Don’t mess with the IRS

Serious question. Who will be teaching at the public schools in Palo Alto if the teachers can’t afford to live there?

People don’t see all the paperwork and data analysis. There has been an increase in both because of No Child Left Behind. I spend a lot of time looking at tests to figure out if my students are hitting their IEP goals and thinking of things that are working or not. Good teachers spend a lot of time reflecting on their…

I have four parents (divorce + remarriage = 4 parents) who are teachers, I feel this so much. I spent so many weekends at school with them because my parents needed to go in and do something, grade, lesson plans, lab prep, school plays, sports coaching, concerts, etc and there wasn’t childcare on the weekend. I…

But most other jobs hours aren’t off book as much and publicly funded. If I complain about mine as a software developer people at leas believe me on the time I spend working and they aren’t usually the ones paying my salary.

the scary thing is that this isn’t a new trend, it’s been happening for over a decade. and the real issue is that the most powerful people in these communities don’t really care because they send their kids to private schools anyway. the people who’s families depend on public schools in places like palo alto are…

Except the oogey boogeymen of their games are the worst part of their games, often more of an annoyance than anything actually scary. The worldbuilding is where they actually have shined.

There is actually a “back-catalog” of actual, authentic proverbs from the different language groups and regions of Africa and there is a written record of many of them (eg. anthropologists, linguists, historians and literary scholars—oftentimes native speakers of the language—have over the years written down the oral…

wasn’t “ancient Chinese proverb” more or less used interchangeably for decades? Chinese may also be “Asian”, “Oriental” or “Japanese”, contextually speaking. that old Asian mysticism that was common lore among people who have basically never actually met an Asian person outside of a television set or who never…

Source. And according to court documents, “no one tried bothered to try to claim her” is not even remotely correct. Two years ago the father switched his preference from reunification with him to placement with the relatives in Utah that have custody of her sister.

In CA foster care, the goal is 18 months: the parent has that amount of time to access services and fulfill requirements to be reunited with the child. They try to place children with relatives first, then resort to other options. If nothing is resolved in 18 months, they move to make the child available for adoption.

Well the research was done at public university and, according to Temple’s website, it was funded by an NIH grant (hey our tax dollars at work). So I would hope this greatly reduces the chance of some Pharma company monopolizing the treatment.

I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. My biological father did a similar thing, sending some long emotional letter to my dorm when I was in grad school, which then turned me into a nervous wreck 2 weeks before finals. Turns out my grandma gave him the address, which then caused me to have a really horrible…

I know my comments are usually silly, but I just have to take a step back and say that we really do live in amazing times. We’re doing such incredible things and making huge steps in relatively short periods of time. These people are dedicating their lives to making a difference while the rest of the world is tearing…

I feel like you shouldn’t have used a picture of your kid in this. You should respect their privacy a little better than that. I had a dad who made all his financial woes everyone else’s problem and never let me forget that I was broke and breaking free of that and forging my own relationship with money has proven to…

Find a way to pay it. My nephew is nearly thirty. His father’s child support was less than $50 per month (my sister is a saint). He never paid it, she never bad-mouthed him. She even encouraged contact and visitation.

Eh, don’t worry. It’s just iterations of the same anyway.

It is. The British are the best at innuendo. Couple of my favorites:

Isn’t “slavery” (of a kind) what this is all about, though? Forcing Kesha to work against her will, bound by a contract entered into under false pretenses (Dr. Luke has my best interests at heart / is not a rapist) is a kind of enslavement. She is being treated as this man’s legal property.

The song is not the best, but it’s catchy and fun in a 90's-00's-movie trailer kind of way. She just needs better handlers. Sexy dance queen is not her thing. Her voice isn’t bad... this just doesn’t work for her.