Chatter in the Booths

[Miss Friendship]

Yeah might have gotten you killed, and we'd never hear of MF again.

Well I did meet Ox... He's not the person he claims to be. He's a big scary 50 year old with tattoos and carries a machete. Lucky I escaped with my life.

[Blitz]

Yeah might have gotten you killed, and we'd never hear of MF again.

Well I did meet Ox... He's not the person he claims to be. He's a big scary 50 year old with tattoos and carries a machete. Lucky I escaped with my life.

*Already saw the picture of fb*

Don't worry peoples.

[Miss Friendship]

Yeah might have gotten you killed, and we'd never hear of MF again.

Well I did meet Ox... He's not the person he claims to be. He's a big scary 50 year old with tattoos and carries a machete. Lucky I escaped with my life.

*Already saw the picture of fb*

Don't worry peoples.

Where did I say that was Ox?

[Tea Ess]

Maybe it was Paula in disguise? She does have more than one twin after all.

[Blitz]

Your twin....

[Tarol]

I actually talked politics with my Uber driver the other morning. Which, as someone pointed out later, isn't the smartest thing to discuss on the road with a stranger.

[Tea Ess]

Wow. That's insane. And scary. The thought of Ben Carson as Education Secretary is physically painful.

Why?

Ben Carson has proved himself to be a brilliant surgeon, but I remain skeptical of his political experience, or lack thereof. His most prominent political talent seems to be making bizarre statements of questionable reliability. Do we really want someone who believes Joseph built the pyramids to store grain in charge of the US educational system?

[GJFH]

For some reason I really like this particular one... I'm D20.

Which one matches your eyes?

[Aftershocker]

I'm probs T50 or T40.

[Miss Friendship]

I actually talked politics with my Uber driver the other morning. Which, as someone pointed out later, isn't the smartest thing to discuss on the road with a stranger.

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WAS THAT YOU?

[Tea Ess]

It's hard to say, Joe. Mine are kind of like T17, but maybe with a little bit more of D60. They're definitely brown, but ringed with a green hazely color.

[GJFH]

I'm probs T50 or T40.

Ooh, nice. Deep brown eyes are very pretty, they're like pools of chocolate.

It's hard to say, Joe. Mine are kind of like T17, but maybe with a little bit more of D60. They're definitely brown, but ringed with a green hazely color.

I can imagine that, my brother's are almost definitely D60. It's this amazing Amber colour.

[Pound Foolish]

Wow. That's insane. And scary. The thought of Ben Carson as Education Secretary is physically painful.

Why?
And why are talking again about politics in Chatter?

How to explain why Carson is unfit to be Education Secretary... How to explain why penguin is unfit to be a Bedouin.

[Tea Ess]

What pretty eyes you have, Penguin.

Wow. That's insane. And scary. The thought of Ben Carson as Education Secretary is physically painful.

Why?
And why are talking again about politics in Chatter?

How to explain why Carson is unfit to be Education Secretary... How to explain why penguin is unfit to be a Bedouin.

Yeah, this. It's just not a good pick.

[TigerShadow]

Okay, why would Carson be the Secretary of Education? Why not something that actually relates to his career as a neurosurgeon, like Health and Human Services or nominating him for Surgeon General once Vivek Murthy's term is up? Education is just a bizarre choice.

[Doll]

I'm D10 on that chart. I love my eyes, they change which color come out more (the blue or the green) based on what I'm wearing.

[GJFH]

I'm D10 on that chart. I love my eyes, they change which color come out more (the blue or the green) based on what I'm wearing.

That's a lovely shade Belle, I think it's neat that some people's eyes can change, my eyes actually were darker when I was younger though now they remain the same.

[Blitz]

Okay, why would Carson be the Secretary of Education? Why not something that actually relates to his career as a neurosurgeon, like Health and Human Services or nominating him for Surgeon General once Vivek Murthy's term is up? Education is just a bizarre choice.

As a Presidential campaign one of his focuses was education. His focus as a Neurosurgeon was studying the mind of a child, his famous operations on children. He's famous for his work with children. When he retired, he focused on education of children. Today even, he has a reading focus day for younger children. So he is qualified for this position.

[Miss Friendship]

Why are airports and airplanes so cold? *sips her hot coffee frantically*

I'm currently wrapping up a seven hour layover and sleeping in an airport is about as bad as an airplane...

Which one matches your eyes?

A50 Although it looks prettier on the chart.

[TigerShadow]

Okay, why would Carson be the Secretary of Education? Why not something that actually relates to his career as a neurosurgeon, like Health and Human Services or nominating him for Surgeon General once Vivek Murthy's term is up? Education is just a bizarre choice.

As a Presidential campaign one of his focuses was education. His focus as a Neurosurgeon was studying the mind of a child, his famous operations on children. He's famous for his work with children. When he retired, he focused on education of children. Today even, he has a reading focus day for younger children. So he is qualified for this position.

But has he ever actually worked in education? Was he a teacher, a principal, a school superintendent, a college professor?

Education is more complicated than "knowing how a kid's mind works" and "promoting reading". It's about understanding the needs of school administrations. It's about understanding teachers and what they need. It involves experience in budgeting and management of large groups of people. It involves an intimate, firsthand knowledge of the kinds of problems schools and students are actually facing.

I went through high school in one of the worst states in the Union in terms of education, and even though my hometown contains one of the few top-rated schools in the South, I have seen what terrible administrations and educational situations look like. They come in the form of the state legislature placing the tourism industry above giving schools the time and flexibility they need. They come in the form of widespread corruption, nepotism, and incompetence left unchecked until an entire school district needs to be taken over, shut down, and overhauled by the state. They come in the form of people who act like they know what they're talking about, but don't have the experience or the skill necessary to do a remotely decent job. They come in the form of administrations and legislators prioritizing standardized test results over actual quality of teaching and learning.

A couple of years of experience (Carson retired from his job as a neurosurgeon in 2013) and medical knowledge of the brain don't cut it. The Secretary of Education advises educational policies at the federal level—they are, in many ways, responsible for the education of millions of children. Higher standards of experience and personal knowledge are required. Ben Carson doesn't meet them.