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S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Oct 27, 2015.

  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    How many feet would you allow a police officer to throw a teenager before taking exception?
     
  2. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    The continued nitpicking over written descriptions of the incident is a particularly silly exercise when everyone who cares has already seen the video and can go back and see it as much as they want. It was a violent, unwarranted attack, whether he dragged her, dropped her or threw her.

    He was deservedly fired.
     
  3. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member


    I knew one from each placement I had. So that percentage was about 10% not automatically passing. They will also do a mini student teaching before you are asked to do full student teaching and there are many who are asked to change major before actually reaching student teaching.
     
  4. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member


    And this is why YF will never give a percentage for amount of teachers he feels needs replaced.

    In ANY business or workplace you have workers not doing their fair share or earning their paycheck. The larger the organization, the potential for a larger amount of slackers.

    So let's say Geico or Capital One has a 7% rate of lackluster employees who should be let go. If education had this same rate, and we probably do, that's 210,000 teachers (3.0 mil x .07) needed to be pulled off the street ASAP. They are not out there.

    But attacking education, and indirectly lowering the potential people who would want to work in it, does not seem like that bright of a solution.
     
  5. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    In Virginia is a school does not pass state standards, parents can choose any school in the division to send their child and the division must provide the transportation.
     
  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Capital One and Geico (which is owned by Berkshire Hathaaway) have a profit incentive. Its shareholders, or owners, invest their capital to make money. If a percentage of the employees in those companies suck, only the owners of the company bear the cost. Presumably, if the business doesn't deliver profits because of those crappy employees, the owners are going to fix the situation. Either way, it doesn't effect anyone except the owners.

    None of that has anything to do with a public school system, which doesn't operate with a profit incentive, and whose "owners" are everyone who pays property taxes.

    You are comparing a duck to a moose.
     
  7. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Not true at all. A bad employee in the marketplace can cost the buyer (consumer) a lot of money, too.
     
  8. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    How so?
     
  9. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Steering you to a bad deal, for starters. Ever buy a house? A car? An insurance plan?
     
  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Indeed. And if it is a marketplace, as you just said. ... you are free to shop and do business with whoever you want, based on whatever criteria YOU want. If a poorly run company offers a crappy product or one that doesn't offer value (as you see it). ... in a market, you are free to transact with someone else who better satisfies what you want. That crappy company doesn't cost you anything unless you choose to buy what it is selling. Presumably, the reason a failing company doesn't delivering profits to its owners, is that others agree with you -- they are going elsewhere to find better value.
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    We have privately-owned (or contracted out) for-profit prisons. I assume some do fine, perhaps save taxpayers some money and make a profit.

    However, in some places courts and judges send more people to those prisons because the numbers don't work if the cells aren't full. And maybe they get a little kickback from the prison company.

    Other places, the prisons are pitched to eager rural communities as job creators for the area. But if the profit is not there, the operators up and leave. The community is worse off and now has to finish paying on this prison they built with no money coming in.

    School felt like prison to me, so this seems more apples to apples.
     
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  12. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Aw come on, if you play the video backward you'll see he was helping her back to her desk.
     
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