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Nolacycling

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  1. Thank you for posting this. ^^^ Average teacher pay in Texas for 2017-18 was $53,167, compared with the national average of $60,483, according to the National Education Association. There are about 350,000 classroom teachers and librarians across the state.
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    In my classroom, I am asking that they give up their electronic devices for one class period. maybe you think that's lame and you're right it is, but some of them are jittery over the thought. We started talking about it today so they could ease into it. Classroom joke o' the day... There are only two reasons to be at your desk staring at your hands in your lap. And one of them is because you're on your phone./teacher joke
  3. Yellow Rose says "Good idea" (does that still exist or am I dating myself)
  4. Stolen: Instead of anti-vaxers, we should call them plague-enthusiasts.
  5. @McConaughey if you want to say hello
  6. Mitrou-Long in. Countdown to drawing a charge.
  7. Coach to coach "How many kids on your team this year?" "125" "wow, that's great!" "yeah, but I've got 250+ parents"
  8. Leon Hale (rip) was a columnist for the Chronicle and said "teaching was the hardest job I ever had when I worked at it and the easiest when I didn't ".
  9. I won't pretend to speak for all teachers, but let's say you sell apples and are dependent on having your apples pass the chef's standards. But some of your apples are rotten(dyswidt) and no matter what you do won't improve. It's on you. What are you supposed to do give all your time towards the bad apple trees, while the rest suffer? In reality, I don't mind being rated on student improvement, but can you imagine coming up up with a system that rates the physics 2 teacher at Southlake Carroll and the physics teacher at Brownsville Hanna? This is our concern, Dude.
  10. Fuck You. Did this happen to you today at work? I don't mean your boss said you fucked up. I know you say it's just a kid and don't take it personally. I don't anymore. If your neighbor's kid said it to you, how would you act when he's parking in front of your house again the very next day. How did you feel when that guy flipped you off on the road the other day? Hey, don't take it personally. Maybe this didn't happen at Highland Park, Churchill, Lake Travis or HSPVA today, but it happened all over the state and country today. How would you feel if teachers had open bargaining like you? How would you feel if we could leave your child's classroom at the drop of a hat because a better teaching opportunity exists across town? Matching 401k donations? Ha. Social Security? lol You want a summer vacay? Great, cough up 25% of your salary. There is no argument for any job that "if you don't like it leave", but just like your lawyer you get what you pay for. I'm happy to see that most here support a $5k raise.
  11. ONE of my objections is that dealing with "good" christians is like reading a Chrispie post. It's all sweet and good and well intended from their perspective but it's a wolf in sheeps clothing standing on your doorstep. I aplogize to those that have read this before. I had a principal that lead the faculty in prayer. As much as an atheist as I am I still have the manners to stand. The aggravation was that his christian subsect called for people to be baptised in his church or give up their ticket to heaven. I have a daughter who passed away. You see the issue. This is not the person I want prostletizing to me.
  12. So you're against it? 5k Tell your wife to get a job, so she knows how miserable you are.
  13. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2019/02/25/senate-committee-unanimously-approves-bill-give-texas-teachers-5000-raise tldr: Patrick "says" it's his #1 priority. Senate committee passed it. Dem version includes support staff. $5k
  14. Some of my favorite lyrics. Well, I hit him hard right between the eyesAnd he went down, but to my surpriseHe come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my earBut I busted a chair right across his teethAnd we crashed through the wall and into the streetKicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer
  15. Big 12 swim champs begin tomorrow in Austin. Texas will win as there are only three teams in the conference. Texas is ranked 2nd nationally headed towards the NCAA Championships to be held in Austin March 27-30. They have won the last 4 in a row and hold the record for most NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Steve Patterson did not hire Eddie Reese.
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