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ashling

(25,771 posts) Tue Nov 27, 2018, 11:55 AM Nov 2018

I was looking over state GOP platforms regarding education. The platform of the Arkansas GOP contains the following statement.

In the digital age, old wars over (literal) turf need to be abandoned in order to put the educational needs of students in the place of primacy.

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Grammar police please tell me what this means [View all] ashling Nov 2018 OP

Gibberish Sanity Claws Nov 2018 #1

It's not just gibberish, it's. . . TheBlackAdder Nov 2018 #36

We will no longer send tanks and the infantry lapfog_1 Nov 2018 #2

My guess is "online charter schools" Orangepeel Nov 2018 #3

I agree. Literal turf meaning bricks & mortar schools. Demit Nov 2018 #6

That is my guess, as well. n/t demmiblue Nov 2018 #8

Good answer ! ashling Nov 2018 #12

Is there context? It seems to be saying... TreasonousBastard Nov 2018 #7

There is always context ashling Nov 2018 #20

I wonder if the writer of that deathly prose was a graduate of the schools... TreasonousBastard Nov 2018 #27

It's bullshit. malthaussen Nov 2018 #9

Wars HAB911 Nov 2018 #10

Nuttin elleng Nov 2018 #11

A mind is a terrible thing to waste C_U_L8R Nov 2018 #13

Looks like something Trump would say. Corgigal Nov 2018 #14

It's the old "buzzword" game FakeNoose Nov 2018 #15

Fantastic author ashling Nov 2018 #22

Public schools zipplewrath Nov 2018 #17

Turf battles usually refers to bureaucratic fights for power marylandblue Nov 2018 #18

Can't police grammar gibberish! MoonRiver Nov 2018 #21

Charter schools, online education n/t TexasBushwhacker Nov 2018 #23

bureaucrat speak shanny Nov 2018 #24

It's a mediocre, room-temperature word-salad. Socal31 Nov 2018 #25

They should have left out the Romaine ashling Nov 2018 #38

odds are this is a wink to private, christian and for profit schools. Thomas Hurt Nov 2018 #26

"Literal" turf is grass lawn or other grass areas or sod squares. marybourg Nov 2018 #28

Did anyone mention the comma shouldn't be there? Hokie Nov 2018 #29

Nothing wrong with the comma. Demit Nov 2018 #30

In Arkansas they could be talking about the football field bigbrother05 Nov 2018 #32

Sounds like someone who was home-schooled by Betsy DeVos. smirkymonkey Nov 2018 #33

Republicanese DFW Nov 2018 #34

Are they selling off schoolyards, or talking about surfacing football fields? surrealAmerican Nov 2018 #35

Constituents are pissed at rising property taxes SoCalDem Nov 2018 #37