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From: (Anonymous)

Kimberly Those are some ugly pictures you posted. I really don’t like that fellow

On to better stuff. Tell us about your new school.

Will O

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you. Yeah, I deleted them. It upsets me that he is able to get away with such horrors but posting about it really does not help.

The deck is stacked against me as far as the school is concerned. Nevertheless, I'm foolish enough to go for it anyway! Woot!

From:

cs2

I'm guessing this will be some kind of charter school? Are you planning to hire private tutors that can teach all the grade levels? In my experience, private tutoring is much cheaper than tuition.

From: (Anonymous)

I missed it. Who is he and what’s he doing?

—Lady Cutekitten of Lolcat

From:

kimberlysteele

Probably. I am planning to hire lots of teachers/tutors. My goal will be to make it affordable to people who don't have high incomes.

From:

kimberlysteele

Joe Biden's son with a little girl who appears to be approximately 5-7 years old. It's outrageous that he isn't in prison.

From:

kimberlysteele

I may end up going the private school route because I don't want the school to have any obligations to the state of Illinois, which is falling apart as we speak. The school system here is atrocious.

From:

mollari

Hi Kimberly, just a quick update on where I am, since it ties into several of the questions I've asked on your divination posts lately.

It looks like I will not be moving to Quebec anytime soon: the rules that have been drafted between Ontario and Quebec will make it impossible for people to move between the provinces if they have anything which requires regular travel between them. Since my electrical program has a weekly lab, this will rule out moving to Gatineau.

I'll make do here for now. I've found an apartment close to where I live that's affordable, and available in July. I'm still looking for May or June while the paperwork is finalized, but the government making it illegal to do apartment viewings mixed with a crazy real estate market has made it hard to find anything, so I think Ill go with the apartment for July. The funny part is that it's with Brigil, the company I was looking at over in Gatineau! Which does seem to support your read it was a good one to look at, albeit in a way I wasn't expecting in the least.

From:

mollari

If he's doing what I think he's doing to her, then I'd say he deserves the death penalty. (I haven't seen the photos, and have zero interest in looking; but I've seen enough that I'm fairly sure I can picture what it likely is about)....

From:

kimberlysteele

Interesting! Thanks for the feedback.

I don't envy you Canadians right now. I always thought we Americans were the insane ones until this whole Scamdemic thing went down. As it turns out, We the People of Walmart are far more rational and have much better leadership, and trust me, that's not a state anywhere near "good" as our leaders are terrible.

I hope you are able to complete your course and escape to the neighboring province eventually.

From:

kimberlysteele

Just ate supper after a great group chat with Illinois Senator (running for governor) Darren Bailey and his wife. He was kind enough to talk with my Speakeasy Facebook group about what is going on in the schools, current legislation, and where we go from here.

As it turns out, I think I know how to start the school. At first it will be a once a week co-op for local parents out of my Studio once I get situated in my new commercial space. Then I will grow it from there. It will most likely be a private school. Once it gets going, I will likely have to incorporate it as a 5013c so parents can get a tax credit for tuition.

Already planning to have the library in the space as well. My next step is finding the right space.

From:

kimberlysteele

The photos are very, very damning. They're from videos that are even worse from what I hear. If I were Queen of the World, I would sentence him to a quick death, probably by firing squad. May that poor little girl (girls?) be blessed, wherever she (they) is/are.

From:

causticus

Well at least he might be a useful info source on fellow degenerate elites. I do think HB is nihilistic enough to happily sing like a bird before having justice served upon him.

BTW, for these breed of elites, I do think a proper post-mortem hanging-from-lamppost display on a gilded avenue (in a chic urban center, no doubt) might be an appropriate funerary rite after the necessary deed is done.

From:

causticus

How's the library been coming along?

I've been thinking of possibly starting up a similar endeavor in my local area, after I move out of the city and into a more sane outlying area. How large (and topic-diverse) of a book collection do you think one might need in order to make such a project viable?

From:

mollari

My current best explanation for it all is that the US started declining decades earlier than we have, and so you have a lot more people who are further along the process of accepting that it is over. I'd place your peak in terms of material standards of living in 1972, and ours in 2008. I think it's a mix of factors: Quebec viciously fought efforts to create a kleptocracy of the sort your country is burdened with; since the end of World War II keeping Canada happy has been a core element of American foreign policy, so we got much more than our fair share of the spoils of the American Empire; and the costs of keeping the empire are borne by your country and not mine.

Whatever the cause, this meant that from 1972 until 2008 American politics and society were dealing with the end of progress; while we weren't. So your politics and leaders looked insane, while ours didn't, but only because ours didn't need to deal with a society in crisis. Now that we do, you have two major advantages: one is that Americans are, as a society, much further along the grieving process; and the other is that since your standards of living started dropping decades ago, you don't have as far to fall.

I think this is what's driving the current insanity here: in the states, a lot of people are in the depression/acceptance stage for the process of grieving the end of progress; almost all Canadians are somewhere between denial and bargaining. Very few of us have actually come to terms with the realities we face today.

As for my program, I think it'll be okay, although I'm not looking forward to online classes. I simply cannot learn anything that way. However, it is what it is, and I don't see much I can do to change it. I'm just hoping we don't get something insane like the proposal for all online trades training, but I don't see much I can do to avoid that outcome if that's where our province decides to do.

From:

mollari

Oh dear gods. Yes, death by firing squad strikes me as appropriate. I see no reason to drag it out, make it clean and quick; but anyone who abuses children like that, especially leaving videos(!) of it needs to be dealt with quite harshly. I actually find the videos the most disgusting part of it all: he's so confident that he's above the law, and the worst part is I think he's right.

From:

mollari

Speaking of insanity by Canadian governments:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-considers-move-to-make-remote-learning-permanent-for-all/

Online education for high school or colleges, sure. I don't find it works, but some do. But this would include elementary schools. This is totally and completely insane....

From:

cs2

I was wondering whether you were considering a gradual option of after-school lessons and programs and such, eventually scaling up to a full-blown school. That might give you the chance to start conservative and test things.

Just having professional tutors sitting with kids and helping them with their homework would be really huge for those kids' lives. I grew up with school being a respite from a stressful and unhappy home, but my school was crowded and over-centralized, so something in between might help.

Also, maybe check the rules on your parking lot, so if you need to expand, you can do so with "T-buildings". My school used those. They're basically drive up and plop down mobile homes, little wooden houses on temporary platforms. We heated and air conditioned ours with window units and that worked well enough.

From: (Anonymous)

Oh, I saw that (elsewhere). Yuck.

I swear DC must be infested with demons. (Spellcheck wanted me to put “infested with Democrats.” 😄). Every man in a position of power in DC seems to be skeevy, on both sides.

—Lady Cutekitten

From: (Anonymous)

I don’t have a teaching certificate, but as you have probably noticed, I’m literate. Do you need help grading papers or writing the curriculum?

—Lady Cutekitten

From: (Anonymous)

That sounds like an amazing project! We were tangentially involved in a similar venture, starting up a daycare after Hurricane Katrina when there were no child care centers open in the entire city (it's named after the goddess Abeona). It's still going strong 15 years later and I have very fond memories of my kids' years in that place.

From:

lp9

Oh, that last post was me - not logged in!

From: (Anonymous)

Kimberly,
We are in a home school co-op. It is wonderful.
I'd suggest HSLDA for the home school families ($11/month) if they're comfortable with the religious side of it-it's pretty light by my books, but their milage may vary. I don't know anything about your state's laws but they're probably horrible: most states are more interested in keeping kids in the system than education.

If your group isn't comfortable with HSLDA, maybe one is an attorney who'd be willing to be on-call for the group in a similar way. I suspect that you'll need one: it's far easier to hassle low-income folks than high income to get those school-income-generators back in the classroom, and if they're coming from public school, the schools know where they are. If you have a CPS agent on your doorstep, "here, talk to my attorney" is magic: takes you from terror to calm. (Forever home schoolers like us are less on the radar, though no child is completely off the radar.)

Best wishes for your projects. I love your school idea: it's something I've considered doing myself . . . someday, when I have fewer other commitments.

BoysMom

From:

open_space

The amount of stupidity that I've heard for the past year baffles me in ways I was not aware of... Thank God I have not had to talk with mostly anyone ever since but I've heard of some truly nasty interactions out there.

From:

kimberlysteele

There was a Magic Monday two weeks ago where a person wrote in saying that she was meditating and a voice popped into her head telling that she and all other white people should feel guilty and "step aside" to allow the "people of color" (ugh I hate that term) through.

JMG said that it was a malicious entity that's been popping up recently.

She brushed it off, like "ha ha, whatever dude, oh OK, no problem."

It was bone-chilling. This is what I am talking about when I mention the kind of entities that are riding the Left right now. The people who are being preyed upon usually have zero idea they're being hag-ridden and when they do, they laugh it off like the person mentioned above.