‘Firearms instructor’ hired as school guard leaves handgun in student bathroom

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67. There are frameworks for knowing the truth. That's what high schools and colleges do for people --

help them determine their own levels of gullibility, credible information and the senders' credible authority. It's the old Aristotelian model of rhetoric, and that's just one reliable model. The problem is that given the 1st Amendment, we can't jail anyone for lying. We have to prove all claims of fraud, and yet racketeers can claim simple stupidity when any case gets made that points to their fraudulent intentions. It used to take decades for the signal of truth to gain traction in the white noise of economic and political racketeering, but now it's only taking a fraction of that.

Still. Business has decided that humans are widgets. If capitalists can't take the competition that comes from a fairer system of upward mobility through schooling, then they need to be driven out of the halls of public institutions and keep their vampire squid hands off our tax monies for kids and public services; they need to be made to stay out there in the red tooth and claw world of their 'free' markets. Our schools are being ruined because capitalists have turned to other countries' grads' expertise. Our people are no longer the spending priority of their own state and federal governments.

We need to push hard to drive the money out of politics and reclaim a curriculum that serves all people well.