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Larry T. Spider

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  1. A lot of rain in western RR but no hail.
  2. I though it was a safety feature similar to orange cones on the side of a highway.
  3. I used to work for Pflugerville ISD. Baris slams and goes hard. Ate there before every board meeting.
  4. So if we get the 11 billion back, it’s going to education? Sweet.
  5. I have to travel to a lot of random places for work which makes it impossible for me to accumulate status on one airline. I fly AA, SWA, United, and Delta. Over the last two years, delta has been the winner. Toss up between the rest. Avoiding AA out of Charlotte has probably helped my opinion of them.
  6. Where the hell are your numbers coming from? It’s pure absurdity. Do you really think assistant principals are making 150k or more a year? After 10 years of teaching in AISD I made 55k. After 4 years of being an AP I made 67k. As a principal I made 104k.
  7. Got a decent shower in western round rock about an hour ago.
  8. We’re trying to burn more fossil fuels bro.
  9. I’m seeing a ton of solar on houses in new middle class to upper middle class neighborhoods. Are those numbers being factored into the statewide data coming out? My in-laws live on the west side of San Antonio and it seems like every other house out there in the newer hoods.
  10. I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.
  11. Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones.
  12. Developers and large corporations landlords hold a lot of power with Texas republicans. But the top of their conservatard hierarchy will always be feigned religious outrage. Helping the poor need not apply.
  13. The most widely used data to compare between states is the NAEP test that is given to 4th graders and 8th graders. Overall, our scores are meh, but so are a lot of other states. I would argue that school funding is more about everything other than math and reading. Those are the last things to get cut. It’s band, art, music, bus routes, GT, special ed services, more elective options, teacher retention, higher level courses in HS, and any other extras that get cut. These are often where good public schools excel, and often on the backs of people getting a 3k/year stipend for countless hours of work. Quite a few private school families come back for HS because of these things and AP courses that will be challenging enough for their college bound kids. Insert the Texas legislature to intentionally sabotage all of that with a 10k voucher and funding that will necessitate cuts to all of the above. Parents are about to get asked for way more money for supplies and various programs
  14. We drove to Rosemary Beach and back last summer. Opted for New Orleans on the way there. Wanted to knock out more of the drive on the way home so we ate an early dinner in New Orleans then stayed in Lake Charles and hit the casino. If I did it over again I would just stay in NOLA both ways.
  15. Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag. Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house. Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts. 1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups. 2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area. Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.
  16. The people of Austin are willing to pay for mass transit. In fact, they already are, based on the promise of several new lines. What did we get? One additional line that *might* be operational by 2033. Attitude of the taxpayers is not the problem. Delivering on promises is.
  17. Republicans have very few political groups that oppose them in Texas. Public education, environmentalists and trial lawyers are about the only three. Pretty easy to predict who gets the shaft.
  18. This could be good if done correctly. Or it could cause campus disruptions and lost instructional time 3x as often. At the end of the day, if the test is tied to school ratings and keeping the state away, it will remain high stakes. One thing that’s really important to remember is that teaching to the test and test taking strategies are very effective. There are some kids that are so far behind that it doesn’t matter and a few that are going to ace it no matter what. But I’ve watched kids with teachers that were poor at test prep pass off their students to teachers that were great at test prep the next year. Kids that were scoring in the 70s started scoring in the 90s. Year after year, the same thing. Experienced administrators know this and start pushing it because the test scores are one of the few public facing indicators of success for the school. However nobody really thinks it’s making our kids smarter, our parents happier, or our teachers more likely to stay in the profession.
  19. This is 100% necessary in a declining enrollment district with funding challenges. If they play their cards right, it can potentially help with the test score issues as well. Strategically, it’s important to think about where the kids will go if their school closes. If there’s a charter across the street, it probably won’t be another AISD school. With that being said, I’ll believe it when it actually happens. They aren’t even releasing plans for another 6 months. Then the protests and cries of racism/over privileged whining starts.
  20. Played some drinking games through the delay and learned an important lesson. I’m too old for this shit.
  21. I mean, you could say the same about Texas but that also screws over the 4,835,250 of us that voted for the opposite of this shit. Red states feeling some maga pain is very leopard/face appropriate though….
  22. And there is the states game plan in a nutshell.
  23. There is a lot of anti-charter sentiment in the public education world. This is especially true in AISD where they have pulled students away and made the funding crisis much worse. My guess is the administration wants to be able to say they tried everything before going that route. It’s a political move as much as anything.
  24. Seems like the most relevant thread for this. Don Zimmerman, former Austin City Council clown, is leading protests at Cedar Ridge HS in Round Rock at dismissal each day. Evidently there is a trans teacher there, which is obviously a crime against humanity…..or the best way for ole Don to stay in the news. A friend made a FB post saying the protesters should leave the school community alone. Zimmerman lost his bid for RRISD school board and people have rejected his views. He found the FB post and wrote this response that would impress Alex Jones: “Thank you for affirming your faith in the trans cult religion of government school. Since we are being forced - by taxes - to subsidize the subversive demonic cult "trans" religion, WE WILL CONTINUE to protest until Mr. Lambert is removed from the RRISD teaching authority. I have filed Grievance # 2025-02-0439 against Mr. Andrew Roland Lambert, a man who is misrepresenting himself as a woman at CRHS: "Mr. Andrew Roland Lambert (a man) is misrepresenting himself in the high school yearbook, and as a classroom teacher, as "Ms. Alyssa Lambert" (a woman), in Violation of Educator's Code of Ethics, 247.2(1)(J), Standard 1.10. "The educator shall be of good moral character and be worthy to instruct or supervise the youth of this state." Mr. Lambert exercises "Moral turpitude--Improper conduct, including, but not limited to, the following: dishonesty; fraud; deceit; ...; misrepresentation" of his biological gender. Mr. Lambert might be exercising "base, vile, or depraved acts that are intended to arouse or to gratify the sexual desire of the actor", by misrepresenting his gender and modeling a deceptive lifestyle as if it were normal, morally correct and acceptable, which represents "modeling" by a teaching professional. Mr. Lambert "models" the behavior of pretending to be the opposite sex to young, impressionable students, which could lead them to model his behavior, which could be damaging to students physical and mental health." Here is Mr. Lambert's Texas Educator Certificate: This certifies that Andrew Roland Lambert has fulfilled requirements of state law and regulations of the State Board for Educator Certification and is hereby authorized to perform duties as designated below: STANDARD Description Effective Date Expiration Date Status Classroom Teacher Social Studies 06/23/2023 04/30/2029 Valid”
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