the district just south of us was based in a town with fewer than 300 people, and they had ALL THE OIL with wall-to-wall carpeting in the high school hallways and an astroturf football field...back in the 1980s. They couldn't spend the money fast enough. The funding disparities were DRAMATIC before Robin Hood. Shit definitely still needs tweeking/fixing, but the intent at that time was noble because our district boundaries are all kinds of fucked up. San Antonio's very poor Edgewood ISD lawsuit (if I recall correctly) back then was what forced the Texas Supreme Court to declare our property-tax-based system to be unconstitutional because it didn't guarantee even close to an equitable education for all kids. Personally, I'd do some serious school district consolidation to even things out and then rejigger the formulas once the property tax base disparities were flattened out a little bit after consolidation, but that would never fly politically because suburban districts make out like bandits under the current system. Where you live in a proximate area shouldnβt dictate whether your kid gets a decent education, especially within a county or metro area, imho. It's kind of dumb to begin with, because what does the value of property in a specific place have to do with funding education, to begin with? I mean, do bigger houses or whatever mean the kids living in them are inherently worth more? Don't answer that.
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Uh, it's reporting about the Voice of America going dark in Asia. You don't think the CCP is happy about that? Also, yes, the NYTimes skews left, but it's in no way comparable to the talking head drivel you see on cable news where it's de rigueur for vapid teevee Kens and Barbies just talk partisan shit. Your Overton Window is showing.
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Well, you're in Eastern Tennessee now, so what's the difference?
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