They were also asked to record subtler actions that many would consider harmless: men calling women “girls, ” complimenting them on stereotypically feminine behavior and sheltering them from more “masculine” tasks. Swim and Becker described this less obvious sexism to participants as “benevolent sexism,” a term coined by psychologists Peter Glick and Susan Fiske in a 1996 study to refer to “a paternalistic attitude towards women that idealizes them affectionately,” Glick told The Huffington Post.
This article is just strange. As a college-educated, uptown-living, straight black man in his 20′s (for a few more months, anyway), who is also a tech-sector guy, this just doesn’t make sense. First, almost every man I know is straight and white. And almost every one of them posts to Twitter and Facebook at least ten times daily, and most have a Tumblr, a Posterous, and a blog that they are posting to at least daily.
In contrast, among the nonwhites and women that I know (I don’t run into a lot of GLBT folk, since I’m at the seminary almost all the time), while all use their Facebook on most days, only one has a Twitter feed, and – other than the ubiquitous mommy-blogs – none have a blog of any sort that’s maintained with any regularity.
“What happened?” asks the writer Claire Dederer in her memoir, “Poser,” which examines life as a new mother in Seattle. In the 1970s, “the feminists, the hippies, the protesters, the cultural elite all said, It’s O.K. to drop out.” In contrast, “We made up our minds, my brother and I and so many of the grown children of the runaway moms, that we would put our families first and ourselves second. We would be good, all the time. We would stay married, no matter what, and drink organic milk.”
Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000 in the New York metro area. The gap between real and reported per-pupil spending ranges from a low of 23 percent in the Chicago area to a high of 90 percent in the Los Angeles metro region.
To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school.
Citizens drastically underestimate current per-student spending and are misled by official figures. Taxpayers cannot make informed decisions about public school funding unless they know how much districts currently spend. And with state budgets stretched thin, it is more crucial than ever to carefully allocate every tax dollar.
Didn’t you know this already?
People often don’t believe me when I say that a localized, privatized school system would be both better and cheaper for even the poorest Americans. Now I have numbers to back it up.
How are the poorest Americans going to afford private school? Public education is free, private schools cost money. When it comes down to feeding your family or paying for your child’s education, feeding your family comes first. Education is not supposed to be limited by your ability to spend money. So my only real question is “how do we get the poorest Americans enough money to send all their children to private money costing schools?”
“Public education is free”? Are you kidding? You just reblogged a report that public schools cost twice as much as private.
And, historically, education was limited by your ability to pay for it. That meant that you may not be able to go to a regular school, but you could be an apprentice somewhere if you worked hard. Or a community would pool their money and hire a teacher for their children. It can work.
But since most communities have a tax base, and are apparently accustomed to spending around $20k per student, why not give vouchers, encourage people to form new private schools and expand existing ones, and take advantage of schools that are better and cheaper than the public system?
Yes public education is free. Since we pay taxes we get the benefit of public education along with free public roads to use and free public beaches to visit. I guess you payed? Your parents signed a check to you public elementary school when you enrolled and then had to pay them another check every year you went their? Just like when you pay a members fee at a country club you get to play golf for free. Taxes are the members fee to the country club that is America membership includes education, roads, hospitals, a fire department, a police force, beaches, a Military and many other great perks. Maybe that helps?
Sorry, something isn’t free just because you don’t have to pay at the time of service. By that logic home repairs are free because you pay for insurance.
We pay taxes, which means we paid for the roads, and the beaches, and the schools. We pay for the teachers, administrators, staff members and supplies. My parents wrote a check every year, whether I was in school or not, to the county for property taxes. So yes, they paid. They paid for public schools when I was going to a private preschool, and they paid for them when I was going to a private college. They still pay for them now, and so do I, even though my kids aren’t school age yet.
Your country club analogy is cute, but if my club’s golf course has weeds in the fairway and the tennis courts are falling apart, and I find a private golf course that’s cheaper and in much better shape, I can take my money there. No such luck with property taxes.
You can tell the measure of a man, or woman, by how well they tip. There are ridiculous and pointless unwritten rules about tipping that make the whole exercise frustrating to some who don’t understand the practice, but at its core it shows a sincere understanding for what other people have to do at their jobs. Which is sort of the point of empathy.
Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000 in the New York metro area. The gap between real and reported per-pupil spending ranges from a low of 23 percent in the Chicago area to a high of 90 percent in the Los Angeles metro region.
To put public school spending in perspective, we compare it to estimated total expenditures in local private schools. We find that, in the areas studied, public schools are spending 93 percent more than the estimated median private school.
Citizens drastically underestimate current per-student spending and are misled by official figures. Taxpayers cannot make informed decisions about public school funding unless they know how much districts currently spend. And with state budgets stretched thin, it is more crucial than ever to carefully allocate every tax dollar.
Didn’t you know this already?
People often don’t believe me when I say that a localized, privatized school system would be both better and cheaper for even the poorest Americans. Now I have numbers to back it up.
How are the poorest Americans going to afford private school? Public education is free, private schools cost money. When it comes down to feeding your family or paying for your child’s education, feeding your family comes first. Education is not supposed to be limited by your ability to spend money. So my only real question is “how do we get the poorest Americans enough money to send all their children to private money costing schools?”
“Public education is free”? Are you kidding? You just reblogged a report that public schools cost twice as much as private.
And, historically, education was limited by your ability to pay for it. That meant that you may not be able to go to a regular school, but you could be an apprentice somewhere if you worked hard. Or a community would pool their money and hire a teacher for their children. It can work.
But since most communities have a tax base, and are apparently accustomed to spending around $20k per student, why not give vouchers, encourage people to form new private schools and expand existing ones, and take advantage of schools that are better and cheaper than the public system?
Images of last week’s fatal police shooting in Miami Beach have been released.
Here you see footage recorded on a cell phone by Narces Benoit. The police are surrounding a car driven by Raymond Herisse. Then they started firing at the 22-year-old.
Herisse was killed, three officers and four bystanders were injured. Benoit and his girlfriend, Ericka Davis, are accusing authorities of destroying evidence and intimidation.
They say the only reason this video is still around because they were able to hide a memory card before authorities smashed the phone that captured this incident.
Yeah, police smashed the bystander’s HTC EVO, then threw it at him for daring to record them as they murder someone. Luckily, the bystander was able to pull the memory card from the phone and slip it into his mouth, then recover the video.
Of course, all news accounts of his story begin with mentioning that the victim here had a criminal history, but when you do a little more digging, you find that all of his previous encounters with “the law” were for non-violent drug offenses.
Boy am I glad this pot-smoking killer, err…maniac, no…umm…person who does drugs and harms no one is dead and off the streets so he can’t continue to wreak havoc on society — shit, that’s not right either…
