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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I don’t think most people realize how far this could go. It’s not just about oil and airline companies. It could wreck everything from the gig economy to commercial real estate.
  2. I know health comes first but I can help but think of the likely long term economic impacts from this. There are a lot of balance sheets that are going to be really fucked up for a while.
  3. Nebraska basketball coach just left the game to go to the hospital.
  4. Why are people buying water? Coronavirus going to come through the taps?
  5. The state doesn’t have any means of dealing with attendance in its current form. We are about to hit high stakes testing season as well. There are huge ripple effects if there is a delay. My call would be to say to stay home and make it up on the back end. If school was delayed for two weeks then the staar test gets pushed back two weeks. Maybe allow districts to shorten their year after testing with the same funding if they want. Other concern is that students don’t have anywhere to go in lower socioeconomic homes. Those parents tend to work together to watch each other’s kids so they can go to work. But then you have created a new spreading ground for this. There are no easy solutions here.
  6. Thank you. Two days until spring break so that will hopefully buy the state some time to make a decision.
  7. I run the school so that’s not really an option, unfortunately.
  8. It’s definitely an ongoing conversation at my elementary school. Ultimately the state is going to have to have a funding mechanism for districts that shut down in Texas. We get funded based on attendance and 85% of that goes to salaries.
  9. Anybody feeling more confident in some down ballot races (Texas house) now that its likely Biden will be at the top of the ballot? I’m not a biden fan but I could see this working out well for some Texas Dems.
  10. Texas Dems suing to restore straight ticket voting because it discriminates against minorities by creating longer lines in their areas.
  11. Financial literacy/personal finance begins being taught in Texas in the 3rd grade. It’s relatively new so millennials and non-Texans probably didn’t get it. It will be interesting to see if it makes a difference in 10 years. They cover debt, credit, interest, responsible uses of money, etc. This was on staar last year: Ms Patterson works for a company. Which factor would most likely affect the amount of money she gets paid by the company? A. The amount of money Ms Patterson has to pay in bills. B. The size of Ms Patterson’s family. C. The amount of money Ms Patterson saves every month. D. The work experience Ms Patterson has. E. Her company calculates a mans salary and simply pays her 80 cents on the dollar. Ok, I added the last one but it’s interesting what they ask 7 and 8 year olds.
  12. Maybe I’m different but I see it as irresponsible to pick a candidate when I know nothing about either person running, especially in a primary where they are in the same party. I skipped a lot of races on my ballot for this reason.
  13. Not very encouraging. Hoping to see a couple of things in the general election: 1. Republicans have a bunch of olds that vote in every election, including dog catcher. Dems want a shot to take trump out and will show up when he’s on the ballot against a dem. 2. This primary was weird and fragmented with nobody starting any type of movement. Hopefully Biden will be riding a wave of anti trump momentum into the general. 3. It’s going to be tough because trumps people WILL show up.
  14. I voted for Donna and have been impressed with her message and engagement on social media. Her quick tv AD looked robotic imo. Hopefully she wins and works this out because carter always has effective ads. He’s always in a cowboy hat with a truck not doing a damn thing while optimistic music plays in the background. He’s such a senile old fuck.
  15. Williamson county will be an interesting one to watch. Trump won it 52-42 in 2016. It seems to have moved much more to the left in the last 4 years. There will be over 200k votes so it’s a big one to at least break even in.
  16. Hillary won bexar county 54.5 to 41. Hillary won Harris county 54.2 to 41.8. Those are pretty good margins. The margin would actually be wider if with higher turnout as democrats are more likely to be have their vote suppressed.
  17. I’m going to sue Tom Brady alleging he is harassing me because Gisele doesn’t want to have sex with him anymore after taking my 10 inch dick in her ass. Surly posters: “seems legit”
  18. Sure are a lot of people willing to hear one side of a lawsuit and make up their mind about what happened.
  19. I already voted for Liz but for the purposes of this poll voted “was Liz, now Bernie”. I don’t particularly love Bernie but dislike biden and have concerns about his mental faculties. I honestly don’t think he could make it through a term at the rate he is deteriorating.
  20. I’m in western Wilco and voted yesterday. It was quite busy and the lady working said that it had been that way all day. Props to the workers for running a really friendly/efficient machine. It was hard to tell whether more R or D ballots had been given out because they had gone through so many sticker pages of each. In general I’ll take high turnout as it favors Dems. Wife and I both felt strange walking up and requesting a D ballot after spending so many years on the other side. I’ll fire the surly libtard pac thread up again after we know who wins the primaries. Let’s see if we can’t just swing a close general election.
  21. Elementary school administrator here. Yes, even young kids can cause a severe amount of damage to property, other students, and even staff. Calling the cops is typically not the right answer. Cuffs are never the right answer. Even with students in a state of crisis being removed from school directly to a mental health facility, we have never had to use cuffs. People need to understand that there are two very different sets of laws governing schools and their students. Special education and general education. Let’s say a student is in special education with an emotional disturbance diagnosis. This student cannot be suspended for more than 10 days in a school year without a manifestation determination hearing to determine if their behavior was a result of their disability. Guess what......every possible behavior is due to the disability and that kid is ours for the rest of the year. The only way that kid is leaving my campus is if they have an offense classified as non-discretionary such as bringing drugs or a weapon to school. We can physically contain a kid using SAMA techniques, but only if they are an immediate danger to themselves or others. Walking around and smashing computers? Nope, doesn’t cut it and it’s a fast way to get fired. You know what my only option is? Calling the cops when the level of property destruction gets to be over $100. If the kid is under 10, even they can’t do much about it. Punch a kid/teacher in the face? Spend the afternoon with me and they will be back in class tomorrow. Special education laws add great protection for some of our most at risk students. However, they have gone too far in protecting some really egregious behavior and allowing it to happen every day, year after year. That’s not helping the special education child develop a sense of reality about how people will deal with that behavior outside of school. Im going to cut this post off so that it doesn’t get into TLDR territory but I’m happy to answer questions.
  22. Pete is a weasel but he entertains me in this shit show.
  23. Jesus, terrible by the mods
  24. Steyer: well I think mod: thank you mr steyer, moving on now
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