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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I drove for uber part time for 4 years. I enjoyed it in the beginning but things went downhill and I quit. Rates for the customers stayed the same but the amount I got paid consistently decreased. It eventually wasn’t worth it anymore. Drivers used to make 80%, including on surge pricing. As of 15 months ago, they would give the driver a flat bonus amount such as $5 then destroy the customer on the mile/minute charges and keep the difference. Not a defense of cab companies at all. Just not sure that drivers are going to jump back in as quickly as people think. Passengers were always shocked at the difference between what they paid and what I made.
  2. The issue was the adults in the building. Offer them vaccines first, along with medical professionals, and it’s easy to get reopened with fewer precautions.
  3. https://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/austin-texas-civil-rights/ If you don’t think that systemic racism still has an impact on society today, please watch this 30 minute video on the history of Austin. It’s not designed to make you feel bad. It’s factual. It’s relevant to anybody that has any knowledge of Austin, past or present.
  4. A quick timeline: Slavery: 265 years Segregation: 99 years ”Freedom”: 55 years Most of the systems in this country were built in the first 364 of Europeans being here. This obviously predates America as a country. Our educational, housing, healthcare, transportation, monetary, and just about every other system was built for white people. It intentionally left others out and relegated most to abject poverty. When “freedom” finally arrived, there were no ladders out of the hole to go along with it. The idea that everything has been fixed in these last 55 years is laughable. We are operating the same systems with a few tweaks and wondering why not much has changed. None of this even addresses the mentality/culture of people who have experienced oppression. A great quote to sum it up:
  5. 1960 340,887 4.6% 1970 300,910 −11.7% 1980 284,413 −5.5% 1990 265,968 −6.5% 2000 242,840 −8.7% 2010 212,237 −12.6% 2019 (est.) 209,403 [3] −1.3% Birmingham has actually been shrinking.
  6. 1980 150,255 22.3% 1990 212,092 41.2% 2000 276,093 30.2% 2010 403,892 46.3% 2019 (est.) 474,069 [4] 17.4% These are the stats for Raleigh alone. I would say it’s taking off.
  7. Comes with a built in piss bottle for Amazon workers. You can buy it on Amazon.
  8. I wouldn’t worry too much about the diversity angle with a private school. Most public schools aren’t very diverse either, especially the ones where the parents could afford private schools. Last school that I worked at before my current school was only 5% non-Hispanic. There are diverse public schools out there but they are the exception not the rule.
  9. Just want to be clear about the context of my comment about white kids and public schools. I’m not saying that the majority of white people avoid public schools. I’m saying that the demographics of this board are very different than the parents of public schools kids on a broad level. This group is largely white, educated, and middle/upper class. Having conversations about the successes and failures of public schools is vastly different with this group than with the majority of public school parents. Not saying the people here are wrong about things, they are just coming at it from different place.
  10. When I say that public schools largely serve non-white students, that’s a pretty easy google question. In Texas 27% of public school students are white.
  11. I’m well aware as it’s my life’s work. There’s amazing research out there. My off hand comment was more about how the average person forms their opinion on educational systems. It’s widely shaped by world view and personal experiences with the educational system. Nothing wrong with that as it’s human nature. But when you take those individual experiences and extrapolate it out to a view of a system that varies widely in different areas, it doesn’t do much good. The conversations here are also from people that fit in one or more of these categories: white, college educated, middle or high ses. Their needs and desires are vastly different from a public school system that largely serves children that are not white, don’t have college educated parents, and are low ses. I work at a school that people on here send their kids to. But I have also worked in poor/minority schools. No one size fits all approach is going to be successful.
  12. Bro do you even kenpom? 🤣
  13. These threads always crack me up. People take their educational experience from 40 years ago then mash it up with their political/racial views and spit out a theory on the entire educational system of the United States. Ill be working on my bracket if you need me 😀
  14. Abbott’s order continues to give TEA the authority to issue operational requirements. TEA chose to give districts the option to not follow the mask rules because they felt like it, not because they don’t have the authority.
  15. Abbott said it would be up to TEA.
  16. With 30k college students and population growth, maybe they can figure something out. So many smaller cities fail to develop unique entertainment options though...
  17. I’m intrigued by the Lexington idea still. Fits the size parameter, has a university, and there is a bit of the cool factor. Lexington obviously doesn’t have an Austin vibe but I can see bourbon country, horse racing, and other unique features setting it apart from other southern towns where there isn’t much to do. Might need some marketing but it could work. It’s also been growing every decade. Go back and look at Austin growth decade by decade over the last 100 years and you will see that it’s not a new phenomenon. Since 1790 Lexington has seen double digit growth in every decade except one and it was 7.8%
  18. BIL moved to New Orleans for a job. Lasted a year and moved back to Houston. It’s such a great city and a cultural treasure. But living there just seemed like a beating.
  19. Still under 200k in the city proper so I would say Knoxville counts.
  20. Give your sales pitch.
  21. Just takes a few artists and gays and the hood people will be priced out in 10 years.
  22. Lexington is an interesting suggestion. What about Louisville?
  23. Plan childcare for next week. Should be back to “normal” after that. Lots of damaged buildings, water issues, etc.
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