Hampton In

yep. I’m alive.

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@educator4ever36 In Illinois, it’s ILLEEEEEGGAAAAALLLL for the teacher in charge to tell parents of any kids on the trip that their child will have an opposite sex kid in their room. I mean it’s fine for the ONE kids parents to know, just not anyone else. Home school.

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@MartinCothran Well, that settles it then.

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@_JoeManzo @educator4ever36 Hah! You’re funny!

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Wanna know why? Curriculum directors need to justify their position and salary! And the administrators love having loads of graphs and charts and numbers to bamboozle the board with. But the teachers pay the price with a crap-load of stupid, wasteful, and unnecessary data collection.

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Ahh, but what a scam it is! Keep the fee the same, slowly reduce the number of days while increase class size… presto! More revenue. Heck, make it all online and at your own speed and you can increase the seat limit exponentially! Oh wait, we’ve already got that. It’s called “credit recovery”

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@FromTeachrsDesk Sheesh. These comments are largely from the people that drove education into the dumps. To pretend that students have no agency is peak idiocy. Of course this post is true. It’s not a statement about EVERY student, it’s a point about a certain subset of students.

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@educator4ever36 @CoachAGochis 🤦‍♂️ “Sage on the stage” is such a tired trope. Do we not want the teacher to be an expert?! “We just want variety of instructional methods!” Why? “So it’s not boring!” Such baloney. All tools are valid. Let the teacher decide what’s working for them. Sheesh

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@mipolitico @ChicagosMayor Homeless. Say it with us homeless.

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@Awake_IL I’m embarrassed by Illinois.

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@JBPritzker I dunno why this yahoo celebrates this. Sheesh, if $15 is good, wouldn’t $20/hr be better?! Why stop there? Make it $30/hr minimum wage, think of all the poverty he could destroy! Shoot, let’s do $50/hr, or $100. Man, what a lame accomplishment $15 is.

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Respectfully disagree. Evaluations, at least in Illinois, are NOT for constructive feedback, they are to collect data to support possible RIF, layoffs, and terminations. Nothing else. All it takes is to go back and look at “why” the legislature mandated a standardized procedure. “There are too many teachers rated excellent. There can’t be that many.”

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@GovPritzker My state is an embarrassment.

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@GuntherEagleman I’m starting to miss the days of police “tune-ups”. I have some nominees…

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@FixingEducation Pension was the answer for me. Plus it’s a pretty sweet gig. Not easy, but pretty sweet.

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@SmithNelsonLa I did the first year, and probably the second. I then ran an experiment to see how long I could go before anyone noticed that I had NOT e-signed it. The answer was in the multiple years range. I believe it was 3 years I went without signing it.

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@billyuchenlin Man, it’s bad when even our AI is lazy. 😂

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@educator4ever36 @ZillennialApple Same with curriculum directors in my experience

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@BskiMike22802 Thanks for thoughtfully wrecking my resting thoughts for tonight. And tomorrow. And the next day. And … well, thanks.

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@johnkonrad @PhysEngicist Convince son to go into a trade —> tuition money freed up —> boat secured