GarrulousBrevity

I'm surprised it got the first bullet point wrong, considering how spot in the second one is

Pit bulls are not considered a large breed

Or because they aren't inherently dangerous. Also, pit bulls are notoriously confused for other similarly shaped terriers, and laws that ban them are unusually over zealously enforced to ban dogs with flat faces, regardless of aggression.

My memory was that we knew this at the time?

I was just stirring the pot, and I love this response

Fewer*

Agreed that I'm having a hard time deciding where I am on this one. They could use the test to do that kind of thing, but not making it a requirement for graduation takes away the teeth, and I'm not sure how its going to be enforced going forward. The prop just kind of implies that the particulars would be decided after the vote, but I would feel better about it if the question of "How do we prevent harm to under privileged students who have been historically neglected" wasn't an afterthought. It feels a bit... Well... Neglectful.

You can try to look for Myrtle, but you're gonna get 80 Sea Bass first

I am very curious how MA is going to deal with the disparity between school districts if this passes.

I know No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds get a lot of flack for requiring teachers to teach the test, which hamstrings good teachers, and that's a problem. But the problem they were trying to solve was that schools that are ill equipped to deal with ELL, disabled, or impoverished students have a history of giving those students a diploma with no education.

The tests were to give insight into when and where that was happening, and to hold anyone accountable (infamously, no child left behind would remove funding from underfunded districts for failing their students, which... Yeah, but ESSA fixed a lot of that). This prop looks like it glosses over what it's going to do about those protections, and that makes me uncomfortable with this.

Who are you calling an amateur, buddy? I can argue you under the table!

It'd feel good

I guess 2000 was long enough ago to forget