February 9, 20242 yr Utah teen athlete faces threats after state official posted photos questioning her gender https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/02/08/utah-school-board-natalie-cline-gender-basketball-threats Utah state school board member Natalie Cline is under fire after posting photos of a high school basketball player, questioning her gender and prompting threats against the girl.
February 9, 20242 yr John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute
February 9, 20242 yr Author 14 minutes ago, Toastrel said: On 2/6/2024 at 3:54 PM, Kz! said: Hey look, book bans are cool with liberals again.
February 9, 20242 yr 1 minute ago, The_Omega said: toss him and the da that made that deal, in the same wood chipper.
February 15, 20242 yr Even Meatball Ron has to admit that right wing losers have been using his law to limit free speech and force their obnoxious ideology on kids. You hate to see it.
February 15, 20242 yr DeSantis has second thoughts about his book ban in Florida: Quote With objecting - if you go to a school board meeting objecting. If you have a kid in school, okay. But if you're somebody who doesn't have a kid in school and you're gonna object to 100 books? No, I don't think that's appropriate.
February 15, 20242 yr Wait, so you mean that objection to Amanda Gorman's book for being hateful and divisive by a childless trumpbot c u next tuesday might not have been valid?
February 18, 20242 yr There are plenty of actors dressing as women going back to Shakespeare’s time. If they remade Mrs Doubtfire today, there be an uproar if the didn’t use a trans actor.
February 19, 20242 yr Do we think the cross-dressing proclivities precipitated the initial divorce proceedings?
February 19, 20242 yr 9 minutes ago, sameaglesfan said: Do we think the cross-dressing proclivities precipitated the initial divorce proceedings? i doubt that fire led to the divorce. sorry, i had to.
March 1, 20242 yr First-ever photos show humpback whales mating—and they’re males https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/humpback-whale-mating-recorded-first-time-males Either this was God making the whales gay, or Trump is right about windmills.
March 1, 20242 yr 2 hours ago, Toastrel said: First-ever photos show humpback whales mating—and they’re males https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/humpback-whale-mating-recorded-first-time-males Either this was God making the whales gay, or Trump is right about windmills. i mean, they're called humpback whales, after all.
March 1, 20242 yr On 2/15/2024 at 3:17 PM, toolg said: DeSantis has second thoughts about his book ban in Florida: This is a bit of a difficult issue, actually. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m assuming Florida’s school funding is tied to local property taxes in a structure similar to PA’s funding model. If that is not the case, then this post may be totally off base. All residents of the community that pay school taxes have the same rights to be involved in the school’s function through attendance and requests at school board meetings regardless of whether or not they have children in the schools. To act differently is absolutely not right and borders on taxation without representation. When I was on our local school board we had a staff member that lived in the community. Parents and some of the other staff that interacted with this Indian loved them, but they were acting inappropriately and harassing certain members of the staff. The person elected to resign rather than face termination. After the separation of employment, they began harassing administration by making an overwhelming number of requests for information including emails that mentioned specific topics - broad topics like "Covid”. The requests were within their rights as a tax payer in the community, but were taking a ton of resources for the district. And there were 5-10 new requests every day, multiple calls, emails, etc. Every request had to go through the attorney to make sure the district was complying with the law. The requests and the identity of the person making them were covered by confidentiality so we couldn’t call them out publicly so instead I just asked administration for the total dollar amount that we had spent to-date on the FOIL requests that had been coming in during public session. Once the number was public, and everyone realized how much of their tax dollars were going to these wild goose chases the requests stopped. But it wouldn’t have been right or legal for us to limit that persons right to make the requests just because they didnt have kids in the district just like we couldn’t and wouldn’t have prevented someone that chose to send their kids to a private or charter school from commenting during a public meeting as long as they lived and paid taxes in the community.
March 1, 20242 yr This thread has completely broken Toaster Posting pics and articles about male whales F'ing - F'n weirdo
March 1, 20242 yr 17 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: i mean, they're called humpback whales, after all. A perfect joke that writes itself.
March 1, 20242 yr 29 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: i mean, they're called humpback whales, after all.
March 1, 20242 yr 5 minutes ago, Imp81318 said: This is a bit of a difficult issue, actually. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m assuming Florida’s school funding is tied to local property taxes in a structure similar to PA’s funding model. If that is not the case, then this post may be totally off base. All residents of the community that pay school taxes have the same rights to be involved in the school’s function through attendance and requests at school board meetings regardless of whether or not they have children in the schools. To act differently is absolutely not right and borders on taxation without representation. When I was on our local school board we had a staff member that lived in the community. Parents and some of the other staff that interacted with this Indian loved them, but they were acting inappropriately and harassing certain members of the staff. The person elected to resign rather than face termination. After the separation of employment, they began harassing administration by making an overwhelming number of requests for information including emails that mentioned specific topics - broad topics like "Covid”. The requests were within their rights as a tax payer in the community, but were taking a ton of resources for the district. And there were 5-10 new requests every day, multiple calls, emails, etc. Every request had to go through the attorney to make sure the district was complying with the law. The requests and the identity of the person making them were covered by confidentiality so we couldn’t call them out publicly so instead I just asked administration for the total dollar amount that we had spent to-date on the FOIL requests that had been coming in during public session. Once the number was public, and everyone realized how much of their tax dollars were going to these wild goose chases the requests stopped. But it wouldn’t have been right or legal for us to limit that persons right to make the requests just because they didnt have kids in the district just like we couldn’t and wouldn’t have prevented someone that chose to send their kids to a private or charter school from commenting during a public meeting as long as they lived and paid taxes in the community. Nice story. But it skirts the issue. I agree, taxpayers have a right to be involved in public school board hearings. But it is not a difficult issue, actually. The DeSantis bill had the direct result of residents challenging minute details of the school's curriculum, through the school board, by people who do not have any stake in the classroom. The bill is wrong and excessive.
March 1, 20242 yr 36 minutes ago, Imp81318 said: This is a bit of a difficult issue, actually. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m assuming Florida’s school funding is tied to local property taxes in a structure similar to PA’s funding model. If that is not the case, then this post may be totally off base. All residents of the community that pay school taxes have the same rights to be involved in the school’s function through attendance and requests at school board meetings regardless of whether or not they have children in the schools. To act differently is absolutely not right and borders on taxation without representation. When I was on our local school board we had a staff member that lived in the community. Parents and some of the other staff that interacted with this Indian loved them, but they were acting inappropriately and harassing certain members of the staff. The person elected to resign rather than face termination. After the separation of employment, they began harassing administration by making an overwhelming number of requests for information including emails that mentioned specific topics - broad topics like "Covid”. The requests were within their rights as a tax payer in the community, but were taking a ton of resources for the district. And there were 5-10 new requests every day, multiple calls, emails, etc. Every request had to go through the attorney to make sure the district was complying with the law. The requests and the identity of the person making them were covered by confidentiality so we couldn’t call them out publicly so instead I just asked administration for the total dollar amount that we had spent to-date on the FOIL requests that had been coming in during public session. Once the number was public, and everyone realized how much of their tax dollars were going to these wild goose chases the requests stopped. But it wouldn’t have been right or legal for us to limit that persons right to make the requests just because they didnt have kids in the district just like we couldn’t and wouldn’t have prevented someone that chose to send their kids to a private or charter school from commenting during a public meeting as long as they lived and paid taxes in the community. I think your example actually reinforces the point. Some laws are poorly written and ripe for abuse. Just because someone has a legal right to do something doesn't mean they should exercise that right beyond reason. A busy-body trumpbot karen had the legal right to challenge reading content in her local Florida school district even though she's old, single, and has no kids, but that doesn't mean she should do that 100 times, especially for purely political reasons.
March 1, 20242 yr 1 hour ago, mikemack8 said: This thread has completely broken Toaster Posting pics and articles about male whales F'ing - F'n weirdo Making fun of you is a gift. I appreciate your continued queefing.
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