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I also had a bit of help from teaching in a low-income school but not as much as I would have gotten had I remained a SpEd teacher. I didn't have a ton of student debt but it still feels great only having one debt right now (house) and I can put that student loan money towards a new car/paying down the house.
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I just paid off my last student loan.
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I haven't seen this posted (maybe I missed it?), and I think it fits this discussion. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/good-mlb-teams-oppose-income-inequality/ I found this to be an interesting article but it also shows what an advantage having a high ceiling for payroll can be in that a team with a high ceiling can afford a lot of higher contracts. But, it also shows why teams are being more careful in not signing long-term contracts for veterans. -
I think the short-term, high-pressure situations in college (a final, large paper, etc...) were far more stressful than anything I've dealt with in my career, but there is longer, more enduring stress in my career that has a much bigger impact on my life than what I faced in college.
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To be honest, the reasons that most teachers are leaving now is not due to compensation, rather a combination of student behavior and ever-increasing pressure on us not to fail students (though I argue teachers do not fail students, students fail themselves). The teacher that is leaving said he wants to teach his content and if he does it well, too many kids will fail. So he either has to teach what he wants and get yelled at for kids failing or dumb down the curriculum. One teacher that left at the end of the year last year left because he just burned out from dealing with constant cell phone usage. Others have found jobs that pay just as much outside of education and they don't have the stress anymore. I can never be as entertaining as Snapchat or Fortnite, so it's a constant struggle to keep their attention. Grades aren't enough of a motivator for many kids right now because they can get instant gratification in many other ways. I teach in a school that doesn't want to do anything about it other than tell us what we can't do (I'm not allowed to take a phone). I've also been accused of not being engaging and welcoming enough, which is why chronic hall wanderers never come to my class, according to administration. These problems are pretty widespread across schools, which is a big reason why a lot of people are simply getting up and walking out.
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Or leaving the profession altogether. We had one teacher quit the day before Thanksgiving to take a job elsewhere and another announce he's leaving at the end of the semester. A few other teachers in my school have left the profession in the past two years, but they left at the end of the school year. I'm to the point where I am looking for a new job and would consider leaving mid-year if I found the right job.
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$900 million for 30,000 seats in Tampa
NeedMoreFans replied to bork's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The stadium is dead and the Rays are stuck in the Tropicana Dome until 2027. https://www.tampabay.com/blogs/rays/2018/12/11/rays-say-current-ybor-stadium-project-is-dead-remain-committed-to-tampa-bay-area-for-now/ -
[sarcasm]But we get summers off, two weeks at Christmas, and one week for spring break. We don't need any personal time off.[/sarcasm]
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We start with 10 sick days per year then get one additional one each month. Every three years or so we give one sick day to a "sick day bank" that is used by employees that have to miss a substantial amount of time, like for surgery or giving birth. Any unused days get banked to cover insurance after retirement until it's exhausted. That helps us retire at 55 and if we have taught enough years, we can have coverage until we get to Medicare.
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Bill O'Brien has been decent for Houston.
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I always thought something like this would have been a great idea for the land east of the stadium in the Menomonee Valley. That won't happen now that there are a few businesses that built up there in the past several years.
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We have not bought one yet. We had a couple other big expenses and flood damage so this got put on the back burner. I put a small pillow under the dip in my side of the mattress so it's not as bad as it was.
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I could retire at 55 but probably will work longer (I'm 38). I got started a bit later and got my first teaching job at the age of 28 so I missed out on a few years of retirement contributions. Assuming I stay in the same job and district (which is a huge assumption), there is a policy where any unused sick time gets parlayed into insurance coverage. I'll retire when I have enough banked sick time to get me to medicare and I have enough in the state retirement system to live comfortably.
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For me it's, "Hey, you live in Madison. Can you get some tickets to a Badger game for me?" In all seriousness, a relative of mine in Iowa contacted me the first time Nebraska played at Camp Randall asking if I could get tickets for their friends that are Nebraska fans. First, I wouldn't get tickets for Nebraska fans, second, there's a thing called the internet where people resell tickets to pretty much every sporting event.
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This was me until I had a fresh garden-grown tomato. I love them and fresh cherry tomatoes, but still cannot stand anything bought at the grocery store or in a can.
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I did a workshop at a company that trains AI and they said those ReCaptcha systems are actually ways to train AI how to identify images.
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Game thread: Buffalo vs. Green Bay, 9/30/18
NeedMoreFans replied to LouisEly's topic in Other Sports
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I wasn't affected at all by this shooting, but my kids' schools were locked down for an hour or so. I don't know why it shook me so much. I'm also a high school teacher and think about mass shootings a lot. Then the story emerges yesterday afternoon that a student at a Madison school accidentally fired a gun on a bus after school and shot two of his friends. I asked the question, "did that student have the gun with him at school all day?" Then I thought about how many students are carrying a gun at my school?
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My community was hit with a mass shooting today. I am not handling it very well.
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I think the number of people from the Madison area that goes to a Brewer game is a very small percentage of the overall attendance for any given game. Most people that live here would not go to a weeknight game in Milwaukee without already having tickets and I'm guessing that season ticket holders are not going to a lot of Mallards games nor would they choose AAA games over Brewer games. Personally, I don't get to a lot of Brewer games because of time and cost. If I want to take my family, I'm looking at well over $150 and I'm pretty much only going to Sunday games because there is no way my kids can stay up that late on a weeknight, even in summer. I live 15 minutes from Warner Park and would go to AAA games in a heartbeat if they were the Brewers' affiliate, and I'm guessing many more would do the same. The biggest issue IMO would be the weather. The Mallards draw so well mostly because their season is just 2 months long (end of May-end of July) so cold temperatures do not come into play. Start playing in April and the average attendance probably goes down quite a bit.
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Game thread: Minnesota vs. Green Bay, 9/16/18
NeedMoreFans replied to LouisEly's topic in Other Sports
I'm pretty much there as well. I'll still watch the Packer games when I'm home, but I really don't care about other NFL. It has been slowly becoming painful to watch; catch or not, ridiculous amounts of penalties, injuries, etc... Ratings are down for a reason. -
I remember it vividly. I had a friend who lost his aunt in the Pentagon. I still get emotional when I watch the footage and there is a level of unbelievability with me still. Side note, a vast majority of my students were not born when it happened. It's been interesting to see the transition over the past several years from the students who remember it to students that don't.
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Similarly, I teach mostly high school juniors and all of them were born after 9/11.
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A nice spot for a meal is the cafe inside the American Indian Museum. It's not terribly far from the Capitol on the south side of the Mall. I could eat the fry bread all day. One of my favorite things to do while I'm there is to walk around the tidal basin, find a bench, and sit and take everything in. It's sort of peaceful in its own way. And Patrick, since you are staying up near the Capitol, make sure you hit the Library of Congress. It's a stunning building on the inside. Then there is a tunnel that connects to the Capitol so you don't have to go through security again. I'm also a fan of the Supreme Court building and they offer free lectures in the courtroom throughout the day. If you didn't secure a tour of the Capital through your member of Congress, you may be able to get on a walk-up tour, but that is more difficult during the busy season. Be prepared to go through security screening no matter where you go. The museums are pretty simple; almost like going to a game at Miller Park. Government buildings take a bit longer. Lastly, the only place I've been to that I would recommend avoiding at all costs is the natural history museum. Personally, I thought it wasn't that much different than the Field Museum in Chicago and it was PACKED, more than any other museum I have gone to. But, that is my own personal take on it.
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If you'll have a car, go to the Udvar-Hazy annex of the Air and Space Museum out by Dulles. It houses the Enola Gay, an SR-71, and one of the space shuttles. I actually like it better than the Air and Space Museum on the Mall. On the Mall, I recommend Air and Space, the American History Museum, National Archives, and the National Portrait Gallery. Also take time to go to the memorials. The FDR memorial is my favorite non-war memorial and it's very close to the Lincoln/Vietnam/Korean War Memorials. And since you are in Arlington, I'd try to get to the Arlington National Cemetary.
