mikebradleymke.bsky.social
Husband & dad. Demography, Safe Streets, Frozen Pizza, Lake Michigan, Friluftsliv, Zero waste. Proud Normie. No Kings. Iron Sharpens Iron. For 1 Million Milwaukeeans.
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Talk with the teachers and other parents, talk with the kid about their behaviors & why it was inappropriate, explain that they've gravely disappointed their parents, make them apologize to all parties, and to the extent there's punishment chores and/or restrict freedom (time out, grounded, etc)
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When I go to the park on a busy weekend, the kids that are misbehaved have parents ignoring them. While the kids that are well-behaved have parents monitoring, are they hungry, thirsty, overheated, time for a change in activities, is everyone getting involved, being treated kindly, etc
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Mainly, you don't. You maintain an environment where good behavior outcompetes bad behaviors.
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What's the difference between a glonzo and a gonzo?
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Minnesota has the big 4 plus WNBA, plus MLS. I'm not sure Wisconsin is obviously tapped out especially in a world where TV matters more that the ticket office. That being said, I think we have an obvious population dispersion issue.
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If the wnba kicked off literally the weekend after march madness and ran a spring schedule, I could see that being in a sports entertainment gap. May 16 to September 14, the playoffs in Football season. I don't know. Hard to pencil that in MKE, in my opinion.
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He has some of the weirdest handwriting I have ever seen. It's relatively neat, but just bizarre. Can't put my finger on it.
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I wonder what's the political outcome if, for example, 401Ks and home values are pretty stable but the dollar loses like 60% versus the rest of the world.
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I think we're just going to have a lot of people that have strokes or get disabled and can't work, that just kill themselves instead of burdening their families. And I think that's bad.
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Back in the early post-WW2 era when we had extremely high taxes on the 1% to pay off war debts, it also had the effect of leveling out society. Lot of people thought they were getting ahead because, in part, because celebrities, CEO, pro athletes weren't living that different.
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We're social creatures. When we have a class of people flying around on private jets & 100 million dollar yachts & C list celebrity "yacht girls" at cannes. It's corrosive. At it sets a bar of what's "getting ahead" that will only be achieved by few hundred families on earth.
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If we were a tribe living on the great plains, I don't think even the chiefs are getting that big of a cut.
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To wit, I suspect if you looked at areas where parents still whip their children with belts at elevated rates, it's associated with poor behavior, youth criminality, and low academic achievement.
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I don't know. If I had to guess, getting beat with a belt by your parents is much more like likely to be associated with lifetime underachievement than overachievement.
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The meta algorithm fed me some engagement farming post a la "why were children better behaved in the 50s?" (A premise i am highly skeptical of, but I digress...)
And 100s of responses along the line of "dad would beat you with a belt."
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Just as a personal observation from interacting predominantly with top quintile achievement folks my entire life, it's pretty rare/nonexistent for them to have experienced significant physical punishment as children.
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I figured out a couple weeks back that I ID as an “Education American.” Grew up on the campus of flagship R1. Mom and 5 aunts/uncles were teachers. What’s happening to this country is heartbreaking.
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I think so. I don't get the impression that the top of 60s and 70s high school graduating class were mostly girls and that universities needed bend admission standards for boys to get relatively balanced classes.
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It's like there's been a societal implosion in achievement expectations for men.
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We're going to throw a bunch of special needs & disabled people to the wolves and a bunch of children guilty of being born to poor parents.
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The 25th percentile playground in Wisconsin would be the finest playground in the history of central Massachusetts.
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I was in a fairly blue collar town about the size of my Massachusetts hometown outside Appleton WI this morning with a huge public library, giant athletic fields, huge city/county parks, and a multi million dollar splashpad and municipal swimming pool bonanza.
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It's 80 hours every 2 years to be a cpa in Wisconsin and 120 every 3 in Virginia, both with a minimum of 20 per calendar year.
But both have cheapo online courses you can take to comply that are like $99/year subscriptions. AICPA & WICPA membership is not compulsory.
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Wow. The fee is $43 every 2 years to be a CPA in Wisconsin. I also pay 60 annually to the Virginia Board of Accountancy, where I'm also licensed.
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They make "no sugar" versions of popsicles but they still use sugar alcohols and have 25-40 calories each, which means they aren't infinitely binge-able like diet sodas.
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One of my random policy crusades is that i think every car sold in America should have a vehicle safe large enough to hold at least a handgun as a standard safety feature.
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Yeah. It overtook home burglaries a few years ago.
everytownresearch.org/report/gun-t...
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There's that meme with the punchline like "it sounds like you're feeding shelter cats to coyotes."
I feel like that's a pretty good analogy for our nation's crime/gun relationship.
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The problem is stolen hand guns. The vast majority of guns used in crimes are hand guns that are not legally owned. They are stolen primarily out of cars. The vast number of guns left unsecured in cars turbocharges all this shit, while creating huge car breakin nuisance for everyone else.
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It does have the traditional layout of the pilgrim church and town hall on a common, but it's a very underwhelming version that was more like a lawn than most other new england town commons.
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Our tax code (across all levels of government) has been getting significantly less progressive since World War 2.
Generally speaking, local taxes and fees are fair regressive. State & federal policies counter that to a certain degree & we all pay roughly 25% of our total income when we sum it up.