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How do folks home school their children when they have no educational training to do so? Are they helping or hurting their kids?
Smh
NO ONE should be teaching religious doctrine in schools, qualified or otherwise. Teachers, chaplains like they do in Texas. Nobody. You're clearly viewing my answers through a prism that says it's ok to teach religion in schools. It's not.

Why Trump Needs to Drain the Swamp

Biden never targeted black men for Def Secretary. But yet Lloyd Austin, with extensive military leadership background, is still called a DEI hire. Coach Walters is considered a DEI hire. On and on. Justice Ketanji Brown. As soon as she was announced that she was chosen to be justice folks here immediately attacked her intelligence. Yet her qualifications that preceded her was comparable or superseded the other justices including Uncle Clarence Thomas. Speaking of which, since he was nominated by a Republican president, I never hear anyone say that he was a DEI hire.
Well Brown being unable to answer the question what is a woman didn’t give people much confidence in her selection. She being called a DEI hire is probably why.
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Why Trump Needs to Drain the Swamp

Biden never targeted black men for Def Secretary. But yet Lloyd Austin, with extensive military leadership background, is still called a DEI hire. Coach Walters is considered a DEI hire. On and on. Justice Ketanji Brown.
Please don't play dumb on this. Biden announced that he would pick a black VP BEFORE he chose one. That's the difference. He did the same thing with Justice Ketanji Brown. Biden announced he would pick a black woman BEFORE he chose Brown. In both cases, being a black woman was a prerequisite for the job.

What about Ryan Silverfield at Memphis..?

Not for head coach, but just heard a stat on the Ohio D coordinator, Ohio has only allowed 12 points in the first quarter through 10 games this year. That's pretty impressive.
Tim Albin is the head coach at Ohio. He was on Frank Solich's first staff there way back in 2005. He had a major hand in building that program over the past two decades and has done a great job maintaining it since Solich retired.

I am NOT advocating Albin for Purdue. He's 59, has limited head coaching experience, and seems to be rooted at Ohio. I am pointing out how important it is to have the right guy running your program. And Albin is absolutely the ideal fit at Ohio.

Linda McMahon: So being co-CEO of a wrastling federation qualifies you for Secretary of Education

I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow with Mrs New Pal’s family, many of whom voted for Kamala… thoughts and prayers appreciated.
Just sit back, enjoy the meltdowns. I mean, you can probably instigate, which is always fun to do to a lefty lib, but perhaps discretion is the better part of valor. As they say, speak softly but carry a big stick.

This thread is reserved for bni to gripe about Matt Gaetz

Playing the whataboutism game here.
Oklahoma is 49th in education and their state school superintendent just purchased 500 bibles to be put in every classroom. Do you think that's the best way to spend his time and the taxpayer's money considering the performance of his schools?

He also tried to require every student to watch a video of him praying for trump and trashing teacher unions. Didn't work out too well. Neither did his blatant attempt to get the education secretary position.


wtf. A very astute move to nominate a guy who his hated by many in his party and who was about to be nailed by a House report into his alleged activities with a minor. Then have him withdraw.
Please explain the 4D chess move. This should be good.
Gaetz had the potential to be a political liability. By resigning from his seat in the house, the investigation into him was dropped. It's highly unlikely he would have been confirmed as AG, a battle probably not worth fighting for Trump.
Trumps eliminates 2 hurdles, Gaetz clears his name and becomes a highly paid lobbyist. Done and Done.

Speculation from Spartanwire.

Why would anyone of any quality jump to join Walters? And why would you do it this early in the game? And didn't Walters hire this staff to begin with. If we do hire a new staff and scrape together four wins next year then what?

Just pathetic leadership from the top if he is retained. Probably even if he isn't.
All the right questions. Completely agree!

As much as I dont want to talk about Indiana....

In a weird way, perhaps Purdue sucking keeps iu out of the playoff:
Here's how: iu gets smoked by OSU 45-10. Purdue takes a 31-7 beating at MSU.
PU comes to iu at 1-10, one of the worst teams in P5 to add on to iu's already crap SOS.
Maybe is makes the Purdue game irrelevant to iu? If iu loses. obviously they're out. If iu spanks Purdue, well, big deal, congrats on beating another bad team with your bad SOS.
The ESPN playoff calculator has IU as 96% likely in, a percentage likelihood that incorporates IU as a 13.5 underdog at OSU and (I would expect) a 20+ point favorite at home against Purdue.

In other words, if IU loses to OSU by two touchdowns and beats Purdue by 20-ish, they're in. If they exceed those expectations they're in with a good seed. If they massively underperform to those expectations the 96% goes down.
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This thread is reserved for bni to gripe about Matt Gaetz

What Bible version are they going to use?

Whichever they prefer. But there's only one correct version.

The guy in Oklahoma was requiring schools to purchase and use the Donald Trump for-profit version at over $59.99 a pop, when there are unlimited major distributor King James Bibles available for $10.00 - $15.00 per.

As much as I dont want to talk about Indiana....

In a weird way, perhaps Purdue sucking keeps iu out of the playoff:
Here's how: iu gets smoked by OSU 45-10. Purdue takes a 31-7 beating at MSU.
PU comes to iu at 1-10, one of the worst teams in P5 to add on to iu's already crap SOS.
Maybe is makes the Purdue game irrelevant to iu? If iu loses. obviously they're out. If iu spanks Purdue, well, big deal, congrats on beating another bad team with your bad SOS.
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After the PSU-Purdue volleyball game

I watched the match, Purdue has a nice team, once again a top 16 team that likely sees their season end in the 16 or 8 rounds, Shondell is a helluve Coach however he needed to get a portal recruit last year, the team it seems is a player short. On Dig City he mentions how they’re going to look for one this offseason, might be the difference between a good or a great tournament run!

As much as I dont want to talk about Indiana....

Penn State played a crap WV team, Kent State, and Bowling Green. And they nearly lost to Bowling Green. Is that better than WIU, FIU, and Charlotte? Sure. But not by much, and PSU is thought to be a lock with their loss to OSU on the books, and they haven't obliterated lesser teams.

I think the takeaway may be that their aren’t enough P4 one loss and two loss with big win teams to fill 12 spots.

The lowest a one loss P4 team has ever been ranked at the end of a season is 7th.
why are you defending Indinia?

As much as I dont want to talk about Indiana....

I will. (Because, yes, I am a little envious of their football hire)

Interesting point made yesterday about the IU v OSU game. The point was that if OSU wins, IU should NOT be awarded a playoff slot.

The reasoning is the strength of schedule. The IU preseason is the weakest of the ranked teams. The second point that caught my eye is that IU has not played any Big Ten team in the upper half of the conference, although Washington cracked that ceiling at 4-3/6-5. Normally Michigan would be there, but not this year.

At this point Washington is their only foe with a winning record.

Are they better than Purdue? Absolutely, but that is not my point. We might have 4 wins with their schedule.
While I hate iu as much, probably more, than anyone, you play the schedule you're dealt. They've done that, and pretty much dominated.
Now, would I love to see OSU hang 63 on them and then have Purdue piss on their parade, Abso-fricking-lutely. Nothing would be more satisfying than to see iu's magical season end in a massive train wreck.

Speculation from Spartanwire.

Yeah if that is true... there won't be anyone at the stadium next year and is the single worst decision Bobo would have ever made.

The football program would essentially be dead at that point.
Agreed. Even "progress" shown by winning 4 games next year against our worst competition will not re-energize the fan base or demonstrate that Walters has the team heading in the right direction.
He's lost the team, recruits and fans. That's the triple option of a program death spiral.
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Speculation from Spartanwire.

The team we play in a week says Indiana (well sometimes Indinia) on the jersey, not jmu. I mean we’ve destroyed bad IU teams how many times and that didn’t demean the rivalry? It would be great to think we can end their playoff chances this year but …
Purdue will need a miracle to beat iu. Stranger things have happened and you never know with a rivalry game.
But, I suspect this is the year for iu to take out many years of frustration and try to get some attention from the playoff committee by hanging 70+ on Purdue.
The good part is, and embarrassing defeat to iu might force MBob to make the call.
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