The idea that somehow she should still be allowed to teach, despite not meeting state standards, because it was their mistake is baffling. If a hospital hired a nurse that was not properly certified, would anyone expect them to keep that nurse on their staff? No, of course not!

Yea, the payment problem is another issue entirely so I have no idea what to make of that. The wording of it, “highly qualified,” seemed to me like something the licensing board came up with and not the school (like an official designation on the paperwork or whatever). When she taught 4th grade, it was in a different…

Yes. In my state it doesn’t matter if you are the greatest teacher who ever lived. You need to have the proper cert for the age/subject you are teaching. It’s unclear from this article whether the district shifted her to a class she wasn’t certified to teach or whether she applied for a completely new job. But either…

So this article is a little confusing. After reading the AL.com report, it sounds like they weren’t saying she wasn’t “qualified,” just that she wasn’t “certified” to teach 5th Grade. In this case, that’s apparently true, since her certification covered her through 3rd Grade. If Federal requirements for funding are…

I don’t know if that’s true. I feel like she’s made mistakes. You watch her struggle as the parent of a teenager, she married Teddy (woah, big mistake), she called off a huge multi-media publicity wedding the day off (which is like, super scandalous), and she’s back together with her recovering alcoholic baby daddy…

I read the story 3 times trying to see where the connection was to Congress. I’m just going to give the benefit of the doubt here that it was a Freudian slip of sorts, and not that someone who is covering politics for Jezebel doesn’t know that state legislators are not called congressmen.

They are state representatives or legislators/state lawmakers... not congressmen.

Ugh, gross. I would not want it to be so soap-operaish and convenient. I think there are a frillion more creative reasons she could be so protective. Though... she did go on and on about how infertile she was. Hm.

That’s EXACTLY what I proposed to my friends last night in our group chat. It would (handily) explain how he got into the school last-minute from the wait-list, and is so freaking untouchable.

Never knew this existed!
Shit. Thanks for sharing!

It’s funny, because in addition to the more popular video version that you mention, there’s also the album version of the song where she sounds like she’s crying. I love that one.

parents aren’t spending enough time exploring how to be safe and smart online with their kids.

Wasting gas is shitty, but unless you are riding your bike everywhere, never flying, and eating nothing but homegrown vegetables, you are often wasting gas. I’d say that keeping your car running so your dog stays cool is not as bad as a lot of things.

Verily.

I remember it too. I also think there was a Josie and The Pussycats single available during the same time. And just happened to find an Archies cassette tape at a local thrift store last week.

I remember too.

We lie to your husband too. Maybe smaller lies, but you all get lies.

Did anybody go look at that random guy’s twitter page?

I think they took out the zinc oxide not because of the scary chemical thing but because it’s thick and gives the skin a white cast. They just talked about lessening whitening and making it easier to apply in their statement.

Um. That song was written by Brandy Clark, Shane McAnally and Kasey Musgraves. I know this because they are credited as writers for the song. I am not sure if you are aware of this, but Kasey Musgraves is a songwriter. She writes songs both for herself and for others. That is how that works. So no need to be mad.…

She also payed a visit