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Kansas State Football / Re: Let's pump some sunshine! Our defense wasn't horrible!
« on: September 03, 2016, 12:15:51 AM »
Run D wasn't that bad. Pass D sucked ass. We play in the pass happy Big 12. It is going to be a long year.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Explain that weird phantom penalty/5th down thing to me
« on: September 03, 2016, 12:05:13 AM »
Just an absolute embarrassing performance by the big 12 refs.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: August 17, 2016, 12:09:28 AM »
when will he be eligible?
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: June 15, 2016, 09:12:21 PM »Now that's a kid who looks to be a legit DITR'er.x
I like his vision and quikness in traffic. Only one guy with an angle caught him. Better go recruit that guy too.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: June 08, 2016, 10:43:41 PM »
This guy was 2nd string in JuCo.
our best QB last year was a juco wr.
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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« on: May 24, 2016, 07:23:15 PM »
Somebody needs to do a gif timewarp of the NEZ.
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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« on: May 13, 2016, 12:55:02 AM »
and writing notes to let the coaches know that William Ash acted goofy when receiving his powercat choice award
I guess i missed this nugget. More details please.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: State of the State - case closed, money is bad for schools
« on: May 05, 2016, 11:57:42 PM »oh you mean the numerous superintendents who have districts so big they can visit schools at either end of it in one day? Yeah eff them too.
How much of the increased $$ went into the classrooms and how much to administration?
Yep, it's all admin. As you tried before, we need to axe that old bat who has been running the district phone desk for 43 years and brings in apple pie on fridays. Her $34k a year job is really the problem in rural districts.
Clearly he was talking about the rank and file admin personnel, Flying Tap Dancing Spaghetti Monster Whack-A-Doodle.
When the farmer with $300,000 worth of land pays the same in taxes for schools as a homeowner pays for a $300,000 house, the rural districts can have as many old bats and superintendents as they can afford.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: State of the State - case closed, money is bad for schools
« on: May 04, 2016, 11:35:03 PM »https://news.wgbh.org/2016/04/26/innovation/how-massachusetts-became-best-state-education
Imagine this: Not that long ago, in the 1970s and ‘80s, Massachusetts’ public schools were considered mediocre by many standards. Today, the state’s school system ranks among the best in the world.
What happened?
Magic.
So said Republican Governor William Weld, in 1993, after he signed a landmark effort to overhaul how the state pays for its schools.
“Of all the gifts within our purview, a good education in a safe environment is the magic wand that brings opportunity,” Weld said. “It’s up to us to make sure that wand is waved over every cradle.”
To do that, Massachusetts poured state money into districts that educated lots of low-income kids, many of which also struggled to raise funds through local property taxes. This windfall allowed poorer districts to hire and keep good teachers, give them better training and improve curriculum in the classroom.
For 36 years, Karen English has been teaching in Revere, a town just north of Boston where nearly 80 percent of students are low-income. (Kirk Carapezza/WGBH)
“I really think that the funding was like winning the World Series,” says Karen English, a teacher of 36 years in Revere, a town just north of Boston where nearly 80 percent of students are low-income. “Everybody embraced [the extra funding], and just to have the curriculum and the books and the space made you wanna be here.”
For roughly a decade, from 1993 to 2003, Revere’s school budget increased by some $5 million a year. Former Revere superintendent Paul Dakin says those steady funding increases didn’t just support teachers but also new classes and standards.
“There wasn’t a calculus course the year I came here,” Dakin says. “So we redid the graduation requirements and, over the years, moved to the point where honors programs and calculus courses and A.P. courses were and are still plentiful.”
“We noticed the difference right away,” says Revere’s current superintendent Dianne Kelly. Back in 1993, Kelly was teaching high school algebra.
“We adopted a whole new textbook series in the math department,” Kelly recalls. “The first year I was here, the textbooks I was using with my students dated – no exaggeration – back to the ‘50s and ‘60s.”
Revere schools also used the money to hire reading coaches and a technology team. Some schools even lengthened the school day.
And with these changes, student test scores and graduation rates slowly improved. Today, the district says nearly 90 percent of its high school graduates go on to some form of post-secondary education -- up from 70 percent before Weld’s magic wand moment.
“When you look at Massachusetts’ overall performance nationally, we have gone from the middle of the pack to the top of the pack,” says Paul Reville, a former state education secretary who now teaches at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
Reville, though, says it’s important to remember that while education may be a magic wand, money isn’t.
“For every dollar you add, you’re not necessarily going to see an increase in improved output,” Reville insists. “It depends how you spend the money. As we look around the Commonwealth, some places have spent money wisely, and other people have wasted the opportunity.”
How much of the increased $$ went into the classrooms and how much to administration?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: GPC Wabash Station Thread Title Of The Day
« on: April 11, 2016, 01:02:27 AM »no, he's right. there are two channels, but it would be just as easy to flip a switch for snyder as having to tell THE NEEK to do it.
fwiw, Sean flips back and forth from offense/defense all the time and carries his own box receiver thing.
Or is the box the Neek is carrying a controller with a cord to a robotic exoskeleton suit on HCBS because Shawn is pulling a Weekend a Bernie's scam on the fanbase.
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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« on: March 16, 2016, 06:59:10 PM »Never waste an opportunity to tout a marketing slogan.
Or to poke fun at little brother.
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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« on: March 14, 2016, 09:50:05 PM »http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/kansas_state_university/football/#/p_10b_1/
I don't understand all the criticism of BSFS being just a big hole in the ground. I remember the first time i walked up to the edge of the east side (before the current ESC) and thinking wow this is cool as eff.
Only KU fans think that, bub. You don't need to listen to them.
Do they really think that or is it just crap running out of their mouth trying to find something critical to say?
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Kansas State Football / Re: BSFS Expansion Thread
« on: March 14, 2016, 09:24:41 PM »http://www.seats3d.com/ncaa/kansas_state_university/football/#/p_10b_1/
I don't understand all the criticism of BSFS being just a big hole in the ground. I remember the first time i walked up to the edge of the east side (before the current ESC) and thinking wow this is cool as eff.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: State of the State - case closed, money is bad for schools
« on: March 01, 2016, 09:23:27 PM »Or to supplement things like busing or pay a higher margin for items because they are in the middle of no where. But we need to axe those 3 of 4 of those one office secretaries because their 40k is really sucking the budget dry!Did you guys know that Rice County, Kansas, population 10,000 and change (that's total population) has 4 school districts? I just picked a random western county off the list. Those 4 counties spend an average $15,738 per pupil. The Kansas average is $13,124.
But yeah, the problem is we're just not "adequately funding" our schools...
How are they spending that much if (I assume) the cost of living is so low out there?
Because they get the same amount of $$/pupil as higher cost areas whether they need it or not and continue to suck tax revenues from suburban areas to supplement low tax rates for rural communities.
http://cjonline.com/news/2015-03-23/rural-majority-school-consolidation-complex-controversial
So if the rural school district has those issues that cost more than the basic cost of education, tax the constituents of that district instead of looking to equalization payments from areas that pay taxes based upon the value of their properties/income.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: State of the State - case closed, money is bad for schools
« on: February 29, 2016, 11:10:19 PM »
The equality spending for schools is complete crap until there is equality in taxation used to fund school spending.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: State of the State - case closed, money is bad for schools
« on: February 29, 2016, 11:01:44 PM »Did you guys know that Rice County, Kansas, population 10,000 and change (that's total population) has 4 school districts? I just picked a random western county off the list. Those 4 counties spend an average $15,738 per pupil. The Kansas average is $13,124.
But yeah, the problem is we're just not "adequately funding" our schools...
How are they spending that much if (I assume) the cost of living is so low out there?
Because they get the same amount of $$/pupil as higher cost areas whether they need it or not and continue to suck tax revenues from suburban areas to supplement low tax rates for rural communities.
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Kansas State Football / Re: KU football is hurting
« on: February 23, 2016, 12:07:06 AM »The latest Butthurtistan Conspiracy. K-State/MHK has the Kansas DC delegation in their hip pocket, therefore K-State/MHK has an unfair advantage in getting Fed money for the airport.Do we have USDHS/USAG in our pocket too since we got NBAF through dirty tricks?
Man "little brother" sounds more and more like Big Brother every single day. Like a Boss . . .
Apparently it's total DC and Topeka political dominance by K-State aka Big Brother.
Any details on KS legislature budget bill that restricts/hand slaps little bro for using lease deals to finance capital improvements? I saw something about $300MM in planned improvements that they were going to finance using lease arrangements to try to avoid legislature approval. Rock chalk park, Bball condos, & proposed non-bball athletes & student dorm part of the $300MM?
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Justin case you forgot, K-State basketball sucks; OSU ADV
« on: February 14, 2016, 12:39:16 AM »I do like how we play defense,
I think we switch too much on screens. Too many bad match-ups and open looks when we have guys chasing around trying to find their man.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Bombshell
« on: February 05, 2016, 01:36:38 AM »
Actually, 14 officially leaving not 13. Also, a handful of others waiting to see what transpires before deciding. BID is getting closer.
List of 14 please. What are the handful wanting to transpire?
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Kansas State Football / Re: Bombshell
« on: February 03, 2016, 10:24:03 PM »
:party:s
And UK ends up in the Big East being D-1AA in football!!
I mean I know it's not real, but imagine for a second how great it would be if Kansas State University was the straw that broke the Big XII's back.
And UK ends up in the Big East being D-1AA in football!!
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Kansas State Football / Re: Bombshell
« on: February 03, 2016, 01:41:07 PM »
Hey lets get back to this SEC thing. More deets please!!
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: February 01, 2016, 08:47:15 PM »Kaeson Risner.
Lol.
He's a walk-on.
Dalton's brother?
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: WE DID IT! GREAT WIN BY STATE OF KANSAS VS KENTUCKY
« on: January 31, 2016, 12:06:19 AM »
Was hoping for a sweep of the SEC but would have settled for an L in this one.
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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: January 17, 2016, 06:08:44 PM »
What is worse? KSU losing a recruit to UT or UT having to steal a 3* OL from KSU? The Longhorn fall continues.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: KDOT Issues Bonds
« on: January 09, 2016, 10:15:02 AM »We have crap roads
Not really. Go drive around missouri and you will realize that kansas roads are really pretty good.