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irishtexan

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  1. There's no way to get a consensus on this. Here are a few bands that put out at least two stellar records and who formed after 85. I like post-punk, punk rock, and indie type shit.

    Fugazi

    The Pixies (seriously, how has no one nominated the pixies yet?)

    Nirvana

    Pavement

    The Jesus Lizard

    Shellac

    Weezer

     

  2. Semi-related - but the amateur home chefs who post online recipes and write six paragraphs about the feelings a particular recipe invokes (and inevitably says "hubby and the kiddos ate it all up!) are just the goddamn worst.

  3. 1 minute ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Now they aren’t required. Per the new policy. I’ve been to hundreds of pro events starting when I was 4 years old in the early 80s.  Anthem played at everyone. And I remember athletes being present. 

    Oilers.  Astros.  Texans.  Rockets.  Maybe they weren’t required. But they were there.  

    Right. They could be on the field if they wanted. Or not. Then the NFL went full-NASCAR in 2009 and started requiring players be on the field for the signing of the national anthem. 

  4. 18 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    My insurance covered half at Shaw so I paid around $500. 

    I was on Blue Cross and my employer recently switched to Aetna. Neither "covered" the procedure, although it did go toward my deductible. Since I'm never really sick it's all out of pocket. Not thrilled about paying a grand to have this done, but I know it will be worth it. 

  5. 1 minute ago, riloh05 said:

    what should a 26 year teacher make? is her job more difficult in year 6 than it is in year 22? is the teacher not teaching the same thing as the year before? i know this is kinda moving the goalpost, but i think it goes hand in hand with the difficulty of just pay teachers more. 50k out of college isnt a bad gig. 55k 10 years into my career tells me i am doing it wrong.

    Your position is that teachers don't deserve raises? You're a fucking idiot.

  6. 44 minutes ago, riloh05 said:

    are those numbers false?

    Yes. They absolutely are. Houston ISD teachers crack $65k in year 26. Here's a chart. Quick research indicates that the 10M/10.5M/11M/11.5M and 12M refer to the number of months the teachers teach. I'm guessing that the overwhelming majority are 10M teachers because that's standard and there likely are not a lot of opportunities to work through the entire year. Those jobs, I would imagine, are few and far between. If someone has more info on opportunities to work year-round in Houston, I'd like to hear more. I know that doesn't exist for my wife here in Austin.

    http://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/TX01001591/Centricity/domain/16074/salary schedules/2017 - 2018 salary schedules/2017-2018 Teacher Initial Compensation Placement Tables.pdf

    Here's Austin. Teachers don't reach $65k until year 39.

    https://www.austinisd.org/sites/default/files/dept/hr/2017-18_Teacher-Librarian_Salary_Schedule.pdf



  7. I have very little skin in the game, but I think that is reasonable. My only caveat is that they are held to performance based standards. Tenure shouldn’t save someone in any situation. Too often I hear tenure brought up in my group of friends (four are teachers K, 3rd, 8th and HS level). It is the biggest thing that we disagree on.

    Public school teachers don’t get tenure. But it is very difficult to fire someone. I think most people would be open to some sort of performance standard evaluation. The tricky part is how you factor in demographic differences among schools/districts.
  8. how much more. what number is it. there are a lot of important jobs. should elementary teachers be paid more than HS? are classes more important than others? should those teachers be paid more? he qualified her, but he made his complaint his own. tl/dr...what are the specific numbers and why?

     

    I think someone who has been teaching for ten years should expect to make $65k per year. Do you think that’s unreasonable? I think the entry level salary is fine or even a little high. As has been stated multiple times, it is the limits on pay increases that make the job so undesirable

     

  9. 18 minutes ago, riloh05 said:

    this is going to come across as insensitive, but these are choices that have been made by you and your wife. why should that burden fall at the feet of tax payers for an increased salary that is by some data pretty accurate. what does the cost of daycare have anything to do with teaching? let me ask this question...when your wife committed to doing her student teaching did she not know how much a pre-k special ed teacher made? what was her expectation?

    a payroll clerk is paid less than your wife, this is a job that must be done in order to pay employees. it is a job that NEEDS to be done. SOMEBODY needs to do it. MOST people couldnt handle it for very long at a quality level.

     

    Because they're educating our children and they deserve to be paid more because it's a job that is significantly more important than is typically given credit. The shit pay is a contributing factor to the perception that a large percentage of teachers are lazy, entitled and bad at their jobs. Which conveniently is often the reason people who weild those criticisms use to justify paying teachers so little. 

    His response included the qualifier that his wife doesn't complain about the pay. What he's suggesting is that she should be paid more. Which is true.

  10. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    Assuming I liked my maximum of two kids, I think I could live indefinitely in my 3/2 1500 sft house if I also had a tiny house/office in the backyard.

    I like my two kids but know that for everyone to stay alive and avoid killing one another, we will soon need a bigger house than our 1700 sft house. 

  11. 4 minutes ago, EZ$ said:

    He’s just trying to justify his mistake by making up some mumbo jumbo to back up him leaving early.   He should have come back, the professionals told him he needed to come back and then his draft position verified that he needed to come back

    He’ll make some money a year earlier,  but is that worth the difference of staying one more year and being a 1st rounder (which I think he would have if he had another good season on tape)??   

    Explain "he should have come back". What should he have come back for? A chance to be a first round pick? He was provided the information he needed to make a decision, used that information to make his decision, and has never apologized for the decision he made. In fact, he provided a well-reasoned explanation of why he made his decision. This "he should have come back" bullshit reeks of paternalism and college fan-boy "he owes the school" (read: "me") entitlement. He doesn't owe the fans anything, and as far as what he owes UT, the University got a lot more value out of him than he did out of his scholarship for three years. 

     

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  12. 34 minutes ago, Horseshoe Lounge said:

    it is a bad look for malik playing the victim card and throwing others under the bus. he better show up ready to work and handle his business in the nfl, or he wont make it very far

    He did absolutely none of what you accuse him of doing.

  13. 1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    This basically boils down to the majority of college football fans would give up their first born to have been a football star.  Anything short of eternal gratitude is going to ruffle feathers.

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