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You're welcome didn't own a car until my forties...... you can get away with that down here. Covered most of the USA during that time.

I'm thinking there's a Harley in my future, its like a religious requirement or something.

I'm not trying to get involved in someone else's pssing match, but I got a chuckle out of this from a teacher.

You're either blind or ignorant if you don't see the socialist / social engineering slant of public schools. All three of our kids went K-12 public schools, the left lean of the teaching staff isn't even remotely hidden and it's just getting worse.

From my stint as an adjunct professor my observation is that the students on the top end of the bell curve are going to be there no matter who their teacher is. The really don't need to go to class and pick up the material from the text book and just need an occasionally clarification. ~60% of the class really benefits from a good teacher, and suffers with a mediocre one. Those lagging behind either simply don't care, or are so far lost that they need extensive tutoring far beyond what a teacher has the time for.

Couldn't afford private schools for three kids on a single salary, so I'd say two out of our three kids suffered for it, the third is excelling in spite of it.

I can see how those with low standards or who are easily placated figure it's good enough.

Agreed.



Everything they need to know is laid out on the State syllabus. The tests they take or took are available on line. Every assignment the teacher gives is available on line. The teacher can be contacted any time (due to the nature of my classes I freely give parents my phone number, if I'm awake I'll answer the phone), teachers HAVE to meet with parents on request, I am available most every day on a walk-in basis after school. You can bet anything I say is reported to parents, every day. Do you really think I could get away with anything?

I'm puzzled that folks think that kids follow their teacher's opinions that blindly. Again, look to where they are looking on the 'net.

And the standards I have to meet are the from the State of Texas, or more often with what I do, colleges around the country.

I sleep on the floor. Wife just left me. I'm in my 50's. I can't afford AC. I can't fix AC. I ride a bike to work.

Let me give you some advice...

LMAO.

Your goons can’t get enough of your bs.

That's hillarious.

Iconic picture!

Mike, try to get over it real quick like. Thanks to your Son for his service and while you and I are at it, you can thank me for mine. No grins.

Its been a few years, and I'm in my 60's. And hey, if you're past 50 and ain't busting yer a$$ doing something physical regularly, you're going downhill real fast. Slope gets steeper as you get older.

At this point, having done both motorcycles and bicycles, I gotta say I'm leaning towards bicycles. There's lots and lots of fat old motorcyclists, that's because all ya gotta do is sit there and work the controls, even if you're putting in a 1,000 mile day cross country. Nothing to it.

What a bicycle does, even if you're old with old knees, is allow you a workout like you did when you were a kid. Most often I ride early morning and at night, but just recently I put in a 60 mile ride on a sunny 98F afternoon just to do it (no sunblock, no sunburn). And hey, crossing the continent on a bicycle just rocks, no way around it. One reason I'm pushing so hard to clear debt is to get free to hit the road.

On the floor thing.... odds are if you are like most Americans, you personally, tho' not an old man by any means, have already grown too soft to sleep comfortably on the floor and more importantly, cannot sleep well on the ground outside which seems a fundamental ability for a man to keep. Charles Charles Goodnight, even after he became a wealthy man, slept outside on the ground every day of his long life, I understand why he did, he didn't have AC either.

What I need to get back to is fasting one day a week, as I did as an undergrad, again just to maintain the ability to do it. Seems like a fundamental ability for a man to be able to function without food, it ain't easy unless you do it regularly, you have to develop the enzyme pathways to break down fat and all that.

Beds are for sleeping with women, I don't see that coming in my future, unless you know any hot young women that dig wrinkly old guys, no AC, and sleeping with the dogs

You sure have been reaching hard all day to cut me down there Bub, I wouldn't think it was worth the trouble.

Birdie, why don't you teach summer school and enjoy your AC with summer school earnings? There are ways around the financial blues.

LMFAO.
Prick +P.

Slave

P.S. What's k-town news, you burly fùckin' bastard......

Wish you all the best on your move Clark, often enjoy your posts here ( who can resist a Cutler fanboy?) so hope when you get settled in, you'll keep posting and entertaining us.

Hey thanks for the helpful suggestion.

I think you have to donate a gonad or something to teach summer school, the waiting list is that long.

Got my usual paid gig at the museum lined up which is good on account of it leaves me the mornings to work out, plus a couple of weeks getting paid well by various education entities for different tasks. August I gotta go up to New York for a couple of weeks to see my skydiving 85 yo mom (who has a bigger set than I do), I ain't physically seen her since I rode a bicycle there in 2014 and I need to go.

Thinking about taking the Amtrack, I've never crossed America by train.

That many lined up to teach summer school in San Anton? Hard to believe...start thinking outside the box.

Many years ago I traveled on the Empire Builder. If there's anything like that to and from your area by all means do it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Empire+Builder

$7,000 - $8,000 over the summer for teaching an abbreviated version of a course to kids who really want to pass (the problem kids usually don't make it to summer school). Most teachers got spouses who ain't free to travel and are gonna be here anyway, so ya there's lots who want to do it.

I suppose what I really should do is look at the independent tutoring outfits, they also pay well.

OMG. Climbing back into my chair.

Get to know the summer school principals, as they do the hiring (of their summer school teachers).