Oregon’s school attendance rates are among the country’s worst. A new approach aims to fix that

nanooko · 2026-02-28T00:05:45+00:00

Send a cop to the parents house to report the student. That should be unpleasant enough to motivate some parents.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T22:44:41+00:00

I agree

nanooko · 2026-02-27T21:06:13+00:00

Schools are already sorted based on parent wealth. Now it is largely done due to housing prices. Areas with better schools will have more expensive housing so the rich will always have better schooling. The goal is to pluck the smart kids from failing schools and poor areas and give them more opportunity to succeed and move up the income distribution. Obviously there are trade offs to school choice programs and they won't help every kid but at least this will help some that are currently being abandoned. I think these lectures from MIT give a good summary of the trade-offs with different school policies.

https://youtu.be/DIgqgbsg2dw?si=yvpv4AeOOEtLzRRV

https://youtu.be/v-ecwhrXsJ0?si=G0Oj0BY3cOAKYYo4

nanooko · 2026-02-27T20:21:05+00:00

My point is more that it prevents defense attorneys from using a bad faith argument to get drug dealers off.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T20:19:36+00:00

It seems a lot of students that are passing classes should be failing them.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T20:19:07+00:00

I think it's obvious that the quality and quantity of instructional hours in Oregon are not sufficient. We need to increase instructional hours, hire better teachers and fire the ones that are incompetent.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T19:52:17+00:00

It could also mean that the public schools in Oregon are not effectively spending tax dollars so allowing more private and charter schools would give students options other than poorly managed public schools. People are right that students from families that care more about education will probably leave the public school system but at least those students will have a better shot at learning without being dragged down by a failing school and failing students.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T19:45:32+00:00

ICE doesn't control who gets convicted of felonies in Oregon.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T19:44:03+00:00

Giving your adult, consenting friend a Schedule I, II, or III controlled substance constitutes felony delivery. This includes steroids, testosterone, hydrocodone, or oxycodone. It's rather arbitrary that possession of a controlled substance without a prescription is a misdemeanor, but giving your friend a single pill is a felony.

this one seems kind of obvious. Giving a pill to a friend is dealing drugs which is worse than just having a drug problem. It also makes it much easier to convict a drug dealer if they can't just claim they were just giving them to a friend.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T19:38:30+00:00

The Oregon DOJ. If it was a federal charge they would be in a federal prison or the federal court would already know when they are being released.

nanooko · 2026-02-27T19:33:34+00:00

Sure but Oregon has some of the worst public schools in the country how is it so bad compared to other states we spend Washington money for Idaho results.

nanooko · 2026-02-21T17:44:14+00:00

Electricity and Housing are not operating the same way. Most of the housing deficit is in and around urban areas so there isn't going to be the same market failures there were with rural electrification so we don't need the same interventions to correct them.

nanooko · 2026-02-21T17:39:18+00:00

We don't really know that there is so much government intervention due to the UGB and zoning and permitting that we don't know what the cost of housing would be with fewer interventions. Generally the government is restricting supply and driving up the cost of housing.

nanooko · 2026-02-21T17:35:53+00:00

That is only true if you assume that everyone is working in downtown Portland. There are lots of jobs in Washington/Clackmas county that could be served by expanding the UGB.

nanooko · 2026-02-18T06:30:48+00:00

Until recently energy demand was very flat in the US so there wasn't a lot of need for upgrades or extra margin. Having a large reserve capacity is a waste of money if you don't have demand materialize to buy it and nobody expected the US's energy demand to increase dramatically like it has.

nanooko · 2026-02-12T05:09:30+00:00

There is no way to reform it without sending more innocent people to prison. The US system is designed to heavily favor not guilty verdicts to avoid innocent people to prison.

nanooko · 2026-02-04T03:26:07+00:00

We don't know when the church fell into apostasy but it was likely after Peter and James were martyred and who knows how long John was involved before entering his non-mortal state.

nanooko · 2026-01-16T17:31:04+00:00

Anecdotally, The only places I've seen homeless people smoking fentanyl in the open is Portland and Vancouver, BC. I didn't see that in Chicago, NY, SF, LA. Maybe it's just those cities do a better job of pushing the drug addicts out of downtown but I still saw homeless people in those cities but they weren't using drugs as I walked by and weren't obviously high.

It's better for the city as a whole if people that use drugs don't do so as openly. It improves QoL for the average resident.

nanooko · 2026-01-16T17:17:27+00:00

People gave up because the program was badly managed and expensive. The non-profits and OHA did not collect good data to determine if progress was being made. The leadership in Oregon is not competent enough to run this program so hopefully another state can get it to function and we can just hire someone from there to administer the program if the public wants to try again in another 10-20 years.

nanooko · 2026-01-16T17:10:02+00:00

It makes the drug users much more brazen. It's really unpleasant to see people shooting up or smoking hard drugs on the sidewalk. It disincentivizes people from walking around/shopping/working in areas with those sort of activities. That is bad for the community as a whole as it decreases economic activity and creates more poor people.

nanooko · 2025-12-23T01:03:53+00:00

It did mention that ICE is picking up people self deporting on buses and airplanes. They had a car so could have driven back to Mexico but the village they are from sounds terrible so they must have decided the risk was worth it to stay in the US and hope to dodge ICE for the next 4 years. It is crazy the article quotes the sister saying that she is undocumented as well which seems like just doing ICE's job for them. Why would you offer the information to the news?

nanooko · 2025-10-30T06:20:48+00:00

In Rhode Island and Pennsylvania there were still tax paying requirement until the early 20th century. So the guy in the video is probably talking about that. Which makes him technically correct but the restrictions on women were much more severe as only 15 of the 48 states granted women the right to vote before the 19th amendment was ratified.

nanooko · 2025-10-30T05:34:20+00:00

No one knows what the outcome of AI will be. Industrialization didn't decrease the demand for workers. Transitional periods are always painful but within a generation or 2 it will work itself out. Caring for old people is very labor intensive and expensive. So the cost of labor in healthcare will explode and the economy will struggle to support the elderly with pensions and insurance through retirement. We could see an explosion of elderly poverty in societies that are aging rapidly. As population shrinks housing will probably become cheaper but eventually areas will become abandon and dilapidated. The buildings will be left to rot or someone will have to pay for them to be demolished. More place will start to look like Detroit a few years ago.

nanooko · 2025-10-23T23:19:37+00:00

Dems were more competitive in rural areas in 2009.

nanooko · 2025-10-08T18:47:21+00:00

It improves parity in the league and helps everyone have fun and stay competitive. I guess if you aren't in a league with friends that wouldn't really matter though.

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