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bigpony t1_ja4f37c wrote

A long time ago? What is a long time? This guy died in the 1970s, by your logic shouldn't time erase that meaning?

The erection of these confederate monuments peaked in the 1950s as a response to the civil rights movement. Not after the war. The people who put them up are the daughters of the confederacy and they are still VERY (20k active members and a facebook group.) They are switching tactics and going after school boards now.

I am not aware of any large concerted effort to 'phase these out' can you enlighten me on this further?

I'm confused as to your stance. Does time erase meaning or should the confederate statues and the street name be removed? What is your opinion?

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GrreggWithTwoRs t1_ja4enx4 wrote

That’s interesting. I wonder how it works if say you want to use it for a while then give it to somebody like a family member as a hand me down.

If it’s only on the new pros then it’ll take a year or two to filter. I imagine most people still have the old pros..I’ve had mine for 1.5 years and I’m hoping to get at least another year out of them

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RainbowCrown71 t1_ja46usa wrote

No, you have to dig a little bit but I bought one for $9.95 since the search function is made to sell you the exclusive ones.

It was $9.95 + $2 to port it away. There were about 100+ numbers at that price range. If you want to keep it at numberbarn, then yes you are renting it.

Type 212, then in filters put “Get It Now” and sort by price and a lot should come up.

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supermechace t1_ja45twm wrote

Not sure if they purposely doing these things vs symptoms of dysfunctional government. From what I understand it's basically down to the byzantine politics and dysfunctional infighting and competing priorities. One of the easiest issues to understand is from what I hear is the poor relationship between teachers and "management"(principles and DOE). Then the other is that DOE management doesn't appear to be a promote from within culture based on performance, the real decision makers are political appointments who basically redo everything from scratch when they're in. Maybe the best analogy is that the school system is as dysfunctional as the MTA except the definition of success is made even muddier. Then in my opinion I feel that the system has grown so big that more authority should be given to local schools and local elected officials. The DOE and political appointee are too far removed from the neighborhoods which are basically cities onto themselves population wise.

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supermechace t1_ja43rc9 wrote

Not OP but I think charter schools in NYC are a makeshift bandaid and political bandaid to address the inability to meet the needs and wants by parents of schools due to bureaucracy, infighting withing government, competing politics and educational goals, and power of teacher unions. Basically similar to outsourcing govt services to outside companies (which has advantages of not being tied up in bureaucracy and plausible deniability if contractor messes up) but in this case the government maintains control of a competing service(public school vs outsourced charter school). The existence of charter schools is due to government and political dysfunction (which seems to be worsening in NYC) so unless those disappear charter schools aren't likely either. Also keep in mind there's a lot of tax payer money out there so everyone wants it to be used the way they want it to be used.

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