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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I maxed out Biden on my sports betting site. It’s not a lock but the paths to a Trump victory are too few to justify the price. I started looking at predictit tonight. I see that you can get California for Biden for 95 cents. Why wouldn’t people just dump money they aren’t going to use for anything else in the short term on that and collect the “free money” in a couple of months? Biden is up by 32% in the polls there (duh). I’m guessing the answer is fees in getting your money off the site.
  2. Yep, fast growing areas have a lot of new schools and roads to build so they have high tax rates. I pay more as a percentage in round rock than my parents do in Austin. But somehow all I hear about is tHe sOCIaLiST cOMmUnIsT tAxEs from them.
  3. Lead story on nbc nightly news is the mail scandal. Glad to see people are paying attention to this third world bullshit.
  4. Gracias. They should send in two plates of enchiladas. I would have the energy to fight and would just want a nap.
  5. Mental health problems and guns are a bad mix. Hopefully they are able to end this without anybody else getting hurt. Makes me wonder if they already killed the guy when they returned fire and that’s why he’s not coming out. Any reports on whether or not they have made contact?
  6. It’s a heat index of 107 and all we can talk about is golf and post length. Very surly.
  7. When they were talking about the trump base being uneducated whites, they weren’t kidding. I’ll give Trump credit for knowing his base better than any politician in the game. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE THE TRUMP PATRIOT OF THE WEEK! Friend, After looking through all of our BEST supporters, President Trump chose YOU as the Trump Patriot of the Week. Your support has not gone unnoticed, Friend. You've truly earned this prestigious recognition. President Trump was SO impressed by your dedication to our movement that he unlocked an EXCLUSIVE 500%-MATCH just for YOU. Your Patriot of the Week 500%-MATCH offer is ONLY available to you for the NEXT HOUR, so act fast.
  8. Ha, that was definitely there. The also act like you are on some list that dotard is personally checking to see if you donated. They are completely geared towards people who are too stupid to breathe or have gone senile. On a side note, my wife has also been taking hydroxychloroquine because she’s a huge trumper and thinks it’s an easy way to not get covid. JK. She also has lupus. It’s amazing how stupid the people we share a country with are.
  9. It’s not lazy as much as they just don’t have anything that will stick and they know it. I got this in some Trump email this morning: They are WEAK on crime and want to see our cities burn, unlike President Trump and Vice President Pence who are working tirelessly to restore LAW AND ORDER. It's going to be up to Patriots like YOU to save our Nation from that dark fate, Friend. Election Day is right around the corner, and now that we know what we're up against, I'm going to do something HUGE:
  10. Lady across the street from me just moved back from there because of the lack of medical treatment for covid. Packed her shit and drove to Austin. Has to be at least 75.
  11. “WINDER, Ga. — More than 90 staff members in one Georgia school district have been quarantined due to coronavirus exposure or infection, prompting the district to plan to begin the year entirely online.” They haven’t even started with kids yet.
  12. There was an organization feeding them bullshit. I was getting a ton of worried questions until the director of HR sent out an email to all district employees saying that they would get paid. But there are so many 15 paragraph emails floating around out there right now, about 5% of them actually read it.
  13. It’s one of the things that we discussed this week. If you add minutes to each day, you don’t have to add as many days at the end of the year.
  14. Canvas is not user friendly for young kids but it counts clicks for proof kids are doing shit. Welcome to 2020.
  15. "More for another thread about the TEA itself, but it would be great if this woke a lot of people about TEA/state BOE stuff." Amen. I understand that they are a compliance organization, but they don't have to work against us at every turn. There is no rule saying that this can't be a collaborative process.
  16. Because TEA was forcing us to take kids that claim they don’t have reliable technology starting day 1 as of last Tuesday. Some schools were expecting hundreds to show up on the first day.
  17. Based on the info I’m getting this morning, including from trustees, the 8th is looking likely. They don’t want to force schools to physically open on August 18th as tea would require for some students. Many schools would be expecting hundreds of students and teacher resignations are already adding up. Sadly, this is probably the only way around TEA’s bullshit.
  18. Long story short, TEA forced our hand. Abbott saw what is happening and tried to walk it back but it’s probably too little too late. I don’t really feel bad for Abbott but he has a lot of clowns to wrangle in the Texas state government.
  19. I worked for a different district that was going through severe budget cuts after the 2011 legislative session and everything was on the table for cuts. We were able to find some stuff at the central office level but it was much harder than we initially expected. We all wanted less administrative staff that isn’t tied to a campus as it would mean more money for other district functions. But, there is an unfunded mandate with ridiculous reporting requirements for everything under the sun. The regulations are so specific and ever-changing that you need a person that just deals with that area or your district is going to get hammered. Some of it is federal and some is TEA. There are complicated regulations, reporting requirements, parent support, and staff training provided for special education, section 504, esl/bilingual programs, state assessments (telpas and staar), McKinney-Vento act, advanced academics (GT), and on and on. The above list doesn’t take into account the people that manage basic functions such as facilities, food service, finances, academic departments, HR, transportation, technology, textbooks, the warehouse, legal department and a million other things.
  20. Also on team Hands On A Hard Body at Dobie. I was in high school at the time though.
  21. They have a new and supposedly improved system of collecting chromebooks and getting them to kids. Parents can sign up in the parent cloud, check status, ask questions, etc. HOPEFULLY that means they will be delivering what they have very quickly. I think the main reason deliveries stopped last time was that they simply ran out of devices. Even all of our pta purchased devices were collected and distributed. Either way, thanks for thinking of kids beyond your own. It does make a big difference when people think that way.
  22. Everything we bought won’t be delivered for weeks because every district is trying to do the same thing. If you have the ability to do so, I would just buy your own. It also means you won’t have to go through the district to get it updated later.
  23. The main difference with schools will be the average age of the person working with kids. It’s a range from 23-65 instead of your typical camp counselor that is 18-25. Many more risk factors involved.
  24. Just google all the summer camps shutting down due to kids getting covid. Why would schools be any different?
  25. Hell, we can’t even get the legal Hispanics to vote consistently.
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