She might find the all out rampage and the resulting clean house very satisfying.

Back when we were dating, my now-wife invited me to her family’s house for Easter. I don’t remember if this was our first or second holiday together, but it was definitely relatively early in the relationship. It was a big brunch, and her mom didn’t have enough space on the stove for all the bacon, so her brother…

So many mismanaged charter schools out there. Plus the ones that are successful but flat-out refuse to admit special needs students because they require additional resources

And there are the charter schools that cherry-pick the special ed kids they’re willing to take (ones like my elder nephew, whose IEP is “can use digital voice recorder for notes” and otherwise is a brilliant young person) because that kid costs almost nothing but comes with a little extra funding, but then balk at…

You’re doing great work and I just want to say, person to person, thank you for the path you’ve chosen for your career. Even by just helping one student, youre already contributing more and giving more back than our new hateful-in-chief ever seemingly has. Again, Thank you.

If there’s anything that demonstrates why things aren’t best left to the states, it’s education. Look at the wide disparity in educational attainment by state. It’s horrible. And so much of inequality is driven by education or lack thereof.

Because so much of American educational policy is decided by people who don’t work in education! I can only imagine the numerous accidental (and intentional) shootings that will occur if teachers are allowed to store guns in their classrooms.

Sorry, I was certainly being sarcastic. As the adage goes, it takes an act of Congress to get districts and state BoEs to pay for anything - especially special education. And knowing this Congress, that probably won’t continue much longer.

Oops, yes. Definitely sarcasm.

Tim Kaine touched on the possibility that parents would shop around for a system that was friendlier to their children with disabilities, and BDV seemed to think that that, too, was also best left to the states to hash out. I think this has the potential to create sender-states and receiver-states, personally, and a…

The per capita cost to educate a special needs child is often two or three times that of gen-ed students. If the federal mandate were removed, I’m sure most states would cheerfully continue to provide that crucial (and it IS crucial) funding. And I say this as a high school SpEd teacher.

As a public school teacher, I love this. We are unable to be trusted to do our job and should probably be fired, but it’s a-ok for us to have guns with us all the time at work.

Let’s be honest; Betsy DeVos would be happy if all public schools were replaced with Christian academies where picking on “the gays” was still acceptable like in the good old days.

You have to hand it to her brother, though, being able to find something even more evil than Amway.

They had me as soon as the criminally under-appreciated Joan Cusack appeared.

As a fan of the book (as is my daughter, whom I read them to), there is nothing about this that does not have me excited for this series. Everything I’ve seen - and now heard - has been pitch-perfect.

Not surprising as the books’ own blurbs also suggest you not read them.

“Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld”

As anyone who’s accidentally been at the business end of one can attest, heat guns and hair dryers are NOT the same.

Why do the actions of other people determine what you think is cool?