Okay, and? I still wouldn't want to deal with the police there.

My father moved to Camden in the 70's and watched the whole city go to shit. I'm more than aware.

Naw. The police will claim they'll need more money for mental health services for their officers, the state will give it, and then nothing will change.

Who the fuck expects the flair of a John Wick movie!

You mean when Russia invaded a nation that had recently disarm themselves? That one?

A bunker buster on a house would immediately delegitimise a government both domestically and abroad. An armed population can do a lot more than an unarmed one in that instance.

Right, it's generally the case that the schools that comply with ADA and IDEA are supposed to get extra funding in order to assist students who have special needs, like access to speech pathologists or medical professionals with training in the issues faced by a student. It's also, in part, meant to give teachers a financial incentive to take on special education students.

The extra funding isn't the issue by itself. It's the fact that schools make it far too easy to skim off the top and get away with it without involving a courtroom.

Principal got slapped with a restraining order. About it.

So, in my school district, the administration were seemingly on the cut when it came to admitting students as special education students, whether they needed it or not. Apparently, a chunk of that funding was lost if any of those students were to transition out of special education for any reason.

I wanted out. My parents wanted me out. The guidance counselor's office were aware of my situation, but couldn't do much. The only folks who had any issue were in the administration, and were either principals or vice principals. I needed their permission to take standard education classes, which would be invariably denied. No reason given. This is in direct violation of IDEA, BTW.

So, I'd go behind their backs and try to talk to counselors regardless. It'd take maybe a day before the pricipal found out, bring me into his office, pull some bullshit allegation about I'd threaten to blow up the gym or shoot up a classroom and use that as the reason to suspend me, and have my changes to my schedule and IEP reverted.

The superintendent was fully aware this was happening and did nothing. I don't have evidence for it, but I suspect he was on the take.

This is why I'm generally against increasing funding for schools. Far too many administrators take far too much for their own personal gain, and teachers, students, and other actually useful staff get very little of that money.

Eh, depends.

I was damned near expelled after a series of terrorist threat allegations that were proven in a courtroom later to be falsified as a means to have me expelled. The reason for the accusations?

I was attempting to talk to a guidance counselor. Seriously.

Cancer deletion in a pill.

Goddamn I love modern medicine

Many did jump ship. Millions have fled Russia, and more are still doing so, all to avoid conscription.

Dictators only speak the truth when it suits them.

How absolutely weak and filled with garbage do you have to be to literally beat a four-year-old to death?

You chide, but I'd rather be stuck in a Wal-Mart for a day than stuck in an Arctic freeze for even an hour. Despite the stereotypes, you're far less likely to die in the Wal-Mart

>So whenever I see how scared Reddit and the west is of economic success of Asia, I just laugh.

American here. I'd love the whole world to thrive, all of Asia included. I'd be fine with, say, China being the sole world superpower if its regime wasn't so fucking garbage

Maybe slow the transition of colours a fair bit? Otherwise it's neat