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10 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

 

 

It's rare that you see a rebuke like that delivered as clearly and relatively dispassionately.

He's a gem.

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11 hours ago, Bullneck said:

 

 

or institutional/ publicly funded racism and or religious zealotry.  But yeah, it's all of that and more.

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4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

this is why they’ll never win anything ever

 

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I cannot for the life of me google the weird old playground kid meme with like the lurch dude and the little person with the superpowers listed next to them (thanks shitty A1 search). If anyone can share I look forward to making a photoshop. 

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2 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


I cannot for the life of me google the weird old playground kid meme with like the lurch dude and the little person with the superpowers listed next to them (thanks shitty A1 search). If anyone can share I look forward to making a photoshop. 

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I seriously gave this ditchpig the benefit of the doubt. I thought she was talking about some program or curriculum called "A1".

Nope. She's just an old woman who's too lazy to do the work to even learn the name of what she's talking about.
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On 4/12/2025 at 10:08 AM, tchookem said:

 

 


I seriously gave this ditchpig the benefit of the doubt. I thought she was talking about some program or curriculum called "A1".

Nope. She's just an old woman who's too lazy to do the work to even learn the name of what she's talking about.

 

Exhibit eleventy billion of the dumbest fucking people. 

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I seriously gave this ditchpig the benefit of the doubt. I thought she was talking about some program or curriculum called "A1".

Nope. She's just an old woman who's too lazy to do the work to even learn the name of what she's talking about.

I bet she can name the full card of WrestleMania V
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I seriously gave this ditchpig the benefit of the doubt. I thought she was talking about some program or curriculum called "A1".

Nope. She's just an old woman who's too lazy to do the work to even learn the name of what she's talking about.

Benefit of the doubt? Why? She is linked to this administration and Trump personally. They allowed him to play tough guy and gave him a free platform for approval.

They are bad people.
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8 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Linda McMahon helped cover up child sexual abuse and child trafficking for literal decades. She's absolute scum. perfectly qualified and tailor-made for this administration.

Remember how the entire GQP movement had a multi-year hissy fit about "PEDOPHILES!  CHILD TRAFFICKING!  RAPE!"?  I remember.  Amazingly, they seem to have forgotten - overnight - that those things are a big deal.  Huh.  It's a mystery as to why.

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Benefit of the doubt? Why? She is linked to this administration and Trump personally. They allowed him to play tough guy and gave him a free platform for approval.

They are bad people.
Probably the wrong phrase, I assumed she knew what she was talking about and that I was in the dark about some new teaching program.

It was foolish of me to ever assume she has any knowledge that would come close to my 25+ years in the classroom. She was a blithering old moron and I should have taken it in accordingly.

Lazy, stupid, and evil is their creed, and I'll never doubt that again.
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2 hours ago, Underdog said:

A “friend” asked how one could send a case or dozen of A1 Sauce to her Office or residence.

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On 4/10/2025 at 10:32 PM, Pancho said:

this is why they’ll never win anything ever

 

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What? This is a fucking sports rivalry you delusional fucks. You want to defund the entire University System because of a football rivalry? 

Is this a joke?

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I have a graduate degree from a school in the University of Nebraska system and their president sent us this email today going over the changes to the system.

 

1.) The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy recently joined the NIH in capping Facilities & Administration (F&A) rates at 15%. These caps, which help cover research infrastructure like lab maintenance and staff, if enacted on all federal awards, would result in an estimated $60 million annual revenue loss for the university system.


2.) Since Jan. 22, 74 federal grants totaling $91.6 million have been terminated across our campuses—representing a loss of over $46 million in incomplete work. While we continue to assess the full impact, these changes reflect broader shifts in federal funding priorities.

 

3.) The recent release of the federal preliminary budget suggests reductions in federal support for sponsored research programs and many other key areas. While this is just a recommendation at this time, it does signal a desired direction for further cuts that could impact universities nationwide.

 

This is a system that does relatively little research compared to most other states too.

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6 minutes ago, mchookem said:

yay. will it even matter?

YAY!

No.  

First, damage has been done.  Second, they won't follow it.  They'll simply order everyone at DOE to stop work.

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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

YAY!

No.  

First, damage has been done.  Second, they won't follow it.  They'll simply order everyone at DOE to stop work.

This.  

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Pentagon says,"Not so fast my friend..."

 In a major reversal, almost all the 381 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from the school's libraries have been returned to the bookshelves after a new review using the Pentagon's standardized search terms for diversity, equity and inclusion titles found about 20 books that need to be removed pending a future review by a Department of Defense panel, according to a defense official.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/navy-reverses-dei-book-ban-after-pentagon-review/story?id=122081512

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A quick reminder that this is the last week of school for Austin ISD.  A few surrounding districts have already had their last day, but I forgot to post before then.

It is OK to give your kid's teacher a gift.  HEB gift cards are great, Amazon gift cards are great.  No one straight up gives cash, but there's not a rule against it.
Lots of kids give small Starbucks gift cards, which is nice for a coffee but it does not bring groceries home.

If every elementary kid dropped $300 in gift cards on their teacher, and every kid in middle and high school gave $50 to each teacher, teacher income would rise about 10%.
That's not *that* much to give, it's about $1.50 per day.  I think most parents would be OK doing this, but folks tend to forget.

If you are in the mood to help out a teacher, buy some gift cards or go to your local ATM and make it rain.

Also, force your kid to write a nice note to their teachers ... my wife has a folder of them that grows every year.

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32 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

A quick reminder that this is the last week of school for Austin ISD.  A few surrounding districts have already had their last day, but I forgot to post before then.

It is OK to give your kid's teacher a gift.  HEB gift cards are great, Amazon gift cards are great.  No one straight up gives cash, but there's not a rule against it.
Lots of kids give small Starbucks gift cards, which is nice for a coffee but it does not bring groceries home.

If every elementary kid dropped $300 in gift cards on their teacher, and every kid in middle and high school gave $50 to each teacher, teacher income would rise about 10%.
That's not *that* much to give, it's about $1.50 per day.  I think most parents would be OK doing this, but folks tend to forget.

If you are in the mood to help out a teacher, buy some gift cards or go to your local ATM and make it rain.

Also, force your kid to write a nice note to their teachers ... my wife has a folder of them that grows every year.

I think you are way overestimating the disposable income of most families if you think $300 is a trivial amount of money to give as a gratuity to teachers.

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On 4/14/2025 at 1:58 PM, Valmy77 said:

What? This is a fucking sports rivalry you delusional fucks. You want to defund the entire University System because of a football rivalry? 

Is this a joke?

I can't find it at the moment (admittedly, I'm not trying very hard) but in the 1800s aigy tried to shut us down completely.  Wiki kinda glosses over that, but here it is:

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57 minutes ago, royiv said:

I think you are way overestimating the disposable income of most families if you think $300 is a trivial amount of money to give as a gratuity to teachers.

I don't see it as trivial nor a gratuity.  It would be significant help.  It helps keep teachers in the profession.  Ideally the state would fund teaching so that teachers could buy groceries, buy a house, establish themselves in a community.  They aren't.

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I don't see it as trivial nor a gratuity.  It would be significant help.  It helps keep teachers in the profession.  Ideally the state would fund teaching so that teachers could buy groceries, buy a house, establish themselves in a community.  They aren't.

Man, tipping culture has gotten out of control. 

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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

A quick reminder that this is the last week of school for Austin ISD.  A few surrounding districts have already had their last day, but I forgot to post before then.

It is OK to give your kid's teacher a gift.  HEB gift cards are great, Amazon gift cards are great.  No one straight up gives cash, but there's not a rule against it.
Lots of kids give small Starbucks gift cards, which is nice for a coffee but it does not bring groceries home.

If every elementary kid dropped $300 in gift cards on their teacher, and every kid in middle and high school gave $50 to each teacher, teacher income would rise about 10%.
That's not *that* much to give, it's about $1.50 per day.  I think most parents would be OK doing this, but folks tend to forget.

If you are in the mood to help out a teacher, buy some gift cards or go to your local ATM and make it rain.

Also, force your kid to write a nice note to their teachers ... my wife has a folder of them that grows every year.

You think every kid (‘s parents) should give their teacher $300?  So let’s assume each teacher has 30 kids (complete guess, as I have no kids in school), so that’s $9,000?  
 

I mean, shit yeah, I’d love a $9000 tip at my job too. Seems…unlikely. 

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They'll get their $15 Starbucks/ Whataburger card and like it.

There were some parents who gave out $50 cards to the teachers.  Never heard about the $300 variety.

One of wife's previous Districts had a $75 limit on accepting gifts from parents.

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23 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

You think every kid (‘s parents) should give their teacher $300?  So let’s assume each teacher has 30 kids (complete guess, as I have no kids in school), so that’s $9,000?  
 

I mean, shit yeah, I’d love a $9000 tip at my job too. Seems…unlikely. 

Not to mention that nearly 60% of Texas students are eligible for free lunch. Those families don’t have 300 bucks burning a hole in their pockets to hand out as a gratuity at the end of the school year. 

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I'm here to provide comfort to any single struggling lady educators. 

Sure it's only a few minutes with a little weeping at the end.

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4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

You think every kid (‘s parents) should give their teacher $300?  So let’s assume each teacher has 30 kids (complete guess, as I have no kids in school), so that’s $9,000?  
 

I mean, shit yeah, I’d love a $9000 tip at my job too. Seems…unlikely. 

Yes, it would really help retain teachers, which would provide next year's students with more experienced teachers.  $2 a day for elementary, a quarter a day for each high school teacher.  I know it sounds crazy but it would help.  Ideally the leg would be doing this but I've given up on that.

Elementary teachers have about 20-22 through 4th grade.
Secondary teachers have maybe 180-200, teaching 6 out of 8 classes with about 30-34 kids per class.  

Give what you want, but I sized my number to give them about 10% more than they get.  Any amount is helpful and appreciated.  Very few parents give anything, but some give a small amount with a nice note from the kid and it totally makes my wife's day.

A lot of teachers today are able to teach because they have a spouse who earns much more money, or they are doing it as a second career and they've already got money from a previous career.  Teachers straight out of college without another source of income are getting squeezed.  They teach for 3-5 years and find out that they can make a lot more money doing something else ... and if they ever want to buy a house or maybe a new car, they need to move on from teaching.

I have seen some really great teachers leave the profession because of money.  They want to keep teaching and you would want your kid to have them.  But the salary is not enough, so they're gone.

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3 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

A lot of teachers today are able to teach because they have a spouse who earns much more money, or they are doing it as a second career and they've already got money from a previous career.  Teachers straight out of college without another source of income are getting squeezed.  They teach for 3-5 years and find out that they can make a lot more money doing something else ... and if they ever want to buy a house or maybe a new car, they need to move on from teaching.

Most teachers now only are teaching because it’s the next step up in the career ladder. They can make 3X to 4X the money being assistant principals and principals, but they need the 3-5 years in the trenches as classroom teachers before they can apply for AP roles. I remember being in high school and the teachers were old ladies or old coaches who had been there for 20+ years. It’s not like this anymore with the younger generation of teachers and the younger generation of shithead kids who can’t go 5 seconds without their phones. 

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I love that the guy whose spouse is a teacher has come up with a creative way to increase his household income by suggesting that parents need to be tipping teachers. Fucking hilarious.

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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

Yes, it would really help retain teachers, which would provide next year's students with more experienced teachers.  $2 a day for elementary, a quarter a day for each high school teacher.  I know it sounds crazy but it would help.  Ideally the leg would be doing this but I've given up on that.

Elementary teachers have about 20-22 through 4th grade.
Secondary teachers have maybe 180-200, teaching 6 out of 8 classes with about 30-34 kids per class.  

Give what you want, but I sized my number to give them about 10% more than they get.  Any amount is helpful and appreciated.  Very few parents give anything, but some give a small amount with a nice note from the kid and it totally makes my wife's day.

A lot of teachers today are able to teach because they have a spouse who earns much more money, or they are doing it as a second career and they've already got money from a previous career.  Teachers straight out of college without another source of income are getting squeezed.  They teach for 3-5 years and find out that they can make a lot more money doing something else ... and if they ever want to buy a house or maybe a new car, they need to move on from teaching.

I have seen some really great teachers leave the profession because of money.  They want to keep teaching and you would want your kid to have them.  But the salary is not enough, so they're gone.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick with my initial response. Well, maybe a bit, it is surly. But I’m very aware and empathetic to the plight of teachers. Several of my friends, and my sister in law, were/are teachers. They get the shit end of the stick all the time and it is extremely thankless. 
 

I just thought $300 per teacher was a bit ambitious. 

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lol at a $300 end of year teacher gift. I say that as someone who’s wife was a public school teacher and never received anything close to that, and as someone who tries to be very generous to the teachers at our kid’s preschool.

Anyone who gives that level of gift most likely has their kids at a pricey private school. Casually suggesting that it should be the norm for an average family is a bit out of touch.

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Three hundred as a single gift at end of the year is dumb. We kick in in 25-50 dollar increments a few times a years directly for gifts for our elementary school aged kid's teachers. A few hundred to the elementary PTO, and a few hundred more to the district education foundation stuff. The latter through their gala situations. After elementary shit gets pretty opaque in terms of tracking the money directly to the benefit of the teachers, and with sports involvement dollars start to flow to the booster clubs.  

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I'm here to provide comfort to any single struggling lady educators. 
Sure it's only a few minutes with a little weeping at the end.

What are you crying about?
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lol at a $300 end of year teacher gift. I say that as someone who’s wife was a public school teacher and never received anything close to that, and as someone who tries to be very generous to the teachers at our kid’s preschool.

Anyone who gives that level of gift most likely has their kids at a pricey private school. Casually suggesting that it should be the norm for an average family is a bit out of touch.

So we are not all billionaires here?


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