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    Quote Originally Posted by Goat View Post
    Don't forget paid sick days that roll over every year (as long as you stay in the same district). A few of my coworkers have accumulated months of paid sick leave simply by staying in the same district every year.

    If you decide to go the administrator route you'll start pulling $91k a year. Obviously there's a lot of extra duties and crap that goes along with that extra 50k. But still, that's on par with what a doctor makes without the massive student debt and 10+ years of extra schooling.

    AND there are scholarship and loan programs out there (especially in Utah) that will PAY FOR your bachelor's in any subject as long as you teach in a Title 1 (low-performing) school for three or so years. On top of that, at those Title 1 schools there are extra incentives to teachers to show student growth that can result in a $2k bonus. There are extra bonus scholarships if you're going into a STEM subject and/or you're a woman going into STEM.

    My only issue with teaching is the fact that they try to cram 40 kids (my biggest class, but not by much) into a room that has room for 32 desks. Trying to get 40 sixth graders in the last period of the day to do anything is like herding cats.
    40 kids??? Holy shit. How can any kid get any 1 on 1 time like that? Though it could be worst I guess. I was in Cambodia a while back and we went to a school that probably had 70 kids per class, and the kids were probably ranging from 6-10 years old. Though they also all played in a giant trash heap that was out the back of the school.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uintafly View Post
    40 kids??? Holy shit. How can any kid get any 1 on 1 time like that? Though it could be worst I guess. I was in Cambodia a while back and we went to a school that probably had 70 kids per class, and the kids were probably ranging from 6-10 years old. Though they also all played in a giant trash heap that was out the back of the school.
    It's tough, but technology is helping out a lot. It depends on the School DIstrict but a lot of them now have 1 to 1 devices like the Chromebook laptop and iPads, one for each student. It's getting easier for the teacher to hurry and shoot a message to individual devices and get an idea of how each student is doing.

    Students can answer questions in the classroom in new ways that avoid any public humiliation. Quick surveys can be asked the class to get an idea if everybody is up to speed with the current topic.

    There are a lot of awesome advances with technology, but often it will be hindered by "old school pen and paper" style teachers that insist on the old methods, and the students with these teachers can suffer the consequences. You can't just fire a teacher because they haven't learned how to make a PowerPoint yet after 20 years. Anyways, I could go on and on, but some great things are available to students now, if the teacher is on board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sombeech View Post
    It's tough, but technology is helping out a lot. It depends on the School DIstrict but a lot of them now have 1 to 1 devices like the Chromebook laptop and iPads, one for each student. It's getting easier for the teacher to hurry and shoot a message to individual devices and get an idea of how each student is doing.

    Students can answer questions in the classroom in new ways that avoid any public humiliation. Quick surveys can be asked the class to get an idea if everybody is up to speed with the current topic.

    There are a lot of awesome advances with technology, but often it will be hindered by "old school pen and paper" style teachers that insist on the old methods, and the students with these teachers can suffer the consequences. You can't just fire a teacher because they haven't learned how to make a PowerPoint yet after 20 years. Anyways, I could go on and on, but some great things are available to students now, if the teacher is on board.
    ^^^^^^THIS

    I don't know how I would manage to teach and assess any sort of reading or writing skills without technology, especially Canvas and Google Classroom. I make their worksheet, embed videos, articles, and various skill checks with hyperlinks in the assignment and away they go. These programs also allow me to watch them work and I can immediately stop a kid and provide direction when they're messing up.

    It also has cut down on kids telling their parents I lost their assignments. I can point to the class page at the big NO SUBMISSIONS FOUND and tell them their kid is a liar. It's also good to have that copy of the assignment that I can show a parent when they ask why their kid scored low. All at the click of a button.
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    If anyone is curious below I've linked an example of an assignment I did with seventh graders. They were learning about counterclaims and how to defend their own claims.

    Is Dance a Sport? - Counterclaim Practice
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    ^^^ You should do another assignment like this asking if golf is a sport.
    It's only "science" if it supports the narrative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rockgremlin View Post
    ^^^ You should do another assignment like this asking if golf is a sport.
    Golf is a game.

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    Golf is a sport. I don't play games, I play sports!!!
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    If you don’t believe socialism is a disease, will the effects of it change your mind?

    Aho would believe bubonic plague would have a chance of breaking out in USA Today?



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    Only someone with a magic fortune telling ball could have seen this coming. / end sarcasm.


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    This just doesn't happen in Republican controlled cities...

    Chicago sees its deadliest day in 60 years with 18 murders in 24 hours: report

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-s...4-hours-report

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceaxe View Post
    This just doesn't happen in Republican controlled cities...

    Chicago sees its deadliest day in 60 years with 18 murders in 24 hours: report

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-s...4-hours-report
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    BLM, unless they're shooting each other then BL don't M.

    So where's all the rage over black on black crime?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceaxe View Post
    This just doesn't happen in Republican controlled cities...

    Chicago sees its deadliest day in 60 years with 18 murders in 24 hours: report

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-s...4-hours-report
    When people ask me, "Byron, why are you a conservative?" I say "The question is, why am I not a liberal?"

    This is why. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. They tell you "Don't eat that" while they're swallowing a mouthful of it themselves.

    They insist that we should all stand together for "justice"...yet I can't join these hyperemotional people screaming at the top of their lungs with their fists in the air when they straight up fail to acknowledge reality.
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    Yeah. Let’s turn our parks into homeless tent cities.

    When they feed you the line about how they need to take taxes to build and maintain parks because they help the local communities and are essential for good mental health...
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    Quote Originally Posted by BasinCruiser View Post
    Yeah. Let’s turn our parks into homeless tent cities.
    Yeah. Let’s turn our parks into massive outdoor toilets.

    Fixed that for ya....

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    What a crock of shite. Now all of the taxpayers whose taxes go to pay for maintenance and upkeep of the parks can go wade through human excrement and used needles.

    I'd be outraged if I lived in Minnesota that's F'ed up.
    It's only "science" if it supports the narrative.

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    $140,000,000 is spent on homeless here in Denver every year. This has been going on for decades yet it's so bad they had a ballot measure last year that would let them camp anywhere they want...as long as they didn't block pedestrian access. Any public place.

    Voters rejected it overwhelmingly, but it did get 3 out of 10 people voting for it. Close to downtown they do it anyway...out here in the "suburbs" they tent up in vacant lots and in the bushes. They like McDonals and near liquor stores. And pot shops, too.

    I've listened to a lot of stuff about this on the radio, especially. People that work in the business of homelessness and even the "King of Caring" himself, the Mayor. These people avoid shelters because they can't bring their booze or drugs in with them. They sure as hell don't want to work, because jobs are offered and they won't take them.

    "My best friend floats in the bottom of a glass". What a bummer to be so addled you can't even function.
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