Newton- a scholarship doesn't count. Any person can get a scholarship. seriously. There are thousands of ways to get the millions of dollars for scholarships they offer each year. Trust me, I encourage kids to go to college and explain this to them regularly. Even merit scholarships. You live with mommy and daddy and don't support yourself, so you can not judge another person who does, and the way in which they do it. You will realize when you are older, insulting a person's profession in the way you have is not clever, just sleazy.
I misread what you said about graduation rate, I thought that you said only 25% graduate, which isn't even close to right. Also, a clerical mistake on your part, I work in Oakland, not SF. SF is doing great and has some of the best schools in the country. Oakland is different. Its incredibly fucked, but if you think it is the teachers who make it that way you are fucking nuts. Inner city teachers have to work about 5 times as hard to do the same job as other teachers. Last year I had one computer in my room and virtually no access to a computer lab, and most of my students don't have computers at home. Try assigning a research essay in a situation like that and see what happens. How many computers were in your classroom last year? How many computer labs were available in your school? You obviously have a computer in your home. I'm not going to relist the outside factors that effect dropout rates, which you conveniently ignored after I explained them, just so you could put me and jesco down.
Also, not a native bay area resident, I moved here to skate, and may not be here permanently.
Sunset is super cute, "lets talk about the issues" you say, as you speak about the fact that you believe Obama is not rich enough to face arab leaders, he is involved with Tony Rezko, and his appearances is in Europe make him seem like a (gasp!) celebrity.
No, sunset, those aren't the issues. Those are distractions from the issues.
Here is an issue, there is a housing crisis going on right now and an economic meltdown occuring. What led to this? 8 years of a Republican president. What does McCain plan to do to end this? Keep doing the same shit and hope things magically turn around.
Here is another issue: Iraq. Now even George W. Bush wants to declare victory and leave, but McCain falls to the right of Bush on that. He wants to stay in Iraq and build up our bases there, despite the fact that nobody, including the Iraqi and American people, want that. Obama supported a timeline for withdrawl from Iraq, which Maliki endorsed, and now Bush is following.
Also, McCain was a vigorous supporter of the Iraq war, which helped along rising gas prices, and left us unprepared for Katrina. Obama risked his political career to publicly speak out against it.
Here is another issue: Iran- McCain wants to fucking go to war there. Remember (to the tune of Barbara Ann by the beach boys) "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?" Obama supports diplomacy, but given that any sort of Iranian nuclear programs that people claim would be cause for war have been found to be non-threatening, he seems to be pretty against throwing our boys (like our good friend Diego Menendez) into another war.
Another issue? ok, why not? How about health care costs. He's got no real plan on what to do about that. Obama has a plan which would help provide healthcare for all americans, while not forcing it upon them like Hillary's plan called for.
These are the issues that this campaign should be decided upon. This is why everybody expects McCain to get his ass kicked, because on the issues alone, he is out of touch with most Americans right now. Fuck how many houses he has, the fact that he thinks Czecheslovakia still exists, that Iran and Al Qaeda are the same, and is 72 years old. Those are distractions too. If the campaign stuck to the issues instead of relying on attack ads and whisper campaigns, McCain would have his ass kicked. So basically, I agree. Lets stick to the issues.
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