A New Politics Thread

[Rome]

My daughter called me and told me her last class had 29 kids in it.  Absolutely against policy (25 is the max).   The rest of her classes went very well but the last one was a mess.  She was supposed to have a second adult in there but there was no one available. 

Typical clusterfarg but at least she had a really positive experience other than that fargup.  I really am over the moon proud of her. 

[Geowhizzer]

Can't speak for her district but the state "class size amendment" is a farce.  An unfunded mandate that my district hasn't followed in years.  The district loses some minor funding, but far less than the cost of the teachers and infrastructure needed to meet the requirement.

[Geowhizzer]

I have two classes on my schedule that have spec Ed kids in them(down from 4 a few years ago!) so I have a spec Ed co teacher in those classes with me and she is from Florida and has taught there two different times and the horror stories she has told me between the low ass salaries and the way her district handled special education was insane. Don't think I could ever want to teach in Florida after what she has told me.

Geo if you're looking to be in the Philly area again, north DE is an affordable and relatively nice place to live. And if you wanna crank out a few more years as a teacher, we're having the same workforce issues everyone else is and I'm sure a social studies job will come up haha.

Our state also just passed a law to provide funding for our schools to hire two full time subs on small salaries (I think I read they'd be starting around 30K for people with bachelors degrees?)and with benefits, could be a good way to finish out your career. If I ever have the balls to get into local politics my plan would be to transition into one of those jobs at my building so I could still teach some and be in the building helping kids and such. Local politics is a part time job in this state and the salaries reflect that.

Because I have the gifted endorsement, I get those classes and by-and-large avoid the heavy ESE load.  I have one class that is loaded (>50%).  Most of the kids are sweet, but I do have a couple that are going to test my patience this year.

[SD]

https://twitter.com/tyler_digital/status/1557035300194492417 20&t=8JdZbUQYHWmuCD4MsCyP4g

[Eagaholic]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-court-says-teen-not-mature-enough-abortion-rcna43344

A FL court rules a 16 year old is not mature enough to choose to have an abortion. She has no parents, no job and the father can't/won't assist her. Something must be lost on me here. How can this girl not be mature enough to choose an abortion yet is mature enough to face the monumental responsibilities of being a teen single mother without adequate resources?

[Diomedes]

You are mistaking the girl for a person.  She is livestock, a brood mare under the control of a religious State.

[Munson]

I have two classes on my schedule that have spec Ed kids in them(down from 4 a few years ago!) so I have a spec Ed co teacher in those classes with me and she is from Florida and has taught there two different times and the horror stories she has told me between the low ass salaries and the way her district handled special education was insane. Don't think I could ever want to teach in Florida after what she has told me.

Geo if you're looking to be in the Philly area again, north DE is an affordable and relatively nice place to live. And if you wanna crank out a few more years as a teacher, we're having the same workforce issues everyone else is and I'm sure a social studies job will come up haha.

Our state also just passed a law to provide funding for our schools to hire two full time subs on small salaries (I think I read they'd be starting around 30K for people with bachelors degrees?)and with benefits, could be a good way to finish out your career. If I ever have the balls to get into local politics my plan would be to transition into one of those jobs at my building so I could still teach some and be in the building helping kids and such. Local politics is a part time job in this state and the salaries reflect that.

Because I have the gifted endorsement, I get those classes and by-and-large avoid the heavy ESE load.  I have one class that is loaded (>50%).  Most of the kids are sweet, but I do have a couple that are going to test my patience this year.

To Romey's post about state laws on class sizes, our "college prep" (what we call the lower level courses with special education kids in them) are supposed to be capped at 27, with a maximum of 12 kids with IEPs in the class. Which is insane because those are the kids that need to be in classes of 20 or less to get the extra attention they need, especially with how much behavior issues we usually have at that level. 27 kids and 12 of them having IEPs isn't helping any of those kids, unfortunately. And sure enough, both of mine this year as of right now have 27 kids on the roster and 12 IEPs. It's gonna suck.

[Eagaholic]

You are mistaking the girl for a person.  She is livestock, a brood mare under the control of a religious State.

I guess that's the best explanation of why she'll be saddled with a kid for the next 20 years.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Dio is right sadly.

That's how women are viewed by the GOP. That is until one of their teenagers gets knocked up.

[Rome]

Hahahahahaha!

[Rome]

Btw... my daughter has been a teacher for exactly two days and she's already been ignored by her administration, lied to about the size and types of classes she's being forced to teach, and she's still hanging in there when any other kid her age would have told them all to farg off by now. 

I don't give a shtein... I'm bragging about her to everyone I know right now.  I'm that proud of her for doing this when she could have easily taken the other route, and gone to grad school on mom and dad's dime. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

You should be proud. Sounds like a tough kid!

This warms my heart. He's been stiffing lawyers for years and not even the clown show attorneys want his biz.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1559692922194386945 21&t=3fl9fvlRrZx_1JF6JfLZXQ

[Eagaholic]

BCS!

Trump really needs a dust filter for his Hoover Max Extract Pressure Pro model 60.

[Diomedes]

Here's an idea:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/15/a-narrow-pardon-for-trump-00051859

I'm not on board but I'm intrigued.  If in fact Trump just took the documents and was sitting on them, not using them for gain or to extort, etc...then this argument has some serious merits. 

[SD]

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1560267652123074562 20&t=h_O6oSmwtyPbM2aNkVgYcA

"Accidental"