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tchookem

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  1. I officially stopped giving all fucks last year. Parents would ask me what I needed, and I told them after 25 years I had most of the things I needed to start the year. It's the things that come up throughout the year (printer cartridges, so I can print maps and graphs in color), so I just said Amazon gift cards. This year I'm asking friends and family to help pay for the subscriptions to online resources I pay for out-of-pocket. Last year that was around $500.
  2. Yeah, that guy has a lack for saying the stupidest thing possible. And Republican voters love him for it.
  3. You have the right to a speedy trial, which means it's optional for the defendant, no?
  4. It's similar to the fear mongering they do when they say that once "liberals" get power, they'll target conservatives. Of course they think it's what "liberals" would do, because that's what they would do.
  5. I appreciate your sentiment, and your concerns about a future of underpaid teachers isn't far off. But to be honest, at this point in my career, I would compromise with funding education enough to pay for adequately staffing a school with special education and bilingual education teachers, not to mention all the auxiliary positions that schools need to function. I can't count how many times the SpEd teacher was pulled from my class (a class that sped students have required minutes with a sped teacher) because they had to cover another class, or how many "aides" I had in my classroom that probably should have been a certified sped teacher. To be honest, I would settle with funding education adequately enough to hire enough teachers to get my class sizes under 30. There is a huge difference between teaching in a room with 30 eleven year-olds and 26 eleven year-olds. Now imagine having 35 eleven year-olds. Yeah. You know what, keep the raise, it's a bandaid. What good is an extra $200/ month if I have to go into a dirty classroom with 35 kids (10 SpEd/5 Spanish speakers/1 Swahili speaker), no ESL teacher and a SpEd teacher that leaves 20 minutes into class?
  6. I think they actually do have a plan. It's just that their plan includes being decent to people born outside America, so it's a dead-at-conception, compete non-starter to the people they need to compromise with. And they're dealing with people that view compromising as losing.
  7. I believe it was the Republicans that killed those, was it not?
  8. You know what would be cheaper... and more effective? Policy. An actual policy that addresses these peoples' needs to get out of their homeland, employers' needs for laborers, and our need to feel good about ourselves for actually doing the right thing. But yeah, some big orange balls, that will... um... yeah.
  9. Was she a great big fat person? ETA: Too slow.
  10. So you're saying there's a chance?
  11. They're still voting R, because it's what Ike would have wanted.
  12. I don't know how true this is. Personally, I've gotten closer to embracing those things than I ever would have if Mitt Romney had gotten the Republican nomination in 2016. I also have a son that is going to vote in the next presidential election. He's never known me as the middle-of-road conservative voter. His political awareness has only been me and his mom (who never said boo about politics) taking against the GQP... talk about indoctrination.
  13. I'm not sure what I think of it. I don't hate it, but I feel like I need to see it again before I decide if that I like it. I always feel like WA has a lot of moving parts, but they always end up culminating into something at the end. I'm not sure Asteroid City did this. I feel like there's something I missed or something I'm supposed to "get" that I don't get.
  14. What about a requiring super majority to continue debate?
  15. That Hebron band is no joke. I say that with all sincerity.
  16. What's going on with Pflugerville ISD?
  17. Man, if shoplifting drives people this crazy imagine how angry they'd get over white-collar crime. That's where the real money is... taxpayer money even.
  18. I would only amend to say tough means bullying. Bullying the people they don't like. The more cruel the bullying, the better
  19. "But it should be based on merit. My grandpa earned that spot!"
  20. Channeling my inner Brisket: But wouldn't that just be challenged as de facto AA? And with this court, wouldn't that logic be correct?
  21. So let's say a white kid, graduating next June, is in the top 5% of his class with an okay SAT score. Do auto-admission go out the window? What did this do to his chances of acceptance to UT? Asking for a friend.
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