I honestly don’t know where to post this.

paqman

JohnInCarolina said:

paqman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

StillH2OEgger said:

Legume said:

I agree with the sentiment but call BS on starting teacher salary in Texas @$33k, it's mid $50's

Also apples and oranges if not including insurance plans/retirement. I think teachers are generally underpaid, but benefits seem to be pretty good and cost of living in my state (mostly due to housing) can be twice as much in metro/suburban areas vs. more rural/outstate and the salaries tend to reflect that. Also should note that teachers in my district work fewer than 200 days a year. Lots of moving parts.

paqman said:

Elementary/high school teacher salaries around here are somewhat low but decent considering they get the whole summer OFF.  Most have the option to work during summer and significantly increase their yearly salary.  The base salary increases very fast with years of service.  It is a lifestyle choice.

So I will push back on you both here regarding the “200 days a year” and “summer OFF” points.  In full disclosure, my mother was a middle-school reading teacher and my wife was a high school teacher for many years.

First of all, during the months they teach, their nights and weekends are often taken up with grading.  I can’t speak to all teachers and how they used their summer time, but the ones I know would also “work” on their teaching in the summer, either by developing lesson plans or by taking additional training.  

The ones I knew then and know now have not gone into teaching for the “lifestyle” because the lifestyle actually kind of sucks.

I happen to have two very close family members that are high/elementary school teachers and I can guarantee you that they have very good working conditions.  They have aides to assist with grading and dedicated time off for developing lesson plans.  This may not be true everywhere but in our province it is.

Have you asked them if they became teachers for the “lifestyle” ?

One of the main reasons for both.  With our climate, having the summer OFF is a major incentive!

JohnInCarolina

paqman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

paqman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

StillH2OEgger said:

Legume said:

I agree with the sentiment but call BS on starting teacher salary in Texas @$33k, it's mid $50's

Also apples and oranges if not including insurance plans/retirement. I think teachers are generally underpaid, but benefits seem to be pretty good and cost of living in my state (mostly due to housing) can be twice as much in metro/suburban areas vs. more rural/outstate and the salaries tend to reflect that. Also should note that teachers in my district work fewer than 200 days a year. Lots of moving parts.

paqman said:

Elementary/high school teacher salaries around here are somewhat low but decent considering they get the whole summer OFF.  Most have the option to work during summer and significantly increase their yearly salary.  The base salary increases very fast with years of service.  It is a lifestyle choice.

So I will push back on you both here regarding the “200 days a year” and “summer OFF” points.  In full disclosure, my mother was a middle-school reading teacher and my wife was a high school teacher for many years.

First of all, during the months they teach, their nights and weekends are often taken up with grading.  I can’t speak to all teachers and how they used their summer time, but the ones I know would also “work” on their teaching in the summer, either by developing lesson plans or by taking additional training.  

The ones I knew then and know now have not gone into teaching for the “lifestyle” because the lifestyle actually kind of sucks.

I happen to have two very close family members that are high/elementary school teachers and I can guarantee you that they have very good working conditions.  They have aides to assist with grading and dedicated time off for developing lesson plans.  This may not be true everywhere but in our province it is.

Have you asked them if they became teachers for the “lifestyle” ?

One of the main reasons for both.  With our climate, having the summer OFF is a major incentive!

So in the US, the typical new teacher only makes it about five years.  I wonder what that stat looks like for Canada.

But obviously, with the burnout rate as high as it is, the lifestyle isn’t all that great.

lousubcap

I submit that the lifestyle has changed in major negative ways in the past few decades as teachers have been expected to take on a whole lot more parenting since many "parents" know they can ignore basic family lifestyle responsibilities.  But just an opinion based on limited observations...

JohnInCarolina

Legume

He must've hired Raichlen's social media team.

JohnInCarolina

Botch

Been reading a lot of letters to the editor at Washington Post; their new owner Bezosebub nixed the Editorial Board's recommendation to indorse Harris, and paid subscribers are cancelling right and left.  Not sure yet what I'm going to do...
 

StillH2OEgger

Botch said:

Been reading a lot of letters to the editor at Washington Post; their new owner Bezosebub nixed the Editorial Board's recommendation to indorse Harris, and paid subscribers are cancelling right and left.  Not sure yet what I'm going to do...
 

This is remarkably unfortunate (throw the LA Times in here as well), but unfortunately the cancelled subscriptions will more likely result in lost jobs for staffers more than making any difference in the bottom line for Bezos. When times were good for newspapers/media they didn't have to worry about their reporting/editorializing being good or bad for business. Sad that one of the few remaining legacy newspapers has failed its readers so badly in this case.

Botch

While my laptop was recharging I glanced into facebook via iPad/magic keyboard, and saw an ad to resubscribe to WaPo for only $19/yr or something like that.  That didn't take long! I tried to take a screenshot of it to post here, but couldn't remember how to do it on iPad (I've since learned; even though my MK has Cmd-Shft-5 right there, on an iPad/iOS I have to press the Power and Up Volume button simultaneously (yeah, that's really intuitive... buying this iPad was a mistake, for me).  
Anyhoo, I went to the WaPo website and clicked on "Manage my subscription", and I had prepaid for a year, it was to expire next March, so I clicked "Cancel" (and thirteen nanoseconds later, Apple Mail chimed that I had an email from WaPo, what are the odds?!?!! )    My "message" to Bezosebub has been sent.  

I have five more months of WaPo access, and in that time 
a) the election will be done,
b) Civil War 2 may have begun, and hopefully finished,
c) Bezos will have sold WaPo to r. murdoch (I've seen unconfirmed rumors the offer has been made already)
and 
d) I can then decide whether to resubscribe, or visit Italia* for those $10 villas they were selling.  
 
*I realize Italia's government has changed, last time I checked, 61 times in the last 63 years, and is humid, so it may not be much of an improvement.  But, they also have a couple USAF bases for me (gym/commissary/medical care), warm temps, mountains, and abundant veggies/seafood/cheese/wine.  

paqman

Botch said:

I tried to take a screenshot of it to post here, but couldn't remember how to do it on iPad (I've since learned; even though my MK has Cmd-Shft-5 right there, on an iPad/iOS I have to press the Power and Up Volume button simultaneously (yeah, that's really intuitive... buying this iPad was a mistake, for me).  
 

Check your « corner gestures », mine was setup to take a screenshot when swiping diagonally from the bottom left corner toward the middle of the screen.

How to take screenshots using corner gestures

If you're using the latest iPadOS software (anything above iOS 15), you have access to a hidden feature that can be great for taking screenshots. It's called Corner Gestures.

To enable this feature, go to Settings > Multitasking & Gestures. Then, enable the Swipe Finger from Corner feature, and in the Bottom Left Corner or Bottom Right Corner boxes, choose the Screenshot option.

JohnInCarolina

Botch

Wow.  I just set a new personal record on EweTube, over 2,500 "likes" and over 100 "replies", to a video post from "The Lincoln Project":
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsd1wZ9jF4
 
I first replied to the video thru my ad-blocker "Swizztube", I didn't see my reply posted, so tried it directly on EweTube.  An hour or so later my googlez email just started ringing off the hook.  Read thru a few of the Replies, only saw two from the MAGAts.  Most of my comments to TLP videos get a few likes, and maybe a comment or two; no idea why this one exploded like it did.  
 
EDIT:  My first post was thru SwizzTube (my ad-blocker), where my handle is Botch90218 or something like that, it didn't show up; my second post was on EweTube direct (ad-blocker disabled), handle ScottBoettcher8675309 or something like that, it didn't show up either).  An hour later when my notifications blew up, I logged into EweTube and saw both my original posts, guess there was a delay or something.  

fishlessman

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

StillH2OEgger said:

Legume said:

I agree with the sentiment but call BS on starting teacher salary in Texas @$33k, it's mid $50's

Also apples and oranges if not including insurance plans/retirement. I think teachers are generally underpaid, but benefits seem to be pretty good and cost of living in my state (mostly due to housing) can be twice as much in metro/suburban areas vs. more rural/outstate and the salaries tend to reflect that. Also should note that teachers in my district work fewer than 200 days a year. Lots of moving parts.

paqman said:

Elementary/high school teacher salaries around here are somewhat low but decent considering they get the whole summer OFF.  Most have the option to work during summer and significantly increase their yearly salary.  The base salary increases very fast with years of service.  It is a lifestyle choice.

So I will push back on you both here regarding the “200 days a year” and “summer OFF” points.  In full disclosure, my mother was a middle-school reading teacher and my wife was a high school teacher for many years.

First of all, during the months they teach, their nights and weekends are often taken up with grading.  I can’t speak to all teachers and how they used their summer time, but the ones I know would also “work” on their teaching in the summer, either by developing lesson plans or by taking additional training.  

The ones I knew then and know now have not gone into teaching for the “lifestyle” because the lifestyle actually kind of sucks.

Teachers here now have an aide, some two, translators as needed, and a class size under 15. A little different than what I grew up with. Give them a class size of 35, scratch the aides, and then give them a raise.
The teachers here are required to take training during the summer for skills and methods, proctor the testing as some that cheat online taking other teachers tests

proxy test takers are in texas too

;)its not just a mass thing

https://www.aol.com/news/texas-school-system-rocked-million-075611247.html

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

Pretty sad that Clayton Bigsby still polls at 37.7%

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Pretty sad that Clayton Bigsby still polls at 37.7%

Lot of Nude Africa fans in NC.

JohnInCarolina

Just another day in America:

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina said:

Exactly how does sitting on a pile of garbage convey the message that you are not garbage?  Or is he trying to say that he is indeed garbage? I’m confused with the messaging here. 

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

Gulfcoastguy

Was he a member of Po Diddy’s freak offs like Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio? Both of which have decided to take indefinite vacations abroad.

JohnInCarolina

Gulfcoastguy said:

Was he a member of Po Diddy’s freak offs like Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio? Both of which have decided to take indefinite vacations abroad.

I really have no idea, but this seems like false equivalence.

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

fishlessman

and the saga continues

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

and the saga continues

I’ve seen that, just in the toilet paper version.