Being president of the USA is tough. But being a father is next to impossible.

There are plenty of dedicated and talented teachers out there who know their stuff and know how to teach it.

One problem is an over-regulated system breathing down their back with too many boxes to tick and heavily rigid syllabuses that don't leave any time to sit back and discuss some of the questions behind the questions , you know, the sort of thing that actually teaches kids to think and understand rather than just to repeat and do.

I know a teacher who I respect very highly and who i think was a very good teacher. She quit teaching because she was sick and tired of being forced to do stuff that she didn't believe in.

They effectively all are in the US. Those that nominally aren't need to act as if they were due to their for-profit competitors.

DeVos has little to do with it causally, she was just another brick in the wall, just as Cardonas will turn out to be. Higher education costs in the US have been rising faster than the average income for 3-4-5 decades, with nothing in sight to stop let alone reverse that trend.
You may be interested in Jonathan Haidt, his unearthing a concept of the ancient Greek philosophers (in 2016), Telos, also in relation to (moral) corruption and unbridled capitalism.

I have yet to find something by him that I didn't find interesting. If you have another hour to waste perhaps consider this (from 2019).
Education is the primary factor for social mobility, perhaps after inherited wealth. Who's at the top has no interest in fostering social mobility, after all that means competition from below on the socioeconomic ladder and thus an increased risk of someone else taking their place.

If one really needs money for college, they can join the Army.
https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/education-benefits.html

So soooo true

Maybe professional politicians are good at politics and making deals?
Biden's infrastructure bill sailed through the Senate yesterday, seventeen Republican senators including Mitch McConnell voted with all 50 Democrats on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan infrastructure deal, in a win for President Biden and the bipartisan group of negotiators.

I posted here several times that one thing I really liked about Trump's agenda was fixing the US infrastructure but he never made it happen.

Biden losing the plot? No/little mainstream media coverage??

Play the ball, not the man. His record so far has only been positive.

I though his record was scratched.

Talking of records, US GDP Q2, 2021 +6.5%

Edit: US economy now above pre-pandemic level.

Biden has only been in office six months. I voted for him, and I'm quite happy with him so far. One thing I also really appreciate about him is that he's focused on the job rather than on constantly trying to get attention.

The federal debt and indebtedness are at record levels as well, the deficit isn't far from the record either. Neither is something to gloat about.
Nor is the artificially inflated growth that's based on the depressed 2020 numbers all that impressive. And don't forget inflation, nobody really knows whether it's returning.

The debt ceiling will be reached rather soon, it will be interesting to see if we get another federal government shutdown.

The moratorium on renter evictions will gradually be lifted starting next month, the results won't be pretty. IMHO part of the recent consumer spending spree may well have been fueled by money that should have been used to pay rent.

The Senate took the next step on Friday to bring up a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal that will fulfill key priorities in President Joe Biden's agenda.

Senators voted 66-28 on a motion to proceed, a vote that will open up the legislative package to potential changes through the amendment process. Sixteen Republican senators voted with Senate Democrats in favor.

Any proposed amendments will need a 60 majority so are not likely to succeed.

Parts of the US infrastructure are like the third world will be great when they are fixed.

Meanwhile, Biden's DOJ has announced the IRS must turn over Trump's tax returns to Congress so reversing the advice from Trump's DOJ.

I think we need a "Will Kamala Harris be a good President?" thread sooner, rather than later. Maybe some time around the 25th.

Do note that the DOJ isn't Biden's. Just like it wasn't Trump's.

The tax returns will be interesting, it just has nothing to do with Biden.
(it wouldn't hurt if more than just one poster requested the reopening of the Trump post-presidency thread)

He's certainly not trying to draw attention to his state of mind. At any cost.

But hey, OTOH, you just need a guy to put the signature under the bills that Congress and Senate haggle on and eventually press the button to launch the nukes.

The rest is just for show.

In 2021, Joseph R. Biden Jr. published 52 executive orders (from EO 13985 through EO 14036).

Remember when they said Trump was deranged?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WwDL...ature=youtu.be

Maybe so, but the guy has a significant stutter and repeats words to bring himself back on track.

From covid vaccine to man on the moon in 20 seconds. That is bringing himself back on track for you?

It isn't the stutter, they guy is rumbling non sense. He seems detached from reality at times