These are the kind of managers that people will work their ass off for because they treat you right.

the heat and humidity in the south can be fatal for elderly or sick people, without air conditioning. :/ I cannot imagine living without it (lived there most of my life). I live in Oregon now and as long as you have a home/apt layout that allows for a good cross breeze and some good strong fans you don't need ac.…

hell I wish my pills (which I need to control my PCOS, in addition to not wanting to have any more kids) cost $42 a month. The only kind I can take without violent nausea and vomiting is Natazia, which isn't available in generic yet, and it is $100+ without insurance. When my teaching fellowship (and therefore my…

I have Comcast and I get HBOGo on my AppleTV, Android, Ipad, computer, etc.

I love bon ami. it's also super cheap!

absolutely. My husband worked for a rent-to-own place (which he hated, HATED) which was broken into overnight. They made him go in at 3 am and sit at the store (so nothing else got stolen) until business hours when they could get someone to come repair the glass. Then they tried to blame him for stealing a laptop!…

our football team was pretty shitty too, haha. It was the band that was good.

marching band is insane. I was all over marching band as a kid and between that, piano lessons, and church choir, I never had a day off. My daughter is starting marching band this summer but thankfully they are not hugely competitive and they only practice 2x a week (but still, 2x rehearsals, Friday games, Saturday…

I'd be pretty pissed if the government required my kid to work for someone else's profit (probably for a less than minimum wage or no wage at all). I'm not crazy about military conscription but at least that is supposedly for the public good/public safety, not private profit. (supposedly)

even pee wee leagues get like this. I used to teach elementary music and we'd have various programs/concerts through the year and I would always have 4th/5th grade kids tell me they couldn't participate because their football/baseball/softball coach said if they missed practice they were off the team EVEN FOR A SCHOOL…

I went to school in a poor rural area in the south and it was very much like this. Lots of poor rural areas have a lot of community identity tied up in the football team (or in my school's case, the band—we were a tiny school that often beat bands from bigger schools with more kids and more money) so the devotion is…

It's not just athletics and it's really not new. I graduated high school in 93. I didn't have time for a job before spring of my senior year because I was in marching band. We practiced M/T/Th, football games on Friday, contests on Saturday (we did far too many contests); I had piano lessons and church choir…

There's hard work and then there's just doing hard work for no point. I graduated second in my class without really trying because it was a small rural school where half the girls were pregnant at graduation or shortly thereafter and no one cared. In college I briefly joined a "honors college" program with harder…

"Standardized teaching is a really good metric to measure how a student can take a test." Yep. Doesn't actually tell you what they know.

Principals and peers actually getting in classrooms and observing teachers teach, but that's not quick and easy and doesn't make money for testing companies, so.

lol no it doesn't provide a more valid way. Read today's piece in The Atlantic where testing companies lift answers directly from the textbooks they print. If you don't regurgitate exactly word for word their answer, you lose points.

leveling the playing field from the very beginning! every family in Finland gets a box full of baby necessities for newborns. even the box itself doubles as a baby bed. It's like "hey, we're supporting you from the very beginning, here are some essentials to get you started."

OMG

no... but you can get ameobas and whatnot from tap water. it's why they don't advise using tap water in a neti pot. Get some all purpose solution, it's not that expensive, especially a store brand. I've used a store brand all purpose solution for years (used to use a hydrogen peroxide solution but all purpose is much…

how in the hell do people purposely wear their contacts inside out? if I accidentally do that it's like a stabbing pain in my eye within 3 seconds. D: