Everything posted by Larry T. Spider
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
When they were talking about the trump base being uneducated whites, they weren’t kidding. I’ll give Trump credit for knowing his base better than any politician in the game. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE THE TRUMP PATRIOT OF THE WEEK! Friend, After looking through all of our BEST supporters, President Trump chose YOU as the Trump Patriot of the Week. Your support has not gone unnoticed, Friend. You've truly earned this prestigious recognition. President Trump was SO impressed by your dedication to our movement that he unlocked an EXCLUSIVE 500%-MATCH just for YOU. Your Patriot of the Week 500%-MATCH offer is ONLY available to you for the NEXT HOUR, so act fast.
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Kamala Harris 2020
Ha, that was definitely there. The also act like you are on some list that dotard is personally checking to see if you donated. They are completely geared towards people who are too stupid to breathe or have gone senile. On a side note, my wife has also been taking hydroxychloroquine because she’s a huge trumper and thinks it’s an easy way to not get covid. JK. She also has lupus. It’s amazing how stupid the people we share a country with are.
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Kamala Harris 2020
It’s not lazy as much as they just don’t have anything that will stick and they know it. I got this in some Trump email this morning: They are WEAK on crime and want to see our cities burn, unlike President Trump and Vice President Pence who are working tirelessly to restore LAW AND ORDER. It's going to be up to Patriots like YOU to save our Nation from that dark fate, Friend. Election Day is right around the corner, and now that we know what we're up against, I'm going to do something HUGE:
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Time to Peace Out (Relocate Overseas)?
Lady across the street from me just moved back from there because of the lack of medical treatment for covid. Packed her shit and drove to Austin. Has to be at least 75.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
“WINDER, Ga. — More than 90 staff members in one Georgia school district have been quarantined due to coronavirus exposure or infection, prompting the district to plan to begin the year entirely online.” They haven’t even started with kids yet.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
There was an organization feeding them bullshit. I was getting a ton of worried questions until the director of HR sent out an email to all district employees saying that they would get paid. But there are so many 15 paragraph emails floating around out there right now, about 5% of them actually read it.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
It’s one of the things that we discussed this week. If you add minutes to each day, you don’t have to add as many days at the end of the year.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Canvas is not user friendly for young kids but it counts clicks for proof kids are doing shit. Welcome to 2020.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
"More for another thread about the TEA itself, but it would be great if this woke a lot of people about TEA/state BOE stuff." Amen. I understand that they are a compliance organization, but they don't have to work against us at every turn. There is no rule saying that this can't be a collaborative process.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Because TEA was forcing us to take kids that claim they don’t have reliable technology starting day 1 as of last Tuesday. Some schools were expecting hundreds to show up on the first day.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Based on the info I’m getting this morning, including from trustees, the 8th is looking likely. They don’t want to force schools to physically open on August 18th as tea would require for some students. Many schools would be expecting hundreds of students and teacher resignations are already adding up. Sadly, this is probably the only way around TEA’s bullshit.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Long story short, TEA forced our hand. Abbott saw what is happening and tried to walk it back but it’s probably too little too late. I don’t really feel bad for Abbott but he has a lot of clowns to wrangle in the Texas state government.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
I worked for a different district that was going through severe budget cuts after the 2011 legislative session and everything was on the table for cuts. We were able to find some stuff at the central office level but it was much harder than we initially expected. We all wanted less administrative staff that isn’t tied to a campus as it would mean more money for other district functions. But, there is an unfunded mandate with ridiculous reporting requirements for everything under the sun. The regulations are so specific and ever-changing that you need a person that just deals with that area or your district is going to get hammered. Some of it is federal and some is TEA. There are complicated regulations, reporting requirements, parent support, and staff training provided for special education, section 504, esl/bilingual programs, state assessments (telpas and staar), McKinney-Vento act, advanced academics (GT), and on and on. The above list doesn’t take into account the people that manage basic functions such as facilities, food service, finances, academic departments, HR, transportation, technology, textbooks, the warehouse, legal department and a million other things.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
Also on team Hands On A Hard Body at Dobie. I was in high school at the time though.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
They have a new and supposedly improved system of collecting chromebooks and getting them to kids. Parents can sign up in the parent cloud, check status, ask questions, etc. HOPEFULLY that means they will be delivering what they have very quickly. I think the main reason deliveries stopped last time was that they simply ran out of devices. Even all of our pta purchased devices were collected and distributed. Either way, thanks for thinking of kids beyond your own. It does make a big difference when people think that way.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Everything we bought won’t be delivered for weeks because every district is trying to do the same thing. If you have the ability to do so, I would just buy your own. It also means you won’t have to go through the district to get it updated later.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
The main difference with schools will be the average age of the person working with kids. It’s a range from 23-65 instead of your typical camp counselor that is 18-25. Many more risk factors involved.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Just google all the summer camps shutting down due to kids getting covid. Why would schools be any different?
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
Hell, we can’t even get the legal Hispanics to vote consistently.
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Shooting at Austin protest tonight, 1 dead
Username checks out
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
I think that in this environment people will confront the people standing outside of polling places to intimidate. Neither side is backing down right now.
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
100% chance of legit brawls at polling places this November.
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
You could drive from the Idaho/Canada border to the beach in Georgia without hitting a Democrat state. But the democratic would have won the electoral college 373-165. Still would put Texas as pink though.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
For virtual, we have to see the kid in a zoom, get work turned in, or make some other contact with them for them to be counted as present. If not, no funding for that day. If even 10% of those kids stay awol, it can destroy the budget. We haven’t even started to talk about how the next budget cycle that will be hashed out in the legislature next spring will be brutal. Not trying to be chicken little, but the effects of this will be with us for years after day to day life gets back to normal.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
It’s not just that they have terrible ideas and are holding money hostage. It’s that they keep changing the rules weekly. We are smart enough to find a way to make it work if you give us one set of plans. 52 hours after their last blackmail “guidance”, they still haven’t explained to district leaders what all of their conflicting statements actually mean.