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posted by Ironman92

I’ll also add this…you don’t want that K-3 classroom teacher position. You don’t want any part of it.

Yeah, you don't want any part of what I do, either.

You don't know real stress until you're under a deadline at 2am after months of 80-hour mentally exhausting weeks.

posted by jmog

Just curious what class?.

Differential equations.  Most of my math classes were way harder than business, and Real Analysis told me "you're done in math", but DE was a joke.

posted by geeblock

You solved it! Average class size is 36. Anything else? There is a teacher shortage and an easy path for people in business, come sign up! 

Well then clearly we need to stop hiring shitty teachers.  Or just stop grossly overpaying babysitters.

JMOG wasn't wrong.  I had a 300-level math class with a bunch of education majors who struggled to even pass.  I did all my homework during class, and aced every exam.  One of the easiest classes I had.

posted by Ironman92

Average class size of what is 36? High school level? K-12, your subject area? Kindergarten have 36 kids a room?

My bad.  I neglected to include shitty teachers who can't do basic math.

posted by geeblock
What’s your solution to fixing inner city schools?

Maybe MORE shitty teachers isn't the answer.  Maybe 2 shitty teachers each with 20 students isn't as good as 1 good teacher with 40 students.

Maybe increase pay to attract good teachers and get rid of the ones who struggle to read and write.  But LOL that's not how unions work.

posted by CenterBHSFan

I don't understand why people are so pre-emptively upset about this when nobody agreed with the conviction in the first place.

Most people said that about the gun charges (but LOL he's on video and the prosecutor is just supposed to ignore seeing a crime?).  No serious person said it about the tax fraud charges (including 3 felony counts).  I think for some reason he skated on money laundering charges - statute of limitations ran out in some cases.

You try what Hunter did with your taxes and you are definitely going to jail.

posted by TedSheckler

I'm watching Landman and it's fantastic.

Agreed so far. 

Taylor Sheridan's series have mostly all been great, though Yellowstone clearly fell off when he became distracted with other projects.  Will be interesting to see if other of his shows suffer the same fate if they go on for more than a season or two.

posted by CenterBHSFan

But now, if he can't use the 5th, a shit ton of exposure is liable to happen.

I hadn't thought of that angle.  Of course, Congress and [presumably] DOJ already looked into Joe and couldn't find evidence of wrongdoing.  Which is a short way of saying if Hunter just lies to a committee it would be tough to prove.

He's also liable to just blame addiction for his inability to recall key facts they seek answers to.

As far as Joe I'm not sure how much more elder abuse the Republicans want to subject him to.

posted by geeblock

Thanks for the tax lesson, for the record the voluntary part of the discussion was the fact that businesses could choose to sign up for the new plan or continue with the old way. Thus to sign up for the new plan was “voluntary “ 

Again, you're frighteningly obtuse for an educator.

There was no "voluntary" choice of two plans.  Taxes are not voluntary.  What you're referring to has nothing to do with paying taxes but was simply a new program for reporting [a.k.a tracking] tips.

The fact that you continue to connect this to tax liability - as you did again just a few posts above - shows you either don't know what you're talking about or just really struggle with reading and writing.

1 in 13 chance.  Funny that it was the first word that popped into my head.

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posted by geeblock

If you think people in those situations pay the appropriate amount of taxes I would suggest you have not

Choosing to commit tax fraud doesn't make taxes voluntary.  A teacher should be able to understand this, especially after it's been explained multiple times.

Donating $3 to the federal election commission is voluntary.  Paying the taxes is not.

posted by Ironman92

I disagree with Steretore….the ref called it correctly

I agree with Steratore.  Pulled him down, grabbed the helmet.  That's at least two different penalties.

Only 2 words left, but definitely sweating

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So I think I've noticed a trend where, if you leave the Democratic party, you get accused of being a Russian asset.  Tulsi, now Elon, and yes also Donald Trump.

Think I even saw a blurb the other day about Joe Rogan pushing Russian propaganda.  The Dems really have run out of plays, haven't they?

Thought that might be a tougher word for some

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After my 3rd guess I realized this was another stupid word

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And outsourcing because of greed is about as ignorant and uninformed as it gets.  Just regurgitating leftwing propaganda.

Yes, they have marginally increased profits from outsourcing.  But it was either that or slowly die.  You can't have a 10-20% cost disadvantage on labor and expect to compete.

This is the old, tired Walmart argument.  For years and years people lamented jobs going overseas, but they kept going to Walmart to fill their shopping carts with cheaper products.  And if you wanted your company to survive and compete with that, then you outsourced overseas, too.

posted by iclfan2

Wrong. Pro union trash bill, which would hurt right to work states. Unions had a place and are now just anti-technology and bloat. 

I was thinking about this the other day, and haven't seen anyone talking about it, yet.

But these govt unions are going to inflict maximum pain when the cuts start coming.  Chicago Teacher's union does it about every other year.  Their media friends will quickly latch onto the narrative that "cuts were too draconian, austere and poorly thought out", rather than the unions intentionally disregarding their job and obligation to gain public support to oppose the efficiencies.

posted by jmog

55% of the vote is what is now required for a “mandate?

It's obviously something more than just winning the election, or we wouldn't talk about "mandates" only winning.

And it's certainly greater than 50% of the popular vote, which Trump didn't get....

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