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Samson's Wig

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  1. Waco, and the Baptists who inhabit it, are representative of all that is wrong with the universe.  Weird doesn't begin to cover it.  You didn't even mention the Chip and Joanna Gaines sex cult.

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  2. 4 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Our kid came home from kindergarten the other day. Asked him if he got his "treasure box" as his prize for good behavior. (Kids get a caterpillar piece for being good; six pieces they get to pick a small toy."

    "No, I didn't get to pick today because it's more important to be safe."

    "What? What do you mean?"

    "XXXX(another kindergartener) was throwing chairs in the room today, so the teacher told me we needed to be safe instead of picking a toy."

    I still haven't quite figured out the whole story there.

    See my post(s) above about inclusive classrooms. 

  3. Nice to see Texas finally coming around.  Figuring out a way to reasonably finance these institutions in a more equitable manner (outside of the privates of course) would be a great next step.

     

    Sul Ross moving to aggie would be a mistake.  Given the largely Hispanic student body, and the geography, Tech would be a natural fit. 

  4. 3 hours ago, miguelito said:

    9530 today in SA. 

     

    The early high counts this year look kind of similar to the 2018-2019 season, which peaked just before Christmas, and then just had a few isolated spikes before wrapping up in mid/late January.  Hopefully the assblast this year will be over quickly. 

     

    Oh man I hope you're right.  Leaving the country for a while and hope to come back to clear skies sinuses.

  5. 49 minutes ago, royiv said:

    My friends that went private schools took waaaaay more drugs than I ever saw in public schools. 

    Drugs are expensive. 

    But you know what almost never happens in private schools?  Shootings.  I don't have a clue why, but 96% of school shootings in this country are in public schools.  I'd rather my kid get high than dead, all else being equal.

  6. 13 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    No doubt that they are a big-time law firm, but this lawsuit seems dubious.  I pay for surly, the WSJ, some legal and investigative databases erry month.  Does the City of Austin really get a piece of action from that?

    P.S. -- just started thinking about my other online services that I pay for:  AVG, Office 365, Dropbox, PACER, research.txcourts.gov.  Nuts!

    It's absolutely ridiculous, but no one should be shocked when government at any level sees a pie and wants to stick its fat sausage fingers in there to take half for itself.

  7. 29 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    No doubt.  My attention was quickly drawn to the kid, who's just trying to watch a fucking football game.  "Heartbreaking" is exactly the right word.

    As an aside, it's really sad that this is what the NFL has become.  When I was a kid, we had Cowboys season tickets.  I went to goddamned near every game from about 1987 to 1993.  Some of my favorite memories were of skipping out early on Thanksgiving dinner with my father to go to the Cowboys game.

    I still love you, Leon Lett!

    My son is a huge Giants fan.  But I'm not taking him to an NFL game, because that shit is fucking dangerous now.  If he ever does go to an NFL game, it's going to be in the super-expensive seats.  But even then, I don't think that's good enough because the hoi-polloi save up all their fucking nickels and will buy up those seats.

    I completely agree and it's sad.  I wouldn't get my kids within a mile of an NFL game.  College football games are heading in the same direction, sadly.  College basketball is still largely kid friendly, and I've taken the kids to a few games. I'm really excited to be taking my kids to their first NHL game in Toronto right after Christmas - although that atmosphere is kid safe for a couple of reasons: it's in Canada and we bought the expensive seats.  Not all NHL games are kid friendly.

  8. 2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    i swear, American adults need some kind of Rage Room TM service where every once in a while you can go get all your pent up aggression out by kicking, punching, smashing, and shooting up everything in a specially designed place for releasing aggression. it's like half the population is just walking around praying they'll have a reason to start some shit today. 

    Two things:

    1.  Watching that kid in the video, who may or may not be with the dude who got beer thrown at him, is fucking heartbreaking.  People fucking suck.   If I didn't think it would be abused bureaucratically I might get on board with procreation licenses.

    2.  There are lots of places as you describe.  Here's one of a few in the Austin area: https://www.thebreakingpointaustintx.com/  Maybe we should hand out vouchers or something.

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  9. 2 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    So you have the crabs from the Tech girls?

     

    2 hours ago, Moby Ric said:

    Married to a Longhorn.

    That is a masterful way of not answering the question.   Well done. 

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  10. Wasn't able to edit in time, but wanted to add that it sucks that for public school your main options outside of AISD are moving to the shitty suburbs with their "highly rated" schools full of self entitled twats and mouth breathing parents.  Given the option of AISD or Lake Travis/Eanes I'd stick with AISD all day long.  Obviously, in most any district there are going to be decent programs and good fits for the right kids.  Everyone's mileage may vary, blah blah blah.

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  11. 9 hours ago, hornian said:

     

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    That is along the lines of what eventually convinced us to pull our kids out of AISD and public school altogether.  The inclusive classroom concept was well intentioned, but has led to a complete nightmare for teachers and students.  Tons of evidence now that it has been a disaster.   Every single year in elementary school at least one of my kids was in a classroom with a child who had no business being there as they couldn't behave and constantly disrupted the room.  Some of this was genuine mental health issues and some of it was just shitty parents who weren't raising their kids to act right, but were able to get them diagnosed with one thing or another and threaten to sue if the school didn't stay in line with their exact wishes.  Either way, the schools live in fear of lawsuits from crazy parents and the end result is thousands of kids don't learn a damn thing in a given year if they're unlucky enough to land in one of these classrooms. 

    Whatever good comes from these programs is far outweighed by the bad.  We need a better way to ensure kids who could benefit from inclusion are able to do so, but not at the expense of a learning environment.  And public schools need a way to tell parents with uncontrollable kids that they are no longer welcome in school.  My son's second grade teacher was in tears on a daily basis.  She was a great teacher, but couldn't handle the "ADD" kid whose mother was up screaming at administration more than once a week.  My son and his classmates lost a complete year of learning thanks to that mother and her kid.

    When you add in that AISD is making the inevitable transition to a large city school district, and all the political and issues that come with it, I don't know why anyone who has options would stick it out (outside of maybe kids who are nearing the end of the road and want to see it through).  AISD is circling the drain, and it's sad, but it's also inevitable.

    Someone upthread mentioned something about Elizalde working to destroy AISD and in cahoots with Betsy Devos.  No.  Wrong political party, and completely different ideology.  The head of TEA (Mike Morath) is most certainly in the "destroy public schools to get vouchers for Jesus school" camp, though. Elizalde is more likely to bus your kid across town in the name of equity but in reality to bring all test scores to "average" and claim academic victory, thus keeping the Morath mouthbreathers at bay.   One group is purposefully trying to weaken public schools in order to get a voucher program, and the other will weaken public schools anyway with their well intentioned nonsense.

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