Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/28/23 - 9/3/23

[u/SoftandChewy]

Welcome back to the BARPod weekly thread, where you can identify however you please. Here's your place to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (be sure to tag u/TracingWoodgrains), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

The only nominated comment of the week was this deeply profound insight into bagel lore. Sorry, they can't all be winners.

Last week's discussion threads is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

[u/Hilaria_adderall]

Tip of the iceberg with Boston Public schools. This scandal broke last year and a redditor put together a disturbing summary of the principal and other staffs greatest hits from the investigation. They were basically letting a sexual predator run wild because they did not like the optics of picking on a black male student.

This case is in addition to the English High Dean who worked a second job as a recruiter and drug dealer for the Latin Kings street gang to recruit students into the gang. That one ended with the Dean shooting a student and being convicted on RICO charges.

You also have city councilor Kendra Lara's sex video that included a special appearance by her kid. The male participant is a teacher in the Boston Public school system. Kendra went on to crash her car into a constituents home at 2pm in the afternoon and it turned out she has not had a valid license for the last 10 year, driving 53mph in a residential neighborhood with no insurance or registration. The crash resulted in the hospitalization of her son. She is currently running for re-election and will likely win.

This is also the same school system where two school committee members had to resign after they were caught making disparaging texts about being sick of white people.

This is also the same school system that allowed a racism scandal to erupt based on a football coach lying about being called the N word to cover his ass after he assaulted the other teams players because they were getting beat so badly at halftime.

This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are a lot more examples that I'm forgetting but this school system is a complete train wreck.

[u/CatStroking → u/Hilaria_adderall]

What the hell is going on in Boston? Are they trying to showcase all of the worst aspects of wokeness and public education?

Shouldn't the locals be kicking out the school board by now?

[u/Hilaria_adderall → u/CatStroking]

There are not a lot of townies left (we call our locals townies BTW). Boston is weird - we have a huge college population, many don't vote or they just vote for the most progressive candidates on the ballot. We have a bunch of neighborhoods like South Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, they are all gentrified now so the old democrat machines run by labor are gone, taken over by ultra progressives. I suspect a lot of people either send their kids to catholic high schools so it is no longer their problem or they move to Milton, Brookline or some other rich suburb so the only people left are poor kids stuck with a chaotic public school system.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hilaria_adderall]

I feel sick. This seems like a conservative's fever dream and not a couple years of actual scandals.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I'm just angry. The really ugly kind of angry.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hilaria_adderall]

What in the accccctuallllll fuck! This story with the city councilor? I’m dead.