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My daughter is a Montessori guide and makes 80K.  She typically has 12-15 of the brightest humans on earth in her class and loves them all like their hers.

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38 minutes ago, jettrink said:

My daughter is a Montessori guide and makes 80K.  She typically has 12-15 of the brightest humans on earth in her class and loves them all like their hers.

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Thanks for the word catch-english sucks.

No bullshit at all and they don't take one penny from the feds or State.  Every parent there is a high roller of some type and they are willing to pay to keep their kids away from the public schools.

15 hours ago, slorch said:

Yep, I have 2 nieces who are teachers and each Summer on Prime Day we go in and pick stuff to buy for their classrooms.

One has her Masters in Education and an additional Masters( I cannot recall exactly, but it is related to SPED)  She makes under $40k per year.  That shit is insane.

 

I just dropped a big order on my local elementary schools. I'll send something to the middle and high schools too, before school start. wish i could send $10,000 more. I live in a minority and pretty poor area (it's in transition) 

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Thanks for the word catch-english sucks.
No bullshit at all and they don't take one penny from the feds or State.  Every parent there is a high roller of some type and they are willing to pay to keep their kids away from the public schools.


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12 hours ago, jettrink said:

My daughter is a Montessori guide and makes 80K.  She typically has 12-15 of the brightest humans on earth in her class and loves them all like their hers.

Oh thank god. I was really worried about those 12-15 rich kids.

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On 7/12/2023 at 7:42 PM, jettrink said:

My daughter is a Montessori guide and makes 80K.  She typically has 12-15 of the brightest humans on earth in her class and loves them all like their hers.

Thank you for advocating for raising teacher pay to 80k per year and lowering student teacher ratios to 15:1!  There are not a lot of people like you willing to stand up for teachers and students in this state!

I'm not sure where your daughter teachers, but Austin Montessori tuition ranges from $14,900 for 16 month olds to $19,400 for teens (not including $3000 for the trip to Italy).  Texas's basic allotment is $6,160 per student per year and total funding is about $4,000 per year less than the national average.

Let's get all of our kids access to that Montessori level of funding starting at 16 months of age.  I'm sure you would agree that the innate potential of a child to better themselves and eventually contribute to our society is not determined by the bank accounts of their parents.

Looks like RR ousted the TEA. Hopefully, Houston can get rid of its State appointees soon as well.

 

 

 

Houston better hurry

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gop, "libraries finally serving some purpose"

 

 

Miles / Abbott is a complete POS... lawsuit over the library situation is most certainly incoming

 

1 hour ago, Dahobbs said:

 

Dear god...

WHAT IN THE MOTHERFUCK.  

Holy.  Shit.   That is straight up dystopian shit.

Somehow more disturbing to me than the actual content is the actors they got for that shit.  Who the fuck agrees to be a part of that?  Especially the young kids?  And then the mom gleefully constructing a construction paper "Iron Dome"?  WTF is going on?

PragerU is Alex Jones type of propaganda. 

This country is so fucked. 

15 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Somehow more disturbing to me than the actual content is the actors they got for that shit.  Who the fuck agrees to be a part of that?  Especially the young kids?  And then the mom gleefully constructing a construction paper "Iron Dome"?  WTF is going on?

I mean, some actors will take whatever jobs they can get, and lets not pretend there aren't plenty of right wing twats happy to take a paycheck. As for the young kids, they probably have right wing parents...dragging their asses to auditions like any other shitty parent of a child actor. Think the same dipshits who take their girls to youth beauty pageants. 

I like how they can't just stop at American shit. You know what, lets go ahead and tell you how the UK was the hero in India...

On 7/26/2023 at 1:20 PM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Miles / Abbott is a complete POS... lawsuit over the library situation is most certainly incoming

 

And it's generating a helluva lot of buzz around the state as people are starting to realize what Abbott and the GOP intend to do.

And there's a lot of noise that the state will be trying to take over other school districts.

 

On 7/26/2023 at 1:20 PM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Miles / Abbott is a complete POS... lawsuit over the library situation is most certainly incoming

 

 

Well, this is a new take on the school to prison pipeline. Anyone care to guess which kids will be disproportionately sent to these disciplinary rooms? They only have a few goals for these kids and it's cheap labor, the military or the prison industrial complex. 

8 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I like how they can't just stop at American shit. You know what, lets go ahead and tell you how the UK was the hero in India...

And not mention that they’re a socialist country where everyone gets free healthcare. 

Have the people of Florida, Mississippi, Texas etc... considered that if the Republicans win their war on education there won't be any high school football players to play for Alabama, LSU, Texas etc...? 

On 7/26/2023 at 11:20 AM, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Miles / Abbott is a complete POS... lawsuit over the library situation is most certainly incoming

 

The world needs ditch diggers too.

10 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Have the people of Florida, Mississippi, Texas etc... considered that if the Republicans win their war on education there won't be any high school football players to play for Alabama, LSU, Texas etc...? 

Lol, college football players are rarely required to read. 

1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

Lol, college football players are rarely required to read. 


But they are required to play football at a high level. Defund public education and where are Tyroil Smoochie Wallace and Jackmerius Tacktheritrix going to get their reps in?  Meanwhile, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota and California keep their public schools funded and guess which teams start winning national championships? 

TLDR:  without public schools, there are very few good football players. 

2 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Have the people of Florida, Mississippi, Texas etc... considered that if the Republicans win their war on education there won't be any high school football players to play for Alabama, LSU, Texas etc...? 

You're assuming that the GQP won't be trying to take over the state schools and decide who gets in and who is eligible.

Wish I was kidding.

31 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

You're assuming that the GQP won't be trying to take over the state schools and decide who gets in and who is eligible.

Wish I was kidding.


They are trying to defund public education completely, not fund it partially and decide who is eligible to get in.

 

48 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


But they are required to play football at a high level. Defund public education and where are Tyroil Smoochie Wallace and Jackmerius Tacktheritrix going to get their reps in?  Meanwhile, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota and California keep their public schools funded and guess which teams start winning national championships? 

TLDR:  without public schools, there are very few good football players. 

Xmas Jaxon Flaxxon Waxon

 
Well, this is a new take on the school to prison pipeline. Anyone care to guess which kids will be disproportionately sent to these disciplinary rooms? They only have a few goals for these kids and it's cheap labor, the military or the prison industrial complex. 
Apparently they also passed a law that kids with vapes will now get mandatory DAEP placements. According to my principal friend that would have been 400-500 more placements for his district last year.

These campuses are not built to handle that many kids.

School districts will mirror jail systems. Non-violent offenders taking up space that could go to some really dangerous people.

don't bring vapes to school.

easy rule.  The punishment is for being that fucking dumb.

 

The notion that accountability is such an egregious offense to students is a huge weapon in the destruction of our schools.  'Tis but a symptom of much larger issues that lotsa folks want to pretend don't matter.

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don't bring vapes to school.
easy rule.  The punishment is for being that fucking dumb.
Well, I guess that fixes that.
3 minutes ago, tchookem said:
4 minutes ago, slorch said:
don't bring vapes to school.
easy rule.  The punishment is for being that fucking dumb.

Well, I guess that fixes that.

it is really that easy, right?  I mean vapes don't randomly affix themselves to students do they?

What am I missing?

Many campuses already have this policy.  It's not rocket surgery.

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it is really that easy, right?  I mean vapes don't randomly affix themselves to students do they?
What am I missing?
Many campuses already have this policy.  It's not rocket surgery.
Oddly, telling students "them's the rules" doesn't carry the weight one might hope it does. Without a law making it mandatory, districts might have some options on how to handle this. You know, local control. This law takes it away completely, and leaves districts holding the bag trying to deal with the fallout.

You're not wrong, it's a rule that should be followed, but this is going to be as effective as mandatory sentencing in our war on drugs.
On 7/21/2023 at 12:08 PM, pacman said:

 

 

Houston better hurry

Again the goal is monetizing students and placing a value upon each of them by getting them into charter schools. A nice by-product of these charter schools is the 3rd World education they will receive (Thus sending them straight into a labor force they are not prepared to enter where they will be perpetually poor.) That many of these students are at-risk minority kids is the real icing on the cake for those interested in keeping minority children living in poverty. All the while this system is making some wealthy investors even richer. What a time to be alive. 

8 hours ago, slorch said:

it is really that easy, right?  I mean vapes don't randomly affix themselves to students do they?

What am I missing?

Many campuses already have this policy.  It's not rocket surgery.

You mean unless someone ditches one in your locker or your backpack, slips one into your jacket pocket, etc... yeah, guess not. Modeled after the 3 strikes laws except for changing to 1st strike it will work probably about as well.

8 hours ago, slorch said:

don't bring vapes to school.

easy rule.  The punishment is for being that fucking dumb.

 

The notion that accountability is such an egregious offense to students is a huge weapon in the destruction of our schools.  'Tis but a symptom of much larger issues that lotsa folks want to pretend don't matter.

Slorch coming in with the hot take on vapes, but oddly silent on the PragerU indoctrination. 

10 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

You mean unless someone ditches one in your locker or your backpack, slips one into your jacket pocket, etc... yeah, guess not. Modeled after the 3 strikes laws except for changing to 1st strike it will work probably about as well.

Everyone needs a fall guy.

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14 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Slorch coming in with the hot take on vapes, but oddly silent on the PragerU indoctrination. 

Plenty of different avenues for destruction of the education system exist.

Sorry I don't comment on every aspect.

I have spoken openly and often about weak-ass parents who want to 'protect' their little Christians from outside views.  Have I not?  I'm not a supporter of the fraidy-cat brigade, by a long shot.

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16 minutes ago, slorch said:

Plenty of different avenues for destruction of the education system exist.

Sorry I don't comment on every aspect.

I have spoken openly and often about weak-ass parents who want to 'protect' their little Christians from outside views.  Have I not?  I'm not a supporter of the fraidy-cat brigade, by a long shot.

I'm confident when I say that the PragerU stuff is the most concerning. It isn't just "the destruction of the education system," it's the replacement of it with a system designed to indoctrinate, precisely what certain groups have said they are against. Watch the video I posted. It is beyond disturbing. 

If my high school was playing a high school named Clements, and some friends and I happen to do something stupid like make a banner that says “Clements sucks donkey dong” and we have it stowed on top of the press box at the football field that we share with Clements, and then things go down, it’s rolled down and people see it and some of us get caught in some way, these people would take the punishment out of the hands of the principal and try and make us out to be criminals instead of high school kids doing stupid shit.  Not that anything like that happened back in the 80s, I’m just making up a hypothetical scenario.

  • 4 weeks later...

HISD is going well. Rumor is they let go a bunch of SPED/Autism specialist teachers. At Oak Forest Elementary, they lost their only trained Special Ed teacher (let her go), took away a teacher from 4th grade who is not special Ed trained to do her job, and increased class sizes so there are 28 kids in each class. The “standard” for Texas is supposed to be 22 kids/class.

They are hell bent on fucking over the kids, the special needs kids, and the school system.

This guy is totally normal:

"It got off to a rough start. The fire marshal stopped by because several rooms were over capacity. And halfway through the week, Superintendent Mike Miles starred in a musical.

He was appointed to lead Houston’s public school system by the Texas Education Agency in June. In the musical, Miles played the owner of a diner in a town. The local school system faces reforms from a new superintendent … named Mr. Miles.

One scene portrayed reporters asking bad-faith questions about playgrounds.

“So why do you hate children?” asked one reporter, played by a student who later criticized the musical as a “propaganda play.”"

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/hisd-teachers-mixed-feelings-superintendent-mike-miles-reforms/

3 hours ago, Nivek said:

HISD is going well. Rumor is they let go a bunch of SPED/Autism specialist teachers. At Oak Forest Elementary, they lost their only trained Special Ed teacher (let her go), took away a teacher from 4th grade who is not special Ed trained to do her job, and increased class sizes so there are 28 kids in each class. The “standard” for Texas is supposed to be 22 kids/class.

They are hell bent on fucking over the kids, the special needs kids, and the school system.

Thank you Texas for ensuring I will never set foot in that 3rd World cesspool ever again. I mean my God what a bunch of cruel people to do this to the least of those in our society. 

And Mike Miles might be the worst administrator in the entire country. He has not been missed anywhere he has left. I still have a friend in Dallas that teaches and coaches that absolutely hates him.

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