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No WONDER they called him "Huang" !
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No WONDER they called him "Huang" !
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Not a headline but it should be
Straight A's. But are students actually prepared for what comes next?
A 2025 report from UC San Diego found that nearly 12% of incoming freshmen needed math courses covering material below college level.
Even more surprising? In 2024, more than a quarter of students placed in the university's lowest math course had earned a 4.0 GPA in high school math.
I don't think this is simply about teachers giving out easy A's. Teachers are under enormous pressure to make sure students pass.
And I wonder how many would LOVE the autonomy to simply say, “You didn't do the work. You failed.”
Not because we want students to fail. But because sometimes failure is important feedback. It's an opportunity for students to take responsibility, for families and schools to recognize where support is needed, and for kids to learn how to recover from setbacks.
Scaffolding, accommodations, and second chances absolutely have their place. But so does accountability.
At some point, students need to demonstrate what they can do independently. Otherwise, are we actually preparing them for what comes next, or just making sure they get there?
Teachers, do you feel like you have the autonomy to give students the grades they've actually earned? And are our grading policies helping or hurting long-term readiness?
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Straight A's. But are students actually prepared for what comes next?
A 2025 report from UC San Diego found that nearly 12% of incoming freshmen needed math courses covering material below college level.
Even more surprising? In 2024, more than a quarter of students placed in the university's lowest math course had earned a 4.0 GPA in high school math.
I don't think this is simply about teachers giving out easy A's. Teachers are under enormous pressure to make sure students pass.
And I wonder how many would LOVE the autonomy to simply say, “You didn't do the work. You failed.”
Not because we want students to fail. But because sometimes failure is important feedback. It's an opportunity for students to take responsibility, for families and schools to recognize where support is needed, and for kids to learn how to recover from setbacks.
Scaffolding, accommodations, and second chances absolutely have their place. But so does accountability.
At some point, students need to demonstrate what they can do independently. Otherwise, are we actually preparing them for what comes next, or just making sure they get there?
Teachers, do you feel like you have the autonomy to give students the grades they've actually earned? And are our grading policies helping or hurting long-term readiness?
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Straight A's. But are students actually prepared for what comes next? A 2025 report from UC San Diego found that nearly 12% of incoming freshmen needed math courses covering material below college...
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FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flights
What's happening now
• Ground stop: All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said.• Cause not yet known: The reason for the ground stop was not immediately clear, but an FAA spokesperson said there is a communications problem impacting Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which handle flights going across the country. Preliminary reports indicate this is not a cyberattack, according to two law enforcement officials.
• Rare instance: The last time there was a nationwide ground stop was in January 2023, when a pilot notification system went down. Prior to that, the last nationwide ground stop was issued after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
That's an interesting half-a-story.
The obvious question, will the other half be even more interesting?
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Is there any connection to the Microsoft downtime that snarled communication for a few days, earlier this week?
Its the speeches Hillary gave.
She was the only one pushing the "Arab Spring" concept, which essentially was the takeover of every single Arab government she could.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned of backsliding in the democratic transformations under way in the Mideast and North Africa, and appealed for countries in the region to fulfill the promise of reform offered by the Arab Spring.
In Tunisia, the catalyst for the tumult that engulfed the region last year, Clinton said the continued embrace of reforms would serve as a powerful example elsewhere. Her comments came amid concerns that transitions in Egypt and elsewhere are faltering and at risk of being hijacked by extremists.
Clinton called on Tunisians, particularly the young, to demand that their new leaders stay on the path of liberalization and openness.
“Protecting democracy is the duty of every citizen,” Clinton said. “For young people here and across the region, this is a special responsibility. You were fearless on the front lines of the revolution, enduring tear gas and beatings. It takes a different kind of courage to be guardians of your new democracy.”
Later, in Algeria, she carried the same message: “The people of the Maghreb are as talented, creative and hard-working as people anywhere in the world. They need and deserve the opportunity to make decisions on behalf of themselves because that is good for the dignity and rights of every individual and it is good for every society.”
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/clinton-calls-for-fulfillment-of-arab-spring/
And it is my opinion that the "Arab Spring" was actually a US takeover of the legitimate governments to be replaces by US puppets.
We did it in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, and the Ukraine.
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Re #523/524
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin listens on at the White House on November 13, 2026, in Washington, DC.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin offered shifting explanations for Friday’s nationwide flight shutdown, repeatedly blaming the Republican-controlled Congress and praising President Donald Trump during a White House briefing that left the cause unresolved.
The secretaries stumbled through explanations and qualified earlier assertions. Emergency procedures had kept passengers safe, but aging equipment would fail again. New technology was working, but .....
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Just an observation, Markwayne Mullin has served as the 9th United States secretary of homeland security since 2026
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Disastrous White House press conference raises more questions than answers about nationwide ground stop
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin called it a national emergency, then offered more praise for Trump than clarity for travelers.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin listens on at the White House on November 13, 2026, in Washington, DC.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin offered shifting explanations for Friday’s nationwide flight shutdown, repeatedly blaming the Republican-controlled Congress and praising President Donald Trump during a White House briefing that left the cause unresolved.
The secretaries stumbled through explanations and qualified earlier assertions. Emergency procedures had kept passengers safe, but aging equipment would fail again. New technology was working, but .....
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Just an observation, Markwayne Mullin has served as the 9th United States secretary of homeland security since 2026
I thought this was a joke!! It was not. #FAAGroundStop #DoYouKnowWhereYourGovtIs | Nina Jones-Morgan | Facebook
I thought this was a joke!! It was not. #FAAGroundStop #DoYouKnowWhereYourGovtIs
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Speaking of coincidences
arstechnica.com
And the response
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FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
Airlines praised the AI tool, but the air traffic controllers’ union wasn’t involved.
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And the response
FAA SMART AI system vendor and Microsoft both say ground stop isn't their fault
Microsoft and Air Space Intelligence, the company behind the FAA's new SMART system, said the nationwide ground stop wasn't due to their products.
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On premise that is true, to what extent?
How determined an effort did she make? What U.S. military resources were expended? And thus expended, why did their expenditure fail to achieve the objective you designate for her?
Worth noting: #525 accuses both conduct and motive.
There is often more than one possible explanation. Is it possible she did as you allege, but did so not to advance U.S. global hegemony, but instead to promote human rights? True democracy seems scarce in that part of the world.
U.S. foreign policy leaves U.S. $taxpaying voters much to be ashamed of.
But I consider the current Trump / Iran forever war a prominent disgrace, even in the context you provide.
Iran's human rights record is less than stellar.
So is the U.S. '
Seems to me Trump has squandered $Billions to make matters substantially worse at Iran / Hormuz Strait.
It's widely reported that while Trump's / Netanyahu's attack on Iran succeeded in killing Iranian "radical" leadership,
the leaders to replace them are even more radical.
And at U.S. expense, Trump taught Iran it has a stranglehold on Earth's global economy, and the U.S. is paying elevated diesel fuel prices to prove it.
The additional complication, Winter has not yet begun, BUT ! snow has already fallen, furnaces coast to coast already burning fuel.
Trump has placed home heating fuel out of reach for many. I just paid my own fuel $bill, a little short of $1,000.oo
I can afford it (for now). Many others can't.
Due to over population pressures and multiple religions, you do not really want a democracy in the Mideast.
The tradition in the Mideast is the benevolent strongman instead.
Like Saddam, who greatly improved nutrition and education in Iraq.
In fact, Qadaffi, Morsi, Assad, and Yanukovych were also the best possible choices who had the support of the elders groups.
Hillary's "Arab Spring" was to instead install evil US puppets.
Like General Sisi in Egypt, who executed tens of thousands without trial.
Certainly the US murdering over half a million Iraqis was not an improvement.
Libya is now a disaster, and the leader of Syria we now approve of is openly a member of ISIS.
But I agree with you that what Trump is doing is even worse since it does not even have the subtle cover of a simple regime change, but an external attack.
And I just topped off my propane tank and paid $4.80/gallon.
- bummer -
I went from
to 
@ $3.59 / gallon delivered, &got a snapshot off the delivery truck:
I'm not sure what accounts for the $/gal disparity R5. Texas / Okrahoma
have fossil fuel reputation. BUT !
In recent years fracking has been big bidness around here *. $BUT !
$1.20 differential, hhmmm ...
* locals whining bitterly about flames shooting out their kitchen faucet. It's $free ! Get over it ! [/satire]
And on a less unserious note, as bloke & I were conducting incandescently scintillating dialogue at roadside
I noticed the delivery truck was rocking side to side. Turns out there's no slosh-baffle inside the truck cargo tank.
Driver said it can get exciting when the tanks a little over half full, & he has to make a panic stop to avoid a snowmobile, etc.
Please don't misinterpret my following comment as a "gotcha". It's intended as a sanity check. I hope & believe you'd do the same for me if the roles were reversed.
I'm not sure either population (the total number), or population density (average population for acre) is anything other than non sequitur.
To simplify for example:
If the even-numbered get their choice in governance, the odd-numbered don't.
Disenfranchising a substantial portion of the population is an extraordinarily bad idea.
The U.S. may have as much or more diversity than the Mideast nations you have in mind.
I don't mean to dismiss your perspective.
But in my opinion, one voter / one vote has much to recommend it.