re: SIAP: Mizzou to cut hundreds of positions amid expected 7 percent enrollment drop

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It's what they deserve after the SJW shite they've pulled

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Goes deeper than this. Remember how they promoted Michael Sam?

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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Ridge, mitch, whatever. We're all snowflake SJW's to you guys.

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Sorry, mitch..got a little ahead of myself I guess.

ETA: And fwiw, it's "y'all", not "you guys." Y'all would help yourselves out a lot if you'd just use our language, ya know. Like asking "Do what?!" and saying "I reckon'" or you're "fixin' to do" so and so...just trying to help y'all up yonder ways out. Also, it's called a "buggy", never a "shopping cart." Just a little Southern Speak 101 for y'all. Since we are so friendly and all down here.

Well bless your lil heart.

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My wife saw her at Lucky's, a local grocery store a few weeks ago

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Was she in the seafood department, asking to get "some mussels over here"? [Drops mic]

A friend of mine's son works at Lucky's in COMO. I may ask him over the summer to be on the lookout for her and spit in her coleslaw.

Gov Nixon was the gutless leader during the Mizzou SJW debacle, not Greitens.

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When has Missouri (or really any other state or institution in this country for that matter) ever thrown a bunch of money at education? Our schools in MO are a mess (K-12 and post-secondary) because our state government doesn't care enough about them not to cut funding each year. There is living within your means and there is expecting MU (and again, EVERY K-12 school and public college in Missouri) to do more every year while giving less money.

We're in the midst of one of the better economic booms that our country has ever seen, and somehow in Missouri we don't have enough money to put fuel in our school buses.

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This thread is about the University of Missouri, but this one rubs me the wrong way.

Look how much is the right amount to spend on primary education? How much? How much should you pay in admin costs for a school? How many administrators should be employed?

To my eyes this thing is a damned black box that continually demands more and more money. The results aren't any more impressive than in the past, but they sure have a lot bigger campus and a whole heck of a lot more administrators than they did even 20 years ago.

So is this money wisely spent? Or is it a cottage industry which only educates students as a sideline thing?

Got a budget problem? Explain to me how so many schools can have these ridiculous athletic stadiums.

Then what kind of facilities do you actually need for students to learn?

I'm not going to google it, but I read an anecdote by Robert Heinlein once. It was about his father's education in rural Missouri (Robert Heinlein was born in 1907, so do the math).

"My father never went to college. He attended high school in a southern Missouri town of 3000+, then attended a private 2 - year academy roughly analogous to junior college today, except that it was very small - had to be; a day school, and Missouri had no paved roads.

Here are some of the subjects he studied in backcountry 19th century schools: Latin, Greek, physics (natural philosophy), French, geometry, algebra, 1st year calculus, bookkeeping, American history, World history, chemistry, geology.

Twenty - eight years later I attended a much larger city high school. I took Latin and French but Greek was not offered; I took physics and chemistry but geology was not offered. I took geometry and algebra but calculus was not offered. I took American history and ancient history but no comprehensive history course was offered. Anyone wishing comprehensive history could take (each a one - year 5 - hrs/wk course) ancient history, medieval history, modern European history, and American history - and note that the available courses ignored all of Asia, all of South America, all of Africa except ancient Egypt, and touched Canada and Mexico solely with respect to our wars with each."

Come on. I can find other such stories if you wish. And to be fair he did mention his father attended something beyond high school.

I called it a black box. I don't have the right to apply a metric to that box, namely perceived value divided by funds spent, and make a judgement that "you guys suck?"

But I know. The right amount of money to spend is whatever "you" (conflating you with the typical lot who lobby for education funding) say it is. Right?

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Heh, the funny thing is that particular accent, dying out in the South, is in high demand in England. It is how the nobility over there used to sound before Received Pronunciation.

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Oh, it's still alive and well in this part of South Carolina. I get told daily by other Southerners I have that old Southern drawl all the time. Of course I take it as a compliment.

Too bad we don't have the capability of uploading soundbites here so we could hear what all of us sound like.

This is good

The Conservative law makers and the Moderates and Conservatives in the state put their foot up MU lefist loons arse.

Now some of the leftist loons will lose their job as well as the grad assistants, who started the whole ordeal. Win, win

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Got a budget problem? Explain to me how so many schools can have these ridiculous athletic stadiums.

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Well I'm sure you know that the athletic facilities are paid for by folks like you and me who donate to them or go to the games (in college at least, St. Louis has tried to pay for a stadium for the rams but Kroenke wouldnt take my tax money), not state budget dollars.

I don't know what the magic number is in regards to funding primary or secondary students, but I know we spend less money on education than we did in the 90s, and things cost more than they did 25 years ago. I see education dollars as a great investment in our future as a state, but I get that some don't agree.