One of the many pitfalls of unions.
I'm all for defined contribution pensions, it's the defined benefit ones that create problems (for everyone else). Not sure which one yours is.
Kentucky's governor is an idiot...
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One of the many pitfalls of unions.
I'm all for defined contribution pensions, it's the defined benefit ones that create problems (for everyone else). Not sure which one yours is.
I will get a % of my highest 3 years of pay. I can take a slightly lesser amount if I want my wife to receive benefits after I die.
I am not part of a union nor would I want to be.
For the cumulative wealth and opportunity in this country, our education is shit relative to the world. Our cops are largely a joke. They are more concerned with writing tickets than policing communities. I’ve formed my views from personal experience and discussion with someone who was a Dallas SWAT officer.
Sorry, but I choose not to settle for mediocrity. Worked my ass off to get where I am.
The biggest problem with the perception regarding teaching is everyone has been to school. So everyone thinks they are an expert or could do it. Everyone has also probably had a bad teacher so they also tend to remember that because, let's face it, everyone could be a crappy teacher. Most other professions people haven't had any experience with at all so they don't feel the need to chime in. Everyone could also be a crappy police officer or electrical lineman or banker. There are tons of people out there getting paid who suck at their job. I know because I hear people who aren't teachers bitch about them where they work. However, people who have been to school think they know something about education even though they really don't.
Regarding parenting, I agree but there isn't much you can do about that. I've heard parents tell their kids you don't have to do what those teachers tell you. I mean, how do you really battle that.
Regarding standards, in many places there is not a low bar. Here the standards are extremely high and there are no compromises.
Regarding parenting, I agree but there isn't much you can do about that. I've heard parents tell their kids you don't have to do what those teachers tell you. I mean, how do you really battle that.
Regarding standards, in many places there is not a low bar. Here the standards are extremely high and there are no compromises.
That’s great, congrats.
I haven’t settled for mediocrity either. But I’m also not stupid enough to think I’m worth more than I am. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Just kidding. I married well and basically work less than 10 hours a week. @UNC71-00 and @heelz2345 can confirm this.
Don’t sell yourself short, mooching is a skill too.
100% true. Dude must be hung like a mule is all I got to say.
I can confirm this too. ElliotT’s wife is a smoke show. I get wet just thinking about her.
You sound bitter, ticket. My guess is you are an unlawful student who plays with matches.
She does. But she’s crazy and married into money.
Thank you for the correct spelling. Warms my little heart.
You sound like my mom. Get off my back already. Nothing wrong with a little fire, dammit.
I'm not on your back, ticket. I'm just having trouble believing someone as intelligent as you honestly thinks "our education is shit" and "our cops are largely a joke," and that it's all because they are underpaid. I think it's pretty obvious that the majority of teachers and police officers and fire fighters in this country are in it for reasons other than the money.
That's a real pretty graph you have there, ticket. Almost had me fooled into thinking all of us Americans are just a bunch of absentminded hayseeds with the least little bit of a clue.
Listen, dude, I usually enjoy reading your stuff here but go ahead and tell me now if all I've got to look forward to is more of this nonsensical crap and I'll just skim right over the shit, eh?
Actually I need to slow down. I've been getting out too much lately, hence the drunken posts at three in the morning. I trust you realize I'm just messing. I disagree with you but the hysterics are only for fun.
I'm not sure what to make of your posts but congrats on the impending liver disease. Drinking in excess will ruin you. Moderation is the key to life.
Believe it or not there are a lot of background checks, vetting, and ALOT that you must learn (2yrs worth) in a semester of school to be an officer. Close to 60% of applicants wash out (not all can keep up with the learning pace), or are removed from the pool during phsych evals. Pay for cops is not up to the state except for highway patrol. The salary for them starts out now at around 50,000. The salary for deputies and officers depends on where you live, and how much that city, town,or county are willing to pay their officers/deputies. For instance where I live so deputy now starts at 41,000. But that will different in a different county.
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Personally, I think an officer should be an attorney-lite. They should really understand the law and have the right mindset for the job. It’s crazy we let some of these idiots run around with a weapon and that kind of power.
Well I'll be damned. Not only was he right, but it was a teacher doing the raping:
An Oklahoma middle school teacher was arrested for raping one of her students multiple times — including before and after a teacher walkout at the state Capitol.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...-raping-student-day-walkout-article-1.3926705
Different state. Teacher needs to be terminated and student w/ parents needs therapy.
Here is the thing they pretty much are. Every year I get a new g.s. book for North Carolina. Laws change everyday so it's needed. I do agree that some idiots nned to have their badge and gun taken. But the process is pretty thorough and miticulous. Nothing is 100%
What's scary as hell, ticket, is I put in my cop application last month and just found out this morning I've been accepted! I report to the academy a week from Thursday. Can't wait to be assigned a pistol AND a taser!!
If I bomb out at police work there's always teaching.
Y'all who are teachers are true angels. There's no way in HELL I could be a teacher with the shitty kids we have in our society today. I'd kick 10+ students out of class every day and be fired within a week.
Are we listing the professions he would fail at?
This is the poast of the thread.
Also, I've long had an idea on how to somewhat rectify school resource inequality within a state. I know it seems a bit communist-y, but I've always felt instead of 100% funding public schools with county property taxes, a state-wide pool should be created. Set a mark that all counties are entitled to -- a mark that's high enough to make the poorest of the poor counties substantially better than they were, but make the mark low enough so that the rich counties can still reap the benefits of their high property taxes.
Example: take North Carolina. I have no idea what a realistic number is, but for argument's sake let's say Richmond and Scotland Counties (these are basically the poorest two counties in the state, for those who don't know) only receive $500,000 in funding from property taxes per year. Meanwhile, Mecklenburg County and Wake County public receive $10,000,000 in property tax funding. Set the bar at $1,500,000. All property tax from across the state is collected into a pool, and all 100 counties receive $1,500,000; then, once that happens, any county that generated more than that $1,500,000 keeps the rest for itself.
In this way, you'd raise the bar of the lowest-income (and thus I assume the worst public school systems) counties, while still keeping plenty of funding in the richest counties to keep those schools excellent. To make up the difference from what they used to get, the rich counties can either raise property tax slightly (hopefully no), OR they could appeal to wealthy parents to make modest donations to the county school system to bridge the gap. Hopefully, under my plan, the poorest counties would be able to go out and hire a handful of better qualified teachers with their new modest windfall, and will be able to raise their test scores a bit and as an overall result, improve the economic status / quality of life in that county, if educated kids eventually go back and decide to work in that county. And, if a county gets a reputation for great public schools, that makes it more attractive for businesses to locate there (especially if land is plentiful) as well as families to locate there.
It probably wouldn't work, but that's always been my idea of how to fix public schools. It would help raise teacher salaries, which capitalism says will convince more qualified candidates to apply. I recognize that it would be easier to adapt in a state like North Carolina that has several pockets of affluent areas than it would be to adapt it in a state like Mississippi.
The problem with this idea is in states like NC the extra funding would go straight to the county offices. The actual schools would never see a dime of it. They would create new positions to "help" the schools but the schools would see nada!
Definitely sounds communisty - but you kinda lost me when you started talking about counties, so I can't be sure.
We get no state aid out here. Omaha and Lincoln get all of it. We rely solely on county property taxes.
You have your hands full working on your top-ten list of pickup lines for this weekend: "Hey, I'm a feminist, too," "You're pretty smart for a woman," "My exes are all crazy," "Wanna go to TGI Fridays for some sliders?" etc.
Are you a Democrat now?
That's easy to do when you have 13 students in the state.
Keep up man, I'm married. @TarHeelNation11 is the desperate one that needs new pickup lines.
Please stop making my jokes less funny than they already are.
The best part about that story is that her husband drove her to the police department so she could turn herself in.
