Conan goes soft

[steverino]

Yes. I know. But education isn't a controversial subject. Everyone wants their kids to get a good education. Again...I was comparing healthcare to gay marriage because they are controversial. Not everyone is going to agree to either.

I am not trying to pick on you here. But I was saddened to hear on NPR the other day that one in three high school students in NYC public schools cannot read. I just wish there would be more of a public outrage, equal in intensity to the national pro/con gay marriage debate.

I'll go one step further. If more young people were getting an education in school, we would then have a larger pool of able candidates from which to choose rather than Hollywood "super-hero's," oil barons, sons of rum-runners, and weak-minded husbands of billionaires.

 

[Darat]

I am not trying to pick on you here. But I was saddened to hear on NPR the other day that one in three high school students in NYC public schools cannot read. ...snip...

Is that why Macdonald's have little pictures on their tills' keypads?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I am not trying to pick on you here. But I was saddened to hear on NPR the other day that one in three high school students in NYC public schools cannot read. I just wish there would be more of a public outrage, equal in intensity to the national pro/con gay marriage debate.

I'll go one step further. If more young people were getting an education in school, we would then have a larger pool of able candidates from which to choose rather than Hollywood "super-hero's," oil barons, sons of rum-runners, and weak-minded husbands of billionaires.

You aren't picking on me. You also aren't understand my point.

Education funding is not controversial.

Universal healthcare and gay marriage are. My only point was that if California was going to be taking on "big socially important" issues, I would rather see gay marriage than universal healthcare.

Got it?

 

[luchog]

Is that why Macdonald's have little pictures on their tills' keypads?

That and the fact that, at least in the US, they frequently employ recent immigrants who have insufficient English skills (which means that, although they have the little pictures on the tills, they can't understand half of what you're saying and still get your order wrong).

 

[steverino]

Is that why Macdonald's have little pictures on their tills' keypads?

I think not. Those pictures are to help people who do read, but do not read English. I think there are people who speak English and only English who do not read, and it is this group to whom they were referring.

 

[firecoins]

I am not trying to pick on you here. But I was saddened to hear on NPR the other day that one in three high school students in NYC public schools cannot read.

I never read that and I went to NYC public schools!