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ProfessorGAC

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25. To Assuage Your Concerns, Slightly...

Reply to GPV (Reply #22)

Mon Dec 30, 2024, 03:25 PM

Dec 30

Last edited Mon Dec 30, 2024, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)

...the junior high & high schools around here still offer vocational classes & business courses as granular as "Retail Sales". One of the high schools has an auto shop that is state of the art, and the staff there actually has their auto repairs done there at a steep discount. (Students do get a modest pay for working on cars.) Facility is huge!
At least 4 high schools offer culinary & 3 have a partnership with a county vocational center so classes in hair, beauty, landscaping, and so on.
So, you may not be seeing what you'd like around there, but some places still do those things you support!

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In 2016, I left the Greens to become a Dem so that I could caucus for Bernie. By that point, I'd been a Green for more [View all] GPV Dec 29 OP

i have been a green, and a libertarian rampartd Dec 29 #1

I'm less convinced that change is coming anymore. GPV Dec 29 #6

i/m out of hope that we can hold the little we've made rampartd Dec 29 #12

Same. Trump 2.0 is gonna be disastrous GPV Dec 29 #23

i think it's a huge mistake to just accept the results of this election. mopinko Dec 29 #2

👍🏼 Clouds Passing Dec 29 #4

I hear ya. GPV Dec 29 #7

I've been singing this same tune. yellow dahlia Dec 29 #11

We need a workers revolution. Full stop. Now. ColinC Dec 29 #3

Unions are dying. I'm president of my local and I had to fight hard to grow from GPV Dec 29 #5

I'm discouraged at the vitriol aimed at progressives like AOC Arazi Dec 29 #8

"Maybe a system can only drift so far off center before it collapses." stopdiggin Dec 29 #9

No, I meant the US political system. Gop went so far right, we toppled over. GPV Dec 29 #14

I too am looking for reassurances that "they've got this". yellow dahlia Dec 29 #10

RCV ought to be a welcome change for you. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 29 #13

Actually, I don't. Still feels too risky, vote-splitting wise. :( GPV Dec 29 #15

Why? OAITW r.2.0 Dec 29 #16

If too many center left voters split in the first round, but majority center right GPV Dec 29 #17

I don't see that happening at all. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 29 #20

Maybe, but it still worries me. :( GPV Dec 30 #24

I always appreciated your posts. Even when you were using your old name. Crunchy Frog Dec 29 #18

Your experience with the younger generation is opposite of mine. Elessar Zappa Dec 29 #19

The same issues propel us forward, generation after generation. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 29 #21

I don't think the kids today are terrible. I just think too much screen time and GPV Dec 29 #22

To Assuage Your Concerns, Slightly... ProfessorGAC Dec 30 #25