I think it's time the school board be partially appointed. I've listened to several CCSD school board meeting and I'm constantly shocked at how petty some of the board members are, or how some seem to be woefully incompetent.
The easier solution is to just put your kids in charter schools, like we have done. Charter schools self-select for students and parents who take education seriously. That and the autonomy create a culture of higher expectations. There's nothing you and I are going to do to solve CCD's woes and incompetence. Charter schools are the answer.
Agreed – I'm tired of watching Danielle Ford and her ridiculous "service dog" obstruct/frustrate the Board and the District at every turn. It's time to get appointed officials on the Board who KNOW how to run a district, or at least have strong experience teaching in a classroom. It's no different up North where the WCSD's board is lined with food servers and former police sergeants who lack any appreciable insights as to how the district should be ran.
I agree with post regarding charter schools. Give families free choice to choose the schools they want their kids to attend. Put schools into the free market and you will see costs go down and better quality.
Actually, 12:54, what you frequently see with charter schools is a total lack of transparency as to where the money is spent. You'd like to think that a charter school is created when local folks see a need and establish a school to meet that need. In reality, what tends to happen is that charter schools are set up and then Educational Management Organizations are contracted in to manage pretty much 100% of the operations. In return, the EMO gets most of the funds distributed by the state, and discloses none of the normally-required financial information of a public entity. It's a total coincidence that the EMO is run by either the charter founder or family/friends of the founder, of course.
This is not to say that CCSD Board isn't a bunch of incompetents; they are. Or that charter schools can't be a viable alternative; some are. Just that I'm a fan of sunshine, and charter schools are typically structured to operate as a financial black hole.
"financial black hole" Do you have the data to support that statement? Show us where the families who have kids in charter schools are not getting value for the money spent? Do you have data to show that the majority of charter schools are in the red and are being shut down because of this financial black hole? But we can see from the public school systems that families are not getting value for the amount of money that is spent on public systems. Just look at the numbers, especially in Nevada where are schools are traditionally ranked second to last in the nation.
11:42 AM here. I don't care how the charter schools spend the money because the only thing that matters is results. The charter school my kids attend beats the crap out of CCSD in every way- test scores, attendance, parental involvement, culture, activities. Seriously people, eff CCSD. CCSD is an unsalvageable failure. Put your kids in charter schools and never think about Danielle Ford (or that Trump cultist that just got elected) ever again.
The numbers are bad in Nevada for a wide variety of reasons. Some of those reasons are the responsibility of the teachers and administration. Most are not. Regardless, the financial information, including budgets, etc., for each public school is public information. The financial information of ABC EMO, operating the charter ABC Elementary School, is not. Money goes in, money is spent, but how it is spent is a mystery. The publicly available information is based on the ABC Elementary School. ABC Elementary School says "we spent $500,000 on Management contract with ABC EMO," and that's where the publicly available information stops.
And 2:13, I'm sorry, but that's not what the metrics actually show. Pull up the scorecards for a public school and a charter school that draw from the same group of kids. They aren't that far off. Take Coral Academy (charter elementary), Sandra Thompson Elementary, and Bilbray Elementary up in Centennial Hills, for example. They all show essentially equal levels of proficiency in math and language. Democracy Prep Elementary at Agassi campus shows worse scores and higher bullying rates than many other public schools.
@1:36- again, #AprilFools. A diploma from a T-14 does not make you "highly experienced in the actual practice of law". Most of Boyd's tenured instructors are academics who quickly abandoned legal careers in pursuit of getting published and becoming a law school professor. Sucking up to your professors on an anonymous law blog won't help your grades – get back to Zoom school.
This is why I am against free range furniture trucks. Keep them on a leash.
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April 1, 2021 7:52 pm
I am reposting my post from yesterday's original post. I just watched Godzilla versus Kong. F*@k escaping to Mars. Musk needs to can the space exploration stuff and focus on Hollow Earth exploration. That is where humanity's answer is to global warming. I'm just saying. I think it is too important to ignore this new development.
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April 1, 2021 8:35 pm
Blockchain – private government – Sisolak benefits?
You really need to read the article. Blockchain proposes to create its own city, yes a governmental entity run by Blockchain, with Sisolak's support. Follow the money as my grandmother used to say.
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April 1, 2021 9:24 pm
The NSB does not have a conflict between representing lawyers and prosecuting lawyers – hahaha April Fools!!
Chauvin didn't kill Floyd. Floyd killed Floyd by swallowing all those fentanyl laced pills. Nothing Chauvin did would have changed the end result. Not guilty!
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April 2, 2021 6:51 am
Garbage. The autopsy report showed high levels of fentanyl but the cause of death was homicide. That neck compression did the trick for all you haters out there.
This is correct, but the fentanyl nonsense and other attacks on Floyd will be why Chauvin gets acquitted. Chauvin is a piece of shit not only for murdering Floyd, but also for not taking responsibility and inevitably putting the country through a trial and a second round of riots.
11:51: you might want to read the actual autopsy. While the "conclusion" ultimately released called it a homicide, the report itself showed the following: III. No life-threatening injuries identified A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries E. Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks negative for occult trauma.
I won't bore you with the technical facts of that section other than to say there was NO, petechiae, trauma to his spine, neck or chest sufficient to cause the heart attack that killed him. The fentanyl did that.
As an arresting officer, once your subject is in custody, as Floyd was, that subject is your prisoner and you are responsible for him. That means that you keep others from attacking him, tend to medical needs, and facilitate a safe transport. In this case, Chauvin became the attacker, administering his own justice as seen by Chauvin's refusal to make the simple adjustment of removing his knee from Floyd's neck and shift to controlling him by holding his shoulders or torso. The other officers had Floyd secure at his feet. With Floyd's hands cuffed, any resistance Floyd was giving at that point was more of an annoyance than a threat. Hold him enough to keep him from harming himself while medical is on its way. Chauvin chose to punish and deserves to be punished himself. Guilty.
Again you might want to do more than parrot CNN/MSNBC/BLM talking points. The technique the officers used, including Chauvin, was a departmentally approved and taught technique. It was in their use of force policy. I'm sure there is debate as to whether Chauvin performed it correctly, but he was not acting outside of his responsibility training. As 9:36 below demonstrates (despite the actual evidence presented by the coroner that he was not suffocated they claim he was "suffocated by a cop") that emotion and rote recitation of talking points is more important here than the actual facts.
The use of force policy would not advocate driving a knee into a subject's neck when the subject is hand cuffed and already under physical control of the officers. His actions were outside the scope of his training. You cannot skirt around Chauvin's perversion of the policy and justify his actions through Floyd's self-destructive choice of drugs that day. These aren't news media talking points, rather experience. Chauvin lost his composure that day and needs to be held accountable.
As I said above, we can debate if he performed the technique correctly or within the policy. What is not debatable is that based on the autopsy the neck restrain did not crush the trachea, stop the flow of air, break any vertebrae or " injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures." The knee stopped movement not air. Not the COD. And before you mention the finding of homicide, the coroner admitted that if Floyd had been found on the sidewalk unresponsive, without the associated riots, governmental and media attention, it would have been ruled an accidental drug overdose. In the end there is a Judge and Jury that will decide what really happened, within the bounds of the criminal law and presented facts, and we will all live with it.
Yes 9:50…it's just emotion when a man is handcuffed, facedown on the street with a cop pressing his knee in to his neck, screaming that he can't breathe. It's strictly emotion. Let's not pay attention to what we can clearly see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.
10:49, both things can be true. You are displaying emotion at what you "saw and heard" (debatable if you saw and heard the whole thing but for the sake of this discussion I will accept that you did) while ignoring that a murder trial is based on the law of the act (police restraint technique and reasons the officer used it) and forensics (knee on neck per autopsy did not cause death nor any of the things that actually killed Floyd) not what was said, or even done, that we might dislike or disagree with. Should Chauvin be a cop? Based on what we know about him I think that is somewhere between no and hell no. Is a man saying I can't breath, even before being placed into a non airway impinging restraint, and who has co-morbidities and dies of one or more of them, enough to convict that same cop of murder? Again, my opinion is no. Maybe, even likely, some form of oppression under color but not murder. Yours, it seems is yes, because your feels were hurt and you select the facts that matter to you. Neither of us will convince the other and ultimately the jury will decide. I suspect we will then have another rousing internet debate on the propriety of the outcome.
@9:50 — So Floyd uttered that he can't breath (present sense, excited utterance) because he was high on drugs, not because Chauvin's knee was on his neck, correct?
The half dozen or so times he said it while resisting being put into the car and before demanding to be removed from the patrol car and, his words "put me on the ground"? Yes. Not as a result of knee pressure to his neck. As mentioned above, I gave you credit for having watched the entire and actual video of the arrest, from all available sources. Your comment now leads me to believe that is not the case, but if it is, then you have confirmed you are selecting the narrative that supports your emotional response to the event not the facts of it.
To infer that Chauvin's actions were not in any way contributory to Floyd's death is unrealistic. If I have you quickly drink a pot of coffee, then hand cuff you and put you on the ground and grind my knee into your neck in a manner that has you convinced that I am trying to kill you, your already elevated blood pressure will shoot through the roof. If you go into cardiac arrest because of it and die, the medical examiner would likely find that the heart attack was due to elevated blood pressure due to excessive caffeine. Suffocation would not be listed as a factor and scared s*#tless would not either, but absent those actions, the death would likely not have occurred. Jurors are allowed to use their common sense in deliberations, so hanging everything on the presentation of medical evidence is a risky strategy in this case.
I agree hanging the defense on the medical evidence and fentanyl is risky, but that and the technique being an approved policy (again setting aside did he do it correctly) is all he has as a defense. While jurors get to use their common sense they will also hear that the level of fentanyl (and Delta 9 THC, and I think meth?) in his system we a fatal level and with or without the restraint he was likely dead. They then get to use their common sense to determine if he was making statements and acting impaired before the restraint. They could just as easily conclude that the officer's actions did not contribute to the death because the police did not force Floyd to ingest the drugs and they spent considerable time trying to de-escalate before the restraint was used.
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April 2, 2021 4:36 pm
So because Floyd did some drugs, he deserved to die on the street being suffocated by a cop? WTF is wrong with you people? No doubt you're the same people who cry for leniency and understanding when Jr steals grandma's oxy after surgery…because Jr has an illness and needs help while Floyd needs what? Go to hell. Chauvin deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his pathetic life. The death penalty is too good for him.
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July 6, 2021 8:17 pm
Dennis's furniture case is going to be really good. Cant wait to see how that plays out
I think it's time the school board be partially appointed. I've listened to several CCSD school board meeting and I'm constantly shocked at how petty some of the board members are, or how some seem to be woefully incompetent.
The easier solution is to just put your kids in charter schools, like we have done. Charter schools self-select for students and parents who take education seriously. That and the autonomy create a culture of higher expectations. There's nothing you and I are going to do to solve CCD's woes and incompetence. Charter schools are the answer.
Agreed – I'm tired of watching Danielle Ford and her ridiculous "service dog" obstruct/frustrate the Board and the District at every turn. It's time to get appointed officials on the Board who KNOW how to run a district, or at least have strong experience teaching in a classroom. It's no different up North where the WCSD's board is lined with food servers and former police sergeants who lack any appreciable insights as to how the district should be ran.
I agree with post regarding charter schools. Give families free choice to choose the schools they want their kids to attend. Put schools into the free market and you will see costs go down and better quality.
Actually, 12:54, what you frequently see with charter schools is a total lack of transparency as to where the money is spent. You'd like to think that a charter school is created when local folks see a need and establish a school to meet that need. In reality, what tends to happen is that charter schools are set up and then Educational Management Organizations are contracted in to manage pretty much 100% of the operations. In return, the EMO gets most of the funds distributed by the state, and discloses none of the normally-required financial information of a public entity. It's a total coincidence that the EMO is run by either the charter founder or family/friends of the founder, of course.
This is not to say that CCSD Board isn't a bunch of incompetents; they are. Or that charter schools can't be a viable alternative; some are. Just that I'm a fan of sunshine, and charter schools are typically structured to operate as a financial black hole.
"financial black hole" Do you have the data to support that statement? Show us where the families who have kids in charter schools are not getting value for the money spent? Do you have data to show that the majority of charter schools are in the red and are being shut down because of this financial black hole? But we can see from the public school systems that families are not getting value for the amount of money that is spent on public systems. Just look at the numbers, especially in Nevada where are schools are traditionally ranked second to last in the nation.
1:22 PM,
11:42 AM here. I don't care how the charter schools spend the money because the only thing that matters is results. The charter school my kids attend beats the crap out of CCSD in every way- test scores, attendance, parental involvement, culture, activities. Seriously people, eff CCSD. CCSD is an unsalvageable failure. Put your kids in charter schools and never think about Danielle Ford (or that Trump cultist that just got elected) ever again.
The numbers are bad in Nevada for a wide variety of reasons. Some of those reasons are the responsibility of the teachers and administration. Most are not. Regardless, the financial information, including budgets, etc., for each public school is public information. The financial information of ABC EMO, operating the charter ABC Elementary School, is not. Money goes in, money is spent, but how it is spent is a mystery. The publicly available information is based on the ABC Elementary School. ABC Elementary School says "we spent $500,000 on Management contract with ABC EMO," and that's where the publicly available information stops.
And 2:13, I'm sorry, but that's not what the metrics actually show. Pull up the scorecards for a public school and a charter school that draw from the same group of kids. They aren't that far off. Take Coral Academy (charter elementary), Sandra Thompson Elementary, and Bilbray Elementary up in Centennial Hills, for example. They all show essentially equal levels of proficiency in math and language. Democracy Prep Elementary at Agassi campus shows worse scores and higher bullying rates than many other public schools.
Charter Schools are public schools, funded with the same funds received by CCSD.
Boyd Law continues to rise in the national rankings thanks to its amazing faculty and brilliant dean!
#AprilFools
Boyd's professor are highly experienced in the actual practice of law.
@1:36- again, #AprilFools. A diploma from a T-14 does not make you "highly experienced in the actual practice of law". Most of Boyd's tenured instructors are academics who quickly abandoned legal careers in pursuit of getting published and becoming a law school professor. Sucking up to your professors on an anonymous law blog won't help your grades – get back to Zoom school.
Have any Boyd professors slept with their students?
@2:16 unfortunately…no…
#freemoscowmitch
#freebonniebulla
#freetheeasterbunny
This is why I am against free range furniture trucks. Keep them on a leash.
I am reposting my post from yesterday's original post. I just watched Godzilla versus Kong. F*@k escaping to Mars. Musk needs to can the space exploration stuff and focus on Hollow Earth exploration. That is where humanity's answer is to global warming. I'm just saying. I think it is too important to ignore this new development.
Blockchain – private government – Sisolak benefits?
You really need to read the article. Blockchain proposes to create its own city, yes a governmental entity run by Blockchain, with Sisolak's support. Follow the money as my grandmother used to say.
The NSB does not have a conflict between representing lawyers and prosecuting lawyers – hahaha April Fools!!
Or assasinating lawyers.
Dennis Prince is lawyer hot.
You can receive justice in the eighth judicial district.
Linda Bell has things control of things down there. Her own JEA is out of control, going off on attorneys
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Derek Chauvin was restraining a combative, dangerous, psychotic man who had OD’d on fentanyl.
Floyd was a loser criminal who robbed women at gunpoint and stole from his community. The world is empirically better without him in it.
Good point.
6:55 no police officer has the right to kill a human being because he resisted getting into a police car.
Chauvin didn't kill Floyd. Floyd killed Floyd by swallowing all those fentanyl laced pills. Nothing Chauvin did would have changed the end result. Not guilty!
Garbage. The autopsy report showed high levels of fentanyl but the cause of death was homicide. That neck compression did the trick for all you haters out there.
This is correct, but the fentanyl nonsense and other attacks on Floyd will be why Chauvin gets acquitted. Chauvin is a piece of shit not only for murdering Floyd, but also for not taking responsibility and inevitably putting the country through a trial and a second round of riots.
OJ anyone?
11:51: you might want to read the actual autopsy. While the "conclusion" ultimately released called it a homicide, the report itself showed the following: III. No life-threatening injuries identified A. No facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae B. No injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures C. No scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain injuries D. No chest wall soft tissue injuries, rib fractures (other than a single rib fracture from CPR), vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries E. Incision and subcutaneous dissection of posterior and lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks negative for occult trauma.
I won't bore you with the technical facts of that section other than to say there was NO, petechiae, trauma to his spine, neck or chest sufficient to cause the heart attack that killed him. The fentanyl did that.
As an arresting officer, once your subject is in custody, as Floyd was, that subject is your prisoner and you are responsible for him. That means that you keep others from attacking him, tend to medical needs, and facilitate a safe transport. In this case, Chauvin became the attacker, administering his own justice as seen by Chauvin's refusal to make the simple adjustment of removing his knee from Floyd's neck and shift to controlling him by holding his shoulders or torso. The other officers had Floyd secure at his feet. With Floyd's hands cuffed, any resistance Floyd was giving at that point was more of an annoyance than a threat. Hold him enough to keep him from harming himself while medical is on its way. Chauvin chose to punish and deserves to be punished himself. Guilty.
Again you might want to do more than parrot CNN/MSNBC/BLM talking points. The technique the officers used, including Chauvin, was a departmentally approved and taught technique. It was in their use of force policy. I'm sure there is debate as to whether Chauvin performed it correctly, but he was not acting outside of his responsibility training. As 9:36 below demonstrates (despite the actual evidence presented by the coroner that he was not suffocated they claim he was "suffocated by a cop") that emotion and rote recitation of talking points is more important here than the actual facts.
The use of force policy would not advocate driving a knee into a subject's neck when the subject is hand cuffed and already under physical control of the officers. His actions were outside the scope of his training. You cannot skirt around Chauvin's perversion of the policy and justify his actions through Floyd's self-destructive choice of drugs that day. These aren't news media talking points, rather experience. Chauvin lost his composure that day and needs to be held accountable.
As I said above, we can debate if he performed the technique correctly or within the policy. What is not debatable is that based on the autopsy the neck restrain did not crush the trachea, stop the flow of air, break any vertebrae or " injuries of anterior muscles of neck or laryngeal structures." The knee stopped movement not air. Not the COD. And before you mention the finding of homicide, the coroner admitted that if Floyd had been found on the sidewalk unresponsive, without the associated riots, governmental and media attention, it would have been ruled an accidental drug overdose. In the end there is a Judge and Jury that will decide what really happened, within the bounds of the criminal law and presented facts, and we will all live with it.
Yes 9:50…it's just emotion when a man is handcuffed, facedown on the street with a cop pressing his knee in to his neck, screaming that he can't breathe. It's strictly emotion. Let's not pay attention to what we can clearly see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.
10:49, both things can be true. You are displaying emotion at what you "saw and heard" (debatable if you saw and heard the whole thing but for the sake of this discussion I will accept that you did) while ignoring that a murder trial is based on the law of the act (police restraint technique and reasons the officer used it) and forensics (knee on neck per autopsy did not cause death nor any of the things that actually killed Floyd) not what was said, or even done, that we might dislike or disagree with. Should Chauvin be a cop? Based on what we know about him I think that is somewhere between no and hell no. Is a man saying I can't breath, even before being placed into a non airway impinging restraint, and who has co-morbidities and dies of one or more of them, enough to convict that same cop of murder? Again, my opinion is no. Maybe, even likely, some form of oppression under color but not murder. Yours, it seems is yes, because your feels were hurt and you select the facts that matter to you. Neither of us will convince the other and ultimately the jury will decide. I suspect we will then have another rousing internet debate on the propriety of the outcome.
@9:50 — So Floyd uttered that he can't breath (present sense, excited utterance) because he was high on drugs, not because Chauvin's knee was on his neck, correct?
The half dozen or so times he said it while resisting being put into the car and before demanding to be removed from the patrol car and, his words "put me on the ground"? Yes. Not as a result of knee pressure to his neck. As mentioned above, I gave you credit for having watched the entire and actual video of the arrest, from all available sources. Your comment now leads me to believe that is not the case, but if it is, then you have confirmed you are selecting the narrative that supports your emotional response to the event not the facts of it.
To infer that Chauvin's actions were not in any way contributory to Floyd's death is unrealistic. If I have you quickly drink a pot of coffee, then hand cuff you and put you on the ground and grind my knee into your neck in a manner that has you convinced that I am trying to kill you, your already elevated blood pressure will shoot through the roof. If you go into cardiac arrest because of it and die, the medical examiner would likely find that the heart attack was due to elevated blood pressure due to excessive caffeine. Suffocation would not be listed as a factor and scared s*#tless would not either, but absent those actions, the death would likely not have occurred. Jurors are allowed to use their common sense in deliberations, so hanging everything on the presentation of medical evidence is a risky strategy in this case.
I agree hanging the defense on the medical evidence and fentanyl is risky, but that and the technique being an approved policy (again setting aside did he do it correctly) is all he has as a defense. While jurors get to use their common sense they will also hear that the level of fentanyl (and Delta 9 THC, and I think meth?) in his system we a fatal level and with or without the restraint he was likely dead. They then get to use their common sense to determine if he was making statements and acting impaired before the restraint. They could just as easily conclude that the officer's actions did not contribute to the death because the police did not force Floyd to ingest the drugs and they spent considerable time trying to de-escalate before the restraint was used.
So because Floyd did some drugs, he deserved to die on the street being suffocated by a cop? WTF is wrong with you people? No doubt you're the same people who cry for leniency and understanding when Jr steals grandma's oxy after surgery…because Jr has an illness and needs help while Floyd needs what? Go to hell. Chauvin deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his pathetic life. The death penalty is too good for him.
Dennis's furniture case is going to be really good. Cant wait to see how that plays out