Comment Re:Did anyone else read that as PCP? (Score 1) 67
Local hunters report needing #000 buck shot to take down hallucinating birds. Live at 11.
To this day I still cannot fathom how my children are safer in a biker bar than they are a public school. If you punch someone in a bar, the police are called and you go to jail. If you do it in a public school, at worst, you spend some time in the principles office or get suspended.
Depends. There are a fair number of schools with officers patrolling the halls; the one I taught at had at least one student tazed and dragged out into the patrol car per year.
No, it isn't about ass covering. This move creates far more liability than it removes. This is about the school system pushing farther and farther into the role of parent in an attempt to increase the size of their bureaucracy and thus the amount of funding they get. This school has just declared that it is their responsiblility to stop kids from commuting suicide. No doubt they will soon be complaining that they are held responsible for the responsibilities they have demanded.
Yeah, the first time a parent says, "But you told us you were watching our kids 24/7! How then did my children get into a fight at the shopping mall?"
You get what you pay *everyone*.
Teachers aren't a special category. I'm underpaid too. Blame the guy making $500billion and the congressman who kisses up to him - and when you go to blame him, take all your underpaid brethren with you - not just other teachers. Pay stagnates because people march for their own special industries instead of grouping together and demanding change for everyone. I'm sure you know this as a social studies teacher.
Now if only we had one big union... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World
Creepy Larry would have done it for free.
He offered me his card, but I didn't want to take it out of his front pocket.
It would be hilarious if people start creating social media accounts to post made up shit using the names of the students.
And no catty 13-year-old would *ever* do that.
Flouride in our water is contaminating our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake? Can you hear me Mandrake?
What? Ayn Rand could be wrong? The shock and horror of it!
Seriously though the question is difficult to answer on anything more than a philosophical level. It is a bit vague to quantify and would need to be rephrased to be practically measurable.. Maybe I should put my beer down and go read TFA....
Never put your beer down! Priorities!
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
