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  1. Rights to operate the district are sold to the highest bidder. As a private school operated district, there's no longer a need to publish academic performance. Problem solved.
  2. My Lamar 6th grader said that Dobie was all the talk at school yesterday. She said she's ready to go to Colorado if we decide that's best.
  3. I went to the AISD meeting at Lamar last night about moving Dobie MS to Lamar. They gave 3 options: let a charter school run Dobie, close Dobie for good and redraw attendance boundaries, or move them all to Lamar. Really, only #3 is on the table. A few things: 1. Lamar is over enrolled by 200 kids. AISD can't give a number but they think 400-450 kids will opt to enroll at Lamar. That will put the campus 50% over capacity. Not only will the Dobie kids will be sent to Lamar but they have to offer Lamar to the charter school kids that are zoned to Dobie. That could balloon the total number of kids by another 100-200. 2. The Title 1 funding Dobie gets will not follow them to Lamar. Segura said they will provide money. From where? The deficit is 10s of millions. 3. The plan is to put 2 9-classroom modular buildings next to the tennis courts and track. Segura says they can do a site plan, find a contractor with immediate availability, get permitting, do site work, install the buildings, do sewer, water, electric, get inspections, and get a certificate of occupancy within the 3 month timeframe. That's comical to say the least. There are kids sitting on the floor in class at Lamar today because they don't have enough desks. Do you think an ISD that can't deliver 100 desks to school in the first 8 months of school can delivery a huge construction project in 3 months? Get the fuck out of here. 4. Murchison is under enrolled by over 200 kids and has plenty of room for modular buildings. The unspoken elephant in the room on why Murchison wasn't on the table are two fold: 1. Murchison parents would never accommodate Dobie kids and move their kids to private schools. 2. Burnet MS and Webb MS are in the same situation next year and will have to close. They are saving the A/B schools with capacity for the larger middle school closures coming next year. 5. There is zero plan to improve the outcome of the Dobie kids. Their teacher-student ratio is 14:1. At Lamar it's 36:1. It is expected to be over 40:1 even with additional teachers. There are no ESL services at Lamar. 50%+ of the Dobie kids are ESL. Basically, the goal is to take the failing kids and have their performance get lost in an A/B school. Who cares if it drops Lamar to a C or D. That's still passing. No support for these kids is going to happen. TLDR: The whole situation is fucked. They are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. If you are an A/B rated school in AISD, you will be absorbing one to two F rated schools in the next few years. It's a death spiral I don't know if AISD can get out of.
  4. This movie fucks. What a world he built. Honestly, the film was best before the big showdown. I could watch some more Smoke Stack Brothers stories in this universe.
  5. I'm about 2/3 of the way through this book. I don't know how they're going to cram this into a 2-3 hour movie.
  6. Thanks, TEA. Our solid middle school is about to be fucked. It’s already over capacity and we get to absorb an entire middle school next year. If this happens, odds are good I will move to Colorado with my 6th grader and my wife will stay in Austin to finish out her last couple of years at the state so she can fully retire at 52.
  7. CooterBrown

    Vinyl

    How is it? I keep meaning to go and never get around to it.
  8. Project Pale Mary Hazy Pale Ale. Lazy Days Brewing. Recommended.
  9. Went to Wallys for the first time in years a while back and it was mediocre now. Burnet Rd DQ smokes it on quality now.
  10. Grand Fir Brewing in Portland. Foxglove Session IPA. I haven’t drank much beer lately but goddamn this may get me off the bench.
  11. If Tesla goes under do all the cars brick since they won’t be able to communicate with the servers? Is this going to be one reason they get a bail out from their dumbassery?
  12. St Vincent was excellent. 18ish songs but only 1:10 so a nice early evening with an 8:30 start time.
  13. Moving shit in at assisted living for my MIL and one resident has Fox News blasting. The TLDR: Liberal billionaires creating this economy where they have all the wealth but redistribute money as welfare. Cletus is offended at receiving welfare so Trump is creating an economy where jobs paying welfare level wages will exist so Cletus can gratefully earn his welfare check through hard work like god intended.
  14. CooterBrown

    Austin FC

    Man, I wish we had better vision to get Vasquez over the top on a quick counter attack. We still want to slow things down too much, pass in our half, and give the ball away when we cross midfield. Just lob a few over the top so the defense has to stay honest and open the field up.
  15. Who's ready for Black Monday?
  16. Calling it early. Best album of the year.
  17. Pepperoni, sweet Italian sausage, Giardiniera pan pizza.
  18. DQ added fried cheese curds to the menu. They are pretty great.
  19. It’s a step up from thought and prayers. It’s equally worthless but when you can’t actually be bothered to do anything, at least you can feel good about your self righteousness.
  20. I rolled my 401K into an IRA a year ago but all of that was inside of Fidelity so it was instantaneous. However, I am currently moving my mother-in-law's 401ks into a single rollover IRA at Fidelity. For one, they only transfer funds every 2 months and the next time is the last day of April. For the other, they do it within 10 working days of the request. So basically, for timing the answer is who knows. You gotta call Voya and ask them.
  21. My previous dog was named Pepper Dog. RIP, Pepper Dog.
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