‘Let’s go, Joe!’ Donald Trump Challenges Joe Biden To In-Person Debate

President Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden to an in-person debate, after the independent commission that organises the debates moved next weeks event online out of health concerns.

Donald Trump has declined to partake in the October 15 debate if it’s conducted virtually, but on Thursday night he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the two campaigns should organise their own in-person contest.

Donald Trump said when questioned if he would issue such a challenge that he would do it right now through the show.

He added, referring to the conservative commentators. Let’s go, Joe. Let’s get a fair anchor, somebody like the great Sean Hannity. We’ll get Rush (Limbaugh). We’ll get Mark (Levin).

He said that they’ll get Judge Jeanine (Piro). That they have a lot of them out there.

He continued that they would get Jesse (Watters) or Pete (Hegseth).

Donald Trump said, going on to grumble at length about audio issues during one of the 2016 presidential debates and that the debate commission was a joke.

Donald Trump whined that they were oscillating his mic, that they were turning it up and down while he was talking to Hillary.

He also grumbled that the moderator for next weeks debate was a ‘Never Trumper’ who ‘even worked for Joe Biden at some point’.

C-SPAN anchor Steve Scully, who’s scheduled to moderate the second presidential debate, interned for Joe Biden, then a US senator, when he was a student in the 1970s.

Donald Trump flatly repudiated the idea of partaking in a virtual debate and he said that he was not interested in a doing a – I’m not Joe Biden and that he wasn’t doing a virtual debate to sit behind a computer screen.

Donald Trump claimed about Joe Biden that he does news conferences where they give him the answer and give him the question.

Donald Trump continued that he was choking like a dog the other night, but that Chris Wallace bailed him in and Donald Trump added that it was a disgrace what’s going on.

It came shortly after White House Physician Dr Sean Conley released Donald Trump’s vital signs for the first time since he became infected, showing a pulse, blood pressure, and blood oxygen levels all within normal ranges.

Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is not being responsible or lucid, but then he feels on top of the world right now because he’s had medications that aren’t presently available to anyone else, but is he making sure all his infected staff are getting the same access? And Joe Biden should undoubtedly stay away from this crazy and if Donald Trump wants a debate, then he needs to agree to the virtual debate.

They should hold it on the White House lawn, then maybe we can watch one of the aggressive out of control raccoons shuffle around his head and he really does not to shut up for once because, in the end, he will probably agree to a virtual debate because he needs it more than Joe Biden.

And Donald Trump is such a toddler and everything has to be his way. How exhausting that must be for the people that work around him – the White House must be covered in eggshells and right now, it would be better for everyone to remain clear of Donald Trump, he’s like a bomb called COVID 19, trying to blow up everyone that comes into contact with him.

Donald Trump Sows Confusion On Stimulus Talks With Democrats

Donald Trump sowed confusion over stimulus talks on Tuesday, breaking off negotiations with congressional Democrats on a new US aid package before switching course and attempting to draw lawmakers back into discussions.

The US president’s mixed messages, delivered in a flurry of tweets, came a day after he returned to the White House following three days in the hospital where he was treated for coronavirus.

Donald Trump had triggered a sell off in US equity markets on Tuesday afternoon when he called for an end to negotiations on additional stimulus until after the November 3 presidential election.

The move will leave many American households and industries, from restaurants to airlines and hotels, facing further financial distress in the coming weeks and Jay Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve and economists has warned that the lack of government support could endanger America’s retrieval from the pandemic – a wide array of business groups have also baulked at the President’s move.

But on Tuesday evening, Donald Trump appeared to have backtracked from totally ditching negotiations and the President made separate requests for lawmakers to approve further funding for airlines to stop thousands of job cuts, more support to small businesses and direct government payments worth up to $1,200 for most people.

He wrote in one tweet, ‘If I am sent a Stand Alone bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people immediately. I am ready to sign right now. Are you listening, Nancy? (referring to Nancy Pelosi), the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The S&P 500 index closed down 1.4 per cent on Tuesday, having earlier traded higher and Treasury bonds yields fell as investors sought the relative safety of government debt.

Equity markets in Asia regained some footing following Donald Trump’s turnaround. Japan’s Topix was down 0.1 per cent on Wednesday afternoon and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 0.6 per cent.

Nancy Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, have endeavoured to restrict differences on a more overall package but failed to come to an agreement.

Democrats have been pushing for £2.2 trillion in new spending, whereas the Trump administration has been willing to go up to $1.6 trillion, with numerous Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill saying even that was outrageous.

Donald Trump called on Republicans to walk out of negotiations after a call with senior administration officials and Republican members of Congress to discuss talks and the President said the biggest sticking point in the negotiations was the Democratic demand for aid to cash strapped state and local governments, without which they will have to force through aggressive budget cuts.

Remember the years of the really Republican administration? Like Ronald Reagan, Bush, and the USA was the beacon of leadership and democracy – not anymore and not for many years in the future.

It’s called holding a country hostage and bullying it into voting for Donald Trump again – ransom money, how very presidential, but eventually, the Tangerine Tragedy will put the final nail in his own coffin and there are many people out there that truly hope it happens.

Donald Trump puts his country first – but only after himself of course. Along with extortion, blackmail and he’s getting away with all sorts of criminality, all for his ego and this is a nice piece of leveraged extortion for public legislation during a national calamity befitting a NYC landlord and a Reality Show Host.

Donald Trump is trying to bully people into voting for him and withholding resources to those that need them most and will probably have paid more taxes than he has in the last 15 years.

Killer in Canada Who Dismembered Rich Relative Gets 10-Year Sentence

It was a peaceful Saturday in 2015 in one of Vancouver’s most affluent enclaves when a Chinese immigrant told police he snapped. He shot dead his bullying, philandering relative outside the victims $6 million hillside mansion, then he chopped the body into 108 pieces.

Judge Terence Schultes of the Supreme Court of British Columbia sentenced Zhao Li, now 60, to ten years and six months in jail after his conviction for manslaughter and interfering with human remains.

In January, the judge shocked Canadian legal professionals when he ruled that Zhao Li was not culpable of murder.

Under Canadian law, he could have been condemned to life in jail for manslaughter.

Zhao Li had been in custody for more than five years after killing Yuan Gang, his business associate and a family member.

The judge said, with each day in custody counting as 1.5 days towards his sentence, Zhao Li had two years, four months and eight days left to serve.

Chris Johnson, a lawyer who represented the estate of Yuang Gang, called the lurid case, which generated headlines in Canada and China, a cautionary tale about retribution and the corruptibility of money.

He said that the crimes were extremely startling to Canadians because of the bold nature of the offence, in broad daylight in one of Vancouver’s most affluent areas and that the method of the killing was brutal.

Justice Schultes noted the violence of the crime and observed that the dismemberment of the body was undoubtedly bizarre, adding that its clinical coldness and dispassion were extremely morally culpable.

He said his ruling was predicted on Zhao Li’s not having a criminal record and the guilt he’d shown.

When announcing the verdict in January, the judge said that while the crime was gruesome, he’d been left with reasonable doubt over whether Zhao Li planned to kill Yuan Gang. Intent to kill is the prerequisite for a murder verdict in Canada.

The trial, which took place in front of a judge rather than a jury, as agreed to by both the defence and the prosecution, shined a spotlight on how Vancouver has become host to wealthy foreigners, who use it as a sanctuary for cash and kin.

In the case of Yuan Li, he’d been entangled in a corruption scandal in China before acquiring permanent residency in Canada.

The case presented two opposing narratives. In the first, Zhao Li, whose wife was Yuan Gang’s cousin, was described by the defence as an unassuming and law-abiding man who exploded when Yuan Gang asked to marry his daughter.

But prosecutors described Zhao Li as a venomous and violent aggressor.

He cut up the body with an electric hand saw and hid the right arm in a meat freezer in the garage at the mansion.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if this man had been poor, his sentence would have been more hefty – justice might be blind, but it can definitely smell money a mile off and the sentence was extremely light for such a horrific crime.

Donald Trump May Be Prematurely Declaring Victory Over The Coronavirus

As is usually the case with new coronavirus infections, it’s not apparent when President Trump first contracted the virus or from whom and because of the uncertain starting point that typically accompanies a confirmed case, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention uses either a positive test or the first manifestation of symptoms of COVID 19, the disease caused by the virus, as a starting point for tracking the disease’s progression.

For Donald Trump, that starting point would then be either Wednesday or Thursday of last week and it was reported that he was feeling tired during his events in Minnesota on the former day, and a test that came back positive was administered on the latter.

This means that, despite the insistences from Donald Trump’s team that he was ready to leave the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre after having been admitted there Friday, he’s on the cusp of a dangerous period in his illness and that clinicians should be aware of the potential for some patients to rapidly deteriorate one week after illness onset.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s team kept saying that the next 48 hours were critical, but the CDC’s assessment indicates that the next few days are, too and the earliest manifestation to commonly occur in patients with more complex cases of COVID 19 is laboured breathing, something Donald Trump’s medical team said he hadn’t experienced.

The median period in which that kicks in is five to eight days after onset or right about now.

The onset of acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, usually happens approximately eight to 12 days after onset, with admission to intensive care happening a median of 10 to 12 days after a positive test or symptoms.

Donald Trump, of course, was already in the hospital and the median length of hospital stay is 10 to 13 days, although it’s unusual for patients to be proactively admitted to the hospital before they show extreme symptoms.

The CDC data suggest that just over a quarter of COVID 19 patients end up in the hospital and the chances that those people contract ARDS is higher than among patients overall, though that probability is still lower than the frequency of ARDS among those admitted to intensive care.

And there’s a lot of uncertainty about Donald Trump’s diagnosis beyond just the point at which it was first detected or manifested.

We don’t know, for example, how severe his condition was on Friday, prompting the trip to Walter Reed but his team were keen to suggest that the move was merely precautionary and, that more recently, that hospitalisation was no longer necessary.

Perhaps Donald Trump’s medical treatment should have been suspended, then we can let his followers heal him with their magical thoughts and prayers and if he’s really the chosen one, then he won’t need steroids and a cocktail of antiviral drugs – he’s heaven-sent, he’ll be fine.

And it’s amusing that his followers were praying for him, but science and socialised medicine will treat and save him, and then they will give the magic sky daddy all the glory, but I doubt he’s saved, and footage of him unmasking himself like a dictator when he got back to the White House showed him having trouble breathing.

Frankly, I do expect him to drop dead if he keeps this charade up, but I hope that he doesn’t, but we now know that Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID 19 earlier than he acknowledges and just went about his business, with absolutely no safeguards, contaminating people everywhere – remember he’s not the victim – he’s the drunk driver.

Bill To Prohibit Marriage For Under-18s In England And Wales

Parliament will be told today that the UK is undermining its international steps to terminate child marriage because an exception to the law in England and Wales that permits 16 and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent is putting children at risk.

Pauline Latham MP will ask the House to back a bill illegalising child marriage and civil partnerships before the age of 18.

She will argue that existing legislation has been at odds with the legal requirement since 2013 and for young people to stay in education or training until then and she told a news outlet that prohibiting marriage with parental consent would protect young people from being forced into early marriage, after being groomed or because they lack the will or ability to report a coerced marriage.

Official figures of those marrying at 16 and 17 in England and Wales have dropped steadily over the years, with 43 teenage boys and 140 teenage girls marrying with parental consent in 2017.

Scottish law permits marriage from the age of 16 without parental consent, but the numbers are low, with only 18 16-19-year-olds marrying in 2019. However, the documented data doesn’t reflect the number of children who marry in religious and customary ceremonies.

Latham said that while these marriages are not recognised under British law, they can be just as damaging, or even more so for the young person concerned and recent data revealed by a news outlet showed that there were 2,377 contacts made about child marriage in the UK’s national forced marriage helpline in the two and a half year period to this September.

Sarah Champion is among 11 MPs co-sponsoring the bill and she told a news outlet that child marriage was a form of child abuse and that they were talking about a person living with someone that was potentially a total stranger, ending their schooling early.

And that even if there was just one child going through this she would still be campaigning to close that loophole, and that it made them look like hypocrites internationally – that they’re proud of their campaign to end child marriage abroad, but we allow it in our own country.

Latham said children who marry under the age of 18 are more likely to withdraw from education and are at increased risk of mental health issues, teenage pregnancy and domestic abuse.

The Conservative MP for Mid Derbyshire said that with the Government pledging £39 million in 2015 to end child marriage globally, the current domestic situation compromises Britain’s integrity abroad.

They should also indict anyone who brings an underage bride into the United Kingdom because in the past we have let older men bring brides into the United Kingdom despite them being under 16 years of age.

Of course, an 18-year-old minimum age limit won’t prevent a forced marriage, but maybe if the parents who encouraged these forced marriages were prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register it may serve as a deterrent.

If you’re too young to drink a beer and to vote, then you’re definitely too young to get married.

Of course, there are plenty of people that got married as childhood sweethearts at 16 and 17 and remained married, and their parents gave them consent, but giving consent to forced marriage is not always a good thing.

At the end of the day, a marriage is a contract, signed by two people and any person entering into a contract of any kind should be over the age of 18 and there should be no exceptions to the rule and marriage should indeed be one of them. Women and children are not property and there should be laws to protect them.

Voters Rate Sir Keir Starmer Ahead Of Boris Johnson On Competence

Polling has indicated that voters most generally think of Boris Johnson as inept and out of his depth while they believe Sir Keir Starmer principled and realistic.

A survey by Lord Ashcroft, the pollster and Tory peer, indicated that the Prime Minister was most frequently associated with adverse characteristics, while the Labour leader was typically well thought of.

However, Boris Johnson appears to be inept and a liar of epic proportion and seems incapable of leading this country or the Conservative party and no doubt they have another one in mind already.

Boris Johnson is a toe-curling embarrassment who whines about his lack of money, his lack of a nanny, his persistent tiredness and chronic obesity and the best thing he’s a contender for is the Celebrity Fit Club – a plump, sallow, drab, dismal, clammy celebrity in need of an image change and injection of money.

The two main parties have treated politics as a game for the last decade and Boris Johnson is just the end result and his job in a pandemic is to help the country through it, not sit back and say after the event that they should have done this or that and it seems that he’s all mouth and no trousers.

Of course, Sir Keir Starmer isn’t in power, yet, or had to govern, he’s supposed to put forward any ideas on what, when, where and with whom and why he would do things differently, but he hasn’t done anything really, apart from nitpicking.

There are a lot of people who voted for Boris Johnson and thought he would be better, but are now simply wondering what exactly he’s waiting for – he needs to take some action, but it’s not just our Prime Minister that appears to be inept, it’s his team that is inept as well.

Sir Keir Starmer appears to be capable, but it’s the team that matters long term and if they’re idiots then this can make or break a Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson Promises Social Distancing Will End Within A Year

In a brave address to the Tory faithful in a virtual party conference, Boris Johnson said his Government were working for the day life is back to normal, and that the country must use the huge opportunities now to push through change.

The Prime Minister pledged to build back better and make Britain the most amazing place on earth, with a goal to look beyond coronavirus with a raft of new policies to concentrate on in the years to come.

The Prime Minister announced new details of his plans for banks to offer higher mortgages to get people on the housing ladder, and for more one to one teaching for students in the future.

And he peppered his address with jibes at the opposition with their million-pound homes in north London, and left human rights lawyers he insisted that he wouldn’t just expand the size of the state on and on.

He said that the coronavirus was not going to hold us back, slow us down and that we were definitely not going to let it get us down, even in the darkest moments, and he admitted that he’d had enough of this disease.

And he vowed that next time the party meets at the conference, it will be in person.

He promised that they would meet face to face and cheek by jowl and that they were working for the day when life will be back to normal.

He previously said that the constraints would last for up to at least the next six months, saying things would be bumpy up to Christmas and beyond.

The Prime Minister insisted the Government was working night and day to repel the virus and that they would succeed.

Boris Johnson also blasted claims that he wasn’t completely recovered from COVID as self-evident nonsense and propaganda, and he also hinted he wanted to improve social care with an insurance system, citing Winston Churchill’s words of ‘bringing the magic of averages to the rescue of millions’.

And he defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he was propelled into erosions of liberty that they sincerely regret.

The Prime Minister said there was no reasonable choice to his knockdown policies, but acknowledged they were an erosion of liberties that the Government didn’t want to do.

The Prime Minister said the UK economy went into the pandemic with chronic underlying problems which he promised to address and he emphasised that far too many people across the country felt neglected and left out and that the Government was not on their side.

It appears that Boris Johnson has taken lessons in fortune-telling. How can he conceivably know when social distancing will end? Does he know when the virus is going to vanish, or is he having another dip into that crystal ball of his?

Guidance will have changed a thousand times before the end of the year, let alone in a years time.

Boris Johnson seems to sound extremely clear when he says a year. Is he banking that the vaccine will be available by then?

There will be lots of people that won’t want to have the vaccine, which means they could lose their jobs, will not be permitted in pubs and restaurants et cetera because they’ll have to prove they’ve had the vaccine, which wouldn’t have been tested for long term side effects, but hopefully the dark forces will get caught out by then.

Trump Ridiculed For Signing Blank Paper

The Trump administration’s credibility crisis persists as the president is ridiculed for seemingly signing a blank piece of paper with a marker in photographs taken at the Walter Reed Military Hospital, in a futile attempt to show him working while fighting coronavirus.

On Saturday night, the White House released photographs of Donald Trump appearing hard at work while in hospital, where he remained for a second night after a very concerning period.

His daughter, Ivanka Trump, shared one of the images on her Twitter, with the caption: “Nothing can stop him from working for the American people. RELENTLESS!”

However, Donald Trump’s endeavours to emerge undefeated by COVID 19 were quickly picked apart by eagle eye commentators, who took to social media to indict him of orchestrating the pictures.

Jon Ostrower, editor in chief of aviation publication ‘The Air Current’, took a closer look at the data entrenched in the pictures shared by the White House, and discovered they were taken just 10 minutes apart, but showed the President working in two separate places.

He said the pictures released by the White House of the President working at the Walter Reed were taken ten minutes apart at 5.25 pm and 5.35 pm on Saturday, according to the exchangeable image file (EXIF) data embedded in both AP wire postings that were shared by the White House.

White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg also studied the pictures and upon zooming into one of them, discovered that Donald Trump seemed to be signing his name to a blank sheet of paper.

Numerous people reacted to the pictures with ridicule, with the word ‘staged’ trending on Twitter on Sunday morning, with one person saying he was a reality TV star and that as far as they were concerned, he just had to shoot a couple of promos for the ‘look presidential’ bit he performs.

Another said of him purportedly signing a blank sheet, “That’s the only kind of ‘work’ he knows how to do. And in his mind, as long as he makes it look like he’s working and his base believes it, that’s every bit as good, if not better, than actually doing something.

“We’re living through the reality TV presidency.”

Some people were disturbed about Donald Trump’s lack of any kind of personal protective equipment (PPE) as he was photoed in different places in the hospital while contaminated with a highly infectious virus.

It’s not a huge surprise that these pictures look orchestrated, and it’s amusing that if you zoom in he’s just signing a blank sheet of paper, but it’s genuinely despicable that he still won’t wear a mask.

So, he persists with his illusion, and never a truth comes from his mouth or consideration for his citizens who he’s supposed to guard and protect, and it seems that his family are also horrendous conspirators.

He’s the master of half-truths, misdirection, dishonest statements and outright fibs. He also constantly offends people and gives them silly monikers.

And he doesn’t look especially poorly, perhaps he’s washed off his phoney tan, and why is he even in the hospital posing at a desk? While everyone else has to remain at home with coronavirus extremely ill until needing ventilation.

Is it because he’s just looking for sympathy? Or is it because he doesn’t want to attend any more presidential debates with Joe Biden? It would be an ideal excuse.

Why didn’t he just stay at the White House? He has a full medical wing with the best equipment and presumably, the best doctors on standby and signing a blank piece of paper just show how much of an oddball he actually is and of what use he’s been to the American people.

Floodgates In Venice Work In First Major Test

After decades of bureaucratic delays, corruption and opposition from environmental groups, sea walls designed to protect Venice from ‘acqua alta’, or high water, went up on Saturday, testing their ability to combat the city’s increasingly threatening floods.

Officials said that by 10 am, all 78 floodgates securing three inlets to the Venetian lagoon had been raised, and even when the tide reached as high as four feet, water levels inside the lagoon remained stable.

Alvise Papa, the director of the Venice department that monitors high tides said that there wasn’t even a puddle in St Mark’s Square, and he said that had the flood barriers not been raised, approximately half the city’s streets would have been under water, and visitors to St Mark’s Square, which floods when the tide nears three feet, would have been wading in a foot and a half of water.

Luigi Brugnaro, Venice’s recently re-elected mayor said with pride and joy that everything was dry.

Designed some four decades ago to help protect Venice from flooding, the mobile barrier system was stalled by cost overruns, corruption, and resistance from environmental and conservation groups.

The cost of the system tripled from initial estimates, and a 2014 bribery scandal led to the detention of the then-mayor, Giorgio Orsoni, and dozens of others, including politicians and businessmen involved in the project.

Giorgio Orsoni and some of the others charged were exonerated.

Giuseppe Fiengo, one of the commissioners who had led the project since 2014 said that it was an extremely challenging situation, but gradually they’ve been able to settle things, but he said that for the first time, with high water, Venice didn’t flood.

The floodgates had been tested several times over the past summer, but under less threatening weather conditions than those on Saturday.

Alberto Scotti, the engineer who designed them said that this time they raised them to defend Venice.

The system is not quite operational yet – some infrastructure still needs to be completed, and workers haven’t yet been thoroughly trained, so Saturday’s procedure was technically a test.

Alberto Scotti said that the test had a purpose – to ensure the safety of the city.

The construction firms building the system have until December 2021 to complete the work.

When it’s completely operational, the floodgates will be activated whenever the tide reaches three and a half feet. Until then, the floodgates will be utilised when the tide reaches four feet, as it did on Saturday.

However, will reducing its short term effects sidestep a fatal outcome for the city? Or is it just a temporary solution to more damaging tides due to advancing sea levels, warmer oceans and increased incidence of more robust weather storms?

But I’m sure Noah and his Arc would be extremely proud, and it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s an aquatic attraction.

America’s Top SAT School Makes Another Disputed Attempt At Diversity

How do you make the nation’s most selective high school into something more than an intellectual playground for clever Asian and White kids from wealthy families?

At a meeting on Thursday, the Fairfax County School Board will endeavour to respond to that question for its renowned 35-year-old magnet, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

The administration of the Northern Virginia school district is ashamed to have a public high school where only 1.7 per cent of the pupils are low income and only 5 per cent are Black or Hispanic.

It’s an atypical place and the annual data collecting since 1996, Thomas Jefferson High School usually has the highest SAT score average for any US school, public or private.

Fairfax County school officials have a bold proposal to alter the school’s entrance strategy, yet the details of their strategy are not as revealing as an early item, ‘History of Admission Changes’, in their September 15 report on Thomas Jefferson High School.

They list six earlier endeavours at reform. A new outreach specialist position in 2011 – holistic review, that means looking at the whole kid in 2013 – lower minimum semifinalist requirements in 2014 – a new problem-solving essay in 2015 – cutting back the outreach specialist to a half time position in 2016 and new entrance tests in 2017.

At the base of that page, in boldface letters, the district acknowledges that the modifications haven’t made a substantial impact on the application pool or admitted student demographics.

Their next endeavour is a drastic step. They want to increase the minimum core academic class grade point average for admittance to Thomas Jefferson High School from 3.0 to 3.5. Then they want to select the lucky winners in Fairfax County and four other participating districts based not on entrance test results, teacher recommendations and other quality measures, as they did before, but on random lotteries.

This has produced gasps in the Jefferson community and numerous people don’t think education should be run like a church bingo game.

Lotteries to pick students usually only employ the most prevalent public charter schools in areas like the District of Columbia (DC), where numerous Northern Virginians would never send their children to school.

There would be separate Jefferson lotteries in each of five similar regions in Fairfax County and in the other participating districts and the district’s report reveals that if it had been used when this year’s freshman class was chosen, 7 per cent of the admittees would have been Black, 8 per cent Hispanic and 10.3 per cent low income.

The question goes beyond the ‘who gets in’ but more a question of ‘How are these children prepared to go to these schools?’ And what we’re talking about is the middle school preparation of these students to succeed, not the actual high schools themselves.

In numerous schools, pupils are allowed to apply to any high school and are accepted, not on their ethnicity, creed or colour, but on their across-the-board performance academically, behaviorally and the readiness to learn are critical parts to entrance to schools, and it seems that school districts need to concentrate on the middle school preparation for high school to bring these numbers up.

One of the dark sides is the parental involvement or absence thereof and it’s a heartbreaking fact that parents for multiple reasons aren’t directly involved in their children’s education and this has a tremendous impact on everything.

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